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Title: A collection of voyages and travels: consisting of authentic writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other collections. And continued with others of note, that have published histories, voyages, travels, journals or discoveries in other nations and languages, relating to any part of the continent of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof,from the earliest account to the present time...
Year: 1745 (1740s)
Authors: Osborne, Thomas, d. 1767 Erondelle, Pierre, fl. 1586-1609, tr
Subjects: Neder Oost-Indische Campagnie Voyages and travels Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : T. Osborne
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of all countriespafs in Turky for their value. The coins of the country are afpers,pararrs, zelotes, and half zelotes. An afper is about the value of an half-penny. Three afpers make one pararr.Forty pararrs make one dollar. A ze-lote is two thirds of a dollar. Cordovants blue, red and yellow, onedollar per fkin. Weights. 2400 Drachms, or fixteen pounds and anhalf Englijby is one battman of Smyrna*.180 drachms, one rotilo.146 drachms, is one pound Englijh.250 drachms, is one rotilo ot opium.120 drachms, is one rotilo of faftron.720 drachms, is one rotilo of Aleppo.700 drachms, is one rotilo of white filk. Gold coins. Zingerlees worth two dollars!. To-miles worth two dollars and half each. Thus I have given you a general ac-count of the Turkijh Empire as it nowtxifteth j but the following voyage andnavigations, &c. will defcribe each par-ticular more minutely and exactly, ex-plaining what may now feem obfeure,and adding what has been omitted inthe defcription of fo large an empire.
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VOYAGE INTO THE L E V A N T. A brief Relation of a Journey lately performed byMafter Henry Blount, Gentleman, From England^ by the Way of Venice, into Dalmatia, Scla-vonic Bofnah, Hungary, Macedonia, TheJfaJy, Thrace, Rhodes^and Egypt) unto Grand Cairo, With particular OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING The modern Condition of the TURKS, and other People under that Empire. H ENRT BLOUNT, third Ton of Sir Thomas Pope Blount, ofTittenhanger in Hertford/hire, Knight, fon of William Blount ofBlountjhill in Stafford/hire, was born at Tittenhanger before mentioned,which is in the parifTi of Ridge, on the 15th of December 1602, educatedin the free-fchool at St. Albans, where, by the help of his pregnant parts,he made fuch large fteps in learning, that before fourteen years of age hewas tranfplanted to Trinity-College, Oxon. of which he became a gentleman-commoner, and there, not fo much upon his relation to Sir Thomas Popefounder thereof, as upon account of his own intrinfick worth, and thefacetioufnef

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