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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

towards the Gulf of Bengala is Contiguous to Pegu to which it hath been Subject at present to Siam this Kingdom hath many Ports frequented for Trade for besides its Grains Fruits Oyls and Medicinal Herbs it is Rich in Mines of Gold Silver Copper c. The Kingdom of Siam hath several Cities of Note but we shall for Brevity sake only treat of Siam as the Metropolis being a City of large Extent and of so great strength that in the Year 1567. they stoutly defended themselves against an Army of 1400000 Fighting Men which the King of Pegu brought against them for twenty Months together The Comodities of this City and Kingdom are Cotton Linnen of several sorts Benjamin Lacque of which they make Excellent hard Wax The Kingdom of Cambodia which lieth between the Gulfs of Siam and Couchin-China The Principal Cities Ravecca and Camboja The People in their manners and Customes Resemble those of Siam whose Subjects they have been The Kingdom of Couchin-China lieth to the Eastward of Camboja its Name signifies west China and was supposed formerly to belong to China whose Language Manners Customes Government Religion and other Ceremonies they yet retain All the Countrey is Fertile abounding in Rice Fruits and Herbs They have Gold Silver Silk Porcelain and many other valuable Commodities The Air Healthful and the Soil so Abundant in all things that the Inhabitants know nothing of Contagion or Famine They are Courteous Liberal kind to Strangers and Faithful in their dealings In the Peninsula of Malacca are diverse Kingdoms which are Tributary to Siam Except the City of Mallacca The whole Country is well Traded by Reason of its Archepelago which contains several Islands and of its Isthmus which facilitates the Transportation of Merchandise from one Sea to another and of its Ports which are Commodious Patane within few Years is grown Famous The Kingdome being frequented by diverse Nations perticularly the Chinois who bring thither Parcelain and divers Manufactures and Instruments of Husbandry The Soil is good producing Fruit every Month in the Year Their Hens Ducks and Geese often lay Eggs twice a Day Ihor is Situated on the utmost point of the Peninsula its Chief City was taken and ruined by the Portugals in 1603. who took from thence Fifteen-Hundred brass Cannons The Kingdom of Tanquin divides China from Couchin-China and hath about 150 Leagues of Sea Coast This Kingdom contains 7 Provinces The King of Tanquin Ordinarily entertaines a Militia of 50000 Men. The Land hath Beautiful Plaines and Watered with many great Rivers They have neither Asses nor Sheep but many Horses Elephants and Rhinocerotes whose Flesh Skins Bones Teeth Nails and Horns serve for Antidotes against Poyson The Catholique Religion was so Introduced some Years past that there was estimated to be more then 200000 Christned Souls Two-Hundred great Churches and great Quantities of Chapels and Oratories but since there hath hapened great Changes in those Kingdomes the Portugals have several Towns and Cities by which they have a great Revenue Of the Island of Sumatra THe Island of Sumatra lieth on the North of Java Major and a long the West-side of Mallacca the length thereof Extends from the North-West to the South-East about 800 miles and is 200 in breadth The Air is very hot and unwholsome by Reason of the gross Vapours drawn from the many Fens and Rivers which are found to be in it The Soil not Capable of such Grain as in other places except Rice and Millet it Affords great plenty of Wax and Honey store of Silks and Cottons Rich Mines not only of Tin Iron Copper Sulphur and other Minerals But of Gold such quantity that some conceive this Island to be Solomons Ophir for one of the Kings thereof wrote a Letter to King James wherein he hinted the Riches of his Country Abounding in Gold and that he had in his Dominions a Mountain of Gold King of which Golden Mountain he Intituled himself in his Regal Stile his Title is also King of Achem. His Covernment is Absolute and meerly Arbitrary executing what he hath a mind to without form of Law So Cantelous that without his Placard no Stranger can have Ingress into his Dominions nor is Admittance to his Presence granted to any whom he first sends not for by an Officer with a Gilded Staff He is conceived to be strong both by Sea and Land his Country Populous his Elephants many and well Trained Of the Island Borneo THe Island Borneo is Situate under the Aequator and is Adjudged to be more then 2200 miles in Circumference The People Generally more white then the rest of the Indians of good Wits and Aproved Integrity The Country is said to be provided Naturally with all things Necessary But unfurnished with Asses Oxen Herds of Cattel except only Horses and those but small of Stature the great Riches of it being Camphir Agarick and some Mines of Adamants The Island is divided between two Kings of two Religions The King of Borneo and his Subjects are all Mahumetans and those of Laus still Remaining in their