thick with brick that twelve horse-men may go abreast upon the wall of it 5 Canton or Quamchen where is one Herb that is all the Physick of China On a Navigable River where the Portugez drive a wealthy trade in the day time being shut out at night whereupon they have setled their Mart at Macao the Port-town to this 6 Xaokin on the like River 7 Zuchean the centre of Merchandise 8 Hamseau or Hanychen on the Northside of the River Cinithany within two days Journey of the Sea affording trade to all the Northern parts of China 9 Stately Fochea 10 Coluns and its best Porcellane 11 * Or Thiencin Scianchai seated in a Country that looks like one Orchard within twenty four hours sail of Japan a great Mart and Harbour where two hundred thousand persons work in Cotton 12 Chinchiamsu on a River that never freezeth 13 Suarchea the onely Southern Port of China 14 Caiton or Caisuuy on the River Kiamy a good harbour destroyed 1642. 15 The convenient Haven Kaianchen on the Southside of the River Crocâ—us 16. Chatking 17 Taitung 18 Nancheny besides the two Isles Corea and Cheunan XXXI India E. China W. Persia N. Tartary with Taurus between S. Sea extended from the one hundred and sixth to the one hundred sixty ninth degree of Longitude and from the Aequator to the forty fourth degree of Northern Latitude affording a double encrease and blessed with Mines of Gold Silver and Precious Stones with Mettals of all kind except Copper and Lead and Cattle except Horses and Fruit except Wheat and Vines all Spices Civets and medicinal Drugs besides that it is famous for all sorts of Camels Parrats Apes Dragons Serpents Rhinocerats and Elephants The Inhabitants 1 Indians 2 Moors 3 Jews 4 Tartars 5 And Merchants-Portugez Spaniards English or Dutch Civil plain-dealing proud only in Perfumes and Jewels living on Barley Rice Milk Honey c. The women in Lawn so fond that they dye with their husbands that bought them for a Yoke of Oxen though they have a barbarous custome that the Brach-mans or Priests should lye with them the first night they are married and that of killing their Friends before they are aged Ten Mountains of Note for precious Stones Two Rivers 1 Indus now Naugrocat falling after a course of nine hundred miles into the Sea in seven months 2 Ganges eight miles broad in the narrowest place On this side which is called India intra Gangem E. Gulf Bengala W. Persia and Arabian Sea N. Taurus S. Cape Commari having eighteen or nineteen Rivers discovered after three attempts by the Portugez while the Spaniards were busie in making a discovery of the new World 1502. Fifteen Provinces and forty seven Kingdomes under the great Mogul 1 Dulsinga S. Cambaia N. Tartary E. Indus W. Persia * The snowy Mountains much conducing to the temperature of it temperate where 1 Healthy Chusmair in a most delicate and rich valley 2 the Fort Roree 3 Sestan 4 Multun three leagues from the Indus the ordinary through-fare of the Caravans in the way from Labor to Spahan forced to stay there four dayes to enrich the town good for nothing but Bows and Arrows 5 The Fort Duchee in the Streights of the mountains to secure the Caravans 2. Over against Dulsinda Pengab where 1 is Lahor on the Eastern banks of the Indus the chief Staple for Spices carried by land to Persia and by water to Europe 2 Sultan Puarre 3 Athec in the way you come from Lahore to China 3. Mountanous Mandao N. Pengab where 1 Mandao on the River Mandavo of good note eighteen miles round 2 Moltan where the women go booted and spurred 4. Thievish Delly and its swift Dromedaries W. Mandao hath 1 Delly a great City of pleasure 2 Doceti 3 Tremel on the W. River Mandova 5. Well-watered and rich Agra N. Delly and Mandao where 1 Agra strong and populous on the North bank of the River Jemena 2 Decayed Fate-pore or Feti-barri 3 Impregnable Hendee 4 Biani where the best * Growing on a small shrub like a Goose berry bush bearing seed like cabbage seed which being cut-down and dried for half a year in heaps rotten is trod with Oxen in the stalk and being grownd smal fine at the Mills is last of all boyled in Furnaces refined and sorted and so sold to the Merchants Indico for the making whereof here are twelve Mills 6. Sanga N. Agra 1 Azmor one hundred eighty miles from Agra at each three miles end of which there is an Inn built for Pilgrims 2 Citor in the middle way between Surat and Agra 7. Cambaia E. W. Welly and Mandaâ— S. Sea where 1 Insinda the first Province thereof is 1 Lawribander in the out-let of Indus three dayes journey from Geta Negar Tutta on the banks of the Indus a town of great trade frequented by Portugez who return Pepper for such Indian Commodities as come hither from Lahore to which it is the Port-town much frequented because free from wormes which about Surat disable the ships 2 Sarrama the middle Town 4 Nuraquimire beyond a * Where those that rob a man will conduct him through the deserts that others shall not touch him desart 5 Radempoore neer it 6 Calwalla given the women to bring up their Daughters to Dance 2. In Robbing Guzarate N. Sinda S. Sea E. Indus W. Persia 1 Diu looking towards Persia in the mouth of the Indus possessed by the Spice-Traders of Portugal the first news of the taking of which was brought to to Lisbon by Jo. Botelius from India in a Vessel of eighteen foot long and six foot broad 2 Boldra 3 Medabat on the Rivers side as big as Paris much frequented by all Merchants 4 Ardovat not far from it 5 Saringa 6 Poriana 7 Sherfo the Sepulchre of their Kings 3. In Cambaja N. Mandao S. Decan Surat W. Sea abounding in Rice Wheat Sugar Spices and choice fruits of all sorts great store of Silk and Cotton Diamonds Chalcedonies Onyx-stone and Cornelines or as we call them Cornelians and the rare Beast Abades twice as big as a Bull with an impenetrable skin and a little horn on their Snouts Where the people never marry out of their own Trades or Tribes especially the Banians who are kind of Pythagoreans 1 Cambaja three miles round and from the Indus 2 Barrocho S. of it where good * Called so from the City Calicut where it was first made Calicoes 3 Wel-fortified and orcharded Surat with its Pomgranates Melons Figs and Lemmons the residence of an English Factory that hath a great trade in the Bay of Swalley ten miles off 4 Neriand and its Indico 5 Daman a pleasant town of the Portugez upon the Sea-side over against Diu. 6 High and impregnable Campanel and Dacaiotote 7 Netherby and Bandore great Markets for Brazen ware Beasts and Armour 8 Decan N. Cambria W. Sea on the Sea-Coast for two hundred and fifty miles 1 Decan and the rich and well-guarded
* All the people there go in Silks and Tiffany being coal-black Diamond-hill neer it 2. Bider a Royal City Northward 3 As Visapore was 4 Danagur 5 Sintacora on the mouth of the River Aliga 6 The great Empory Goa fifteen mile round in the Island Ticuarinum over against the out-let of Mandavo one of the Keys to the Indies possessed by the Portugals 7 The Sea-town Chaul theirs too 8 The beautiful and well-traded town Brampore on a great River like London not far from the strong sort Syra 9 Canara N. Decan S. Malabar W. Sea hath 1 Melinde 2 Onor 3 Patticalia 4 Mangalor all Ports of good trade for Sugars Figgs Corn held by the Portugez 5 Lispor and its quarries of Adamant 6 Solset and its Peninsula 10. Malabar N. Canara the River Gangeraco between E. Narsinga and the mountain Gates between S. W. Sea plentiful for Ginger Cinnamon Cassia Pepper and the Dates that yields Wine Oyl Sugar fine Cloath and Cordage and another bearing Cotton Cypress and cobweb Lawn the leaves Sattin and Taffata besides Apes Monkeyes Parrats and Paraquitoes 1 Connor in the Province of Connor with a fair and capacious haven much frequented by Merchants especially Portugez who have a Citadel here 2 Cora 3 Peripatum Marabia 5 Main 2 * Where they are so barbarous as to change wives with one another in mirth Calicute in the Province of Calicute on the Sea three miles a place of great trade where the Eastern and European Merchants meet 3 Chale a Fort. 4 Chatua 5 Purtangale 6 Tanor 3 Cranganor commodious for trade at the mouth of a River in the Province of Cran Ganor on the S. of Calicate full of St. Thomas's * Seventy thousand of them there Christians 8 Cochin a well-traded and well-havened town in the out-let of Mangat in a Province of that