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Daring this Stop, the Book I am to give a brief Ac- 
count of was printed, containing about 150 Leaves. 
The Language of it is not Arabic, as was fuppofed, 
but Turkip, though it has feveral Words and fome Sen- 
tences that are fo. The Title, or what may ferve as fuch, 
is Tuhhfat ilkibar , or, A Prefent to the Great ; 
containing an Account of feveral Engagements at Sea. 
The Author is Hagi Cali fa filled ChelehiAlmurhhum , 
t*e. A Gentleman who has obtained Mercy, or deceafed. 
It confifls of two Trafts, a large, and a veryfmali 
one. The latter is done by the Publilher, Ibrahim 
Mutafarrica , Mutafarrica is a Title of Honour 
fignifying a Horfe-Soldier, obliged to go to the Wars 
'When the Grand Signor goes in Perfon, but not elfe. 
It is a Ihort Account of Geographical Meafures of 
Diftances, particularly of the Circumference 
of the Earth. 
The principal Treatife is partly Hiftorical, and 
partly Geographical ; the latter treats of the Nature of 
theTerreftrial Globe, the Ufeof Maps, and Situation 
of Places, particularly of Venice , Corfu , Albania , 
£?c. and fuch as border upon the Turkifb Dominions. 
The Hiftorical Part is an Account of feveral Naval 
Expeditions and Battles between the Turks and Chrifti- 
ans, efpecially during the Holy War, in the Me diterra - 
nean Sea, with their Conqueft of the Iflands and 
Places of Note upon the Sea-Coafts. It is an Abridge- 
ment of the Hiftory of their Admirals, from the ta- 
king of Conftantinople to the Year 1 653 y gives a 
Defcription of the Grand Signor's Arfenal at the Porte, 
with the Charges of maintaining it j and concludes 
with fome Dire&ions to the Turkip Officers. 
Befides a general Map of the World, there are three 
others ; one of th $ Mediterranean* oxIVhite Sea , as 
Y y the 
