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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33311	A geographicall description of all the countries in the known vvorld as also of the greatest and famousest cities and fabricks which have been, or are now remaining : together with the greatest rivers, the strangest fountains, the various minerals, stones, trees ... which are to be found in every country : unto which is added, a description of the rarest beasts, fowls ... which are least known amongst us / collected out of the most approved authors ... by Sa. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Gaywood, Richard, fl. 1650-1680.	1657 (1657)	Wing C4516; ESTC R36024	224,473	240

trees there is great variety There are Hares Goats Bores Harts Elephants Camells Buffalls Lions Panthers Tigers Rhinocerotes and Jaraffs The air in this Country is most part warm and temperate In some parts very hot and unwholesome The Winter is from the end of May to the beginning of September in which time it rains almost every day which is often accompanied with thunder their VVine is made of Honey their Churches are usually compassed with trees for shade The richer sort buy garments of the Saracens the rest both men and women cover their bodies either with a skin or some course Hempen-cloth when they do reverence to any they put off their cloth from the shoulders to their navel their hair is long which serves them for a Hat the better sort curle and anoint their hair with butter they brand marks in their bodies especially in their face on their little fingers they suffer their nails to grow as long as they will their hands and feet are bare which they colour reddish they are artlesse and lazie they lye on Ox hides they eat their meat out of great bowles of wood without any Napperie they have no Cities but great unwalled Villages their greatest Town hath scarce sixteen thousand houses These houses are small without elegancy or story round and covered with earth and straw They paint Christ the Virgin and other Saints black as Devils and wicked men white Their Temples are round having a double Porch they neither walk nor talk nor sit nor spit nor laugh in the Church nor admit Dogs into the Church-yards some Churches are only for men others for women In small Villages they are common to both but with divisions that they cannot see one another The chiefest Port belonging to the Abissines is Suaque●n situated in the Arabian Gulph It excels most of the Cities in the Orient in four things First in the goodnesse and security of the Haven which is fenced by nature against all storms and will contain two hundred ships besides multitudes of small Vessels Secondly In the easinesse of loading and unloading of them For the City being built in an Island they set the beak-heads of their Ships and Gallies over the streets and by casting a plank over they are emptied into the ware-houses Thirdly For trafick with strange Nations for there repair thither Merchants from all parts of India Cambaia Pegu Malacca Arabia Ethiopia Egypt c. which trade for abundance of gold and Ivory Fourthly For the strength of the City which is very great by reason of Sholds Flats Islands Rocks Banks of sand c. which makes the approaches very difficult and dangerous This Country of Abassia is as big as Germany France and Italy and hath in it plenty of Rice Barley Beans Pease Sugar c. The Hill Amara in Ethiopia described In Ethiopia under Prete Janny commonly called Prester or Presbyter John is an hill called Amara situated in the navel of the Ethiopian body under the Equinoctial line adorned with all variety of fruits wholesome air pleasant aspect and prospect yea Heaven and Earth Nature and Industry have all been corrivals to present their riches to it It stands in a great plain having no other hill near it by thirty leagues the form of it is round the rock is cut so smooth without any unequal swelling that to him that stands beneath it s like an high wall the top is overhanged with rocks jutting forth for the space of a mile It s above twenty leagues in the circuit compassed with a wall on the top well wrought that so neither man nor beast in chase may fall down The top is a level only towards the South is a rising hill beautifying this plain whence issueth a pleasant Spring which passeth through all that plain and payeth its tribute to every Garden that will exact it and so maketh a Lake at length whence issueth a River that from thence runneth into Nilus The way up to it is cut out of the Rock not with stairs but by an easy ascent so that one may ride up with ease at the foot whereof is a fair Gate with a Corps du Guard Halfway up is a fair and spacious Hall cut out of the Rock with three large windows to it and at the top is another gate with the like Guard The air above is wholesome and delectable so that they live long there without sicknesse There are upon it thirty four Palaces standing by themselves spacious sumptuous and beautiful where the Princes of the Royal blood have their abode with their Families There are two Temples also the most beautiful in all Ethiopia There are many flourishing and fruitful Gardens curiously made and plentifully furnished with Europian fruits as Pears Pippins c. and of their own as Oranges Citrons Lemons c. It s also adorned with Cedars Palm-trees c. as also with variety of herbs and flowers to delight the sight taste and sent There are also Cubaio trees pleasant in taste beyond all comparison and great store of Balm-trees There is plenty of all sorts of Grain and Corn and such charms of Birds as delight the ear with their melodious warbling notes and please the eye with their variety of colours and other creatures that adorn this Paradise The aforenamed Churches have their Pillars and Roofs of stone richly and cunningly wrought the matter and workmanship contending for magnificence That of Jasper Alabaster Marble Porphyrie This of painting gilding and much curiosity To these are adjoyning two stately Monasteries in one whereof are two rare peeces whereon wonder may justly fasten both her eyes The Treasury and the Library of the Emperor are such as neither of them is thought to bee matchable in the world neither that of Constantinople wherein were one hundred and twenty thousand Books nor that of Alexandria wherein were seven hundred thousand Books For the number in this Library is numberlesse their price inestimable There are three great Halls each above two hundred paces large with Books of all Sciences written in fine Parchment with much curiosity of golden Letters and other work and cost in writing binding and covers There are all the Greek Fathers The Writers of Syria Egypt Africa and the Latine Fathers with others innumerable in Greek Hebrew Arabick Abyssine Egyptian Syrian and Chaldee There are Poets Philosophers Physicians Rabbines Talmudists Cabalists Hieroglyphicks c. The Treasury leaves them of all other Princes behinde it It s a Sea that every year receiveth new Rivers which never run out every Emperor yearly laying up part of his revenue there The Jewels here kept are incomparable Topazes Amethists Saphires Diamonds c. Hee hath one Jewel that was found in the River Niger that brings forth more Gemmes than any other in the world which is one peece diversified with a thousand variety of stones It s about two spans and an half square there are in it one hundred and sixty Diamonds one as large as the palm of ones