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Cloathing, Diet, their Occupations, and laftly, a very 
particular Account of their Weights, Meafures, and 
Coyos, in which he has amafled together fo fnaoy Re- 
raarkables, that 'tis very difficult to give an Abftraft or 
Epitomy of them. 
In his Fifth Letter he gives an Account of his leaving 
this Country, and his failing to Perfa^ and landing at 
Gemhroon^ relating all the Particulars he remarkt in his 
Voyage; and alter a Defcription of this Place, he relates 
the Particulars he obferved in his Travels by Land to 
Sir as, and then to Perfepolis or Chalmmor^ both which 
he defcribes, and a multitude of curious Obfervations 
which he took notice of by the way : from thence he re- 
lates his Progrefs into Parthia^ and fo to Spahan, where 
he defcribes afl that is remarkable in and about that City, 
as at Jelfa a part of its Suburbs, where live Six Thoufand 
Families o\ Armenians ^ fome French Artizans, and the 
ancient Galers^Gauraas^ or true old Perjians^ (whofe pre- 
ftnt Condition he relates) as alfo that of the Armenians 
and Georgians^ and all their Religious Rites and Ceremo- 
iiies; in the Place it (elf he firft defcribes the Emperor's 
Palace and the Rareties thereof, together with the Diver- 
tilements,* and adds a Catalogue ot Plants he found there 
to flourifli, with the Times and Nature of theSeafons: 
Then he relates his Journey to Gomhroom^ in the Winter, 
and his Return to, Spahan in the Spring; and then his 
Voyage to Congo for Pearl, alJ whofe Sorts he defcribes 
with their Values, 
After this he gives a more full and particular Account 
of the prefent State of all Perfia^ both Geogrsphicalj 
and Pohtical, comprifmg the Natural and Civil Hiftory 
thereof, and that more fully than I have met with in 
any other Author. 
His 
