The New atlas, or, Travels and voyages in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, thro' the most renowned parts of the world ... performed by an English gentleman, in nine years travel and voyages, more exact than ever.

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The New atlas, or, Travels and voyages in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, thro' the most renowned parts of the world ... performed by an English gentleman, in nine years travel and voyages, more exact than ever.

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London :: Printed for J. Cleave ... and A. Roper ...,

1698.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE Ingenious Reader, THE PREFACE.
• THE NEW ATLAS; OR, Travels and Voyages In Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.
  • CHAP. I. Motives that induced the Author to under∣take these Travels; his first setting out for Constantinople, and Voyage as far as the Dardanelles; the description of divers places he touched at in the way, and what else happened in that passage.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Helespont, Dardanelles, Places a∣bout them, what is observable in Con∣stantinople and its adjacents; Containing all that is Curious and Remarkable in these Parts.
  • CHAP. II. The Original of the Turks, and Extent of the Ottoman Empire; The Officers, Civil, and Ecclesiastical; their Forces, and Or∣der; with many things relating to their Religion, Customs, and divers other mat∣ters.
  • CHAP. IV. The Belief of the Turks, and many other things practised among them; as their Charity, Mourning at Funerals, Games, Just Observances, &c.
  • CHAP. V. Their Pilgrimages to Mecha and Medina; the Birth, and Burial-places of Mahomet their Prophet; what they Observe; and a description of the House, Tomb, and what else is Curious and Admirable in this Un∣dertaking.
  • CHAP. VI. Travels and Voyages to Alexandria in Aegypt; with many things remarkable in the way, &c.
  • CHAP. VII. The Author's Arrival at Alexandria, and what is observable there; and his passing from thence to Caire.
  • CHAP. VIII. A View of Caire, and what is Remarkable in it, &c.
  • CHAP. IX. Of the Piramids of Aegypt, and other Build∣ings and memorable Antiquities; of the Catacombs, where the Munices are. The River Nile, and the Creatures found there∣in, &c,
  • CHAP. X. Travels in Palestine, or the Holy Land, and all the remarkable Things and Places to be seen in it, more exact than ever yet de∣scribed; Of Mount Libanus, and places Adjacent.
  • CHAP. IX. Travels through Syria, and divers other Countries towards the Kingdom of Persia, with many remarkable Things occuring in so long and hazardous a Journey by Land, and Water.
  • CHAP. VII. Travels into Persia, and a particular Ac∣count of the Places, and what occured in the way to Ispahan, the Metropolis of the Kingdom.
  • CHAP. XIII. A Description of Ispahan, in what is curious and worthy of Remark in it.
  • CHAP. XIV. The King of Persia an Absolute Monarch; of the Great Officers of his Court, and other Matters.
  • CHAP. XV. Travels from Ispahan to Ormus and Bassaru, in the Persian Gulf; with an Observation of many Places and Things by the way, of Persia in General, &c.
  • CHAP. XVI. A Brief Account of Aethiopia, as I receiv∣ed from Mounsieur du Pau, who resided many Years in that Court.
  • CHAP. XVII. The Author's Voyage from Boassra, in the Persian Gulf, to East-India, and Things remarkable in the dangerous Passage, par∣ticularly Water-Spouts rising from the Sea, and remarks on them.
  • CHAP. XVIII. The Arrixal at Surat; a discription of that Town; the manner of the People; Travels into the Indian Provinces, with Observa∣tions of what is Rare and Remarkable in the vast Dominion of the Great Mogul.
  • CHAP. XIX. Of the Marriages, Apparrels, Superstitious Customs, the keeping the Mogul's Birth-Day, and other Things observed by the Indians, as the Funerals of their Dead, &c.
  • CHAP. XVII. Travels through divers Countries into China, and a satisfactory Account of all that is re∣markable in that Kingdom.
  • CHAP. XIX. Travels through Tartary to Muscovy, and what is observable on the way in those vast desert Countries; the Nature of the Peo∣ple; their manner of living, with a parti∣cular Discription of Astrakan, and the Sturgeon fighting in the River Volga.
  • CHAP. XX. Travels in Muscovy, and Observations of what is worthy of Note; as to the Towns, Rivers, Mountains, Commodities, Heats and Colds, Laws, Religion, Manners and Customs of the People, &c. and from thence through Poland and Germany into Hol∣land.
  • CHAP. XXI. A Voyage from Amsterdam in Holland, to Cales in the Spanish Dominion, and Thence to America; giving an Account of what happened on the Sea, and in some Islands, touched at, &c.
  • CHAP. XXII. Travels from St. John D' Ulha to the great City of Mexico, describing the Towns in the Way, Countries lying about them; with many other things and Re∣lations, Antient and Modern; from the first Conquest made by the Spaniards, to this present time.
  • CHAP. XXIII. My Arrival at Mexico; a Descriptien of that famed City, what it has been, and what at present it is; the manner of Building; nature of its Inhabitants; Ri∣ches, and plenty of the Mountains, Lakes, and places about it, &c.
  • CHAP. XXIV. Travels into divers other parts of the Mex∣ican Province, describing the particulars that are Curious, and worthy of Note; As also in the Peruanian Province, as well Islands, as Continent; and all that is Rare and Remarkably found in Ame∣rica.
  • CHAP. XXV. The Nature, Superstition, Manner, Customs, Labour, Diet and Observations of the In∣dians in particular, and in General of the Spaniards; shewing the Tyranny of the Latter over the former, and many other things worthy of curious Remarks, with my Return for England by the way of Spain, and other matters.