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A64730	Cosmography and geography in two parts, the first, containing the general and absolute part of cosmography and geography, being a translation from that eminent and much esteemed geographer Varenius : wherein are at large handled all such arts as are necessary to be understand for the true knowledge thereof : the second part, being a geographical description of all the world, taken from the notes and works of the famous Monsieur Sanson, late geographer to the French King : to which are added about an hundred cosmographical, geographical and hydrographical tables of several kingdoms and isles of the world, with their chief cities, seaports, bays, &c. drawn from the maps of the said Sanson : illustrated with maps.	Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667.; Blome, Richard, d. 1705.; Varenius, Bernhardus, 1622-1650. Geographia generalis. English.	1682 (1682)	Wing V103; ESTC R2087	1,110,349	935

several other Ceremonies the Bride is put in a Sledge and drawn to the Bridegrooms house where the Wedding is kept and he following her on Horseback and as soon as they are come the said Woman conducts the Bride to her Chamber undresses her and lays her in Bed during which time the Bridegroom and his Friends are seated at a Table well furnished with Meat the Bride being laid in her Bed the Woman fetches the Bridegroom from the Table who is accompanied with about eight young Men beating in their hands lighted Torches to conduct him to the Chamber which being entred they put them in the said Barrels of Corn and void the Room being each of them presented with two Martins Skins the Bride perceiving him coming gets out of the Bed putting a Gown about her and receives him very submissively and this is the first time he hath the sight of her face then they sit down at Table and having eaten go to Bed all quitting the Room and at the Door is placed one of the Old Servants who is to demand if the business is done and when he saith it is the Timbrels Trumpets c. play till such time as the Stoves are made ready where they hath themselves but apart and the two next days are spent in dancing entertainments and diversions but for Citizens and Persons of a meaner Degree less Ceremonies are used and with lesser-state and cost The Wedding being past the Bride betakes her self to a retir'd condition being not much permitted the liberty of the Streets nor do their Husbands especially the Richer sort care they should be brought to Houswifry so that they bestow their time in Idleness and playing with their Maids and as some say they are not well contented unless their Husbands gives them b●ating being like Spaniels the more they are beaten the better they love Divorcements are frequent amongst them for when they have a desire to part they accuse her of Adultery or want of Devotion by suborning of false Witnesses by which they are contented without answering for themselves Their Religion is the same with the Greek Church of which they are a Member Their Religion but full of Superstition as considering the Virgin Mary the Evangelists Apostles with abundance of other Saints not only as simple Intercessors but also Co-operators and Causes of their Salvation giving to their Saints and Images the same honour as is due only to God They differ from the Romish and Reformed Churches in several points as 1. Forbidding extream Vnction Confirmation and fourth Marriages 2. Denying the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father and the Son 3. Denying Purgatory but allow praying for the Dead 4. They hold it unlawful to fast on Saturdays 5. They reject graven or carved Images but allow of the painted 6. They observe four Lents every year 7. Communicating in both kinds but mixing warm Water with the Wine and using leavened Bread which they distribute both together with a Spoon 8. They admit Children of seven years of Age to come to the Sucrament 9. They admit of none to Orders but such as are married and forbidding the same to those that are in actual Orders And 10. Believing that Holy men before the Resurrection enjoy not the presence of God and for these and the like Tenents there is a great feud and hatred between them and the Papists The Moscovites suffer all Nations to live amongst them in quietness and give toleration to all Religions except the Jews and Papists whom they will not permit amongst them They are great observers of Festival-days of which they have abundance all which are not observed except by the Priests but their great Festival-days are strictly observed as also Sundays on which they go thrice a day to their Devotions Their Service consisteth in reading of Chapters and Psalms saying or rather singing of certain