name S. Cranganor forty leagues on the shore 9 Caicholam a much frequented Port-town in Caicolam 10 Caulan neer Caicolam with its commodious haven much resorted to by forreign Merchants for Pepper and other Spices 11 Quilacor in Trevandor whither the Kings of that place after twelve years Reign go and on a Scaffold cut their Noses Eares and Lips and at last their throats 11. Narsinga S. Trevancor E. Gulf Bengala here is 1 Cael neer Trevancor where they fish for Pearl 2 Golconda 3 Chamdagrin a seat-Royal 4 Perepoi where at an yearly feast they offered two hundred thousand Crowns 5 Madura 6 Chadamburam 7 Maliaper or St. Thomas re-peopled with a Colony of Portuguez 8 Choromandel a place of Trade giving name to all the Sea-coast about it on the west side of the Gulf of Bengala with Casta Negapatan Tarnassari desolate Bisnagar and Royal Narsinga where the women desire to be buried alive with their Husband Et certamen habent lethi quae viva sequatur Conjugium pudor est non licuisso mori Ardent victrices praebent pectora flammae Imponuntque suis ora perusta viris 12. Oristan S. Narsinga Botanter E. Gulf of Bengala a fair Sea-coast of three hundred and fifty miles in length i. e. from Cape Guadarino between it and Narsinga to Cape Leogorae between it and Bengala 1 Orissa on the Sea side well traded for Rice Cloth of Cotton the Stuff Yerva like Silk together with long Pepper Ginger Mirabolins c. 2 Royal Cateoba 3 The weltraffiqued Port Angeli at the bottom of the Gulf of Bengala 4 Poor Bacola 13. Botanter S. Onstan W. the sacred River * Whose waters they fetch far and neer for Sacrifices Guenga E. Ganges where the people have ears of a span length never washing for fear of defiling the water where is Bottia Clamur-Kukares a Staple for the sale of their Cloath to the Chinois and Tartarian Merchants * Here their money and their meat is Almonds Couche where they kill not their Cattle but keep Hospitals for them when they are old 14. Patanau N. Botanter 1 Large but thatched Patane 2 Holy and Pilgrim Bannaras on the holy Ganges 3 Siripur †Where the Jesuites were told by the heathen that they might as lawfully worship their Pagods as they their Images 4 Ciandecan on the bottom of the Gulf of Bengala 5 Satagan 15. Bengala N. Patanaw E. Pegu S. W. Gulf of Bengala on the Gulf and River three hundred and sixty miles long hath 1 Bengala on the Ganges rich in trade for Silk and Cotton long Pepper Ginger Sugar Wheat and Rice the people subtil and skilled in Phylosophy Physick and Astronomy richer in Pilgrimages to the Holy Water of Ganges with Gatigan a well-traded port in the bottom of the Gulf of Bengala 3 Taxada decayed in trade by an alteration in the Channel 4 Porrow Grande and Porror Pequeno two Lawless Asylums with the Islands Basse Cainam Islas de Pracel where was reported such store of Adamants as drew ships thither if they were not pinned with wooden pins 2. In India Extra Gangen or the continent beyond Ganges * By the over flowings whereof it is made as rich as Aegypt is by that of Nile is 1 Brama W. Ganges N. Cathay in Tartary E. Cauchin-china S. Pega now Barma rich in mines of Gold and Silver Rubies and Musk much traded to by Portugez and there 1 Calam. 2 Bacan 3. Meranda 4 Melinta 5 Prom. 6 Ava 7 Tangu and 8 Brama where is the tree called Moses which they take to be the Tree of Life 2 Cauchinchina W. Brama E. China N. Tartary S. Camboia rich in Aloes Silks Taffata and other Stuffs Gold Silver Porcellane earth wrought into China-ware well counterfeited among us by drawing a white crust on our Potters Earth Powder Guns where is the City Cauchin-china on a River of China running into a capacious Bay with the Island Almo where they fish for pearls commanded by Portugez 3 Camboia N. Cauchin-china abounding in Elephants and Rhinocerots or Abades Aloes Gold and the sweet-wood Calumba where is the well-traded City of Comboia on the River Mecon as the Staple for the Commodities of this Country 2 Cudurmuch on the same River 3 Coul on the sea-side 4 Jangoma W. Pegu E. Camboia N. Brama S. Siam a barbarous place not observable 5 Siam N. Jangoma and Pegu E. S. W. Sea a Peninsula called formerly the Golden * And reckoned one of the five Chersonesses the other four being the Peloponesian in Greece the Thracian in Propontis the Taurican in the Euxine the Cimbrian in Denmark Chersonesse rich in Gold Silver Tin c. Pepper Elephants and Horses 1 Malaca a noted Empory for the space of two hundred and seventy miles especially at the City Malaca on the River Gaza unwholesom indeed but of great trade for Spices Oyntments Gold Silver Pearls and precious stones especially since the Portugals removed the trade from Sincapura a Mart neer the Promontory Magnum hither 3 Palo Zambilan whence to Sincapura about the Southern Cape called Cape Liampo two hundred and seventy miles 2 Johor and Patane
9. In Aria W. Parthia E. Para pomismus where is in some places a strong wine that will keep colour and tast eighty years something like Myrrhe and Saphyr there are now only 1 Heri or Eri on the banks of Arias called the City of Roses very strong 2 Sasuar 10 In Parthia E. Aria W. Media N. Hyrcania S. Carmania now Arach nothing but sand unless it be under the woods where are things for necessity none for riot the people slavish nimble horse-men and Archers the Country not passable for the Sands were it not for Caus-wayes and Castles at each three miles end are 1 Hispan * Spanhawn raysed out of the ruines of Hecatompyle called by the Inhabitants Half the World nine miles round in a plain with Gardens Baths and Mosches and a cloystered quadrangular market place well stored with Merchandises and Drugs in the quadrangle whereof they use horse-races and other warlike exercises Jelphea on the other side the River inhabited by Armenian Christians for a great Poll. 3 Croom a large pleasant and healthy place on a Riveter 4 Casham rich and well built and filled with Artizans in Silks Sattins Cloth of Gold and Carpets adorned with a beautifull Caravans Raw to entertain strangers 4 Tangaunt where the King of Persia hath an incomparable House for Gardens Groves Ecchoes and Labyrinths c. 11. In Hircania S. * Divided from Parthia by Coronus the way through which the Persians say Mortis Haly the second Mahomet cut out at one blow with a Cymitar Parthia N. Caspian Sea E. Mergeana the people of which place starve their Parents at seventy years of age fruitful in pasture wheat wines figs and other fruits full of Forrests and those Forrests full of Panthers Leopards Lyons Tygers c. Is 1 Hyrcania Hyrcan 2 Ashoraffe two miles from the Sea in a spacious plain containing two thousand houses adorned with two great Pallaces the Furniture of one of which was valued by a Merchant at twenty millions Farabont on a navigable branch of the Caspian Sea well-traded especially by Muscovy Merchants or Silks whose ships come from the Volge which dischargeth it self into the Caspian Sea by seventy mouths in March and return in July it being from thence to Astracan but ten dayes sail famous for its Gardens a Pallace and a Market-place 4 Chiachoporo on a River the water whereof is for eleven months sweet and for the twelfth salt 5 The well-watered and wooded Barfrushder and Omoal resorted to by People of seven Tongues 6 Stava a Town of great Traffique for raw silk 7 Mesander whence the Province Mesandrum 12. In Sandy Morgiana W. Hyrcania E. Bactria N. Tartary besides huge Vines as big as a mans middle with clusters of Grapes two cubits long of Noahs planting as it is thought here and the City Alexandria now called Indian the chief place in the Country neer which is Jasonium on the confluence of Margus 13. In Bactria the greatest part whereof S and W. is nothing but sand which is travelled only in the night but towards the River Oxus plentiful in wheat and all grain except Olives rich Mettals and some Precious Stones as Emeralds Chrysolites and Jacinthes is 1 Bactria at the foot of the hill Sogdii now Bochor the Metropolis well fortified and stored 2 Istigias the pleasantest City in the East 3 Eucratidia Alicodra Charra Charta all these under the Persian Sophi except here and there some places taken by the Turks and others under the Muscovite and Portugez the first whereof manageth the Trade of the Caspian Sea and the latter that of the Southern Ocean XXIX Tartary