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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26262	Travels into divers parts of Europe and Asia, undertaken by the French King's order to discover a new way by land into China containing many curious remarks in natural philosophy, geography, hydrology and history : together with a description of Great Tartary and of the different people who inhabit there / by Father Avril of the Order of the Jesuits ; done out of French ; to which is added, A supplement extracted from Hakluyt and Purchas giving an account of several journeys over land from Russia, Persia, and the Moguls country to China, together with the roads and distances of the places.; Voyage en divers états d'Europe et d'Asie. English	Avril, Philippe, 1654-1698.; Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.; Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1693 (1693)	Wing A4275; ESTC R16481	168,850	421

Ruins overthrowing Five or six thousand Houses and killing so great a number of Inhabitants who were buried under the Rubbish that now it is not above half so big as formerly it was and yet there are reckon'd to be in it near upon Fifty or sixty thousand Souls nor is there any part perhaps of the Persian Empire where you shall meet with so vast a concourse of Strangers Besides the great number of Armenians which as they say amounts to Thirty thousand there are Indians Muscovit●● Georgians Greeks Turks Circassians and an infinite number of other People whom the Neighbourhood of the Sea together with the Goodness of the Country draws thither from all Parts This Concourse of so many different Nations it was which made us earnestly wish there were a Mission settl'd in this City as being fully perswaded that several Zealous Missionaries would find in abundance wherewith to repay the Labours of their fervent Zeal It seems our Prayers have been heard since our departure thence so that we have now a Residence there for which we are beholding to the deceas'd Count de Syri who employ'd all his Credit with the King of Persia to obtain leave for an Establishment in that Place And he was pleas'd to lay the first foundations of it himself by Father Pothier of the Order of Jesus whom he carry'd along with him on purpose from Ispahan to Schamaki where he left him in his return to Poland there to give the King an Account of his Negotiations on the behalf of all the Christian Princes engag'd in the War against the Turks This Father Pothier was one of the most accomplish'd Missionaries in the East and was one of those whom our King entrusted with the Royal Presents which he sent about ten years since to the Cha of Persia together with a Letter which he wrote in favour of the Christians of Nachivan who had a long time groan'd under the Tyranny of some Governors that most heavily oppress'd ' em He drew a great number of Disciples after him at the beginning by the Charms of his edifying Conversation and by his sweet and affable Disposition and Behaviour they came in Crouds to be instructed and participate of the Divine Mysteries But a certain Turk of whom the Father had hir'd a House till the Governor had assign'd him a Seat as he promis'd to do grew so jealous of the happy Progress of the Gospel and became so furiously mad to see his House which was really consecrated to Haly become a School of Christianity that he resovl'd to be reveng'd of the Affront that was every day put upon his Prophet and his Religion To which purpose rising in the Night when the Missionary never dreamt the least mistrust of him he brake open his Chamber-door and stabb'd him in the same place where he had given the first wounds to Heresy Schism and Infidelity Had we thought that one of our Brethren would have follow'd us so soon at the Heels to deprive us of the Palms which we might have disputed with him perhaps we should not hav● been so earnest to have quitted the Post we were in but then not knowing that Heav●n had any other use to make of our Ministry then to open a passage into China we hasten'd to the Caspian Sea three good days Journey from the City of Schamaki This little Sea which is not above Eight hunder'd Leagues in compass to speak properly is no more then a vast salt Lake into which above a hunder'd Rivers not to speak of an infinite number of little Rivolets discharge themselves on all sides and keep it continually fill'd with Water which She by way of return furnishes with so great a Quantity of Fish that in many places you may take 'em up with your hands without Net or Line More especiall in tempestuous Weather when the Fish forc'd on by the Waves suffer themselves to be crouded in Shoales into the Rivers where they are the more willing to abide as finding themselves shelter'd from the violent Agitations of the Sea Besides this particular Remark which I had leisure to observe during a stay of fifteen days till we could meet with an opporunity to embark I was not a little surpriz'd to see the same day we were to have set Sail the Seamen employ'd to fetch fresh Water out of the Sea above two Leagues from the Shoar Now in regard the thing to me seem'd extraordinary I had a mind to taste the Water which was as sweet as if it had been drawn out of a Fountain tho but a few paces from the same place it appear'd to be more brackish then in any Seas that ever I sail'd in But my wonder ceas'd when I consider'd what a vast quantity of fresh Water empti'd it self from all parts into the Caspian Lake But that which is more wonderful is this to see this petty Ocean equally restrain'd within the Bounds that Providence had ordain'd it notwithstanding the multude of Rivers that fall into it and which only one would think should swell it to that degree as sometimes to overflow its Bounds This respectful Obedience to Providence it is that has very much puzzl'd our Geographers and produc'd the Opinion among 'em touching the Communication of this Sea with some others which she enriches with her own plenty when overstor'd her self Some have thought that the Black Sea being the nearest to it of any other Sea makes this advantage to partake of her Neighbours store But besides that this Opinion is grounded upon no solid Reason it seems as if the Wisdom of God had plac'd between these two Seas a long rigde of High Mountains for no other end then absolutely to separate 'em one from the other But I have two Conjectures which make me believe that it rather discharges it self into the Persian Gulph how far remote soever it may seem to be then into any other Sea The first is because that in the Gulph of the Persian Sea to the South over against the Province of Kilan there are two dangerous Whirlypools or deep Abysses which the Persian Vessels that set Sail from that Coast endeavour to avoid as much as they can And the noise of the Water which throws it self into that Gulp with a surprizing Rapidness may be heard in calm Weather so far off that it is enough to terrify all those who are ignorant of the real Cause The second Conjecture which to me seems to be of more force then the former is grounded upon every years experience by which they who inhabit all along the Persian Gulph observe a vast quantity of Willow-leaves at the end of every Autumn Now in regard this sort of Tree is altogether unknown in the Southern Part of Persia which borders upon that Sea and for that quite the contrary the Northern part which is bounded by the Sea of Kilan has all the Sea-coasts of it shaded with those Trees we may assure our selves with probability enough that these