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A11416	The colonies of Bartas VVith the commentarie of S.G.S. in diuerse places corrected and enlarged by the translatour.; Seconde sepmaine. Day 2. Part 3. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.	1598 (1598)	STC 21670; ESTC S110847	58,951	82

mountaines of Calecut and the sea called the great gulfe of Bengala It is rich in gold which is there found in riuers Look the situation thereof in the Map of the East Indies and in the Asia of Ortelius and Cellarius The Pint-Eusine is now called the Maior or the blacke Sea at the one end thereof toward the Midland sea is Constantinople the Card-men call it by diuers names which Ortelius hath set downe in his Synonym By the Brother waues of those Chaldean streames is meant as I suppose the Persian sea whereinto Euphrates and Tygris both together empty being before ioined about Babylon now called Bagadet and so the Poet takes as much of the breadth of Asia at the West end as he doth at the East the one from Quinsay to Chiorze the other from the sea of Constantinople to the Persian Gulfe Concerning the straight of Anien the Cardmen are not all of one opinion Mercator Ortelius Cellarius Theuet and others set down plainly a good broad arm of Sea betwixt the Northeast point of Asia and America But Vopelius ioines Asia and this fourth part of the world together greatly enlarging Asia and curtolling the other contrary to the opinion of the Authors aforesaid and many Spaniards that haue written of the new-found world the reasons that may bee alledged in fauour of either side require a large Commentary Vopelius his opinion indeed cutteth off many doubts that arise about the enpeopling of America but Mercator and th 'others who are most commonly followed seeme to ground more vpon Geography and better to agree with the seas naturall sway and easie compassing the earth Arias Montanus in his booke intituled Phaleg where he treateth of the habitations of Noes posterity setteth downe a Mappe according to Vopelius this booke of his bound in the volume called Apparatus is ioined with the great Bibles of Antwerp But the Poet followeth Mercator Ortelius and the common opinion of the Cardmen of our time for Ptolome Strabo Mela in their daies had not discouered so much Quinsay which the Poet cals Quinzit is a famous citty in the Northeast point of Asia about tenne leagues from the sea built vpon peeres and arches in a marrish ground it is twenty leagues or 100 miles about and by reason as well of the great Lake-waters there as also of th'ebbe and flow of the sea it hath as M. P. Venet. reports in the 64. chapter of his 2. booke 12000 bridges of stone the most renoumed bound-marke of all Asia and the greatest city in the world if that bee true But Theuet gainsaith it in the 27 chapter of the 12 booke of his Cosmography where he describes the city and Lake with the riuer that causes the lake to swell hee sayeth it is not aboue foure leagues in compasse yet M. Paule affirmes he hath been there Chiorze is another worthy part of Asia set downe here for a bound-marke because of the strange Buls there as great as Elephants with haire as smooth and soft as silke Howsoeuer now adaies that country is nothing so ciuill as others inhabited by the posterity of Cham and Iaphet yet the fruitfulnesse of the ground and great commodities there growing for maintainance of mans life declare it hath beene in times past one of the best portions of the children of Noe. 7 Ashurt Assyriland Moses sayth the sonnes of Sem were Elam Ashur Arphaxad Lud and Aram The Poet here in six verses hath noted out the first habitations of these fiue reseruing afterward about the 300 verse and so forth to shew their first second third and fourth out-going ouer the rest of Asia Concerning Ashur it may be gathered out of the 10 of Genesis verse the 11 that hauing sorted himselfe with the people that now began to feare Nimrod and liking not to liue vnder that yoke went on further and in the countrey after his name called Assyria built Niniuy which a long time remained one of the greatest citties in the world as appeares by the prophesie of Ionas and other places of Scripture and Caleh and Resen not farre asunder which haue been long-agoe destroyed Elam that was the eldest seated himselfe by the riuer Euphrates neere the Persian Gulfe which now is called the Sea of Mesendin The Poet giueth him a Princely title because the Monarchie began betime and long continued ther-abouts where also raigneth still the Sophi a great Emperor and deadly enemie of the Turks The Riuer Araxes is described by Ptolome in his third Mappe of Asia where hee makes it spring from the foote of Pariard which some men take for the hill Taurus and so passing Scapene Soducene Colthene to emptie into the Caspian sea These countries are very rich and therefore the Poet cals them fat lands Lud hauing passed the Riuer composed of Tygris and Euphrates which straight after void into the Gulfe had Elam on the North the two Riuers ioyned and the Gulfe on the East and on the West the Marches of Seba which is the vpper part of Arabia The Poet here