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A92886	Atlas maritimus. or A book of charts Describeing the sea coasts capes headlands sands shoals rocks and dangers the bayes roads harbors rivers and ports, in most of the knowne parts of the world. With the true courses and distances, from one place to another. Gathered from the latest and best discoveryes, that have bin made by divers able and experienced navigators of our English nation. Accomodated with an hydrographicall description of the whole world. By John Seller. Hidrographer to ye Kings most excellent Majestie.	Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.	1672 (1672)	Wing S2463C; ESTC R232795	34,424	61

Ocean Hamburgh are first Hamburgh on the Bill where it falls into the Elve one of the Hanse-Towns also having by report as many great Ships as sayl upon the Ocean which bring great profit besides the resort of Merchants from most places It was sometimes the Staple Town for the Cloth of England on some discontent removed from thence to Stadt a little nearer the Sea on the same River from thence afterwards to Holland Next Bremen seated on the broad and navigable River Weser whence comes store of Linnen Cloth called from a Town not far thence Osenbridge Then Emden a good Haven and well traded Town which yearly sends out 700 Busses for the Herring-fishing on the Coasts of England Alongst the Shores for the most part belonging to the States of Holland Holland lie several Islands the chief whereof are Ameland Schelling Holland Fly-land Texel Weringen Voorn Yselmond Overflaccee Schowen Duveland Tertolen North-Beverland South-Beverland and Walcheren The chief Ports and Places are Amsterdam a very fair Haven situate on the Gulf called the Tye and the Channel or Dike Amstel whence Amsterdam built on Piles like Venice and much resembling it both in Trade and other Things a place stored with multitude of shipping inhabited by Men of all Nations and of all Religions Grown Famous and exceeding Wealthy since the diverting of the Trade from Antwerp hither Horn Enchuisen on the very Point of the Gulf of Zuider-Zee opposite to Friezeland Medemblick Scheidam Delf-haven Rotterdam on a Channel named the Rotter not far from which the Leck one of the three main Branches of the Rhine falleth into the Maes a strong fair and well-traded Port. The Brill in the Island Voorn once Cautionary to the English with the Town of Flushing Bergen ap Zome so called from the River Zome on which it is situate about half a league from the influx of it into the Scheld and not far from the Sea which gives it a reasonable good Haven Antwerp situate on the Scheld seventeen leagues from the Sea of so great Trade in former times that it was held to be the richest Empory of the Christian World the Commodities here Bought and Sold amounting to more in one month than those of Venice in two years the cause whereof was that the Portugals diverting the Alexandrian and Venetian Trade to Lisbon kept here their Factories and sent hither their Spices and Indian Commodities now almost removed by the Hellander to Amsterdam Middleburg Flushing Flanders the Key of the Netherlands Ostend Newport Dunkirck Graveling the last of Flanders On the Coast of France France alongst the English Channel are first Callice at the very entrance Deep a Town of Trade especially for the New-found-land Newhaven or Haverdegrace on the Mouth of the River Sein betwixt which and St. Maloes close by the Hag-point over against the Isle of Wight in England lyeth the Islands Aldernay or as the French Aurney Jersey Guernsey belong to the Crown of England and several other smaller Islands stoared with plenty of Syder and fine Wooll whereof they knit store of Stockings and Wastcoates St. Maloes Morlais ushant Brest seated on a spacious Bay of the Western Ocean the Key and Bulwark of Bretaign and the goodliest Harbour of all France Croisse a little Haven at the Mouth of the Loir not far below Nants whence store of the best and most noted Brandy Rochel a Town seated in the inner part of a fair and capacious Bay assured by two strong Forts betwixt which there is scarce more space than for a Ship to come in at once Over against which lyeth Oleron an Island yeelding great quantity of Salt in special fame for that the Maritine Laws which for near 500 years have generally been received by all the States of the Christian World which frequent the Ocean for regulating Sea Affairs and deciding of Maritine Controversies were declared and established here The Island being then in possession of the English from thence named the Laws of Oleron So powerful were the Kings of England in former times to give Laws to all that traded on the Ocean Burdeaux seated on the Garond not far from the Sea much frequented by English and Dutch for Gascoign Wines Bayon the last of France on this part of the Ocean On the Coast of Spain St. Sebastian Spain a noted and well-traded Port at the Mouth of the River Gurvineo beautified with a fair and capacious Haven defended with two strong Castles founded on two opposite Rocks Bilbao situate some two leagues from the Sea on a fair and deep Creek thereof Biscay this and indeed all the Coast of Biscay stored with such infinite quantities of Iron and Steel that no Countrey yeeldeth better or in greater