Ancient Gentilisme These think the Sun and Moon to be Man and Wife and the Stars their Children Ascribing to each of them Divine Honours to the Sun especially whom they Salute at his first Rising with great Reverence Their Publique businesses are Treated of commonly in the Night The King of Borneo keeps the Greater State not to be spoken with but by the Mouth of some of his own Interpreters and in his Palace Served by no other Atendants than Maids or Women Of the Island Lucon THe Island of Lucon begineth at the thirteenth Degree and continueth up to the Ninteenth Degree of North Latitude lying South from China Manilla is its Chief City well Built after the Modern way and its Houses are of free Stone Built by the Spaniards this being one of the Philippine Islands So called from Philip King of Spain The Governour or Vice Roy of these Islands as also an Arch Bishop who hath a Spiritual Jurisdiction over all these Islands which he exercises by three Suffagan Bishops This City is very populous here commonly refiding 15000 Chinois besides Japoneses and Spaniards which drive a Trade in several good Commodities Of the Island Paragoa THe Island Paragoa stretcheth it self Southwest and North-East in length above 100 Leagues not having above Ten Fifteen or Twenty Five in breadth it begins almost at the Eighth Degree and ends not till the Eleventh Degree of North Latitude It is said that it bears Figs as thick as ones Arm. Its King is a Vassal to him of Borneo Of China CHina is bounded on the North with Altay and the Eastern Tartars from which Continued with a Chain of Hills part of those of Ar a at and where that Chain is broken off or interrupted with a great wall extended 400 Leagues in Length On the south part with Couchin China and partly with the Ocean on the East with the Oriental Ocean and on the West with part

1683. There was three of their Ships and four Grabs man'd with 1500 of their Men which the Suvagee afterwards by way of Excuse pretended to be Arabians and took the Ship to be a Portuguese and as a token of their Resentment Imprisoned the Chief of them They set upon one of our East India Ships call'd the President Captain Jonathan Hide Commander whom they Attaqued very desperately and was as Briskly received by the English and as bravely Repulsed with a great Slaughter of the Indians And Recovered their Ship to the great Comendations of all that were there in Which brave Souls had not the Happiness to Enjoy the Honour of that Action in their own Countrey The Ship being unfortunately cast away in February following and all their Men lost but two as they were coming into the Chanel to the great grief and sorrow of the Merchants and Owners as well as their Particular Friends and Relations Malabar extends its self from the River Gangeraco to Cape Comarine 300 miles in length but is not above 50 in breadth and ending towards the Cape in a Point The Countrey is more Populous for the bigness then any in India enjoying a very Temperate Air and a Fruitful Soil well Watered and indented with many Creeks The Ground unfit for Corn but Plentiful in Rice and all manner of Spices as Ginger Cinnamon Cassia Pepper and most Excellent Fruits The People on this part of India are of a blacker Complexion then the rest of the Indians well Limbed wearing their Hair long and Curled About their Heads they wear a Hankerchief wrought with Gold and Silver and about their middle a Cloth which hangeth down to conceal their Nakedness The Natives on the whole Coast of India are of Nature Treacherous and Bloudy more properly to be termed Desperate than Stout and Valiant in their Wars they use Poysoned Arrows as they do in their Pyrating and Thieving both by Sea and Land The Kingdom of Bisnagar seated in the Bay of Bengala between twelve and fifteen Degrees of North Latitude in which Kingdom is the great Factory of our East India Company called Fort St. George almost all the People are Idolaters some Mahumetans and a sew Catholiques Amongst the Customes of those Heathens they have the Inhumane Custome for the Women to Burn themselves with the Corps of their deceased Husbands in this manner the Husband being Dead the Wife prepares her self for her Funeral Habite in Transparent Lawn Her Nose Ears and Fingers she Adorns with Precious Stones in one hand She holds a Ball and in the other a Nosegay of Flowers both as Emblems of Par●dise And being thus Habited She is Accompanied to the place by her Relations Friends and Acquaintance and all the way Going the Priest denotes the Joys She is to Possess together with the Assurance of Enjoying her Husband which does Excite her to Valour so that when She cometh to the Place seeth the Flame and the Carcass of her Dead Husband whom She longeth to be with and being as it were Transported with Joy She takes leave of her Friends and Relations and Jumps into the Flame in which the Corps of her Husband was first put both which is soon Reduced to Ashes during which time they have several sorts of Musick to Drown the Cryes of the poor Wretch casting in store of sweet Wood and Oil into the Fire to take