alloueth him the Lydian fields if by Lydia bee vnderstood that part of the lesser Asia called Me●nia by Ptolome Herodote and Plinie Lud should haue wandered further then the other foure brothers Moses reports not any thing of his Colonies and his farre going may bee the cause for according to the Poet hee should haue coasted vp as farre as Aeolia and the Midland sea The seat of Aram is Mesopotamia to wit the countries about Babylon and the mountaines of Armenia which were after called by the name of Taurus This also containeth Syria and the great Armenia betwixt the which runneth Euphrates Arphaxad passing Euphrates staied in Chaldea and for that Astronomy and other excellent arts there chiefly flourished the Poet surnameth him the Learned which appertaineth also vnto him in regard of the true doctrine maintayned by his posteritie and after some corruption reformed in the house of Abraham whom the Lord remooued from Vr of the Chaldeans into Syria Cham goes to the ●●●●pa●●s 8 C ham Lord was of the land that Southward is beset With scorch'd Guineas waues and those of Guagamet Of Benin Cefala Botongas Concritan That fruitfull is of droogs to poison beast or man Northward it fronts the sea from Abile pent betweene The barren Affricke shoare and Europe fruitfull-greene And on the Westerne coast where Phoebus drownes his light Thrusts out the Cape of Fesse the greene Cape and the white And hath on th' other side whence comes the sunne from sleepe Th' Arabike seas and all the blood-resembling Deepe Nay all the land betwixt the Liban mountaine spred And Aden waues betwixt the Persicke and the Red This mighty Southerne Prince commanding far and wide Vnto the regiment and scept'r of Affricke tide 9 Canan one of his sonnes began to build and dwell ●ow and what ●●●●ns are de●●●ded of Cham By lordans gentle streame whereas great Israell Was after to be plac'd Phut peopled Lybia Mizraijm

Hochilega and other landes thereabouts Reade Theuet also the latter Card-men For the French Calicuza I haue translated Caliquas according as I finde it written both in others and in Ortellius who also hath for Mechi Terlichi-mechi and therefore I translate it Terlichi 46 They sow'd at'hother side Xalisco nowe called Noua Gallicia is described by Gomara in the 21. Chapter of his 5. booke It is a land very fruitfull and rich in honny waxe and siluer and the people there are Idolaters and Men-eaters Nunnius Gusmannus who seized the countrie for the king of Spain in the yeare 1530. hath written a discourse thereof and it is to be read in the third volume of the Spanish Nauigations The Prouince of Mechuacan from whence not farre lyeth Cusule is about 40. leagues lower southward then Xalisco that also the said Gusmannus conquered after he had most cruelly and traiterously put to death the Prince and Peeres of the countrie as Gomara sheweth in his booke chapter aboue quoted Mexico which some count all one with Themixtetan is the mother Cittie of that kingdome now called Hispania Noua wonderfull rich it is and strong and of high renoume built farre more curiously then Venice vpon a lake salt on the northside because it is there of a Sea-like breadth and on the southside fresh because of a Riuer that empties there into it Greater is the Cittie thought to be then Seuille in Spaine the streetes are passing well set and their channels in such manner cast as can not be mended Diuers places there are to buy and sell-in the needefull and ordinary wares but one there is greater then the rest with many walkes and galleries round about it where euery day may bee seene aboue threescore thousande Chapmen There is the Iudgement hall for common Pleas and were also many temples shrines of Idols before the comming of Ferdinando Cortez who made thereof the first conquest for the K. of Spaine exercising most horrible cruelties vpon all both yong and old in the Citie as Barthelemi de las Casas a Monke Bishoppe of Spaine reports in his historie of the Indies where he stayed a long time Looke the description of Mexico in the thirde volume of the Spanish Nauigations fol. 300. See also Benzo of Millaine his historie of the newe worlde the 2. booke and 13. Chapter Now from these partes aboue named after report of some wonders of many there seene and worthie a larger discourse by themselues the Poet drawes his Colonies down further towardes Peru by the Land-straight of Panama which parts the South-sea from the Ocean and thereabout is hardly 20. leagues in breadth The fiery mountaine of Nicaragua is by Gomara described in his 5. booke Chap. 203. so are the other wonders which the Poet here notes in his 4. booke chap. 194. 