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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

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

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

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

Euphrates divides Armenia and Mesopotamia from Asia Minor Syria and Arabia Tygris descends from the Georgian Mountaines falls into divers lakes loses it self divers times in the Earth cutts through the Mountaines and divides Mesopotamia from Assyria washes the Ruines of Nineveh receives the branches of the Euphrates and disembogues it self into the Persian Gulf. Syria and Phenicia Two Adjoining Provinces wherein is Mount Libanus famous in Scripture for goodly Cedars The Chief Cities Damascus Antioch Tyre and Sidon and those now more renowned for Commerce are Aleppo and Scandaroone The Countrey abounds with Wheat Oyl Balm c. Canaan or Palestine in length but 200 miles and in breadth not above 50 yet so Fruitful that we read in Holy writ it once sustained 1300000 fighting Men besides the tribes of Levi and Benjamin but now it is nothing so plentiful 'T is now under the Turk Inhabited by mixt People pretending to Christianity shewing divers of the places mentioned in the Scripture Mesopotamia or Diarbeck lying between Euphrates and Tygris the Soil is exceeding Fertile and from hence supposed to be the place where the Garden of Eden was Upon Tygris stands Babylon now called Bagdat where happened the Confusion of Languages after the Flood and is only a great Ruinous heap near which place stood the Tower of Babel Babylon was built by Nimrod much Augmented by Nebuchadnezzar it was taken by Cyrus Darius and by Alexander the great who died there In the year 1638 when Amurath the fourth retook it from the Persians he caused three Men out of every Tent throughout his Army to be cast into the Mote and over them a vast number of Bavins and Woolsacks that he might the more easily assault the place Armenia now called Turcomania taking its name from the Turks who being a People of Schythia and too populous to get food sufficient in so Barren a Country broke through the Caspian Sea and seated themselves here in the year Anno Domini 844. Georgia not so called from St. George whom yet here they greatly reverence but from the Georgi who long ago Inhabited the Adjacent Countreys the People now though Tributaryes to the Turk Profess Christianity and agree in most points with the Greek Church It is seated between the Euxine and the Caspian Sea Of Arabia ARabia is bounded on the East with the Persian Gulph and Chaldea and on the South the Ocean and on the West the Red Sea and some part of Egypt and on the North the River Euphrates with some part of Palestine It is Commonly divided into three parts viz. Arabia the Stony Arabia the Desert and Arabia the Happy Arabia the Stony lies near the Holy-Land Arabia the Desart lies near Chaldea and the Euphrates Arabia the Happy advances it self between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulph which divides it from Persia and this part is the greatest and Richest and best Inhabited of all Arabia the Stony hath for its chief City Herat which signifies a Rock whereon it was built with an advantagious Scituation a place of great strength On the Coast of the Red Sea is the Castle Tar a Walled Town and a Port very famous and it is believed the Israelites having passed the Red Sea Entered the Desarts this way and it is likewise a Passage where the Carravans stop at their return from