away the Unsavory smell Of the Island Ceylon THe Island Ceylon lyeth to the Eastward of Cape Comarine of an Oval form divided from the Main by a shallow Chanel The Havens Refreshing it with their Dews The Air with Fragrant freshness The Land stored with whole Woods of Cinamon besides Fruits Lemons and Oranges c. Of Fowls and Beasts great Plenty both Wild and Tame It so abounding with all Contentments that the Indians hold it to be a Paradise In this Island is a mighty high Hill called Adam's Pico reputed to be seven Leagues high The People for the most part Tall and Strait of Body in matters of Religion they are generally Idolaters very Active and well Skilled in Jugling This Island is Divided into several Kingdoms as of Cand●e c. And a City of that Name the Seat of the King This Island is memorable for the 20 Years Captivity of Captain Knox and of his Miraculous Escape which when he Returned to England he wrote a large Treatise of the Nature of this Island and the Manners and Customes of the Inhabitants to which I refer you Of the Maldive Islands NEar unto the Coast of Malabar lieth a great Number of Islands called Maldive from Mal the City of those Islands and Dive which signifies an Island They are Divided into 13 divisions divided by certain Channels From hence the King of Maldives terms himself King of 13 Provinces in which are Contained Eleven-Thousand Islands as is Reported by some that have been there here they take Multitudes of little shells called Couries which pass in many places for Money The King Resides in the Isle of Mal which is one of the greatest but not above a League and a half In Circumference but it is a most Fruitful place strangers frequent it because of the Court There Grows on these Islands neither Rice nor Wheat yet all sorts of Provisions are Cheaper here then in other parts of India There are here abundance of Cocoe Nuts they have little Beef or Mutton no Dogs for they Abhor them they have great store of Fish The Inhabitants are very Industrious and Sober People Of India beyond the Ganges called India-Extra Gangem INdia Extra-Gangem is that part of the great Continent of India which lieth on the East-side of the River Ganges In this Peninsula are a great Number of Kingdomes but I shall only discourse of the Principal ones that are Contained in the Table which are Arracan Pegu Martaban Siam Cambodia Couchin China Malacca and Tanquin The Kingdom of Arracan is Situated on the East-side of the Bay of Bengala extending it self from the Tropick of Cancer to the sixteenth Degree of North Latitude it being a brave and Fruitful Country The Kingdom of Pegu when in its Splendor was so Rich and Powerful that some would equal it to China They have in many places Mines of Gold Silver and Precious Stones Besides Grains Fruits Herbs Fowl and Beasts which are here found Excellent And without doubt it is the Richest Country of all the Indies and for the same Reason one of the best Peopled and most Powerful The Chief City of this Kingdom is Pegu the Metropolis The Houses well Built The Palace-Royal is Seated in the midst of the City having its partitular Wall-Moat and other Fortifications The Habit of the Natives is but mean contenting themselves for the most part with a piece of Linnen to Cover their Nakedness They all black their Teeth because they say Dogs Teeth are white They are Generally all Pagans Those that Marry Buy their Wives of their Parents The Kingdom of Martaban

wealth in some places they have good VVines and Corn. Of Italy I Taly is the most famous Region of Europe very much Resembling the form of a mans legg A most Pleasant Countrey Commodious for Traffique and Exceeding fertile 'T is bounded on the East with the Adriatick Sea South and West with the Tyrrhene Sea on the North with the Alps being in length 1020 Miles and in Breadth not above 440. in the Broadest place It abounds with Corre Wine and Oyl yields plenty of Almonds Pomegranats c. The whole Countrey seeming as an intire Garden The People were Anciently famous for their Valour and Prudence and are still Courteous and Grave and very Obliging to Strangers yet much Enclining to Jealousy and Wantonness and sharp Revenge sparing in Diet but neat their greatest Expences are about their Gardens Here about 1600 year agoe the Latine tongue Florish'd being vulgarly spoken but afterwards by the Invasions of the Gothes and Vandales and other Barbarous Nations the Common Speech became mixed and degenerated which at this day we call the Italian and is still a most Delicate Noble and Courtly Language The Capitall City is Rome once Mistris of the World in Temporalls and still pretending to be so in Spiritualls in Compass about 11 Miles but full of Gardens and waste ground so that its supposed not to Contain above 250000 Soules two parts in three of whom are Clergy men and Curtezans But in the Flourishing of the Roman Empire it contained 50 Miles in Compass and not Fewer then 3 or 4 Millions of People as is found in Authentick History After the Emperours removed their Seat to Constantinople the Bishop of Rome taking Advantage