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, PETREA, ETHIOPIA, the RED SEA, &c.

.Collected from the Obfervations of Monf. BELON, PROSPER ALPINUS, Dr. HUNTINGDON, Mr. VERNON, Sir GEORGE WHEELER, Dr. SMITH, Mr. GREAVES, and others.

To which are added three Catalogues of fuch Trees, Shrubs, and Herbs, as grow in the LEVANT.

By the Rev. JOHN RAY, F. R. S.

The SECOND EDITION Corrected and Improved.
VOL. II.

LONDON;

Printed for J. Walthor, D. Midwinter, A. Bettefworth, and C. Hitch, W. Innys, R. Robinson, J. Wilford, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, O. Payne, W. Shropshire, J. and R. Tonfon, T. Woodman, R. Chandler, and J, Wellington. 1738.

THE

CONTENTS

PART. I.

Chap. I. WHICH way I went first of all, from

from

thence fhipped over the Seas towards

Tripoli of Syria, fituated in Phoenecia. pag. 1.

Chap. II. Of the famous city of Tripoli, of it's fruit-

ful neighbourhood and great trade; and alfo of the

Splendid baths, and other magnificent buildings to

be feen there. Their ways of making Rufma, Pot-

afbes, Soap, &c.
p. 14.

Chap. III. Of the Turks of high and low conditions,

men and women; of their employments, offices,

manners, customs, cloaths, as much as I could at

Tripoli (during my abode) understand, fee, and

learn thereof.

Chap. IV. A defcription of the plants I gathered at

Tripoli.

P. 26

P. 35

Chap. V. Which way 1 travell'd from Tripoli

farther to the two famous cities of Damant and

Aleppo.

Chap. VI. Of the fituation of the potent city of Alep-

po; of the buildings thereof, and alfo of the delicate

P. 42