plenty called for this cause the Armory of Spain exceedingly enriched by making of Armour and all sorts of Weapons their chief Manufacture the Bilbao Blades in such request being brought from thence besides great quantities of Wooll hence transported Corunna by us called the Groin often mentioned in our story of the Wars with the Spaniard in Queen Elizabeths time taken by the English not far from the Promontorie or Cape called Finis Terrae Cape Finis Terrae or Cape de Finis Terre being the most western end of the then known World Bayon not far from the Mouth of the River Minio full of Red Lead from hence called by the Latins Minium navigable with small Vessels 100 miles Porto Duero or Porto Port Portugal at the Mouth of the River Duero in the Kingdom of Portugal Lisbon upon the great River Tagus a famous City for Traffick the Portugals in all their Navigations setting sail from hence 'T is conveniently seated for Shipping and excepting the Court which is here kept inhabited chiefly by Mariners and Merchants which of their own Countrey growth trade in Honey Wine Oyl Allum Fruits Salt c. and from Brazil in America with great quantities of best and finest Sugar and many sorts of Drugs Setubal or St. Uves South of Lisbon situate on a Gulf of twenty miles in length and three in breadth a place of principal importance next to Lisbon Not far to the North-west of Cape Vincent there are certain Islands called the Azores in the Atlantick Ocean subject to the Crown of Portugal and opposite to the City of Lisbon from which distant 250 leagues situate between 38 and 40 degrees of North Latitude and one of them in the first longitude which is commonly reckoned from these Islands as being the most western part of the World before the discovery of America Azores They were so called from Azor in the Spanish Tongue signifying a Goshauk because multitudes were there at first found The names are these Tercera St. Michaels Fyal Gratiosa St. George Pice Corvo Flores Spain and St. Maries most of them stored with Flesh Fish and a sort of Wine not very good nor durable But the chief Commodity they send out is Woad

Englands Famous Discoverers Sr. Walter Ra●leigh Sr. Hugh Willoughby Sr. Fran Drake 〈…〉 Candes● ATLAS MARITIMUS or A Book of CHARTS Describeing the SEA Coasts Capes Headlands Sands Shoals Rocks and Dangers the Bayes Roads Harbors Rivers and Ports in most of the knowne parts of the WORLD With the true Courses and distances from one place to another Gathered from the latest and best Discoveryes that have bin made by divers Able and Experienced Navigators of our English Nation Accomodated with an Hydrographicall Description of the whole WORLD By John Seller Hidrographer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And are to be Sold by him at the Hermitage Staires in Wapping and at his Shop in Exchange Alley Near the Royall Exchange in London Cum Privilegio THE SEA-ATLAS CONTAINING An Hydrographical Description of the SEA-COASTS of most of the known Parts of the WORLD THat whole Mass of Waters which maketh up one part of this Terrestrial Globe and is sometimes as it were environed with the Earth as in Rivers Streights and smaller Seas sometimes dilating it self into larger Floods doth encompass the Earth as in the Ocean or greater Seas may be conveniently divided somewhat according to the four general Regions or Divisions of the Earth into four parts The North Sea or Mar del Noort comprehendeth all those Waters which from the Pole-Artick even unto the Equator do wash the Shores of Europe Africa and America The Ethiopian Sea or Mar d' Ethiopia which from the Equinoctial Line northerly the Shores of Ethiopia on the East and the Coasts of America on the West part runneth with unknown bounds towards the Antartick Pole The Indian Sea or Mar d' India bounded on the West with the Oriental Parts of Africa on the North by the South Coasts of Asia and circumvironing all the Islands of the East-India as far as Islas de Ladronas and Nova Guinea hath its South parts tending towards the Antartick Pole not yet discovered The South Sea called also Mar del Zur or Mare Pacificum runneth all along the Western Shores of America on the one side is contiguate with the Indian Sea on the other but hath yet found no limits towards the Artick or Antartick Poles Which general division of the Ocean so far as conveniency may admit in the succeeding breviary Description of the Sea-Coasts shall be observed The Coasts of those two famous Islands of Great Britain and Ireland Britain are the first that discover themselves to us out of this Northern Division of the Ocean The first whereof is not without cause esteemed the Metropolitan Island of Europe I will say taken in all respects of the World It is attended by many lesser Islands the chief whereof are Thanet Wight Silly Anglesey Man Lewis the Hebrides Orknay Shotland and Far Stored with plenty of Ports Bays Rivers Roads and Harbours capable to receive Ships of great Burthen amongst which London accounted the Mart of Christendom the Metropolis of Great Britain conveniently seated on the River of Thames hath the chiefest note Next unto which on the East side northerly by the German Ocean are Harwich Yarmouth Lin Kingston upon Hull New-castle a gallant Haven famous for its inexhaustable