by their absence by pretended Donation from Constantine made himself absolute Prince of a great part of Italy called St. Peters Patrimony and the Lands of the Church and the rest in time became Cantonized into severall Petty Principalities and States In the Bottom of the Adriatick now called the Gulf of Venice stands the famous City and Virgin Commonwealth of Venice Situate on many Islands and the water running through every street being in compass 8 Miles Containing 70 Parishes many Excellent Pallaces and Curious Buildings Of the Principal Islands in the Mediteranean Sea Of Sicilia THis Island is the chiefest of all the others in the Mediterranean Sea and is a Kingdom of it self it is in Circuit about 780 Miles it is of a Triangular Shape It is very plentiful and abundant in most things especially Corn it yields most Delicate Wines sweet Oyl Sugar Honey Silk Safron great store of Salt and by reason of the sweet Temperature they have all Sorts of Fruits as also Mines of Gold Silver Iron and Allom there are also found Emeraulds and Agates and other Precious Stones The Countrey breeds an Excellent Race of Horses and amongst the Hills and Mountaines there is the famous Mount Etna now called Mount Gibello although it lyes covered with Snow et from the topp Issues forth flame and smoke and sometimes casteth forth such a quantity of Ashes that the fields are Covered therewith There are at present 12 Episcopall Cityes the three whereof as Palermo Messina and Monwale are Arch Bishopricks all very rich Palermo is the Royal seat of the whole Kingdome The Sicilians are very Ingenious and sharpe witted People Eloquent and Pleasant desirous of Honour the Island is under the Power of the King of Spain Of Sardinia THe Island of Sardinia lyeth in the Mediterranean or Tyrrhenean Sea whose Circuit is 560 Miles it is Divided into two parts one is more Hilly then the other the Island produce 〈◊〉 Excellent Wines and abundance of Cattell and great store of Cheese they have good Horses but not very high here are many hot Bathes Salt pitts Mine● of Silver Brimstone and Allom. This Island hath two Arch Bishopricks the one is Cagliari and is the chief City Seated on a Mountain having a fair Port the other is Oristano very meanly Inhabited by reason of a bad Ayre is has a Port and a great River The Sardes are a Rude People and uncivil well able to endure Labour and hardness good Hunters not daynty in food not Curious in Apparell They formerly had a language of their own but now Corrupted and in the the Cities they speak Spanish Of Corsica THis Island hath been Inhabited with divers Sorts of People it is in length 120 Miles It is Divided into two parts the Easterne part is called the Interior and the other on the West called the Exterior side the Island is every where Enclosed with Rocky Clifts and within the land very Hilly it produceth Horses of a fierce Nature and Hounds of a wonderfull Bigness First this Island was possessed by the Tyrheans and afterwards by the Carthaginians but they were driven out by the Romans which were also Expulsed by the Saracens which were likewise subdued by the Genoeses under whose Jurisdiction it remaines Of Malta THis Island is renowned for the residence of the great Master of the Knights of Jerusalem the Circuit is 60 Miles the land is Stony without River in it they have store of Sheep Goats Oxen Asses Mules Coneyes and Partridges the Inhabitants ●re very brown swarthy Colour by reason of the heat of Summer the Women are fair but they hate Company and when they goe abroad they are Covered Upon this Island was the Shipwrack of St. Paul the chief town and seat of the Bishop is called Malta Of Corfu COrsu is one of the Islands in the Ionian Sea in Circuit 300 Miles and 40. in length the South part Hilly but the North part plain one Mountain Excepted which stands neer the Sea on whose top is seated Castle Nova underneath it Castle Vechio and at the foot of the Hill lyes the City of Corfu shut in and enclosed between those two Castles the Aire is very sweet and good it abounds with Cedar trees Orange trees and other Fruits it is Plentifull in Honey Wax Wine and Oyl Fish and wild Fowl and wild Beasts to the great pleasure and pastime of the Inhabitants in their Hunting and Hawking Recreations Of Candia THis Island is one of the most famous in the Mediterranean Sea it reaches 270 Miles in length and 50 Miles in breadth This Isle was ormerly called Crete and had at that time 100 Cities it is Hilly in the Easterne part it abounds with Olive trees Oranges Cedars and Excellent Wine called Malmsey or Muscadine and in their Valleyes Exceeding fair Pastures This Island hath been lately famous for the great and eninent defence it made against the Turk but at last was forc'd to yield the Conquest thereof to them so the Venetians lost it after a long and tedious siege The Chiefe City of the Island is called Candia Of Cyprus THis Island is 550 Miles in Circumference in length it is 200 and in breadth 65 Miles It is Divided into two parts by a Mountain which runs through it from East and West the Ayre is very hot

