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V. An AbJlraSl with fome RefleSlions on a new 
Account of Eaft-India and Pcrfia, in Eight 
Letter being Nine Tears Tra*vels^ begun 
1672. and jinifhed 16815 &:c. By John 
Fryer M D. Cantabrig. and Fellow of the 
Royal Society. Printed for R. Chilwcl at the 
Role and Crown in St. Paul / Chnrcb-Tard. 
• 1 698. 
HOW much the Geography of the prefent Age fur- 
l^afles (hit o£ the Ancients, is fufficiently knou n 
to ah luch as have been at the trouble to examine and 
corr.pire them ; and that not only (or the Number and 
Q^MHtity of the Habitable and Inhabited Countries of the 
World ; but tor the. more exacil Limitations and Boun- 
daries of them ; and for the more particular Account of 
tfie Nature and ProJuds of the Countries themftlves; 
that is, of the Nature of the Soyl, and of the Animals, 
Vegetables and Minerals it produceth and yields, and of 
the Men that inhabit each, their Shape, their Genius, 
Manners, CuQoms, Laws, Governments, Arts, Inven- 
tions, Tr:ides and Manufadures, and whatever elfe is of 
Significancy to be known concerning them. For this in 
a g^eat meafure we are beholding to fuch Ingenious Spi- 
rits as tnis our Author , who have had the Curi- 
ofiry not or.Iy to travel, view, and inform themfelves 
in the Places where they are, but alfo the Induftry to re- 
cord them in writing, whilft yet frefli in their Memory, 
and the good Nature to communicate them in Print for 
the Ufe of ihe Publick. Of this Kind we have had of 
late Years many eminent Inftances of our own 
Country men, concerning the In- land patts, as Cap- 
tain 