E. China and the Streights of Anian W. Russia and Podolia N. Scithicke or Frozen Sea S. China and the great wall that parts them containing five thousand four hundred miles from E. to W. and three thousand six hundred from N. to S. from the sixth climate till they cease measuring by climates the dayes being in some places six months and the nights as long reaching from fifty degrees of Longitude to one hundred ninety five and from forty of Latitude to eighty i. e. within ten degrees of the Pole it self The people swarthy squat swift vigilant hardy whining when they talk and howling when they sing men-eaters drinking Mares milk riding Oxen. That Christianity that is there planted by St. Andrew and St. Philip and over-run with Nestorianism thought by Genebrard to be the Off spring of the ten Tribes Hath 1. In Tartaria * Chersones joyned by an Istmus to the main land which the Tartars went to dig through whence Precopensis from Precaph signifying a trench Precopensis or minor abounding in Camels Horses Oxen Sheep and Goats Venison in in their Forrests and Fish and Fowl in the Fens of Maeotis with a temperate ayre about ninety nine Italian miles long and sixty three broad on the Rivers Boristenes and Tanais arising in Russia in Mosco in the chief City * Now called mare delle Zabab Ital. Mar. della Tana and Mer Bienco of which there are 50000 Tartar horses sold yearly besides that these people with roots cheese and garlick eat horses flesh each Bowman carrying two horses with him to the wars one for service and the other for meat 1 Caffa neer the Streights Sterto de Caffa a flourishing Empory with a capacious haven commanding the trade of the Euxine 2 Preceph 3 Wel-traded and harboured Corsunum now Sari Germanum from the yellow earth thereabouts like Saffron 4 Wel-fortified Crim whence Crim Tartars commanding the Euxine and Lake of Maeotis 5 Panticapaeum on the Vospero or Bosphorus 6 Tanas on Tanais frequented by the Merchants of all Nations on the Euxine under the Turks 7 Ruinous but high Ingirmenum 8 Oizakow the residence of the Cham whose Court in Summer time makes a moveable City of Wheele-houses called Agara or the town of Carts neer Podolia in Poland and part of Muscovy under the protection of the Grand-Seignior who recommanded one of the Chams to be King of Poland in a letter to this effect that their Pope should be his Pope and their Luther his Luther and that he would not put them to the charge of house-keeping for he could eat horse-flesh 2. In Tartaria deserta W. Precopensis and Russia * From which divided by the River Spane which falleth inio Caspian Sea about the middle of it E. Zagathai N. Frozen Sea S. Euxine and Caspian so fruitful if the Tartars that laugh at us for living on the top of reeds so they call our bread say true that for once sowing Mill and Punicum they have without any tillage three Returns of both Few Cities they roving with their herds as the grass holds capable of Merchandise having a fair sea coast several Bays Havens and navigable Rivers only Mountains on the top of which the Sun shines when its night in the Valley saving 1 Locoppa 2 Conice Phanogoria St. Georges on the Bosphorus and Rha neer which on both sides there is
a medicinal root called Rha Pontiche to distinguish it from Rha-Barbarum or Rhubarb This tract inaccessible 3 Bolgar on the River Volga neer which is the greatest herd of Tartars called Horda Magna 4 * These people are sanctified by their Priests by sprinkling them with Milk Earth and Cow-dung Scharaishe on the other side of the Volga where is no money but brass no corn but roots troublesome to Muscovy who pacifieth them with presents yet keeping continual Garrisons at Casan Astrachan and Wiatra least they should disturb the Russia trade in the Caspian Down the Volga as they go up and down in herds following the Pole-star but keeping close for fear of the Muscovite much delighted in Negromancy and Conjurations under the Cham of Chathai their delicacies are mice serpents and other wormes and their mansions Caves 3. In Zagathai E. Cathai on the other side of Imaus N. Frozen Sea S. Caspian and the River Oxus between it and Persia is 1 Drepsa on the Oxus as is 2 Oxiana 3 Maruca 4 Alexandria 5 Tribarra not considerable among such a * Whose leaders are their Priests which they call Papa wandring people 6 Zabaspia an eminent town by reason the Inhabitants thereabouts are civil and industrious good mechanicks well skilled in manufactories and very seldom without a great confluence of * From India and Cathai Merchants trading on the River Daix and the mouth of the Oxus 7 The magnificent Mara-Canda 8 Well-traded and populous Bichend and 9 in the wild Turcestan Calba Ocerra and Crustina on the Lake Kitay much frequented by Russian and Tartarian Merchants sayling thither by the River Ob for Bevers Sables Seil-skins c. and not far hence are the Savage Scythians 4. In Cathay W. Zagathi with Imaus between E. Sea and China S. India N. Tartaria Antiqua extending from the North Sythia extra Imaum to the South India Extra Gangen nine hundred and sixty miles and from E. to W. one thousand five hundred abounding Eastward with Wheat Rice Wool Hemp Silk Musk and Rhubarb on the banks of Volga besides Camels hair Chamlets and such a numberless number of horses as that they sent eighty thousand at one time for a present to the King of China and the great Cham feedeth yearly ten thousand white Mares for their Milk the Air very hot in summer and very good in winter subject to wonderful thundering earth-quakes winds their Cham not to be seen without purgations or washing are 1 Cambala or Cham's pleasant seat of free-stone in the heart of the Country on the River Palysanga navigable from the Eastern Ocean thither whither it conveys a great store of Merchandises and Merchants and among other Merchandises ten thousand Cart-loads of Silk from China Twenty eight miles round containing among other Inhabitants Fifty thousand Astrologers 2 Xandu the Emperours Pallace containing eight quadrangles one within another the least two miles in compass between whose several walls are Walks Gardens Orchards Fish-ponds Parks Forrests Chases c. 3 Fair Caraio and Gouza where the women are said to guild their teeth 4 Careanfean where is the herb called Chiny-Cathaii an ounce whereof being valued worth a sack of Rhubarb not far from hence in Serica you may barter their Silks for trifles for like Quakers they make but one word Especially at 1 Sera 2 Ottocora 3 Issedon 4 Orosana and 5 Donata Here and in Scythia extra Emaum they made carousing cups of their Fathers skulls where 1 Hiachan is a great Mart. 2 Cialis a great Court 3 Succuir famous for Merchandise 4 Campion where if the woman offer her self to the Priest he thinks it a sin to refuse lying with her besides other barbarous desolate idolatrous and inchanting provinces and Cities onely in East Tartary there are Castors Martrois and Zibellons and other precious skins besides Horse hair and the root Ginsen with which they traffick at Leatony a Province N. E. of China of Tartaria Antiqua you may be sure nothing remarkable since they are so barbarous that they will marry no Virgins but such as have been prostituted by their Mothers to the Merchant-strangers who bestow on them Jewels and she is the most acceptable to her husband who brings him the greatest reward of her shame XXX China E. Oriental Ocean W. India and Cathay N. Altas * Out of the profits whereof they are very charitable to their lame and maimed rejecting the blind as able to work by grinding of Corn. and East Tartary from which divided by a chain of hills and a great wall extended four hundred leagues in length S. Cauchin-China a Province of India three thousand leagues about one thousand eight hundred leagues long reaching from 130th to 160th degree of Longitude and from the Tropick of Cancer to the 53d degree of Latitude lying under all the climes from the 3d to the 9th hot but healthful so fruitfull that it yieldeth three harvests a year of Wheat Barley Rice Wool Cotton Olives Wines Flax Silk besides their Pearls and Bezoar all kind of Metall Fruits Cattle Sugar Honey Rhubarb Camphire Ginger and all kinds of Spices medicinal wood called China Wood Muske Salt Poultrey especially * And Hogs whereof six thousand a day eaten in the same place Ducks whereof in one