47 Then Chili they possest Gomara in his fourth booke chap. 131. holds opinion that the men of Chili are the right Antipodes or Counter-walkers vnto Spaine and that the countrie there is of the same temper with Andaluzie This Chili lyeth on the shore of el Mar Pacifico so also doth Quintete which I haue put for Chinca both neere the Patagones or Giants whose countrie is full of people and hath certaine riuers that runne by day and stand by night some think because of the snowes which in the day time are melted by the Sun and frozen by the Moone in the night but I take it rather to be some great secret and miracle of nature The cause why here I made exchange of Chinca was first for that the Poet had spoke before of the springs of Chink which I take for the same then because it is so diuersly placed of the Card-men for Ortelius in his Mappe of the new world sets it aboue and Theuet beside Chili in either place it stands well to be taken for the Chink afore-named but Mercator placeth it a great deale lower and on the contrary coast neer the riuer of Plata where indeede is a countrie called Chica that perhaps hath bred this error Lastly Quintete stands so right in way which the Poet followes from Chili to the Patagones that I thought it not amisse to take the same rather then the doubtfull Chinca By the fomy Brack of Magellanus he meanes the sea and Straight of Magellan close by terra Australis Gomara describeth it well in the beginning of the third booke of his Portugall Historie The Poet hath alreadie shewed how people came first on the North America from the kingdome of Anian ouer the maine land to th' Atlantick sea shore then on all the further coasts from Quiuir to the Magellan Straight along th' Archipelago de San Lazaro Mar del Zur Pacifico and now he takes the higher side on the left hand from the Land-Straight of Panama to the riuer of Plata which is not farre from the Magellan noting by the way the most note-worthie places of all this huge reach of ground represented as it is by our late writers in their generall and particular Mappes of the New-found world Huo is a great sweet-water streame rising at Quillacingas that lieth vnder the Equatour and running athwart the countrie now called Carthage into the sea at Garia Vraba is the countrie that lieth betwixt that riuer and Carthagene Concerning Zenu marke what Gomara sayth thereof in his second booke and 69. chapter It is the name of a riuer and citie both and of a Hauen very large and sure The Citie is some 8. leagues from the sea There is a great Mart for Salt and Fish Gould the inhabitants gather all about and when they set themselues to get much they lay fine-wrought nets in the riuer of Zenu and others and oftentimes they draw-vp graines of pure gold as big as egges This countrie is not farre from the Straight of Darien In the sayd second booke chap. 72. he describes also Noua Grenada and the Mount of Emeraudes which is very high bare and peeld without any herbe or tree thereon growing and lieth some fiue degrees on this side the Equatour The Indians when they goe-about to get the stones first vse many enchauntments to know where the best vaine is The first time the Spanyards came there they drew thence great and little 1800. very fayre and of great price but for this commoditie the countrie is so barren that the people were faine to feede on Pismers till of late the Spanish couetousnesse hath made them know the value of their Mountaine Cumana is described in the foresaid booke chap. 79. in the ende whereof Gomara sayth the vapours of the Riuer of Cumana engender a certaine little mist or slime vpon mens eyes so as the people there are very pore-blind Parie is described in the 84 chapter of the said second book Maragnon a Riuer which as Gomara sayth 2. booke 87. chapter is three-score miles ouer It emptieth at the Cape of A●inde three degrees beiond th' Aequator but springeth a great way further

the yeare 411. to Philip that now raigneth are eight and twentie in number according to the account of Lazius who reckoneth also two and thirtie kings of Arragon and two and twentie of Nauarre vnto the kings father that now is Of these matters it may suffice to haue touched thus much in a word 22 Such was the French To enter into the whole historie of the Frēchmen or Gaules it was not the Poets meaning but onely to note briefly the chiefe Outroads of this braue nation and that within the compasse of 2000 yeares I will go no further but follow the text The first beginning of the French is diuersly recorded and all the opinions thereof are well gathered and examined by the Author of the French Antiquities who in the end sheweth his owne iudgement and auoucheth it to be verie likely that the land of Gaule which in old time besides the realme of Fraunce did containe also the Low countreys Germany within Rhine Lorraine was first inhabited by the line of Gomer thither comming vpon diuerse occasions and inereasing more and more with the time as also by the Germanes a neighbour people for litle could the Rhine hinder the G●ules and Germanes from coming together but that either as they preuailed in strength might come into others countrey for their better liking And as the men of Marseil are counted an outcrease of Asia it is like the rest of the towns and quarters of Fraunce were peopled after the same sort Am●anus Marcollinus liuely painteth out the Gaules in his 15. booke So doth Polybius Caesar Diodorus Siculus Strabo and others All agree they were a very warlike people and their multitude gaue them to thinke vpon such remedie as others had vsed before Their first outroade that was of any account