Fryer, John: A new account of East-India and Persia: in 8 letters being 9 years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681 (London, 1698)

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Chap. XI.

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Present State
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PERSIA.
CHAP. XI.
Of the Various Names, Situation, and Bounds; the Temper of the
Air j os the Sea/ons and Winds j of the High and Stupendous
Mountains, their Advantage and Convenience $ os the Fruit'
sulnefs os the Valleys, occasioned by Snow upon the Hills : Os
tfa Vegetables, Plants, and ^Minerals-y of their Fowl, Four'
sooted (Beajls, and Fi(hes: Their Caravans, Mosques, Hum-
mums, Sugars, Houfes, and Bridges. The City Suffahaun
propofed as a <?atern of their Government.
PERSIA by Classlck Authors is fabled to have its Name Its Names,
from King Perseus, Son of Andromeda; it was anciently
called Elam by the Hebrews^ and now by the Inhabitants,
Thurjistan.
It is sited in the Temperate Zone, under the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Situation ami
and Sixth Climates: In time of Yore the Monarchy of the whole Bounds-
World devolved upon it, and which is miraculous, is not quite ex-
tinguilhed to this day; although the Bounds of the Empire were
slraitned or enlarged, according to the ebbing or ssowing of Fortune.
In its Infancy it was, mighty, for Nimred was a Powerful Hunter,
that is, a great Prince ; and as it grew up it increased in Strength ;
but from the Grand Cyrus to Darius the Mede, it seemed to be in the
Flower of its Age, when it was Mistress of all the Earth which the
vast Ocean waihcs on this side, and the Hellespont on the other.
Aster the Death of Alexander the Great, it was miserably divided
by the Contentions of his Captains; and long since by the Incur-
iions