[Footnote 143: The travelling Armenians are in the way of
every traveller, and their mother church is on the high road
between Constantinople and Ispahan; for their present state,
see Fabricius, (Lux Evangelii, &c., c. xxxviii. p. 40 - 51,)
Olearius, (l. iv. c. 40,) Chardin, (vol. ii. p. 232,)
Teurnefort, (lettre xx.,) and, above all, Tavernier, (tom.
i. p. 28 - 37, 510 - 518,) that rambling jeweller, who had
read nothing, but had seen so much and so well]