Prayers St. Athanasius's Creed Ceremonies observed by them together with a Homily out of St. Chrysostom they are such great Adorers of the Cross that they will undertake no business neither eat or drink before they have made the sign of the Cross also they are as great worshippers of painted Images there being scarce a Family without them and also have them placed about the walls of their Churches directing their Prayers to them and these Images are adorned with Pearls and Precious Stones and if it happen that any person is Excommunicated both He and his Images are not allowed the liberty of the Churches which are esteemed Sacred places by them and are built round and vaulted like a Dove-house in imitation of Heaven Their Devotion is performed standing or kneeling having no Seats in their Churches and in their Communions they hold Transubstantiation They are strict observers of Fasts of which they have a great many Their Fasts besides every Wednesday and Friday on which they will not eat any kind of Flesh nor that which comes from it Their Funerals In their Funerals they also observe several Ceremonies As soon as the sick person is deceased they send for all his Relations and Friends near at hand who stand by him lamenting his loss in a howling tone demanding why he would die whether he wanted any thing whether his Wife was constant to him or the like ridiculous Questions Also they send to the Priest a Present of Aqua-vitae Hydromel and Beer that he may pray for the Soul of the deceased Their Lamentations being ended they wash the Body of the deceased put a clean Shift and Shroud about him as also a pair of new Buskins on his feet and so lay him in the Coffin and carry him to Church the Priest going first who carrieth the Image of his Saint and being come to the Grave the Coffin is uncovered and whilst the Priest says certain Prayers the said Image is held over the Corps and the Wife Relation and Friends kiss him and take their last farewel in grievous Lamentations then the Priest puts betwixt his fingers a piece of Paper which is a Pass directed to St. Peter signed by the Patriarch or the Metropolitan of the place wherein is declared what he is how he lived in obedience to the Church c. as also a penny in his Mouth after which the Coffin is covered and the Corps interr'd with his face to the East then the People doing their devotions to the Images return to the House of the deceased where they dine and comfort up the Widow Their usual time of Mourning is forty days in which time they make three Feasts for the Friends of the deceased They hold Baptism of great importance Baptism insomuch that they Baptize their Children so soon as born and if it happen that through weakness the Child cannot be brought to the Church then it is baptized at home and in this they observe several Ceremonies And the Child being baptized the Priest assigns it a particular Saint the Image of which he delivers to the Godfather charging

West and advancing a little towards the South So that St. Anthony and Brava make the two Ends or Points towards the West Bona Vista makes the middle of the half Circle towards the East SANCTA LVCIA St. Nicholas St. NICHOLAS and St. JAGO are the greatest having each 100 or 120000 paces of length 15 20 or 30000 of breadth and 200 or 250000 paces of circuit St. Anthonio and St. Vincent are less by more then half and not of above 100000 paces in circuit the rest which are the least have not above 30 40 or 50000 paces I make no account of seven or eight others whose names have not been given us and which are rather Rocks than Isles St. JAGO is the greatest and the chief of all having a Bishops seat in the City of the same name St. Jago besides which are Ribera Grande with a good Port towards the West Praya towards the East St. Mary towards the North all with their Ports Some place likewise St. Thomas whose Port is dangerous others St. Domingo others St. Michael possibly these fall under some of the others Ribera Grande hath 500 Houses the Air is unhealthful the Land hilly but the Valleys fruitful in Grains Vines Fruits Sugar Canes Millons c. Feeding much Fowl and Cattle and particularly Goats in abundance These Beasts bringing forth young every four Moneths and three of four at a time and the Kids are very fat and delicate Sancta Lucia St. Vincent St. Anthony SANCTA LVCIA is the best peopled after that of St. Jago St. Nicholas St. Vincent and St. Anthony have been esteemed Desert yet they appear to have many Inhabitants though not so many as they could feed The Ships of the Vnited Provinces passing here in 1622. found in that of St Anthony 500 persons Men Women and Children all Aethiopians St. Vincent and St. Nicholas had no less At Mayo these Aethiopians are strong