Travels in India (Tavernier) 10.1

10.1

All the routes by which one can travel to the principal towns of India are not less well known to me than are those of Turkey and of Persia, and, for six journeys which I have made from Paris to Ispahan, I have made double the number from Ispahan to Agra, and to several other places in the Empire of the Great Mogul. But it would weary the reader to cause him to pass more than once by the same roads while giving him an account of these different journeys, and of sundry small adventures with which they have been accompanied ; therefore it is that, without indicating for him the times at which I have made them, it will suffice to give him an exact description of each route. There are but two roads from Surat to Agra, one by BurhAnpur and Sironj, and the other by AhmadAbAd, and the first will form the subject of this chapter. From Surat to Barnoly (Bardoli), 14 coss. Bardoli is a large town where you cross a river by a ford, and traverse in this first march a country of mixed character, sometimes meeting woods, and sometimes fields of wheat and rice. From Barnoly to Balor (Ballor), 10 coss.