town thirteen thousand eaten one day with another The people well-set middle-sized gluttonous but cleanly not touching their meat with their hands but eating with two Ebony sticks whence silver Forks used first in Italy and then in England Skilful in Manufactories the Son being bound to follow his Fathers Trade witness PRINTING and GUNNING its thought first invented there Porcellan dishes curious carvings and their fine painted works in Tables Leathers and Stuffs whereof they are so proud that they say they have two eyes the Europeans one and the rest of the world stark-blind the Women very modest reserved and much watched by their Husbands having invented them a pinching fashion of shooes that they might have no delight to walk abroad The Inhabitants reckoned one hundred and seventy million by Sea and Land the Sea for three hundred leagues from Nanquin to Paquin being but one street of Ships wherein they buy sell are born and dye The People multiplying because they make no War but Defensive and are forbid to go out of their Country Their Religion Gentilisme with some remainders of Christianity planted there by St. Thomas Here are five hundred ninety one Cities Uniform most on one of their seven * On which are twelve thousand bridges under which ships sail Navigable Rivers whereof the most Eminent are 1 Qunsoy or Suntren on the West of China neer Cathai formerly an hundred miles round with a Lake in it thirty miles about containing six hundred thousand Families of Artificers 2 Vnguen and its Sugars 3 Nanquin on the great River Kuni thirty miles round with twelve thousand Ships before it nine leagues from the Sea two hundred thousand houses 4 The Royal City Paquin walled so
Cuma where Sybilla Cumaea 6 Phocaea called so from the Sea-calves there called Phocae 7 Myas * The place given by Artonerxes to Themistocles when he fled from Athens at which the Emperour was so overjoyed that he would cry in his sleep destroyed by Flyes 8 Erythra whence Sybilla Erithaea 9 Lebedos 10 Clazomone of much esteem for good wines 11 Prieno 12 Ipsus 13 Teos Anacreons birth-place 14 Smyrna a fair City on a Bay of the name hanging over the Sea hill-wayes One of the 7 Churches in the Revelations and much traded to for Chamlets Grograins and such Stuffs made at Ancyra besides wines here the English have a Consul 15 Colophon which put an end to any war that they were ingaged in whence the phrase Colophonem addere Septem Vrbes certant de stirpe insignis homeri Smyrna Rhodos Colophon Salamis Chios Argos Athenae 16 Ephesus metropolis of Asia one of the seven Churches and memorable for Diana's Temple 425 foot long 220 broad supported with 127 Marble Pillars 70 foot high 200 years in building 7 times fired the last time by Herostratus the night Alexander was born Diana the Goddess of Mid-wifery being at his labour XI Curia N. E. Lycia Lydia and Ionia S. W. the Aegean and Carpathian Sea where Auguty was first invented and Astronomy * By the same token that Endymion the Astronomer here is feigned the Moons sweet heart she kissed in his sleep Here besides the River Salmacis that weakens those that drink it is the City Miletus Acts 20.10 Thales birth-place Iren. l. 3. c. 14. 2 Mindus that was in danger of running out of the Gates 3 Heraclea ad latmum 4 Borgillia 5 Milasa 6 Primassus which Philip of Macedon took with a counterfeit mine 7 Cnidus famous for a Marble Image of Venus 8 Cressa 9 Halicarnassus where Mausolus his tomb one of the seaven wonders of the World built by his Wife was Mart. Epig. 1.1 XII Lydia S. E. Phrygia M. and Coria N. W. Asia propriè dicta and the greater Mysia the first Inventors of Coyning Pedling Huckstering and Gaming were these people who found out gaming to divert their hunger The Hills 1 Siphylus 2 Tinolus covered with Vines and Saffron on the Rivers 1 Hermus 2 Caystrus 3 Pactolus and its golden sands 4 Crooked Maeander and inriched with Gold Silver and Gems the Cities 1 Sardis the taking of which by the Graecians so startled Xerxes that he caused it to be said every day at his Table as it was every year in the Parliament of Paris about Calice the Graecians have taken Sardis 2 Philadelphia 3 Thyatira 4 Laodiceia 5 Of the Asian Churches 6 The 2 Maynesia's 7 Alabanda and 7 * To the Inhabitants whereof Ignatius writ his Epistle ad Trallenses Trall is on the Banks of Caistrus XIII Lycia environed on three sides with the Mountain Taurus and shut in on the 4th with the Mediterranian famous for that branch of Taurus here called Chymaera and 1 the City Mira Acts 27.5 2 Telmesus and its Southsayers 3 Pratius and its fair haven 4 Phaselis with its Pyrates and Brigantines 5 Cragus under a Mountain of the name 6 Aenonda 7 Corydilla 8 Rhodia 9 Solyma all these now a Part of the Kingdome of Caramania XIV Lycaonia S. E. Armenia minor and Pisidia N. W. Cappadocia and Phrygia major where is 1 Iconium now Coynri scituated advantagiously in the Mountains for defence and safety 2 Lystra Acts 14.19 20. 3 Derbe 4 Laranda 5 Adopistus 6 Paralais 7 Camara and 8 Caratha XV. Pasidia N. Lycaonia E. Armenia the less W. Lycia S. Pamphilia and Cilicia where is 1 old Antioch Acts 4. 2 Impenetrable Seleucia and Termessus 3 Fruitfull and pleasant Sagalassa Selge Cremna and Lysinia XVI Isauria E. S. Cilicia on both sides Taurus plentifull in Vines and other rich products about the River Calecadnus where besides the ruined Isauria is the rich and well-traded Seleucia and Claudipolis XVII Cilicia S. Mediterranian and Syria rich in Soyl and conveniently scituated on the Sea-coast for Trade but meanly * Here are the Squilachi a mixt creature between a Dog and a Cat that steal peoples cloaths inhabited and therefore yielding only Goats Sheep Butter and Cheese with good Horses where 600 are yearly called for the Grand-Seigniours Service where besides the Rivers thundering Pyramis now Malmistra 2 Orymasdus 3 Calycadnus 4 Cold Cidnus that cureth the Gout and the impassable Streights called Pylae Ciliciae are the Cities 1 Solae where Pompey setled the Pyrates in an honest way of livelihood 2 Tarsus now Tersia and Hamsa St. Pauls birth-place on the banks of Cydnus to this day strong and wealth 3 Epiphania 4 Mopsuestia 5 Anchiala on the Sea side neer the Promontory Zephyrium 6 unwalled but well †By the Castle adjoyning defended Adena well known to the Travellers over * Who take in here 3 days provision Especially to those that have not been used to it Taurus for its plentiful provision of Wine and Corn. 7 Famous Issus now Aiazzo on the Bay called Golfo di Aaiazzo 8 Unwholesom Fenny but commodiously seated and traded Alexandria now a few houses of straw and mud the nearest Haven to the Bay of Aleppo and called Scanderoon 9 Nicopolis 10 Amavarza 11 Fair and large Heraclea 12 Scandelow XVIII The Isles of Asia minor from the mouth of the Hellespont to Rhodes among which 1 Penedos * Tenedia securis hatched carried at the Judges back to mind them of justice over against Sigeum now Cape Janizarie 10 miles round producing good Wine and Crab-fish with a Town of the name Nunc tantum sinus statio malesida Carinis 2 Lesbos 168 miles round S. W. Barren N. E. Level and fruitful with excellent Corn and delicious Wine where is Lesbos 2 Methymna 3 Mytelene Seated on a Peninsula a commodious Haven on the North-side for Gallies S. for other ships well fortified by Art and Nature with a strong Castle and a well stored Arsenal 4 Vasilica 5 Theodori 6 Castle-Gera 3 Chios over against the shore of Jonia 126 miles compass the only place for Mastick a gum cut out of the bark of the Lentisne tree in July and August and gathered in September yielding 18000 Sultanies yearly besides good for Corn Oyl Marble some Silks and Cotton wooll short of those in Smyrna Honey and most delicious wines with an infinite store of red tame Partridges the inhabitants merry Greeks and grave Genoese the most eminent places here 1 Pigrine 2 St. Elias 3 Chios now Sio full of Oranges Lemons Pomegranates Citrons on a good Haven secured by a Garrison * So watchful that there goeth a word round the Castle every minute and watch-towers on the shore and directed to by a Lanterne 4 Samos S. E. Chios 85 miles about abounding with Oyl and Olives with a medicinal earth called terra samia store of timber on a fair and capacious Haven much infested with Pyrats 5 Iscaria now Niceria W.