Mecca Arabia the Desart so called by reason of the vast Sandy Desarts and the uninhabitableness thereof of scarce offerding either food for Man or Beast So that those which travel those Countreys are forced to carry their Provisions with them and guide themselves to the place designed by the help of the Stars or Marriners Compass as they do at Sea and go in great Companies for fear of being robbed or rifled by the wild Arabs The People are much addicted to Theft by which they get their living being stout and warlike Men their Chief food being Venison Milk and Herbs they go half naked their Wives they hire for what time they please Arabia the Happy may properly be so called by Reason of the Fruitfulness and Richness of the Soil which Produceth plenty of Corn Wine Fruit and Odoriferous Spices great increase of Cattel also abounding in Gold Pearles Balsom Myrrhe Frankinsence and several forts of Druggs These People are very Faithful and Punctual in their Promises here are great quantities of Ostriches which for the most parts abide in the Desarts In the Province of Hagiaz the Chief Cities towards the Red Sea are Medina and Mecca this last being the Birth-Place of Mahomet and the other his Burying-Place Medina though Scituated in a Barren and Desolate Place adjoyning on Arabia the Stony yet by Reason of its being the Sepulcher of Mahomet is become a fair City containing about 6000 Houses being a place of great Trading and resort by Reason of the Pilgrims which flock thither to pay their Blind Devotions This Sepulcher or Tomb wherein their Prophet lieth is Enclosed within an Iron grate and Covered with green Velvet having the supply of a new one every year from the Grand Seignior and the old one becomes the fees of the Priests which they sell in small pieces and shreds for great Reliques to the Pilgrims which brings them in great Revenues In this Temple are about 3000 Lamps of Gold and Silver wherein is Balsam and such other rich Odours Oyntments and Oyls which are Continually kept burning The People for the most part are of a mean Stature Lean Swarthy Complexioned Effeminate voices very Swist of foot and very Expert in the Bow and Dart. The Horses are also little and lean and spare in feeding yet Couragious Swift and of great Labour The People are almost all Mahometans except some Greek Christians towards the Mounts of Sinai and Horeb likewise towards the Red Sea and in the Desarts of Arabia the Stony and Arabia the Desart Arabia the Happy is the unhappiest by having the fewest Of Persia THe Kingdom or Empire of the Sophy of Persia is one of the greatest and most famous of all Asia it Extends from Tygris and Euphrates on the west almost to the River Indus in the East And from the Gulph of Persia and the Arabian and Indian Sea which bounds it on the South unto the River Gehon and to the Caspian Sea which are its Bounds of the North so Containing about 600 leagues in length and 500 in breadth The Persian Monarchy began under Ninus and lasted under 30 and odd Kings 13 or 1400 years ending in Sardanapalus It divided it self into Medes and Babylonians afterwards the Persians made themselves Masters of it Alexander the Great held this Empire but few Years and dying it was divided amongst many of his Captaines who at last took upon them the Title of Kings Hispahan the Metropolitan City of the Persian Monarchy seated in the Parthian Territory which in its Situation is pleasant and delightful and in its Soil Fruitful its air Serene and Healthful and for bigness is now become the greatest City

