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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

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

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

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