* The Key of Media and Sirvan Testis Lori and Tomanis rich in Corn Cattle and Fruits with Forts commanding all passages 7 Glisca and Biscapar 4. In Albania W. Iberia E. Caspian Sea naturally fruitfull affording three reapings for once sowing where people formerly could not tell an hundred and understood not weights and measures or money reverencing old age but not speaking of the dead Gray from their Child-hood and seeing as well by night as by day is nothing remarkable but the Rivers Albanus and Cyrus and the City Derbent neer the Caspian Sea now Demircan or * It is called by Egesippus Porta Ferrea Iron Gate with Sabran and Sancta Maria all or most of these places under the Turks XXVII Media E. Parthia and Hircania W. Arm. major and Assyria N. Caspian Sea Georgia S. Persia now Skeir-vun i. e. Milky-plain where it was a punishment for the Vulgar men to have less then seven Wives and Women less then five Husbands their bread of dryed Almonds their meat wild flesh on the North side plenty of Wines Fruits Cattle especially horses on the South side they poyson their Arrows with Oleum Mediacum so that nothing can allay the heat of the wound but a little dust converted by St. Thomas hath in it besides the River Canac between it and Armenia major and the Lake Argis whose fish dryed by the wind and sun raise these People a great advantage 1. In the inhospitable Atropatria between Taurus and the Caspian Sea whither it s thought the Jews Captived by Salmanasser are placed 1 Bochu by the * Hence called Mare de Bochu Caspian Sea 2 Strong Ere 's possessed by the Turks as an in-let to this Country 2 * By the Persians call'd Cyrectzbata it may be Cyropolis Shamaki between Ere 's and Derbent notorious for a Pillar of Flint-stones interwoven with the heads of Persian Noblemen set there barbarously in terrorem 2. In Media especially so called eminent for generous * Call'd Nissei horses fat Cattle good Corn and Wine and and excellent Water was 1 Ruined Ecbatana as stately as Babylon formerly out of whose rubbish 2 Tauris was built now Baronta under the shadow of Mount Oâ—ontes a hundred and fifty miles from the Caspian Sea opening S. towards a large and spacious Campagne six miles round built of brick with flat Roofs and Battlements as in all the East well traded and inhabited at least by 200000 persons with a strong Citadel 3 Caspin on the Ruines of Arsacia very conveniently and pleasantly Scituated on a Riveret that serves for necessity and pleasure but not for trade 4 Rages 5. Nasuana 6 Ardoville 7 Sultanives ruines and Mosches environed alwayes with snowy Mountains 8 The fair Market Tywan 9 Turcoman 10 Daman i. e. a second Plantation at the foot of Taurus where the Inhabitants think Noahs Ark rested XXVIII Persia E. India N. Tartary S. Sea W. Media under the 3d 4th 5th and 6th Clime S. days thirteen hours N. fifteen hours healthful and shady the people half skilfull in Physick Poems Astronomy * There was an edict of Cyrus that they should not go on foot Horseman-ship Archery †Whence the Magi that came to our Saviour are thought Persians Magick and among other manufactures in making Silks and Cloath of Gold all the Christianity there was planted by St. Thomas Hath 1. In Susiana W. Babylonia N. Assyria S. Tygris called Havilah famous for Gold * A tree whose gum turns pearl Bdellium and Onyx stone 1 Aracca and its bituminous water easily fired and not easily quenched 2 The Ruines of Susa 3. Elimais rich by Pilgrimages with Sela on the Bank of Eulaeus that emptieth its self into Sinus Persicus of so pure a stream that the great Persian Kings would drink of no other water 4 Jaaroone inhabited by Jewes Suum and Casa 2. In Persis W. Susiana N. Media E. Carmania now Fars where some Dates Palmes and Emeraulds are found and in one part of it abundance of Roses Rose-water Cordovans Corn Fruit and Cattle are 1 Ausinza on the Bay between the mouths of the Rivers Bagradas and Brisoana as 2 is Jona Capolis 3 Axenia now Lansilla 4 Shyras raised on the ample ruines of Persepolis burnt by Alexander in a drunken fit at the instigation of Lais neer the banks of Araxes now Bindimir the Metropolis nine miles round in a plain hemmed with Mountains famous for Gardens and Mosches with their golden lights and a thousand Lamps affording Good Wine pretty Women pleasant fruits and a gallant people 5 Well-wooded and watered Moyown N. E. Shyras 6 The high Mountain and Castle of Banneraw 7 Berry a School for the Arabick tongue c. 3. In * Now Chyrman Carmania W. Persis and the Gulf of Persia N. Parthia S. Indian Sea affording neither good Port nor good coming to it all the two hundred leagues on the Sea-coast to carry off its poor Commodities such as Dates Myrrhe Arsenie Brass Iron Alabaster Fish and little Silver are 1 Cyrza and Gochorta two Port Towns 2 Alexandria 3 Oâ—tespana 4 Armuza on the shore of the Persian Gulf. 5 Populous Gunbroone 6 Jasques in Cape de Jasques 7 Charmania Chyrman notable for cloath of Gold and Scymitars 3 In-land Lar and its goodly Market place Mosch and Cittadel of Mosaique work through this Country Alexander marched after the Conquest of India in a fortnights continued fit of drinking and revelling 4 In Ormus an Isle in the entrance of the Persian * Now called Mare Elheriffe and the Streights leading to it the Streights of Balsora Gulf which after a narrow streight openeth to the City Balsora and is two thousand five hundred Italian miles compass twenty miles round affording only Salt and notwithstanding it s so hot that the people are forced to live in Caves and so unhappy that they send to other Countries for water is so well Scituated that the Wealth of Persia and East India is brought to its great Mart Armuzium two miles round in the end of the Isle and thence conveyed by water to Euphrates and thence by Boats or Camels to Aleppo Alexandretta and Tripolis till it was destroyed by the help of the English 1622. who have therefore customes of all strangers that traffick at Gambroon whither the trade of this place was removed 5. In * Called Gest and Circan Gedrosia W. Carmania S. Indian Sea E. Gambaia or Guzurat in India a barren place affording onely Nard and Myrrhe but a poor Village is the chief City 6. In poor Drungiana S. Gedrosia is 1 Prophthasia now Sistan 2 Sige or Sigestan 3 Mulebet 4 Pharazada 5 Arvada 7. In Despicable * Cabal Arachosia is no place memorable but 1 Alexandria now Cabal at the foot of Taurus 2 Sin 8. * Candabor In Para Pomismus N. Bactria E. India W. Ana dark with hills is 1 Candabor the Metropolis of great trade by reason of the Scituation of it on the borders of India
beyond the Isle of Gades * Giving name to a Spanish Duke 10 Gibraltor in the mouth of those Streights the utmost South point of Europe Hercules Pillars 11 St. Lucar at the mouth of Guadalquivir Port to Sevil. 12 Tariffa at the end of a Promontory looking into Africa 13 Sevil six miles round the fairest place in Spain a River running through it where are 1 A good University and Library 2 Stately Pallaces and Monastries 3 Innumerable Gennets and a great Mart both for the Exporting of Oyles Oranges and Wines And Importing of the Pearls of Cabagna the Emeraulds of St. Martha the Cochinels of Mexico the Corrals of Hispaniola where the common proverb is that if There doth not enter Sevil every day in the year four thousand Pipes of Wine the Farmer of the Custom-House is sure to break All these places in the Province of Andalusia 17 The two Ports and fair Havens Portreal and Sancta-Maria to Gades in a Bay on the West of an Isle of that name seven hundred paces from the * To which it is joyned by the bridge Puento de Suato Famous for Springs and Mosaical works and a Court of Parliament main Land the road for the Spanish Plate-Fleet neer the Streights where Hercules writ Nil Vltra but Charles the 5th Plùs Vltrà 18 Acamora on the Tagus famous for the Knights of the Name 19 Guadalcanal with its Silver and Gold Mines 20 Merida on the Tagus and the old Roman Bridge 21 Medelino 22 Badaios neer Portugal 23 Guadalupe as much resorted to as Loretto 24 Placenza amongst the hills of Castile and these in Estramadura VI. Granada E. S. Mediterranean N. Castile a well-towned and stored Countrey 1 * This and Alacan were famous for the Knights of it Granada