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

Chancellor who is chief and 5 other Senators in time of the Sessions of Parliament there is a high Commissioner constituted by his Majesty to Act as Vice Roy under him which at present is the Illustrious Prince James Duke of York and Albany Of IRELAND I Reland is the bigest Island in Europe after Britain The West of which lyes towards Spain Containing in length above 300 Miles in breadth 150. It neither breeds nor will Harbour venomous Creatures the Soil is very good and by the late Industry of the Inhabitants now the greatest part English the whole Country begins to Grow rich and Flourishing as the Populous and fair new buildings at Dublin and other Places Demonstrate It is Divided in four Provinces viz. Leinster Vlster Munster Counaught and each of them into several Countyes as may appear in the Table of Ireland The Comodities are store of Cattel as also Tallow Butter Cheese and Wool of which they make cloth Frieses Ruggs Mantles c. Its Seas yields great plenty of Codfish Herrings Pilchers c. and in the Bowels of the Earth Mines of Tin Lead and Iron Of Spain SPain the most Western Country of Europe it separated from France or the Northeast by the Pyrenean Mountaines and on the West joyning to Portugal on all other parts washt by the Sea its whole Circuit being 1900 English Miles They are a mixt People Descended from Gothes Saracens and Jewes from the Jewes they Inherite Superstition from the Saracens Melancholy from the Gothes desire of Liberty They are much given to Women vain glorious and stately very Grave in their Carriage zealous Adherers to the Church of Rome Obedient to their Prince true to their words and of Wonderfull Patience Enduring adversity their Women sober loving to their Husbands and Gallants wonderful Delicate Curious in Painting and perfuming but by Custome forbidden to drink any VVine at least till they are Marryed This Country yields Sacks Sugars Oyl Metals Liquorish Rice Silk VVool Corke Rosin Steel Oranges and Lemmons and Raisins c. But is defective in Corn and are glad to be supplyed therewith from Italy France or Sicilia nor are their Cattle large or many their fare being most upon Sallats and Fruits every Gentleman limitted what flesh he shall buy for himself and Family they have Universities such as they are their Courts are kept at Madrid Of Portugal POrtugal is a Distinct Kingdome by it self though anciently a province of Spain It s Chief City is Lisbon their Customes and Religion much like the Spaniards Of France THe Kingdom of France is for one intire thing one of the most rich and absolute Monarchies of the World being almost a square each side containing about 600 Miles it is bounded on the North with Lower Germany on the North-West washt with the British Ocean on the west with the Aquitain Sea on the South the Pyrenean Mountains fence it from Spain on the East it extends to the Medeteranean and the Alps which Divide it from Italy It abounds with all manner of good Fruits besides great store of Fish and Fowl but it s Chiefest Commodities are Wine Salt Linnen Cloth and Corn the less Maternall are Wood for dying Paper Nutts Almonds Laces to the New Modes The People are general Complemental inconstant and Rash both their Gentlemen and Citizens live more sparingly then the English they feed most on Boyl'd or Liquid Meats and are very curious in sawces In Matters of Warr there is an old Comparison that Resembles the French to a Flea quickly Skiping into a Country and assoon leaping out of it of which late Transactions afford several instances their Language is Amorous and they leave out manny Consonants in Pronuntiation Occasioning this Proverb A Frenchman writes not as he pronounces Sings not as he Pricks nor Speakes as he thinks The Nationall Religion is Popery yet there are many Protestants amongst them whom they in derision call Hugonots who of late have bin and are under great Persecution for their Religion and loss of their Priviledges not occasioned in the least by their disloyalty or any disturbance of the Government but only and alone from the Malice of the Popish Clergy The Air in the Northern parts of France is Pu●er then that of England and being not so much Covered with Clouds drawn out of the Sea becomes more cold in Winter and more hot in Summer and less Annoved with mists and Rain The Kingdom is divided into twelve General Governments to which may be added four new Governments being the late Conquests of the French King Four towards the North on this side the Loir four in the middle of France on each side the Loir four on the South beyond the Loir and the other four to the Eastward towards Germany Of several Countrys bordering upon France LA Franche Comte or the free County called also the County of Burgundy is invironed with Champaigne Lorrain Bressy and the Dutchy of Burgundy being in length 90 Miles and breadth 60. One of the most fertile Provinces in the World the chief City is Besanson the next Dole famous for the Colledg of Jesuies there It was under the Spanish Crown but a few years agoe sudenly surprized by the French 2. Lorrain a Principality adjoyning to that last mentioned about four days Journey in length and three in breadth it abounds with Corn and Wine good Horses plenty of Mines and Store of Salt and Fish the Dukes Revenue was formerly computed at 700000 Crowns per Annum and they were wont to give for their Device An armed Arm coming as it were from Heaven and Grasping a naked Sword to shew that they were absolute Princes holding theire estate by no other tenure then from God and the Sword but the French have likewise not long since violently over-run this Countrey and the present Duke Commands the Emperours forces having Married the Queen Dowager of Poland 3. Savoy a Dukedome compassed with Dauphine Switzerland and Piedmont which latter it for the most part under its Government lying on the Italian side of the Alps and being exceeding pleasant and Fruitfull The rest of Savoy is Mountanous Barren Adjoyning hereunto on the Lake Lemane stands the City of Geneva a Common wealth not extending eight Leagues in Circuit But of indifferent good Trade and well Fortified 4. Switzerland is likewise a Republick Consisting of 13. Shires or Cantons of which five are all Papists six all Protestants and two mixt 'T is thought to be the highest Countrey in Europe and sends forth four of the Greatest Rivers viz. The Danubias through Germany and Turkie East the Rhine through Germany North the Rhosne through France West and so through Italy South the Soil is but mean being so Hilly but the Men great Warriours and famous for their Mercinary Valour This Country is in length about 240 miles and 188 in breadth very Mountanous affording Deers VVild-Goats and Bears The Valleys affords rich Pasture for Cattle wherein consists their greatest