Cole-Mines and Edenburgh and Dundee in Scotland c. On the South side between the Coasts of England and France called the Channel are Dover Chichester Portsmouth Weymouth Plymouth and Dartmouth On the West side over against the Coasts of Ireland in that violent and turbulent Sea called St. George his Channel are Bristol Pembrook or Milford-Haven Chester Leverpool Carlisle c. The Island especially England yeelding abundant plenty of Corn and Cattel besides other Commodities as Lead Tin Iron Sea-cole Saffron Wooll Cloth Licorish Mill-stones and other rich Merchandize multitude of Ships being continually in the Ports serving either to export her own or to import other Commodities from most places of the World in lieu thereof On the Coasts of Ireland are Knock-fargus Dublin Ireland Waterford King-sale Limrick Galloway c. Principally abounding in Cattel from whence great numbers are yearly exported into other Countreys Passing on northerly just under the Artich-Circle lyeth environed by the Northern Ocean Iseland or Mare Glaciale Iseland or rather Iceland first discovered by one Naddoc a Pyrat who by a Tempest was driven to the Shores of this Countrey which afterwards from the coldness and store of Ice there continually found was so named and first inhabited by the Norvegians now under the power of the King of Denmark a place frequented by Danes English High and Low Dutch and Biscainers where in exchange of Bisket Beer Iron Copper Cloth and some other Wares they bring from thence Stock-fish and other sorts of Fish Train-Oyl Skins of Foxes and other Beasts Sulphur and a sort of course Cloth and Stockings called Wadmoll The Ports most frequented are Strom Warloswick Kebbelwick Busland Orbaack Hola and Haffenford near unto which standeth Bellestede the Residence of the Governour a Dwelling sutable enough to the manner and fashion of this Countrey North-east from hence in the Latitude of 76 and 80 lyeth Greenland or King James his New Land Greenland first found out by Sir Hugh Willowby in the year 1553. though the Dutch men affirm it to be discovered first by Jacob Hemskerk William Barrentson and John Cornelius Rip Anno 1596. which whether it by an Island or contiguate with the main Continent of Groenland or some other Northern Region none have hitherto known The Inland parts are stored with great numbers of Bears Deer Foxes and such like Creatures and the Sea-shores with multitude of Morses and Whales of incredible magnitude for the catching whereof the Inhabitants of most Sea-Ports in the Northern Ocean do usually make their yearly Voyages Not far from hence lyeth Bear Island or rather Cherry Island Cherry Island so named from Sir Francis Cherry Merchant who was at the charge of the discovery thereof whither resort great number of Sea-Horses or Morses and Whales the Moscovy Company once making great profit of the trade therein Thirty degrees to the South-eastward hereof is the Island of Nova Zemla Nova Zemla separated from the North Continent of Russia by the Streights of Vaigats alias Fretum Burrough through which so many brave and worthy Navigators have attempted to find a passage into Scythia and China N. E. Passage but being obstructed by the abundance of Ice met with in those Seas could yet discover no farther eastwards than the great River Oby the North-west confine of the Kingdom of Tartaria Tartarian Sea though it hath been often reported by the Samoed Tartars Russes and others that have travelled those Countries by Land that the Tartarian Seas do at certain seasons of the year lie open and free from such incumbrance To return therefore by the known Parts of Russia Russia the Ports and Places whereof worthy observation and most frequented are first Petzora Reca the Isle of Colgoyn situate at the mouth

entrance into the Arabian-Gulf or Red-Sea Red-Sea rightly so called from bordering on the Land of Edom. The chief Ports whereof are Zeila Mazzua on the Coast of Ethiopia And at the very top thereof Sues or Arsinoe the station of the Turkish Gallies that command the Gulf they being first framed at Cair then taken in pieces brought hither and here rebuilt and joyned together Eziongeber the Haven of Solomons Ships that fetcht his Gold from Ophir Others in this Gulf on the Coast of Arabia are few or no places worthy of mention as far as Babel Mandel where it openeth into the Southern Ocean most part of the Persian and Indian Merchandize coming formerly this way and so transported by Land to Cair then to Alexandria but now little or nothing used A little without the Gulf standeth Aden a gallant Haven well traded and seldom without store of Shipping carrying from thence Gums Drugs and other Merchandize Next Oran the Lock and Key of the Southern Ocean on the Point or Promontory at the entering into the Persian-Gulf Persian-Gulf or Gulf de Elcatiffe a turbulent and unruly Sea the Southern Ocean breaking in at one end and the River Euphrates at the other the continual combating and clashing of which two makes it so unquiet Places and Ports of note on the Arabian Shore are Muscabat Sabta Balsara Rhegium But none so famous as the City of Ormus on the Persian Shore not so memorable for the greatness as the wealth and conveniency of the situation thereof built in an Island so called a famous Empory for