with the Darion running through it seven miles round well fortified and traded 2 Rocky Alhama and its medicinal waters 3 Guadix 4 Voles Malaga under high-hills as Ronda and Munda is where Caesar said He fought for his Life as he did in other places for Honour keeping the Souldiers together with this word Remember that at Munda the Souldiers forsook their General 5 The well-fortified Frontire neer Castile Antiquera 6 Maxasra on the Mediterranean shore and Vera. 7 The strongly and pleasantly Scituated Loxa on the Darion 8 Malaga at the mouth of Guadalquiver well fortified and traded for Raisins Almonds and Malaga-Sack 9 The noted Haven Almeria on the Mediterranean 10 Carthagina Coin and Basa strong inland Towns VII Murcia E. W. N. Granada and Valentia S. the Mediterranean 1 Murcia and its Pomgranates 2 Carthagena in a Peninsula within the Jaws of the Mediterranean with a deep Marsh on the W. side of it with a capacious and safe Bay whence Admiral Dorea said there were but three safe Harbours August July and Carthagena 3 The inland port Lorca 4 Alma ca Sarazal strong places towards Valentia 5 Cervillan 8 Alhuma VIII Toledo 1 * Calatrala on the Ana. 2 Toledo strongly and pleasantly seated on Tagus enriched by a great resort of Noblemen Shollars Merchants and Souldiers thither upon the side of a hill the Bishoprick the best next to that of Rome worth thirty thousand Crowns 3 Talvera de la Reyna on the Tagus 4 The Town and Dutchy of Medina Caeli IX Castile W. Portugal N. Biscay S. Carduba and Granada E. Navarre Arragon and Valentia 1 Soria 2 Avila 3 * Vallis Oletum from the O◠lives about it where there is a colledge built by Philip the second for English Papists Validodid on the River Pisuerga an University and a Mart. 4 Segovia under the Mountain Idubeda of great trade for Cloth 5 Burgos on the head of the River Relanzons in a controversie between which place and Toledo one said he would speak for Toledo and then †Without which there is a Nunnery of 150 noble Ladies called De las Huelgas Burgos should speak for its self 6 Cividad Rodrigo on the Gada 7 Strong Zamora on the Duero where are the best Bag-pipes 8 Lerma 9 Tordefillas 10 Salamanca on the River Tormes in Old Castile 11 Signenca 12 The Royal City * Where is the famous building of the Escurial where the Duke de Medina Coeli claiming a right in the Crown is answered Non est ligar there is no place Madrid upon the Guadarama where the upper Rooms belong to the King walled with flint which they call a Wall of Fire 3 Alcala de Henans or Complutum famous for its University and the Translation of the Bible 4 Alcazar in the Mountain Orospeda as is Molina well fortified by Art and Nature and Cuenca on the Spring of the River Xucar and Tagus all in New-Castile X. Portugal N. †Full of red lead called Minium navigable 100 miles as is the River Lavada Minio and Avia between it and Gallicia S. Algarve W. the Atlantique E. Castile and Estramadura a Line from Ribadania on Aria to Badaios on the Anas or Guadiana four hundred miles long on the Sea-coast an hundred miles broad eight hundred seventy nine miles round containing one thousand four hundred sixty parishes The defect of * Supplied from France Corn in that healthy Country supplyed by the abundance of Silver Marble Salt-fish Fruits Allom Oyl Wine and especially the making of Silk and Salt The people plain devout and good Sea-men the Rivers narrow and banked with steep rocks and so not very passable Here is 1 Lisbon a famous Haven and Mart on the Tagus defended by the †The Fort of St. Julians and Rock Belem Castle Cascais and scituate on five small hills very * Reckoned the fourth Mart of Europe the other three being Mosco Paris and Constantinople populous seven miles round thirty Parishes twenty thousand houses 2 Santaren on the Tagus 3 Sintra on the Atlantique neer Montes Lunae the cool retirement of the Portugez King in Summer 4 Conimbre the University among Vineyards and Olive-yards on both sides the River Mondego 5 Braga on the N. of Duero 6 The Haven Porto in the mouth of it 7 Bragance 8 And Ebora in a spacious plain on the S. of Tagus 9 Olivenca 10 Portelegre 11 Beia all these in Portugal properly so called 12 Niebla 13 Silvis 14 Tavila 15 Faro noted Ports in the Atlantique 16 And the Haven Lagus in poor and desert Algarvan 17 The * Healthfull only the people are subject to a disease called the Blood Azores the chiefest commodity of which Islands are the Peaches Apples Lemons Oranges Botato Roots Woad especially Island Woad Canary Birds in 1 Tercera sold in the safe Port of 1 Angra begirt with Rocks Praye Villa Nova Sebastians and St. Barbara Earthen vessels in the impregnable St. Maries in the Isle of 2 St. Maries 3 St. * Where they seat the meridian Michaels and its Port Punta del Gada 4 Fayal much frequented by the English for Woad 5 Gratiosa Cedars in St. Georges and * Teixo a brave
and Peidmont W. Lionois and Languedoc E Alpes and Savoy in the higher Part of which the people travel from All-halland-tide till Easter leaving at home none but old people women and children 1 The Civil Law University and Mart Valence seated as the Presidial town and Metropolis Vienna and Parliament City Grenoble well built on the Rhâ—sne along which River lye La Roche Rosillon Ternay Montmelinor Romons St. Andre Beaurepaire St. Morceline Cremien in the lower Daulphinate The Presidial Siege and Metropolis of Ambrun by the durance as is Briaâ—son * Memorable for a reform'd Synod held there 1603 where the Pope was defined to be Antichrist Gappe Tricassin Dye whence Vin †A good stomack wine Die Essiles Mombrun and Charges XVI Lyons 1 Escaalas Chaumont Lebrelle Franche-ville Dandilli on the Rhosne 2 Mascou on the Sosnes as Lyons is on the confluence of the Rhosne and Sosne a good University and a great Mart where Peter Waldo seeing a man suddainly dying in the streets was awakened to become Religious and so begun the Waldeses On the East of Lyons is the frontier Bourgh against Savoy Montreal Castillon Bellay Bugey and Verome in la Bresse XVII The Dukedom and Earldom of Burgundy that hath more Rivers than all France as France hath more than all Europe 1 Chalosnes and the fair well-fortified Parliamentary Dijon on the Sosne 2 Aurun and Beaulne on the Bursoize where is the best wine of France 3 Poor Alize Tournus Verdun Naiz St. Leiger and its Baths and strong Semur Noyers Auxerre towards Champagn with Charolles in Charlois neer La-Bresse these in the Dukedom 4 Laxaol and its Baths strong Nazareth on the borders of Switzerland Arboise and the best Wines the Salt place Salim the well fortified Metropolis Bisanson between two Mountains on the D ux as is Dole where it is said that the People for fear they should be Protestants are forbid to talk of God and Poligni in the Country XVIII In the Isles 1 Oleron where Richard the third of England gave those Laws as Lord of the Sea now obtaining in the World under title of the Laws of Oleron 2 Ree the out-work to Rochel 1 St. Hilary St. Martins St. John's de mons La Butte de moni in a Marsh full of Salt-pits in the Aquitain Sea strong Belle Isle Salt Marmostier and Isle de Dâ—ea in the west Sea 4 L' Anguillade Maguelone Pomegues and Ere 's poor things in the Mediterranean * Which it sends to St. Maloes and so to Spain Impregnable Jersey with its Corn Sider and Fish and Michaelmas Ague called Les Settembres Rich Guernsy with its Stockings Wast-coats Merchandize strengthned by St. Peters Port poor Alderney and its semi-circle haven La Craggio and Sarke all four under the * Which the people will not change though they perish and therefore they kept out the French so long gracious Government of the Kings of England these three hundred years The Strength of France is Sixty Thousand Horse and Eighty Thousand foot The Revenue Eleven Millions Sterling whence Maximilian desired That one of his Sons might be a God and the other King of France Here are fifteen Universities one hundred and seven Bishopricks and seventeen Arch-Bishopricks III. ITALY N. W. Alpes towards Germany and France Adriatique towards Dalmatia S. Tuscan Seas towards Affrica E. the Adriatique and Jonian from Greece From Aost neer the Alpes to Otronto in the E. of Naples one thousand one hundred thirty four miles * The breadth of it