A new account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters being nine years travels begun 1672 and finished 1681 : containing observations made of the moral, natural and artifical estate of those countries ... / by John Fryer ... ; illustrated with maps, figures and useful tables.
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- A new account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters being nine years travels begun 1672 and finished 1681 : containing observations made of the moral, natural and artifical estate of those countries ... / by John Fryer ... ; illustrated with maps, figures and useful tables.
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- Fryer, John, d. 1733.
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- London :: Printed by R.R. for Ri. Chiswell ...,
- 1698.
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Contents
- frontispiece
- title page
- dedication
- THE PREFACE.
- A List of the Ships, Names of the Comman∣ders, Number of Passengers, Soldiers, Sea∣men, Tuns and Guns.
- THE CONTENTS.
- By reason of the distance of the Author, These Errors have escaped the Press; which the Reader is desired to amend, before he read the Book.
- A NEW ACCOUNT OF India and Persia: In Eight LETTERS.
- A DESCRIPTION OF SURAT, AND Journy into DUCCAN. LETTER III.
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letter - 4
- A RELATION OF THE Canatick-Country. LETTER IV.
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A
Special Chorography and History
OF
EAST-INDIA.
- CHAP. VI.
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CHAP. VII.
- Coins of Surat, Amadavad, Agra, &c. in India.
- Weights and Measures of Surat, Agra, &c.
- Goldsmiths and Jewellers Weights in Surat, viz.
- Coins, Weights, and Measures of Rajapore.
- Coin and Measure in Rabag.
- Coins and Weights in Goa.
- Coins, Weights, and Measures of Duccan.
- Coins and Weights of Bombaim.
- Fort St. George, Mechlapatan, &c.
- Coins and Weights of Siam, Bantam, &c.
- BANTAM.
- ACHEEN.
- Ditto WEIGHTS.
- Quedah and Jahore.
- Ditto WEIGHTS.
- MALLACCA.
- MANILLA.
- MACHAWO.
- BƲSSORA.
- MAECHA.
- Weights in Aleppo.
- PERSIA.
- Coins of Mosambique.
- Elephants Teeth.
- Tortoise-shell.
- Directions for Knowledge of Bezoar-stones, &c.
- MOSK.
- AMBERGREECE.
- section
- The DIAMOND
- letter - 5
- A FARTHER Discovery of India.
- LETTER VII.
- LETTER VIII.
- AN Index Explanatory.
- A TABLE of some Principal Things herein con∣tained, neither reducible to the Index Explanatory, nor the Contents.