Iron Copper Tarr Furrs Sweden Comprehends seven parts which are 1. Halland Schonen and Bleking all which goe under the name of South Gothland The Chief Towns Lunden Malmugen Landskroon and Christianstadt 2. The North part of Gothland is divided into Ostro Gothland and Westro Gothland The Chief Towns Calmar Gottenburgh and Linkopen 3. Sweden containing eight or nine Provinces The Chief Cities are Stockholme Vpsal and Nikopen 4. Lapland is Divided into five Regions or Terr●tories viz. Vma Piiha Lula Tormia and Lapmark with the Towns of the same name whereof Tormia is of most importance 5. The great Province of Finland subdivided into several small Provinces The Chief Towns are Abbo Wiburg and Roseburg 6. Ingria The Chief Towns Noteburg and Juanagr●d 7. Livania or Liffland The Chief Town Riga Derpt and Revel The Crown of Swedland is also possessed of several Islands in the Baltick Sea And in Germany the Dukedoms of Pomeren Bremen and Ferden The Town of Wismar and the Island of Rugen In the North Part of Sweden Tormia and Kimi are the most Considerable Rivers of Scandinavia The Country is full of Mountains and Woods The Commodities of the Country are Copper Buttet Tallow Hides Skins Pitch Rosin Timber and Boards There are so few sick people among them that Physitians and Apothecaries have little or no Practice The Air is so sharp and salubrious that it is ordinary for men to live an hundred years Their Religion Lutheran Of Denmark DEnmaark Consists of three Parts to wit Jutland which is a great Peninsula or Chersonesus annexed to Germany Jutland is Divided into North and South Jutland 1. North Jutland includs four Lutheran Diocesses which are 1. The Diocess of Rypen 2. Of Arhusen 3. Of Wiburg and Alburg and Schagen the North Cape of Denmark 2. South Jutland Comprehends two Dukedoms 1. The Dukedom of Holstein Included within the Circle of Lower Saxony 2. The Dukedom of Sleswick the Chief Town of the same name with the Castles of Gottorp Tonningen and Fiendsburg The most Remarkable Islands of the Baltick are 1. Zeland the Chief City Copenhagen the Residence of the King whose Brother Prince George was Marryed to the Illustrious Lady ANN Daughter to his Royal Highness the DUKE of York Anno 1683. 2. The Island Fuinen the Chief Towns Odensee Middlefort and Niburg The Islands and Countries in the Northern Sea which depends upon the Kingdom of Denmark are a great Island of Iselandia the Chief Town Hola a Bishoprick The Islands Fezo The Kingdom of Norway c. Of Poland THe Elective Kingdom of Poland lies to the Eastward of Germany on the North of Hungary Transilvania and Moldavia and South-westward from Muscovia It Contains two Estates that of true Poland with the Provinces Annexed thereto and the great Dutchy of Lithuania with its Dependancies which is now united to the Crown of Poland The whole Kingdom is divided into twelve Provinces as may appear in the Table It is in Compass 2600 miles very fruitful in Barley and Cattle Hemp Wax Pitch Tarr and other Merchandize The Inhabitants Excellent Souldiers They are all pestered with factions that they can attempt no great matter only to defend themselves from the Turks They are much addicted to the Latine Tongue They have of all Religions amongst them but the Present King seems much to favour Popery and was Eminently service able in the late War in the relief of Vienna and the regaming of Hungary from the Turk Of Lithuania LIthuania is the Greatest Province of all those which Compose the Estates of the Crown of Poland It has the Tittle of a Grand Dukedome wherein there are as many great Officers as in the Kingdome of Poland The Country is full of Marshes and Sloughs that there is no travelling in the Winter for Ice Samogitia a Countrey in this Dukdome whose Inhabitants live very poorely Volhinia the Chief City Kiou an Ancient place having once 300 fair Churches but destroyed by the Tartars still a Bishops See acknowledging the Partriarch of Mosco and of the Communion of the Greek Church seated on the Borysthenes where the Cossacks have often had their Retreats It was lately in the hands of the Muscovite but now said to be the Turks in the year 1678. In Podolia stands the well fortified and Impregnable Caminiack which formerly withstood the Armyes of the Turkes the lesser Tartars the Transylvanians and the Walachians but at length was forced to yield to the Grand Seignior in the year 1672. since Retaken by the Poles but by the last Treaty delivered to the Turks as also Orzanthow and Dussow at the mouth of the Borysthenes Of Muscovia MVscovia is the vastest Empire in Europe 3300 miles long and 3000 broad The whole Countrey is over spread with Woods and Lakes The People for the most part fat and Corpulent strong of Body and good proportion only Great Bellyes and Broad Beards are in Fashion The Women love not their Husbands unless they beat them They only teach their Children to Write and Read They wear long Robes under which they have close coats down to their knees but they tye their Girdles under their bellyes The Religion of the Muscovite is of the Greek Church