Volume 1
Modern history or, the present state of all nations. Describing their respective situations, persons, habits, and buildings, manners, laws and customs ... plants, animals, and minerals / by Mr. Salmon ; illustrated with cuts and maps ... by Herman Moll.
- Thomas Salmon
- Date:
- 1744-1746
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Modern history or, the present state of all nations. Describing their respective situations, persons, habits, and buildings, manners, laws and customs ... plants, animals, and minerals / by Mr. Salmon ; illustrated with cuts and maps ... by Herman Moll. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![JAVA, fituatior,, extent, air, climate, monfoons, and feafons jgg Straights of Sunda 1()g Land and fea breezes contrary to the monfoons ibid. Kingdoms of Java ibid] Chief towns Nations inhabiting Batavia 170 A body of forces formed out of the feveral nations of Java I?I The policy of the Dutch in tranfplanting fo many nations ibid. Stature, complexion, and habits of the Javanefe ibid. Their food and liquors ibid. Shipping and trade 172 Learning and mechanick arts 173 Face of the ifland of Java, and produce ibid. Animals ibid. The ftate the vaflal Kings of Java live in 175 Splendor of the Governor of Batavia ibid. .Forces and revenues of Java ibid. Their women, marriages, &c. ibid. Funerals and flaves jjy Straights of Bally, or Palamboang 178 Government and religion ibid. Iceland, one of the Norway iflands 694 Ida, a mount in the ifland of Candia 563 Jebilee, a city of Syria 434 Jemma, a river of India 229 Jengapore, a province of India 249 Jenkoping, a town of Gothland 653 Jericho, a city of Paleftine 463 Jeriflaw, a province of Mufcovy ' 609 Jerufalem, the capital city of Paleftine 461 Jeflelmere, a province of India 248 Jeflo Land, north of Japan 47 Whether it join to America ibid. Imbros, an ifland of the Archipelago 584 Indal, a town of Proper Sweden 654 Indian trade monopolized by the Portuguefe 92 INDIA PROPER, or the empire of the Great Mogul, its fituation jq- Infurre&ion of the Patanes ing Perfian invafion of India 203 Aurengzebe’s charadler 207 He invades Golconda ibid Mo rad, his brother, furprized and made prifoner 209 Aurengzebe proclaimed Emperor 210 Revolutions in the peninfula of India 215 Aurenzebe’s death 216 Azem Dara aflumes the government ibid. Battle between the armies of Cha Alem, and Azem Dara ibid. Firft fettlement of the Portuguefe upon the continent of India 221 Firft eftablifliment of the Englifh there ibid. The Portuguefe oppofe our trade to India 224 The Dutch prohibit the Englifh trading to the coaft of Cormandel ibid. Articles of trade fettled with the Mogul 225 Sir Thomas Roe’s embafly to the Mogul ibid. Climate of India 226 Monfoons and periodical winds 227 Land and fea breezes contrary to the monfoon ibid. Hot winds * ibid. Rainy and fair feafons ibid. Healthful country ibid_ The reafon the Europeans are unhealthy at firft 228 Principal rivers ibid. River Indus 229 Dangerous landing on the coaft of India ibid. Provinces and great towns . 230 to 251 Fort St George, or Madrafs, the government of it _ 231, 233 Face of the Malabar coaft 236 The reafon the rains fall fooner here than on the other coaft ibid. An account of the diamond mines of Golconda and Vifapour 240 Englifh factory at Surat 245 Tombs of the Europeans at Surat 246 INDIA, The Hindowns country 249 Inhabitants of Agra 250 The buildings and furniture of the Indians 251 Tanques and pagodas 251, 252 Mofques and tombs of the Moors 252 Genius and temper of the Indians ibid. Their perfons and habits 253 Their food and liquors 254 Their ceremonies and diverfions 255 Their roads, carriages, and manner of travelling ^ . ibid. I heir trade and manufactures 256 Their (hipping 257 Soil and husbandry ibid. Their gardens, flowers, and fruit-trees 258 Timber-trees 259 Their cattle, and other animals ibid. Venomous creatures and infeCts 260 Their mines 263 Their learning and language ibid Writing and hiftories 263,264 Their phyficians and difeafes * 264 Their mechanic arts 265 Meafure for time 266 Honours and eftates ibid. The Mogul’s court, and great officers ibid. T he haram, or womens apartment 267 Adminiftration of juftice ibid. The Mogul’s lesker, or camp 268 His forces, and manner of engaging 269 Revenues of the empire 27 r Their coin, weights, and meafures ibid. The religions profefled in India, and their feveral cafts and tribes 272 to 276 Their marriages, and the condition of their chil¬ dren. 276 Of their funerals and mournings and the cuftom of the wives burning themfelves with their husbands . 278,279 Obfervations concerning the nature of the filk-worms 279 Dr Edmund Halley’s account of the winds in the Indian ocean 281 Extra&s of letters written by Mr Coryat from the Mogul’s court 282 Coryat’s fpeech to the Mogul 283 Pagan convents in India 284 Ingria, a province of Mufcovy 604 Inowlocz, a territory in Poland 7-3 lonia, a province of Afia Minor 410, 472 Jordan, a river of Paleftine ’ 45- Joura, an ifland of the Archipelago 382 Iflands raifed by vulcanoes and earthquakes 580 Ifpahan, the capital of Perfia, defcribed 309 Julpha, a town of Perfia, inhabited by Armenian Chriftians ,11 Jutland, a province of Denmark 689 K. 735 403 305 690 735 738 KAlifh, city and palatinate in Poland Kamski Tartars Kerman, a province of Perfia Kiel, a town in the dutchy of Slefwick Kolo, a city of Poland Koningsburg, the capital of Ducal Pruflia L. Acedaemon, a town in the Morea 562 LADRONE ISLANDS firft difcovered 92 Situation, extent, and produce of thefe iflands 94 The inhabitants defcribed ibid. The feafons, winds, and Ihipping 95 Lahor,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30456666_0001_0797.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
