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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59140	A new systeme of geography, designed in a most plain and easy method for the better understanding of that science accommodated with new mapps of all the countreys, regions, empires, monarchis, kingdoms, principalities, dukedoms, marquesates, dominions, estates, republiques, Soveraignties, governments seignories, provinces, and countreys in the whole world with geographical tables, explaining the divisions in each mapp / John Seller ...	Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.	1685 (1685)	Wing S2477; ESTC R3904	48,442	207

Scotland Quebeck in New France and Brest in Canada of no great Importance Of New Britain New South Wales and New North Wales THree Provinces much like the former we having but little knowledge thereof only the Soil is somewhat better Places of most note are Fort Charles in New Britain Port Nelson in South Wales and Ne Vltra in North Wales It was in some of these places that Hudson and others Wintered in their Voyages to the North West Of the Island of California THe Air hereof is indifferently Temperate being full of Herbage and Cattle which be little less than them of Europe supposed to have some Traffick with China but not certainly known Of Newfound-Land IS an Island famous for its Bays Harbours and the great store of Fish caught there and therefore much frequented by French Dutch and Biscaners some part thereof Granted by Patent to Sir George Calvert and still possessed by hi Son and Heir the Lord Baltamore Of Groenland GRoenland contains a vast Tract of Land not yet fully discovered though it hath been long known to the Norwegians who have several Colonies planted therein it hath also been touched at by several of our English Men in their Voyages to the Northwest The Sea hath great store of Whales also Sea Wolves Dogs and Calves and White Bears which are said to live more by Water than Land and Feed most upon Fish they have also Wheat Chesnuts Apples and good Grass for Pasture There are also Horses Stags Wolves Foxes Dogs and Martles If I should go about to relate all the Stories which are more strange than true that are told of the strange things in this Countrey I should need a far larger Volume than this to contain them Of Island ISland is an 150 Miles long and little less than an 100 broad Its Inhabitants are subject to the King of Denmark so healthy are they that they live to an hundred years of Age nevertheless very unlearned and little are they skilled in the Liberal Sciences following nothing so much as the Feeding of their Flocks and Cattle In this Island are Two Mountains the Name of one is Hecla the other Helga which vomit and send forth Fire in abundance the first being so fierce that there is no approaching it by six Miles and therefore the place is much indamaged thereby that it is a great loss to the Inhabitants Of Hudsons Bay BEtween Groenland and the Coast of Nova Francia lieth a great Sea called Hudson's Streights which after some Leagues Passage openeth into a sine Bay dilating it self both toward the North South and West giving great hopes of a passage that way to the East Indies First discovered by the Two Cabots Father and Son upon the account of Henry the Seventh of England Afterwards by Hudson Forbisher Weymouth Button Baffin Smith James c. and of latter times we have had a Trassick thither which is managed by Merchants of London called by the Name of Merchant Adventurers to Hudsons Bay the Coast of New Britain runs along by the side of some part of this Bay and though it has been much sought into yet it cannot be found out yet whether there be a passage this way or whether it is no more but an Inlet of the Sea there being several places called by the Name of the first Discoverers as the place where Hudson Wintered James Bay Buttens Bay Forbishers Streights Freum Davis Baffins Bay c. Thus have I given you as full a Relation of Ameriea as the bulk of my Book will permit being nothing according to the best of my knowledge but what is the true state thereof at this time hoping that ●f there be any mistakes you will not impute it to my carelesness but to the Mis-information of them that have writ of any of these New Discoveries I shall end therefore with that Advice of Helyn But whither goes my Bark Return for we Have slic'd the Capering Brine enough See see The South Wind 'gins to gather Clouds apace 'T is no safe tarrying inso fieree a place Whilst thou hast time retire thou wearied Bark Into safe Harbour when the Cloud which dark The Worlds bright Eye shall be dispell'd away And shining Phaebus make a lightsome Day Tritons shrill Trump shall thee recall again From the safe Harbour to the foaming Main And we with all our Powers will boldly try What of this Vnknown World we can descry FINIS All sorts of Mathematical Books and Instruments both for Sea and Land Maps both great and small of all Countreys Maritime Charts and Sea Plats are sold by John Seller at his Shop on the West-side of the Royal Exchange in London and at the Hermitage in Wapping Scales of Miles and Leagues of Diverse Nations shewing what Proportion they bear to a degree of the Earth The Length of one degree Roman Italian Turkish and English miles 60 to one degree Arabian English and French Leagues 20 to one degree or hours goeing Spanish Leagues 17 1 2 to one degree Common German miles 15 to one degree Swedes and Danish miles 10 to one degree Hungarian miles 14 to one degree Scotch miles 40 to one degree Low-dutch or Hollands miles 19 to one degree Russian miles 80 to one degree Persian miles 8 to one degree East Indian miles 100 to one degree Kingdom of Cambaja Gazuratt 30 Cosa's to one degree The Mapp of the WORLD is thus divided into two Continents The Continent of Europe Asia Africa The Continent of North America South America A NEW MAPP OF THE WORLD By John Seller Hydrographer to the KING ●UROPE is thus Divided England 1 London Scotland 2 Edinburg Ireland 3 Dublin XVII Provinces 4 Amsterdam France 5 Paris Brest Marselles Spain 6 Madrid Mallago Bilboa Gibralter Portugal 7 Lisbon Italy 8 Rome Venice Genoa Germany 9 Vienna Prague Hambourg Denmarke 10 Coppenhgen Rypen Norway Sweden 11 Bergen Dronthem Stockholm Ryga Abo Moscovia or Russia 12 Moscou Archangle Wollogda Cazan Kola Lesser Tartaria 13 Caffa Poland 14 Danzick Cracow Lithuania 15 Wilna Hungaria 16 Buda Turky in Europe 17 Constantinople North yt. South yt. of Turky 18 Ragusa Zant North yt. South yt. in Europe 19 Lepanto Morea 20 Modon Coron EUROPE The Kingdom of ENGLAND is divided into two parts ENGLAND is divided into forty Countyes Buckingham shire Bedford S Berk S Cambridgshire Cheshire Cornwal Cumberland Darby S Devon S Dorset S Durham Essex Gloucester S Herefordshire Hant S Hertford S Huntingtō S Kent Leicestershire Lancashire Lincolnshire Monmouthshire Midlesex Norfolk Northamptonsh Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxford S Rutland Shropshire Sussex Somerset S Suffolk Stafford S Surrey Warwick S Wilt S Westmorland Worcester S York S WALES is divided into twelve Countyes Anglesey Brecknockshire Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire Carnarvanshire Denby S Flintshire Glamorganshire Merionethshire Montgomery S Pembrook S Radnor A Mapp of the Kingdome of ENGLAND and WALES By Iohn Seller ●COTLAND is thus Divided In the North are these Divisions Cathanes Strath-navern Southerland Assynt-ross Lochquaber