all their Images are in flat painting The Grand Duke bears the Title of Czar as much as to say Cezar The Habits which he is said to wear makes him look like a Priest The Embassadors of Forreign Princes are at the greatest trouble in the World to give him his right Titles One of his Pedeceisers was so Barbarous that he caused the Hat of a French Embassador to be nailed to his Head because he refus'd to be uncovered in his presence but Queen Elizabeth sent an Embassador thither soon after a man so Couragious that he stood also in his presence covered and undauntedly told the Czar to his Face that if he touch'd a hair of his Head his great Mistris would make his Empire to tremble and made the Titles of his Mistris the Queen of England Exceed the number of the Czars Tittles Stiling her The M●st high and Mighty Monarch ELIZABETH Queen of England France and Ireland Northumberland Westmorland Cumberland York-shire Lancashire Cheshire c. Runing through all the Countyes and shires in England the length of which Titles Amazed the Czar and he acquainted the Embassador That he had a great Esteem for her Majesty and for her Subjects and declared his willingness to suffer her Subjects to trade in any part of his Empire without paying any Dutyes which great Priviledge was Continued to our English Merchants until the Martyrdome of King CHARLES the first of glorious Memory he mightely resenting that Horrid Act and that Priviledge hath not been yet regained Muscovia is Divided into two parts the Northern and the Southern Mosco it the Capital City and the Residence of the Czar There are at this present two Czars who not long since sent two Embassadors one from each to his Majesty of Great Britain 1683. Of Turky

in Europe THat part of the Ottoman Empire which is Turky in Europe Containes the greatest parts of Hungary and all Transylvania Moldavia Bessarabie Walachia Bulgoria Servia Bosnia Sclavonia Albania Romania Macedonia Thessaly Epirus Achaia and Morea with the Aegean and Jonian Islands And in the year 1683 the Grand Segnior brought an Army of 100000 men in Austria where with he thought to have Conquered not only the small part of Hungary that is left to the Emperor but the greatest part of the Empire also The Conduct of which army was Committed to the Grand Visier and past by all the strong Cityes in Hungary as Raab Komorra c. and sate down before Vienna the 8th of July in hopes to have taken it by Surprize The Imperial Army under the Conduct of the Duke of Lorrain their General very oppertunely Convey'd his Infanry into the City consisting of 15000 men who having Count Staremburg for their Governour a man famous for his Valour and and Conduct that the great fury the Turks shewed in their several Assaults Redounded to their own loss and the encouragement of the Besieged and were repulsed with a very great slaughter some say with no less then 15 or 20000 men whose dead Bodies proved so great an Annoyance to the Turkish Army that the Grand Visier desired three days Truce to bury his dead which being denyed by the Worthy Governour caused him to remove his Camp at a further distance for fear of infecting his Army and finding himself deceived in his Intelligence the Garrison being stronger than he was informed he proceeded to a formal Siege which he Continued for the space of nine Weeks with more then ordinary Toyl and Labour working with his Mines day and night in hopes to have Carryed the place before any Relief could come to them and having sprang several of them by which the place was Assaultable he stormed it several times but was still beaten off with great loss and having at last sprung one under the Baston Lobel he continued his Assault with greater fury and vigour though without success so that after so long a time and so many Continued Assaluts the Governour finding himself reduced to great Extremity made the Appointed Sign to the Duke of Lorraine for Relief VVhereupon the King of Poland being joyned with the Emperiall Forces made up an Army of 85000 Men Horse and Foot It was Resolved at a General Councel of Warr to Attaque the Turkish Camp upon the 12th of September new stile And Accordingly it was put in Execution The King of Poland having the Attacked the Grand Visiers Quarters The Duke of Lorraine on the side of the Bastion of the Court and Prince Waldeck that which leads to the Scotish gate The Attaque being warmly begun and Count Staremburgh Sallying out at the same time soon put the Infantry into disorder upon with their Horses fled and with them the Grand Visier leaving them to the Mercy of the Christians who cut them all to pieces and remained Master of their Camp with their Tents the Pavilion of the Grand Visier Their Artillery and Ammunition and a Considerable sum of Money in this Action the English that were there behaved themselves very Gallantly to the great Commendation of our Nation After the relief of Vienna the two Armies under the King of Poland and the Duke of Lorrain continued the Pursuit and with great Success and regained all the strong Holds in Hungary that were possessed by the Turks