Persian and Indian Commodities being hence transported and conveyed to Badgat or Babylon Aleppo and Tripoli not yet wholly decayed besides plenty of other Merchandize here are found the best and fairest Oriental Pearls which are caught in this Gulf between Basara and Ormus The first Port on the Coast of India India is accounted Diu looking towards Persia but on the East side thereof near the Mouth of the River Indus a Town of great Trade possessed by the Portugals Tutta on the Banks of Indus of no less trade to the Portugals who here receive such Indian Commodities as come down the Water from Lahore returning Pepper in exchange which they bring up the River from their other Factories Madabat the chief Town of Guzarat affirmed to be near as big as London seldom without Merchants of all parts Cambaia 3 miles from Indus and as many in compass so populous that it is accounted the Cair of the Indies exceeding fruitful abounding in Rice Wheat Sugar all sorts of Spices and Fruits Silk Cottons and in the Mountains thereabouts they find Diamonds Calcedonies and a kind of Onyx called Corneline corruptly Cornelian Swaley in a large Bay so called the Haven Town for Surat about ten miles from the Road Surat from whence the River is Navigable only by Boats and Shallops made of late years a Factory for the English Merchants who have here their President and a Magnificent House for their Reception and Staple of their Commodities which are chiefly Spices Calicoes Indico Sarcinets Pantadoes c. Bombay is a great Factory for the English East-India Company Goa a Sea-Town situate in a little Goa but most pleasant Island called Ticuarinum fifteen miles in compass opposite to the Out-let of the River Mindano a noted Empory and one of the chief Keys that unlock the Indies inhabited besides the Portugals by Indians Moors Jews Armenians Guzarats Banians Bramaa's and many others who for the cause of Trade and Gain dwell here without molestation for their Religion Curwar Batticale on the Coast of Malabar first Cononor well built and beautified with a very fair Haven belonging to the Portugals and well traded by Merchants Then Calicut the chief of these parts Calicut three miles in length upon the Sea of exceeding Trade especially in fine Calicoes thence so called Ginger Cinamon Pepper and Cassia Cochin a Sea-Town likewise of little less Trade than Calicut To the southward hereof is Cape Comarin Cape Comerin or Cormandel and a little from thence the Island Zeylan large and almost round affirmed to be plentiful in Cinnamon Ginger Gold of the best sort Silver and all sorts of Mettals Pretious-Stones and store of the largest Elephants the chief Towns are Trinquelimale and Batticalo Jaffanapatan Colmuch now Columbo having a fair Haven the Royal Seat of the Kings whence many Ships laden with Cinnamon Gems Elephants and other Commodities go yearly to other places Within the Gulf of Bengala in the Kingdom of Golkondo are Negapatan Madras St. Georges Fort Gulf of Bengala Masulapatan Orissa Bellesor Angeli c. From all which they usually send plenty of Rice Cotten-Cloth a fine Stuff like Silk made of a Grass called there Yerva Long-Pepper Ginger Mirabolans and other Merchandize Ougely and Bengala giving name to the great Bay situate on a Branch of the River Ganges a place endowed with plenty of all things fit for life rich in Merchandize especially Rice Gold Pretious Stones Pearls a curious sort of painted Cotten Cloth thence sent to all parts of the World Aracan and Pegu the glory of these parts great strong and Beautiful Rich in Gold Gems of divers sorts Red-Wax c. Lugor on the Sea-side near that little Istmos that joyneth the Chersonese to the main Land Martaban Sornaw Queda renowned for the best Pepper and in most plenty for that cause much frequented by Merchants And in the Kingdom of Siam Siam in the narrow Strait between the Isle of Sumatra and the Peninsula called the Golden Chersonese stands Malacca for Spices Unguents Gold Silver Pearls and Pretious-Stones the most noted Empory of the East once possest and strongly fortified by the Portugals but taken from them by the King of Achem. Next Jor at the very Point or Promontory Patane where the English and Hollanders have their Factories Siam at the bottom of a great Bay a goodly City and conveniently seated on the River Menam for Trade and Merchandize which is Precious-Stones much Spices c. Champa and Cochinchina in Camboya Cochinchina having store of Gold and Lignum Aloes valued at it's weight in Silver Silk in abundance Purselan Earth for the making Cups Dishes and other Utensils Salt-Peter c. To the northward whereof lyeth the Isle of Aynan a place of the greatest note for the Pearl-fishing Hereabout beginneth the Kingdom of China China which as it is the largest richest and best inhabited throughout the whole World would require a Treatise correspondent but because they are a People forbidding Forreigners to trade amongst them unless in some sew places the knowledge of others coming onely by particular report I shal only give a touch at two or three places which are most considerable for Trade as First Nanquin of incredible greatness situate in a great Gulf so called nine leagues from the Sea on the great River Kiang wherein by report ride for the most part no less than