and of good stature but it is to be believed that every where are some Portugals to keep the rest in aw Salt Bona Vista The Isles of SALT of BONA VISTA of MAYO and of St. JAGO yield so great quantity of Salt which is made naturally of the Water which the Sea from time to time leaves that besides what they consume in the Countrey they laded every year more then 100 Ships which is transported into other Countreys and yet there remains six times as much which becomes useless It is reported that the Isle of Mayo could make alone lading for two thousand Sail of Ships yearly and the others not much less The other riches of the Countrey lies in the Skins of their Goats which are in so great quantity through all these Isles that many flocks are seen of 1000 Head The Skins are sent to Brasil Portugal and other places and make excellent Cordovants The Flesh is salted in the Countrey and sold to Ships going and returning from Brasil to the Indies Besides the Salt and Woats which are the principal riches of the Countrey they have many Wild Horses Oxen Apes c. also Cotton whereof they make several Manufactures Also Rice and many sorts of Grains Among their Fowl they have one kind particular to them which they call Flamencos the Feathers of their Bodies are all White and those of their Wings Red as Blood Their Tortoises are not above two or three foot long they come out of the Sea and lay their Eggs in the night covering them with Sand and the heat of the Sun hatches them Fuego Brava In Fuego and Brava they gather Wines which yield little to those of the Canaries The Sargasso Sea Between the Islands of Cape Verde and the main Land inclining towards the Canaries the Sea is called Sargasso because from the 20 to the 24 degree and for the length of 30 40 or 50 Leagues the Sea is covered with an herb like to that which is found in the bottom of Wells and which the Portugals call Sargasso This Herb except that it is more Yellow resembles Sea-Parsley bearing certain Grains or Fruit at the end but of neither taste nor substance Many have been much troubled to know from whence these Weeds come which are distant from the Isles and from the firm Land more then 60 Leagues and in a part of the Sea where there is no bottom found Nevertheless they are so close and in so great quantity that the Water seems rather a Meadow or Green Field then a Sea Ships which fall among these Weeds had need of a good Wind to disingage themselves and I believe it was these which hindred Sataspes from finishing his course about Africa and were the cause of his misfortune This Sataspes Son of Teaspes one of the Achemenides A story of Sataspes having ravished the Daughter of Zopyrus the Son of Magabises was condemned by Xerxes to be crucified His Mother the Sister of Darius caused this punishment to be changed into another to wit he was caused to make the Circumnavigation of Africa which could not be done without great difficulty and hazard He embarked in Egypt passed the Pillars of Hercules entred into the Occidental Ocean and passed far to the South along Africa but knowing that it would yet require much time and pains to end this course he returned into Egypt and thence to the Court where he said he had met with somewhat that hindred his Ship from passing farther Xerxes took him for a liar and made him suffer the death he was before condemned to But to continue The Isles of Cape Verde The Position wherein the Isles of Cape Verde are now found answers much better to the Position of the Fortunate Isles of Ptolomy then that of the Canaries Ptolomy places his Fortunate Isles between the 10 and 16 degree of Latitude the Isles of Cape Verde are between the 13 and 19 the Canaries beyond the 26. The Meridian of the Fortunate Isles of Ptolomy is at 8 degrees of Longitude from the Coast of Africa and towards the West The least Meridian of the Isles of Cape Verde is at 8 degrees of Longitude from the same Coast and towards the same side The least Meridian of the Canaries touches the Coast of Africa Ptolomy confines his Fortunate Isles under one Meridian and extends them from South to North between the tenth to the sixteenth parallel or degrees of Latitude which are five degrees of Latitude The Isles of Cape Verde are not justly under one Meridian but under two or three and extend themselves from the 13 ½ to the 19 which are five degrees of Latitude The Canaries on the contrary are all couched from West to East and almost under the same parallel or degree of Latitude which is the 27 lengthning themselves from the first to the 6 of Longitude These four Reasons are very strong to prove that the Isles of Cape Verde do rather answer to the Fortunate Isles of Ptolomy then the Canaries Their distance in regard of the Aequator is