from the River Varo in Provence to the River Arsia in Friuli four thousand round under the 5th and 6th Climate of the temperate Zone The †Best spoken in Florence Language Italian i. e. corrupt Latine and their Religion the Catholick Their Mountains 1 the Appennin a ridge of Hills reaching from the Territories of Genoa to the furthest part of Italy The whole story of the Original Governments of it may be seen in Livy Florus Suetonius Salust Tacitus Halicarnasseus Dio Caessius Lipsius Boterus The Land besides Corn and Wine supplying other Countries with Glasses Allom Rice Taffaties Sattins Silks Grograins Rash Fustians Velvets Goldwire Armour c. That make the Italian Merchants the * The rich men in Italy are the richest and the poor the poorest wealthiest of Christendom the people being Civil Thrifty Reserved Thoughtfull Submissive Modest tender of their own and others Reputation Jealous the Women modest yet slurred with this Proverb That they are Magpies at the door Saints at Church Goats in the Garden Devils in the house Angels in the streets and Syrens in the Windows If God make them Tall and Fat for a Goodly Woman is of much esteem there they will make themselves fair I. In Naples environed with the Tuscan Jonian and Adriatique onely a line between it and St. Peters Patrimony with its * Whereof not one transported without the Vice-Royes leave Horses Allom Wines Mettals Saffron Silks Oyle Baths and Physick-Gardens and good Souldiers 1 Important Cajeta on a capacious bay 2 Fair †Whence the Prench disease came first called Morbus Neapolitanus Naples seven miles round on the Sea defended with four Castles and a mountain impregnably with the Hospital Annunciada spending sixty thousand Crowns a Year 3 Delicious Capua 4 Poor Cuma and Nola. 5 The Creek Puteoli over against 6 Baiae and its semi-circular Bay with its Baths and Buildings 7 Sessa 8 Strong Aversa Casetre c. and twenty three more with one hundred and seventy Castles with the flaming Hill Vesuvius 8 Fair * A Rival to Naples Rivells 9 Pleasant Nuceria nine miles from the Sea 10 Malfi on the Sea where was invented the Mariners Compass Anno 1300 by Flavio 11 Marso 12 The Physick place Salerne within a mile of the Sea all these in Terra de Lavono the great Forrest of Vines 13 Benevent Arpino Aquila 14 The well-traded Mart Lanciano four miles from the Adriatique with its port Ortona 15 Citta die Chietti seven miles from the Sea 16 Aquino and Sulmo famous for Aquinas and Ovid on the River Piscara in Abruzzo 17 The Lakes Lesnia and Arduatius memorable for Eeles and for that draining cannot diminish them nor Floods increase them 18 Rich and antient Luceria Troia Ascoli Maufredon with its capacious and impregnable harbour populous St. Severine the rich soyled Barri neer the Sea the important haven town Barlet reckoned with Crema in Lumbardy Prato in Tuscany and Fabriano in Ancenitana the fourth strong hold of Italy the narrow port Monopolis Bitonto Polignano Bisigh Molfet strong * The Vennsium that was Horace's birth place Venosa in the two Apulias Daunia and Peucetia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the pitch there 19 Rich Lecci weak Sea-town Castro impregnable Gallipolis the choked haven of Brundusium and the capacious port Otronto in the Countrey Otronto Environed with the Adriatique and Jonian furnishing the Merchants of Genoa with Corn Oyles Melons Citrons
good Horses Mastiffs and Mufolies is 1 Bastia on the N. E. of the Island over against Alleria with its convenient haven 2 Porto Vtrechio 3 The good ports St. Florence and St. Boniface the first N. between Nebbio and Mariana and the second South IX Millain E. Mantua and Parma W. Piedmont and Switzerland S. Genoa N. Marca Trevignana one branch of Lombardy where not to mention 1 Pavie on the Ticinus within four miles of the Po where is the richest Cathedral in Europe worth three hundred thousand Crowns p. an 2 Modoecur where is the Emperours Iron Crown 3 Como on the Lago de Como through which the Addua runs not mixing with it 4 Rich and Industrious Lodi 5 * Vna turris in Cremonâ unus Petrus in Româ unus portus in Anconâ Cremona on the Po. 6 New Novara and Alexandria 7 Millain with the strongest Castles in the World Two hundred thousand Inhabitants of great * The private shops here equalling the publick stores Houses trade under the King of Spain who spends as much here as he gets Arch-bishops one Bishops six X. Mantua W. Millain S. Parma N. E. the Church and the Venetian Lands where the high-wayes are over-shadowed with Vines 1 Mantua on the * Whence there is a passage to Venice 5 miles off the delicate Pallace of Mirmirollo Sarca which neer there falls from Lago de Garda to the Po round which are the waters where the Dukes take their pleasure in the Bucentaure 2 Pleasant Bozilia with its Cloysters besides Lucera Capraena and Petula neer Mantua where Virgil was born Arch-bishop one and Bishops four XI Modena with its good natured people hath 1 strong Reggio 2 Modena neer the Apennine in a very good soil both yielding the Duke one hundred thousand Crowns XII Parma N. Millain and Mautua S. Liguria E. Modena and Romandiola W. Montferrat 1 Monticella between 2 Old Parma whence Parmesan cheese and 3 Placentia on the Po where Salt-pits and I on Mines over against Cremona in Millain on the other side the Po. 4 Briscello and Mirandula neer Parma the richest place in Italy XII Montferrat on the Po and Tenarus between Lombardy and Piedmont 1 Alba on the Po in a rich soil 2 The impregnably fortified Casal the Key to Mantua 3 Aique and its Baths 4 The strong forts Pont de * A River of the name Stura St. Saviours Villa Nova Belzale Liburn Four Bishops in Italy One Pope Three Patriarchs Thirty five Arch-Bishops Two hundred ninety two Bishops and seventeen Universities XIV Over the Alpes which reach in seven branches from the Mediterranean by France and Germany as far as the Gulf Cornero in Istria under the 6 and 1 part of the 7th Climate affording two well guarded and eminent passages to Italy through the Grisons Country commanded by the Valtolin and through the Country of Tiroli commanded by the fort Eresbourgh I. Savoy E. Millain and Montferrat W. Daulphine S. Provence and the Mediterranean hath 1 In populous Piedmont called a City of three hundred miles compass 1 Duglian the through-fare between Piedmont and Genoa 2 The well ammunition'd and impregnable Carman Loglae and Raville 3 Strong * Whose Castle hath Rooms in it for every season of the year Salusse on the Poes Spring these in the Marquisate of Salusses 4 Large Ast and Tost 5 Strong Ville Franke towards the Sea 6 Busque Quiers 7 Important and well fortified Pignarolle and the Fort Perousa in the French Hands a commodious passage from the Daulphin to Italy 8 Suse in the through-fare between France and Italy 9 The haven * Fortified by D. Charles upon occasion of some words of the D. of Burbon passing that way with his Army and saying Here 's a Scituation they know not the importance of Nizze on the Mediterranean at the Varo towards Provence with an impregnable Citadel 10 The Royal Court Turin with its pleasant Park on the Poe the Guard of Italy 11 Fair and well-peopled Mondeni 12 Important Vereilli towards Millain II. In Savoy strictly so called S. W. Daulphine La Bress N. Switzerland and Geneva is besides the well fortified St. Catharines Montmelian Charbonners Mauriene Constans Bele on the Rhosne Nun the Bishop of Genevaes Seat since his expulsion sweet Rapaille on the South side of the Leman-Lake Lunebourgh on the road from France to Italy is most eminent for the well fortified Chambery in a Vale on the bank of the River L' Arch and Aque Belle. II. Goneva and its Seigniory on the Leman-lake and the Rhosne over against Lozanne in Berne much resorted by young Gentlemen well traded as being the through-fare between the Mart of Lyons and Germany doing homage to the Dukes of Savoy the territories not three leagues yet their Revenue sixty thousand pound per annum kept by neighbouring Princes from falling into the French or Savoyards hands III. Wallistand in a bottom E of Savoy with its Salt Saffron Wine Corn Baths and a famous wild Buck where they pay dearer for their Water than their Wine 1. Strong Sion in a plain on the Rhosne 2 Old Marchinact 