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A61053	A prospect of the most famous parts of the vvorld Viz. Asia, 3 Affrica, 5 Europe, 7 America. 9 With these kingdomes therein contained. Grecia, 11 Roman Empire, 13 Germanie, 15 Bohemia, 17 France, 19 Belgia, 21 Spaine, 23 Italie, 25 Hungarie, 27 Denmarke, 29 Poland, 31 Persia, 33 Turkish Empire, 35 Kingdome of China, 37 Tartaria, 39 Sommer Ilands, 41 Civill Warres, in England, Wales, and Ireland. You shall find placed in the beginning of the second booke marked with these [3 asterisks in triangle formation] and (5) together with all the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large theator of Great Brittaines empire. / Performed by John Speed.	Speed, John, 1552?-1629.; Goos, Abraham,; Gryp, Dirck,; Speed, John, 1552?-1629. Theatre of the empire of Great Britaine.	1646 (1646)	Wing S4882A; ESTC R218797	522,101	219

store and thither went Abraham out of the Land of Canaan to avoyd the great famine Gen. 1● She had then her Princes Pharaoh and his mighty men that feared not to resist God and were afterward made the instruments of his punishments upon the children of Israel for they kept them in bondage foure hundred years as was foretold to Abraham in the 15. of Genesis 4 But this proofe of Ancientry concerns not the whole Countrey onely those Regions which lye under the temperate Zone The rest for a long time after were unknowne to our Geographers held not habitable indeed beyond Mount Atlas by reason of the extreme heat The reports which passe of it before Ptolemyes time were but at randome and by guesse of such as had never sayled it round or scarce come within sight of it but at a great distance and by this means either out of their owne errour or else a desire of glory more then they had deserved or perhaps a Travailors trick to cheat the ignorant world that could not confute their reports they spread many idle fables of monstrous people without heads with their eyes and mouthes in their breasts maintained to this day by some Authours of good esteeme But for my part I hold it most reasonable to credit S. Augustine who was born and died in Africa That he in his eighth book De Civitate Dei acknowledgeth no such creatures or if they be they be not men or if men not borne of Adam And our later discoveries joyne in with him that report not upon their owne experience of any other people then such as our selves are and yet I suppose they have seen more of the Countrey then ever any heretofore did For they passe not now to sayle it round once a yeare by the Cape of good Hope to the East-side of the very Isthmus toward the Red-Sea 5 This course by the South was discovered by one Vasco de Gama in the yeare 1497. and a way found to the East Indies by which the Princes of Portugall receive an infinite gaine both in Spices and other Merchandize The hope of which first set them upon the adventure And in this one thing we owe much to our owne Countrey otherwise a detestable plague that the insatiate desire of wanton commodities hath opened to us a large part of the world before not knowne and which we hope may hereafter increase the light of the Gospel and the number of the Elect. 6 If we compare Her to the two other portions of the same Hemisphere she is situated wholly South and in part West-ward It is divided on the North from Europe by the Mediterraneum Sea On the South where it runnes into a kind of poynt at the Cape of good Hope it is bound with the vast Ocean which in that part hath the name of the Aethiopicke Sea on the East with the Red Sea and on the West with the Atlantike Ocean called there in our common Maps Mare del North. So that in briefe we reckon both Her Longitude and Latitude in the largest parts to be neere upon 4200. English miles 7 Notwithstanding this Vast extent of ground yet we still of Europe keepe our owne and by authority of the most and best Geographers exceed as much for number as either this or Asia do for roome Cause enough there is why Africa indeed should come short of both for in most parts she hath scarce plenty sufficient to maintaine Inhabitants and where there is we shall meete with multitudes of ravening beasts or other horrible monsters enough to devoure both it and us In a word there is no Region of the world so great an enemy to mans commerce there is such scarcity of water that no creature almost could live had not Nature provided thereafter that the greater part of them endures not drinke in the very middest of Summer So Pliny reports And if as sometimes they be inforced by such as take them they suddenly perish Thus we see how God gives a propertie to each place that may make up her defects lest it should be left as well by beast as men Their Land is full of sandy deserts which lye open to the windes and stormes and oft times are throwne up into billows like waves of the Sea and indeed are no lesse dangerous Strabo writes that Cambyses his army was thus hazzarded in Aethiopia And Herodotus that the Psitti an ancient but foolish Nation it seems in Africa as they marched towards the South to revenge themselves upon the windes for drying up their Rivers were overwhelmed with sand and so dyed in their graves Besides these annoyances it is so full of a venomous kind of Serpent that in some places they dare not dresse their Land unlesse they first fence their legs with bootes against the sting Other wild creatures there are which range about and possesse to themselves a great portion of this Countrey and make a Wildernesse of Lions Leopards Elephants and in some places Crocodiles Hyenas Basilisks and indeed monsters without either number or name Africa now every yeare produceth some strange creature before not heard of peradventure not extant For so Pliny thinks that for want of water creatures of all kinds at sometimes of the year gather to those few rivers that are to quench their thirst And then the Males promiscuously inforcing the Females of every species which comes next him produceth this variety of formes and would be a grace to Africa were it not so full of danger to the Inhabitants which as Salust reports dye more by beasts then by diseases For those traits about Barbary are every tenth year 15. or 25. visited with a great plague and continually infected with the French disease in such violence that few recover unlesse by change of ayre into Numidia or the Land of Negroes whose very temper is said to be a proper Antidote against those diseases 8 But among all these inconveniences commodities are found of good worth and the very evils yeeld at last their benefit both to their owne Countrey and other parts of the world The Elephant a docible creature and exceeding usefull for battel The Camel which affords much riches to the Arabian The Barbaric horse which we our selves commend The Ram that besides his flesh gives twenty pound of wooll from his very tayle The Bull painfull and able to do best service in their tillage And so most of their worst alive or dead yeeld us their medicinall parts which the world could not well want 9 In her division we will follow our latter Masters in this Art whom time at least and experience if no other worth have made more Authentike and those divide it into seven parts 1 Barbarie or Mauritania 2 Numidia 3 Lybia or Africa propria ● Nigritarum terra 5 Aethiopia superior 6 Aethiopia inferior 7 Aegypt and to these we adde the 8 Ilands belonging to Africa AFRICAE described the manners of their Habits and buildinge newly done into English by