letters from the Great Sultan, to their mafters the Venetians, concerning a peace that was agreed upon, which their envoy at Conftantinople had fent by land to Cattaro, one of their towns, where they were delivered up to them, to carry them to Venice with all porfible fpeed. After this great ftorm was over, we went on again in our voyage. By the way I faw nothing worth mentioning, but now and then a village, where fometimes, if convenient, we landed, and ftaid there all night. In one of them, I found a great deal of faffron, which was very like unto that of Vienna, both in look and goodne's. So at lengteh we came to the large and very deep Gulph, Carnaro, by which within lieth the town Segna, where the Windy-country endeth, and the Hifter-land beginneth. This Gulph is about an hundred miles long, and thirty broad, fo that in clear weather one may fee very well over it, but it is very dangerous to fail over it, and because of it's great motion, it is eafily difcern'd from the fea from without; over this we came, God be thanked, very well, and landed at Rovigna, a fmall town fituated on a high rock. This belongeth, as well as others thereabout, as Pola, Parentza, &c. to the Venetians, from whence to Venice we have ftill about an hundred miles. But being that it is very dangerous to go from thence with large and loaden fhips to Venice, therefore that republic doth keep there always feveral experienced pilots (to prevent farther mischief) that do nothing else but conduct the ships that arrive in Hiftria fafely thither. And these do not easily put off, unless they have very good mild and clear weather; which was the occafion that our ship did tarry there; fo that we all, except the fea-men which we left in the ship behind, went into a barge on the fourteenth day of January late, and went all night long to Venice, where we all fafely arrived the fifteenth of the fame month about noon.

At my arrival I met with fome very good friends and acquaintance, with whom I ftay'd for feveral days, to refresh and reft myself after the great hardfhips I had endur'd, and dangers I had paffed. After they had made me very welcome, and fhewn unto me all kindness and civility, and I had rested myself fufficiently, I refolved to travel with a Venetian poft into Germany again; fo

. we travell'd together from thence to Trevifo, Trent, Botzan, Infpruck, Amberga, &c. (whereabouts I found my coufin Hans Widholtz, and George Hindermayer Botzen riding by him, who kept me all that night with them in their inn) fo at length I arrived on the twelft day of February 1576, at Augsburg, my dear native country, to the great rejoycing of my dear parents and relations, which I found all in indifferent good health. I thank the Almighty, merciful and good God, that is one in his Effence, and three in Perfon, for all his mercies he hath bestow'd upon me, in all my great dangers and neceffities, both by fea and land, for his dear Son Jefus Christ's fake. Praife, glory, and thanks be unto him, for ever and ever. Amen.

End of Dr Rauwolff's Travels.

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By feveral Learned and Famous ME N, In their Journeys thro' the LE VAN T.

V IZ.

The ISLE of CANDY, GREECE, EGYPT, ASIA MINOR, &c.

By Monf. Belon, Profper Alpinus, Dr Huntingdon, Mr Vernon, Sir George Wheeler, Dr Smith, Mr Greaves, Father Vanfleb, and others.

To which are added,

Two Itineraries to Mecca, and into Æthiopia:

A

COLLECTION

OF CURIOUS

TRAVELS and VOYAGES.

VOL. II.

СНАР. I.

Mr Belon's remarks in the island of Crete or Candy.

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HE roots of mount Ida, call'd now by the natives Pfiloriti, extend to both the fhores of the ifland; when I was at the top, I not only faw under me all Candy, but fome adjacent iflands, as Milo, Cerigo, &c. The fnow lies all the year long on this hill, whilst the plains underneath are extreamly scorch'd, and burnt up; it is fo cold, that the fhepherds cannot inhabit it in the fummer-time, but are forced

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