3 The Key of this place St. Monts Leache Sider Intremont Gombes in league with the seven Popish Cantons as Geneva is with Bern. IV. Switzerland E. Grisons and Tirol in Germany W. Geneva S. Millain rugged as their stout and brave Souldiers the Switz in pay with several Princes who pay them yearly Pensions Thirteen * Whereof Zurich is the most eminent having the authority of summoning Diets and presiding in them Cantons Seven Catholick and Eight Reformed where is onely St. Gall Baden large Zuriche on both sides the Limat neer the Lake Zuriche-See an University Friburgh on the Sana Solothurn on the Auar great and rich Basil on the Rhene running through it well traded Lucerne on both sides the Russie the ordinary Road from Germany into Italy neer the hill where they say Pontius Pilates Ghost walks Berne incompassed with the Auar Lausanna on the Leman Schaffhausen on the other side of the Rhine the Government popular the people having an antipathy to Monarchy V. The Grisons E. Tirol N. Scwaben W. Switzerland containing three leagues 1 the upper where 1 Ruffla Masox Deserntis Galanckter 2 Liga Cade Deo or the league of the house of God where is 1 Tintzen between Chur and the Valley of Bergel 2 Mur. 3 Stalla 4 St. Jacomo 5 Sinnada and 6 Chur. 3. The lower league called Liga Diturre where is Meienfield Malans Tanaas and Castles to which you may add Plurs Chiarama Valtoline Bormio Teio Sondrio all in the Italian Prefectures as they are called In all these Provinces of the Alpes the Government is Popular the Arch-bishops are two Bishopricks thirteen Universities four GREAT BRITTAIN I. In ENGLAND an Isle bound E. with Germany W. Irish S. Brittish Seas N. Tweed and Solway called Albion from its white Cliffs towards * Well fortified by nature but since our differences with Rome
13 Well fortified Dendremond on the confluence of the Dender and the Scheld with its Furtians and weekly Market of Flax. 14 Rupel-mond on the Rupel-Grandmont on the Dender 15 The well resorted and traffiqued Listle 16 Strong Doway on the Scharp and its Seminary 17 Orches and its Kersies 18 Armentiers its cloth 19 Rich and strong Tournay on the Scheld 20 St. Amand its rich Abby on the Scharp II. Artois the Granary neer Flanders and Picardy 1 Arras large and well fortified known for its Cloth of Arras neer the Scharp 2 St. Omer and its Seminary on the Ava 3 Old and strong Aire 4 Betune and its Cheese * Which cannot be besieged for want of fresh water Beaupelm 5 The Frontire towns Renty Hedinfort and Turwin la Bassei Lilliers most under the King of Spain III. Hainalt S. Picardy and Champagn W. Flanders good for Pastures Mines and Quarries 1 Maubuige a Mart on the Sambree as 2 Monts is on the Hain * Where is a Nunnery of Ladies that wear their Nuns habits in the morning and the habit of their quality in the afternoon 3 The goodly Valenchiennes on the Scheld 4 Chimay on the Blanck 5 Halle on the Sein 6 At h the staple of Linnen on the Dender 7 Angien the Mart for Tapestry 8 Gonde and Bouchant on the Scheld 9 Cambray a goodly Merchant City on both sides of the Scheld giving name to a Country or a Bishoprick of the name V. Namur W. Leige N. Brabant S. Luxenburgh with good Grains Mines and Quarries 1 Sausin on the Maes strong Valercourt Charlemont and Bovines rich â—â—mur and its Castle on the Confluence of the Scamore and the Maes VI. Luxenburgh S. Lorrein N. Hainalt Namur E. Triers â— Strong Roche de March Mervil Danvilliers Monmeal on the Chiers the Frontier Theonville towards Lorrein on the Mâ—selle Large and strong Luxenburgh on the Aâ—â—â— VII Lâ—â—â—â—ah with its * They say there that their bread is better than bread fire better than fire and iron better than iron good Corn Fuel and Iron W. Leige N. Brabant 1 Inaccessible and pleasant Limburgh on the Wesdo 2 Walkenburgh 3 Dalem 4 Carpen. 5 Rhode le Duche VIII Leige N. W. Brabant E. Namur fruitfull in Corn Wine Fish and Flesh of all sorts * Cole kindled with water and quenched with Cyl and Salt Cole Brimstone Marble Alabaster Gold Lead Iron 1 Leige on the Maes four miles round and very pleasant an University and called the Paradise of Priests 2 Dinand on the Meuse as is Bilsen and Museche Huy Borelâ—m Tungres neer which among the woods of Ardenne is the Spa so good for Tertian Agues the Stone the Sciatica the Dropsie c. IX Brabant W. Flanders N. Holland and Gelderland S. Hainault Namur hath the well traded cloth Shertogen Bosch or Bois le Duc on the Dees 2 Bergen ap Zome on the Z me neer the Scheld and Sea well traded and fortified 3 The pleasant and strong Breda on the Marke belonging to the Prince of Aurange 4 Diest on the Dennere 5 The good fishing place for Shads Salmon and Surgeon on the D uge Gertradenburg as the Grave is upon the Maes as is 6 * Where the Children are subject to that Government to which there Mothers were subject Maestricht besides Werit and Raveistein Lovain four miles compass on the Dyle a pleasant University Brussels on the Sinne with an Artificial Channel to the Dile and Scheld a delightfull and rich place by making Armour Cloth of Arras Silk Gold and Silver Nivello and its fine Linnen The well seated and traded Antwerp on a goodly plain on the Scheld with eight Channels to convey Commodities to the Sea seventeen leagues off these in the Marches of the Empire called the Marquisate neer which is Machlyn a City and Seigniory on both sides the Dâ—le rich by Linnen Artillery Bells Painted works in the centre of Brabant not to be taken because so easily surrounded with water X. Holland bounded E. of Zuiderzee Vtrecht and Gelderland W. N. German Sea S. Zealand and Brabant fenced with Ramparts against the Sea on which the people * Onely the women make Stuffs Butter and Cheese live having no Commodities they live by improving all 1 * Famous for the Synod 1618. Dort commanding the Trade of the Maes and the Wael on which it stands large and well peopled 2 The rich and daily Butter and Cheese-market Gorichem on the Wael 3 The strong and well traded port Rotterdam on the Bank Rotter 4 Schoonhoven and its goodly haven on the Leche 5 Strong and rich Goud Oudwater and Ysselstein on the Yssel with their Cables Cordages and and other trade 6 The University of Leyden upon its forty one Islands 7 The large Cloth trade town of Delph these in South Holland 8 The good Butter and Cheese town in the Marshes Alkemar 9 The fair haven town * A thousand ships ride in out before it every tide the richest Fleet is brought up there in a week Amsterdam on the Gulf Tie and the Dike Amstel 10 Pleasant and large Haerlem on Haerlem-Meer 11 Important Enchuysen on the Gulf Zuiderzee over against Friezland with the good and rich Haven Hoora and Edam famous for making Ships and Cheese and Medembleck on the Sea besides such Villages as the Hague the best Village in Europe c. On the Continent and Briel commanding the Road to most places in Holland the Excellent Bay of the Texel and Wyerengch where a Lady was delivered of as many Children at once as there are dayes in the year viz. Three hundred sixty five XI Zeland supplyed with fire out of England and Scotland hath 1 the strong and large Empory on a Creek of the Sea Middleburgh 2 The good strong hold of Flushing with the goodly haven of Ramme the Fort Ramkin the Key of the Neatherlands In the Isle Walcheren 3 Goes and R mersal in South Beverland 4 The Mader and salt town Sâ—rickzed with its commodious haven with poor Brewers haven in the Isle of Schowen there be but seven of eighteen Islands left here by the Sea XII Westfreizland E Groning land and W st Phalen N. W. Sea so drained that it feeds the best Horses and Cattel in Europe hath Harlingen and its haven on the Sea with the haven Staveren the University Franekir and the Low Snecke in Westergo strong and rich Lauwarden in Ostergoe with the Isle of Schelinke and its Dog-Fish XIII Vtrecht bound W. N. S. with Holland and E. with Guelderland 1 Wiche on the middle Channel of the Rhene 2 As is * About which they digg much turf for fewel Rhenen 3 Amesfort on the Ems. 4 Montfort on the Yssel 5 Vtrecht on the middle channel of the Rhine so seated that you may go from it to fifty walled towns to bed and to thirty to dinner XIV Overyssel E. West-phalen 1 the goodly Hanse town Daventer on the Yssel 2 As is Swoll and 3