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A50651	A geographical description of the world with a brief account of the several empires, dominions, and parts thereof : as also the natures of the people, the customs, manners, and commodities of the several countreys : with a description of the principal cities in each dominion : together with a short direction for travellers.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1671 (1671)	Wing M1790; ESTC R32424	97,458	377

Corn nor Wine which are daily brought in Barks from Sicilia yet it yieldeth store of Pomegranates Citrons Cottons Oranges Lemmons Figgs Mellons and other excellent Fruits This Island is 10 leagues in length and 3 broad the Earth whereof being but 3 foot deep is the cause of its not being so fertil There are in this Island 60 Villages and 4 Cities namely Valletta the Town and Castle of St. Hermes la Insula and Malta seated in the midst of the Island upon a Hill formed like an Escutcheon held of no great importance yet kept by a Garrison The Inhabitants are of the African complexion and language and follow the Romish Church The Soyl produceth no Grain but Barley Bread made of it and Olives is the Villagers ordinary Diet with the Straw they sustain their Cattel Riches Cummin-seed Annis-seed and Honey they have in abundance of which they Merchandize and an indifferent quantity of Cotton Wool Corsica THis Island is situate against Genoa in the Ligurian Sea It is in circuit 325 miles The Soyl by reason of the Mountains is less fruitfull producing Corn in less plenty but the best Wines Riches it produceth also Figs Raisins and Honey it aboundeth also with Allum Box-Trees and Iron-Mines The chief Cities are Bastia seated on the North-East part of the Countrey on a commodious Haven where the Genoensian Governour hath his residence and a strong Garrison The other Cities are Marian Gallera and Pila the principal Havens hereof are St. Florence in the Northern part and St. Boniface just opposite to it in the South-corner both of good safety and capable of the greatest Vessels that frequent the Mediterranean Sardinia Fertility THis Island is South from Corsica and distant from it but 7 miles it is in circuit 560 miles and is abundant in Corn and well stored with all sorts of Cattle Natures of the People The people are small stature laborious given to Hunting indifferent peaceable among themselves and in some measure courteous to Strangers The principal City is Calliaris enjoying a goodly Haven and much frequented by Merchants the Seat of the Viceroy and an Archiepiscopal Sea The other Towns are Bossa S. Raparata and Aquilastro The Baleares THese Islands are divided into the greater or lesser Majorca and Minorca Majorca is about 60 miles distant from Spain and is 300 miles in circuit The chief Cities are 1. Majorca an University 2. Palma Minorca is distant from Majorca 9 miles and is 150 miles in circuit the Soyl is in some places barren but generally fruitfull The chief Towns are Minorca and Jana Nigh unto these Baleares are two small Islands the first is called Ebrisa distant from the Coast of Spain 50 miles and is 100 miles in circuit the chief City is Yvica the chief Commodity of it is Salt Some 10 miles hence is Olhiusa 70 miles round The lesser Islands that lye dispersed about are 1. The Vulcanian or Aeolian Islands lying on the Coast of Sicilie and are in number eleven the chief is Lipara 10 miles round from whence the rest are called the Liparean Islands 2. Vulcania 2. The Isles of Naples which are in number 18. The chief are Ischia 18 miles round the chief Town whereof is Ischia The second is Caprae and the third is Aenaria 3. The Ligurian Islands the chief of which are Elba whose Metropolis is Cosmopolis The second Isle of note is Gallinaria Thus much of the Mediterranean Isles The Isles of the Ocean THe chief Islands of it are first those of Zealand and Denmark which we have already described the other undescribed are those in the British and the Northern Seas The British Islands They are divided into the Greater as England Wales Scotland Ireland Lesser as Orcades Sorlings Hebrides Sporades Britain THis Island of Great Britain is in compass 1836 miles it is the most famous Island of the whole World It is divided into England Wales and Scotland each differing from other in Language Manners and Customs England ENgland is bounded on the East with the German Ocean South with the British Ocean West with