was in the raigne of Tarquinius Prisons and about the time of the Iewes thraldome in Babylon some 600 yeares before the birth of Christ The Cel●ae which were the auncient Gaules possessed the countreys now called Suisse Sauoy Daulphine Languedoc Vellay Viuaretz Lionnois Forest Auuergne Berri Limosin Quercy Perigort Xanctoigne Angulmois Poictou Brettaigne Anjou Tourraine Maine Perche Normandie within Scine the Chartrain Hurepois Beaul●e Gastinois Brie Champagne the Duchie and Counte of Bourgongne their king Ambigat sent forth Sidoveze and Belloveze to seeke other dwelling Sidoveze taking towards Germanie left people in Bauaria Bohemia and Carinthia and seated him selfe in the point of Europe toward and beyond the Riphean mountaines Belloveze a while staying at the foote of the Alpes was after by the perswasions of a certaine Tuscane called Arron drawne into Italie and possessed Insubria Some of his company seating first among the Pyrene hils at length entred a part of Arragon and gaue the name to Portugal But these were nothing so renowmed as the other who preassing further into Italie marched vnder Bren●us as farre as Clusium and so to Rome Of his exploits there Liuie writeth and Plutarke in the life of Camillus which was ●86 yeares before the coming of Christ A third companie that followed Bellevoze because they wold haue roome inough ouer-ran Slauonia and maugre all stay entred Hungary and after many skirmishes departed thence in two bands the one coasting into Macedonie the other into Greece where they made the whole world afraid of thē after they had slaine Ptolomeus Keraunus brother to Philadelphus king of Egypt Pranses was their king whō others call Brēnus but was not he that sackt Rome This man not content to haue obtained a great victorie of the Macedonians and harried their countrey presumed so farre as to spoile the Temple at Delphos whereby himselfe and all his were brought to a miserable end Neuerthelesse the French that stayed behynde to guard the frontiers of the countrey fainted not at the report of these newes but went to field with 1500 foote and 3000 horse ouercame the Getes and Triballes and wasted all Macedonie onely through negligence as they retired loaden with spoile they were brought to their end Yet they that remained in Gaule sent forth other companies into Asia who passed on as far as Bossen Dardanie where by reason of a quarell that fell betweene them they sundred themselues One part of thē cast into Thrace raigned there a long time the other setled about where Sanus and Danubius meete not far frō Belgrade These that remained in Dardanie when they heard tell of the fruitfull soile of the lesser Asia went on so farre as Hellespont and there because they were three cōpanies they parted Natolia betweene them into three partes The Trocynes had the coast of H●ll●●p●nt the Tolystoboges Eolide and Ionie which the Turkes call Quiscon The Tectosages the countrey further into the maine land All that part of Asia which lyeth on this side Taurus they made their tributarie plāting thē selues all along the riuer Halys that parteth Paphlagoria from Syria That prouince where the Gaules dwelt in Asia frō their first arriual to the height of the Romane Empire retained the name of Gaul-Greece together with that same language which S. Ierome sixe or seuen hundred yeares after saith was like that he heard spoken in Gaule about the quarter of Treues Thus concerning the auncient Gaules now to cleare some few dark words of the text The worke of Romulus c. He meaneth Rome builded by Romulus the most warlike Citie of all the world and therefore Mars whom the Painims counted the God of warre may be thought the founder of it Cold Strymon A riuer parting Macedome from Thrace as Plinie saith and because Thrace is no very warme countrey he giueth Strymon the adioint of Cold. Th' Emathicke fields to wit Macedonie so called of king Emathion Plinie speakes thereof in his 4 booke and 10 chapter thus Macedonie a countrey containing a hundred and fiftie nations sometime renowmed for two kings he meaneth Philip and Alexander and for the Empire of the whole world it was aforetime called Emathia which word the Poets as Virgil and Lucan do somtimes vse for Thessaly a country neare Macedonie Lucan in his very first verse Bella per Emathios plusquam ciuilia Campos And Virgil in the end of his 2 Georgic Nec fuit indignum superis his sanguine nostro Emathiam latos Aemi pinguescere campos The Pharsalian fields are in Thessaly as Plinie recordeth in his 4 booke and 8 chapter Dindyma A hill in Phrygia The Poet calleth it Dindyme chastré guelt Dindym because the Priests of Cybele called Curetes kept and sacrificed there and were Eunuches attired like women The Poets meaning is that these Gaules harried also Phrygia and called the countrey where they dwelt in Asia Gaul-Greece after the name of that from whence they first came and so planted as it were another Gaule in the middest of Asia What became of their successors in the Romanes time because the Poet makes no mention thereof I passe it also 23 Of people most renown'd He sheweth in few words wherfore he thrusteth no