fruits and fine plants, that grow there, within and without gardens. P. 45 Chap. VII. Of the high places and authority of Bafhaws, what great courts they keep, and how they adminifter their offices; as alfo of their way of living, of their privileges, of their manners and converfa tion. P. 51 Chap. VIII. Of the great trading and dealing of the city of Aleppo; as alfo feveral forts of their meats and drinks; of their ceremonies, and their peculiar way of fitting down at meals. p. 61 Chap. IX. A fhort and plain relation of plants, which I gather'd during my stay at Aleppo, in and round about it, not without great danger and trouble, which I glued upon paper very carefully. P. 73 Chap. I. PART. II. HOW I departed from Aleppo to the famous city of Bir; and how I failed from thence on the Euphrates to Old Babylon. p. 87 Chap. II. Which way we went into the fhip, and failed to Racka; and how the fon of the King of Arabia, with his retinue came to our ship to demand his cuftoms; what else we faw by the way, and what we did fuffer from the Arabians and their Mendi cants. P. 96 Chap. III. Of the city of Racka, and of it's fituation; and also fomething of the departure of the King of Arabia; and of his league with the Turkish Emperor; and alfo of the trouble we had with the Custom-boufe-officer or Publican. p. 110 Chap. Chap. IV. Of the inhabitants of the mountains, and the great wilderness we came through to Deer; of Chap. V. Of our voyage to the famous town Ana, in which we paffed again through great fandy wildernef- fes; for the performance whereof we must provide our- felves with victuals, and be very careful in our naviga- tion. Some relation of the inhabitants, of their cloaths, and other things we did obferve and fee by the way, and what else did happen unto us. Chap. VI. Which way we travell'd from Ana far- ther to Old Babylon, by fome ancient towns call'd Haddidt, Juppe, Idt, and faw more pleasant, fruitful and well cultivated fields on each fide than Chap. VII. Of Old Babylon the Metropolis of Chal- dee, and it's fituation; and how it is ftill to this day, after it's terrible defolation, to be feen, with the tower or turret, and the old ruined walls lying in the Chap. VIII. Of the famous city of Bagdat, call'd Baldac; of it's fituation, ftrange plants, great traf fick, and Merchants of feveral nations that live there, together with feveral other things I faw and did learn Chap. IX. Which way I came in my return from Bag- dat, through Affyria, the confines of Perfia, and the province of the Curters, to the town Carcuch, Capril, &c. and at length to the river Tygris, to Moffel, that famous town which was formerly call'd Chap. X. Which way me went through Mefopotamia, by the way of Zibin and Orpha, to Bir, not without laft into Syria, by Nifib, to the famous town of Chap.XI. Of the Turkish Phyficians and Apothecaries; of my comrade Hans Ulrich Krafft of Ulm's hard imprisonment; of the great danger that I was in, in the two towns of Aleppo and Tripoli; of the mur- dering of fome Merchants, and what else did happen Chap. XIII. Cunning and deceitful fratagems of the Grand Turk against the inhabitants of mount Liba- Chap. III. A plain defcription of the city of Jerufa- lem, as it was to be feen in our time; and of the Chap. IV. Of mount Sion, and it's holy places. p. 229 Chap. V. Of the mount Moria, and the glorious tem- P. 257 bow long time their reign fhall laft after Mahomet's decease. Chap. VII. Of mount Bethzetha, and the two houfes of Pilate and Herod. P. 258 Chap. VIII. Of mount Calvaria, and the holy grave of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Christ. P. 260 Chap. IX. Here follow fome epithaps of the Chriftian Kings of Jerufalem, together with a short relation of their reigns and mighty deeds. Chap. X. A common account of feveral forts of Chriftians, but chiefly of them that are always to be found in the temple of mount Calvaria. And alfo how thefe, and many other ftrangers, are treated by the Turkish Emperor (as by their chief head, to whom they are generally subjected) and his offi cers, Chap. XI. Of the Greeks. P. 271 Chap. XII. Of the Surians that efteem themselves to be Christians. Chap. XIII. Of the Gregorians. p. 290 P. 291 Chap. XIV. Of the Armenians and their religion.p.292 Chap. XV. Of the Neftorians. P. 294 Chap. XVI. Of the Jacobites call'd Golti. p. 296 Chap. XVIII. Of the Maronites. P. 297 P. 300 p. 301 Chap. XX. Of the Knights of the Temple of Jerufalem, the Order of the Johannites. P.304 Chap. XXI. A short description of fome places, bills, valleys, &c. that lie near and about Jerufalem. Of the mount of Olives, and it's holy places. P. 309 Chap. XXII. Of Bethlehem, the mountains of Judea, and their famous places. Where alfo is made mention of my returning back from Jerufalem to Tripoli. P. 316 Chap. Chap. XXIII. How I took fhip at Tripolis in Syria, Chap. II. A defcription of mouut Athos, commonly call'd Monte Santo, by Mr Belon. Chap. III. An account of a journey by land from mount Athos to Conftantinople, wherein the gold and fil- ver mines of Macedonia, together with many anti- quities and natural rarities are defcribed. P. 349 Chap. IV. The ways of fifbing on the Propontis, the Bofphorus, and Hellefpont; as alfo of the fishes Chap. V. Of fome beafts and mechanic trades at Con-. Mr Francis Vernon's letter, written Mr toOldenburg, Some plants obferved by Sir George Wheeler, in his Voyage to Greece and Afia minor. Hiftorical obfervations relating to Conftantinople, by the reverend and learned Tho. Smith, D.D. Fellow of Magd. College Oxon. and of the Royal Socie- An account of the city of Prufa in Bithynia, and a continuation of the historical obfervations relating to An account of the latitude of Conftantinople and Rhodes; by the learned Mr John Greaves.p. 404 |