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Mr. Ray's travels, Vol. 2 : $b A collection of curious travels and voyages. Containing Dr Leonhart Rauwolf's journey into the eastern countries, viz. Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c., translated from the Original High Dutch, by Nicholas Staphorst. And also, travels into Greece, Asia minor, Egypt, Arabia felix, Petræa, Ethiopia, the Red Sea, &c. Collected from the observations of Mons. Belon, Prosper Alpinus, Dr. Huntington, Mr. Vernon, Sir George WhRay, John

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Mr. Ray's travels, Vol. 2 : $b A collection of curious travels and voyages. Containing Dr Leonhart Rauwolf's journey into the eastern countries, viz. Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c., translated from the Original High Dutch, by Nicholas Staphorst. And also, travels into Greece, Asia minor, Egypt, Arabia felix, Petræa, Ethiopia, the Red Sea, &c. Collected from the observations of Mons. Belon, Prosper Alpinus, Dr. Huntington, Mr. Vernon, Sir George Wh

Ray, John

Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Botany -- Pre-Linnean works; Greece -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Middle East -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Plants -- Classification -- Early works to 1800; Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800

Chap. VII. _Of the high places and authority of Bashaws, what
    great courts they keep, and how they administer their offices;
    as also of their way of living, of their privileges, of their
    manners and conversation._                                       p. 51

  Chap. VIII. _Of the great trading and dealing of the city of
    ~Aleppo~; as also several sorts of their meats and drinks; of
    their ceremonies, and their peculiar way of sitting down at
    meals._                                                          p. 61

  Chap. IX. _A short 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


                               PART. II.

  Chap. I. _How I departed from ~Aleppo~ to the famous city of
    ~Bir~; and how I sailed from thence on the ~Euphrates~ to Old
    ~Babylon~._                                                      p. 87

  Chap. II. _Which way we went into the ship, and sailed to
    ~Racka~; and how the son of the King of ~Arabia~, with his
    retinue came to our ship to demand his customs; what else we
    saw by the way, and what we did suffer from the ~Arabians~ and
    their Mendicants._                                               p. 96

  Chap. III. _Of the city of ~Racka~, and of it’s situation; and
    also something of the departure of the King of ~Arabia~; and of
    his league with the ~Turkish~ Emperor; and also of the trouble
    we had with the Custom-house-officer or ~Publican~._            p. 110

  Chap. IV. _Of the inhabitants of the mountains, and the
    great wilderness we came through to ~Deer~; of their ancient
    origination, and miserable and laborious livelihood._           p. 117

  Chap. V. _Of our voyage to the famous town ~Ana~, in which
    we passed again through great sandy wildernesses; for the
    performance whereof we must provide ourselves with victuals,
    and be very careful in our navigation. Some relation of the
    inhabitants, of their cloaths, and other things we did observe
    and see by the way, and what else did happen unto us._          p. 124

  Chap. VI. _Which way we travell’d from ~Ana~ farther to Old
    ~Babylon~, by some ancient towns call’d ~Haddidt~, ~Juppe~,
    ~Idt~, and saw more pleasant, fruitful and well cultivated
    fields on each side than before._                               p. 132

  Chap. VII. _Of Old ~Babylon~ the Metropolis of ~Chaldee~, and
    it’s situation; and how it is still to this day, after it’s
    terrible desolation, to be seen, with the tower or turret, and
    the old ruined walls lying in the dust._                        p. 137

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