and in all this great Action the Turks did not Rally their Army to Face the Christians But did Continually fly before them THE General Description of ASIA ASIA is a very Considerable part of the World in regard First That Man was therein Created Secondly Here our blessed Saviour was born wrought his Miracles and Suffered for the Redemption of the World Thirdly Here was Transacted the most Remarkable Occurences mentioned in the Old and New Testament and from hence all Nations of the World and all Arts and Sciences had their first beginning Many are the Religions here Followed but the Jews Mahometans and Idolaters excel the Christians in number Mahometisme is received by the four Principal Nations of Asia viz. the Turks Arabians Persians and Tartars The Turks gives most Liberty the Arabians are the most Superstitious the Persians most Rational and the Tartars most simple The Turks follow the Doctrine of Omar and have their Partriarch at Badgat The Persians follow the Doctrine of Haly and have their Partriarch at Ispahan The Greeks also have their Partriarchs here one Residing at Antioch and the other at Jerusalem As to the Division of Asia from Europe it hath already been discoursed of in the Description of Europe The Principal Seas within the Land are the Caspian the Euxine and the Persian Sea The Principal Rivers are the Euphrates Tigris Indus Ganges Crocas Kiang c. The Air of Asia is almost every where Temperate and abounds with Gold and Silver Precious Stones Spices and Silks Asia is in Subjection under four mighty Monarchs viz. The Grand Senior the Sultan of Persia the Cham of Tartary and now King of China and the Great Mogul A great part of Asia Consists in a great multitude of Islands of which are Maldives Ceylon Sumatra Java Borneo Aynam Japan the Philippines the Moluccaes c. And the Island of Cyprus and Rhodes and some others in the Mediterranean Sea Of Turky in Asia THe Turk by his Puissance having over-run a great share of two of the Considerable parts of the World Possesseth in Asia these Countreys Anatolia Syria Mesopotamia Armenia and Georgia 1. Anatolia vulgarly Natolia and Anciently Asia the less a Countrey once of great Fertility but now wast and almost desolate there were the seven Churches to whom St. John Directs his Book of the Revelation as Ephesus Smyrna Pergamas Sardis c. Formerly the Air was Exceeding sound and Healthfull now every six years the Pestilence destroys Millions of People The Mahometan Religion is chiefly professed in most places thereof Ephesus once famous for the Temple of Diana of 425 foot in length 220 in breadth supported with 127 Marble Pillars 70 foot high 220 years in building seven times fired Smirna a place of great Plenty the Soil abounding with Wine and Oyl The heats are very Excessive in Summer and would be unsupportable were it not for the Breezes that come off the Sea about 10 a clock and continues till evening and is followed with the Pestilence and Malignant Fevers Pergamus and Sardit have been Royall Cities Pergamus is famous for the wealth of Attalus for the Invention of Parchment and the Birth place of Galen for its Tapestry and for its being one of the seven Churches Sardis for the Residence of the Kings of Lydia and also one of the 7 Churches The most Renowned Mountaines of the lesser Asia are Taurus which divides Asia into two parts and is the most famous Mountain in the World for its heigth and length

of India It is said to contain in Circuit 3000 Leagues Containing not less then Sixteen Provinces at this day The Country is very Rich and Fertile so that in some places they have two and in some three Harvests in a year The People are for the most part of a Swarthy Complexion short nosed black eyed and very thin beards they wear their Garments very long with long loose sleeves and their hair long they drink their drink hot and eat their meat with two sticks of Ivory or Ebony The Son is bound to follow his fathers occupation The People are good Artificers Ingenious and Excellent in all things they take in hand as the Purcelian Dishes curious Carvings and the fine painted works which comes over from thence doth manifest They are effeminated with ease and pleasure and are not much given to Wars Of both Sexes there is thought to be Contained in this Country not fewer then Seventy Minions In Matters of Religion are generally all Gentiles The Forces which this King is able to draw into the Field must needs be infinite Considering that incredible number of Subjects under his Command for whereas France is thought to Contain Fifteen Millions of People Italy with the Isles as many Germany with the Switzers and Belgick Provinces about that Proportion Spain not above Seven Millions and the Kingdom of England and VVales not above Five Millions which is in all 57 Millions his people is 13 Millions more then all these put together The Government of this Kingdom is Tyrannical there being no Lord but the King no Title of Dignity or Nobility known amongst them nor Toll or Duty paid to any but to him The Dignity of the Crown is Hereditary falling to the Eldest Son after his decease The King they highly reverence calling him the Son of Heaven and the Son of God c. The great City of Pequin now the Seat of the King is of a vast bigness Containing within its Walls 3300 Pogodes or Temples wherein are continually sacrificed a great number of Wild Beasts and Birds In the Walls which encompasseth this City are 360 Gates to each of which is joyned a small Fort where a Guard is continually kept as also a Register to take the names of persons that pass thereat each of the streets having its Captain and other Officers who are to look after the same and every night to shut up the Gates Here are about 120 Aquaducts and Canals upon which are near 1800 Fair Bridges sustained on Arches This City is the Residence of the King when he is in the Northern Provinces as Nanquin is in the Southern Of Tartary TArtary is seated on the most Northern part of Asia and extends it self from East to West from the River Volga and Oby that separates it from Euprope unto the streight of Jesso which separates it from America Their Neighbours are the Muscovites on the West on the North the Tartarian Sea and the Persians the Mogolls and the Chinois on the South on the East the Straits of Jesso or Anian not yet certainly known The People are of an indifferent Stature ugly Countenances thick Lips Hollow Ey'd Flat Noses broad faced very strong Stout Valiant and good Warriers very Active Vigilant exceeding quick of foot patient in all afflictions they are very Rude Barbarous and revengeful do eat their Enemies and drink their blood as Wine at Feasts Their Habit is mean made of Course stuff reaches but to their Knees yet they are very Proud and think their Cham to be the greatest Prince in the World In Matters of Religion they are generally Pagans and Mahometans The Pagan being the best Gentleman being of the Elder House Their Food is mean and sluttishly drest they eat Horses and drink Mares Milk The Government is Tyrannical their Great Cham being Lord of all in whose Breast lyeth their Laws Every man hath the liberty of having two or three Wives which they never choose but out of their own Tribe The Country is very Fertile in most places abounding in Wheat Rice Wool Hemp Silk Musk Rubarb great Herds of Camells and Horses which they vend to the Chinois Mogolls and other Indians that comes thither to Trasick A General Description OF AFRICA CHAP. I. AFRICA is a Peninsula so great that is makes the third and most southerly part of our Continent It is bounded on all sides by the Sea it is by the Latines called Africa and the Greeks Lybia It approaches so near to Spain that onely the Straights of Gibralter divides them and is joyned to Asia only by a small Isthmus of Thirty or Forty Leagues between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean It is every where Inhabited though not so well as Europe and Asia partly by reason of the unsupportable heats and partly for want of water in many dry Countryes As to its divisions In the higher part of Africa is Barbary Billedulgerid and Egypt further South is the desarts of Zaara the Country of Negroes and Guinea in the higher Ethiopia or under Egypt are Nubia Abissina and Zanguebar In the lower or Inferiour Ethiopia Congo Mono Motapa and the Cafrees Barbary extends it self along the Mediterranean-Sea from the Ocean to Egypt and is bounded on the South by Mount Atlas Billedulgerid lies along this Mountain likewise from the Ocean unto Egypt bounded by Zaara or desart Egypt is only one valley from the Cataracts of Nile unto the Mediterranean-Sea Likewise Zaara the desart the Country of the Negroes and Guinea stretch themselves from the Ocean unto the high and low Ethiopia We have divided Ethiopia into the higher and lower placing in the Higher Nubia Abissina and Zanguebar in the lower Congo Monomotapa and Cafrees The Mountains in Africa are in great number and are very remarkable for their heighth and the Mettals wherewith they abound The most famous are Mount Atlas those of the Moon and Siere Lione Atlas was the most famous amongst the Ancients who believed it bounded the world on the South The Mountains of the Moon are higher than any in Europe and are alwayes covered with Snow and Ice The largest and most famous Rivers of Africa are the Nile and the Niger The Emperors Kings and Princes which at present possess Africa are in very great number The most powerful and Considerable are the great Turk or Sultan of the Ottomans who hold all Egyp● a great part of Barbary and almost all the Coast that touches the Red Sea The Negus of the Abissines who possesses the fairest and greatest part of the Higher Ethiopia the Xeriffs of Fez and Morocco which have held those two Kingdoms in Barbary in which Country was situated the City and Garrison of Tangier belonging to his Imperial Majesty of Great Britain which was demolished in the year 1684. managed by the prudent Conduct of the Right Honourable George Lord Dartmouth in the Ship of Grafton and several others under his Command The Religions in Africa may be reduced to four viz. Mahometism Christianity Paganism