the Irish and North with the River Twede and a line drawn from it to the Solway Westward Division It is divided into 39 Shires wherein are many fair Cities and Towns the chief whereof are 1. London the Seat of the Britains Empire and the Chamber of the Kings of England It is in compass about 8 miles the little City Westminster of old more than a mile distant is now by fair buildings joyned to London and is famous for the Church wherein the Kings and Nobles have stately Sepulchers and for the Courts of Justice at Westminster-Hall where the Parliaments are extraordinarily held and ordinarily the Chancery and Kings-Bench also it hath the Kings stately Palace called Whitehall to which is joyned the Park and House of St. James The City of London hath the sumptuous Church of St. Paul beautified with rich Sepulchers and the Burse or Exchange a stately house built for the meeting of Merchants a very sumptuous and wonderfull Bridge built over the Thames many fair and stately Palaces whereof great part lye scattered in unfrequented places 2. York the second City in England and the Seat of an Archbishop 3. Bristol a famous City standing on the Sea it is encompassed with a double Wall and hath so fair buildings both publick and private as next to London and York it may be preferred before any City in England 4. Norwich this City d●serves to be numbred among the chief of England for the riches populousness be●uty of the Houses and the fair buildings of the Churches 5. Coventry a large fair and walled City and at this day is the fairest City within Land There are besides these divers fair Cities in this Kingdom as Canterbury the Seat of an Archbishop Exeter a Bishops See Salisbury a fine City and pleasantly seated and is beautified with a Cathedral Church and the Colledge of the Dean and Prebends also the two Cities of Oxford and Cambridge containing in them the two famousest Universities in Christendom Riches The Riches of this Kingdom consists in the unexhaustible Mines of Tinn Lead Copper Iron and Coals most delicate Cloths are woven here which are transported into Germany Poland Denmark Swedeland Italy Turky and the Indies where they are in high request yea infinite quantity of Beer is transported hence into Belgium as also Pelts-Hydes Tallow and Sea-coal This Island is never without the resort of Portugal Spanish French Flemish and Easterling Merchants Fertility The Soyl is very fruitfull and plentifull yielding store of provision for the Inhabitants both of Corn Wild-fowl Fish and Flesh For Wine this Land affordeth none but hath it transported hither from Spain France and the Canaries Natures of the People The people are for the most part tall of stature fair of complexion and of their disposition courteous much resembling the Italian in habit and pronunciation The Women are most

Aragon It is a woodless Champain Countrey or Field naturally fenced about with Trees The chief Cities of this Kingdome are 1. Victoria 2. Viana 3. Sanguessa 4. Pampelune the strength of which City is made use of by the Spaniard as a Bulwark against France whose King hath the title though not the possession of it Corduba This Kingdome comprehendeth Andaluzia the Countreys of Granada and Estremedura This is the most rich and fertil Countrey in all Spain the chief City is Corduba Hence comes our true Cordovan-Leather made of the skin of a Sardinian Beast and near unto this City is a Wood of thirty miles in length 2. Xeres whence cometh our Sherry Sack 3. Sevil the fairest City in all Spain it is in compass six miles invironed with beautifull Walls and adorned with magnificent and stately Buildings Hence come our Sevil-Oranges 4. Granada from whence come our true Granada Stockings 5. Mallaca from hence come our Mallaca Sacks 6. Almeria a great Haven Town 7. Guadalcanal famous for her Mines of gold silver Gallicia Gallicia hath on the East Asturia West and North the Sea and South the River Nimius This Countrey is very mountainous and almost inaccessible The chief Cities are Compostella the Seat of an Archbishop called St. Jago in honour of St. James who lyeth buried here 2. Baionna 3. Coronna Biscay Biscay is betwixt Navarr East old Castile South Leon West and the Cantabrean Ocean North. The chief Cities are 1. Tholosa 2. St. Sebastians 3. Fonterabia 4. Bilbo from whence come our best Blades called Bilbo Blades It is a Town of great traffick and great riches the Countrey is mountainous and woody out of whose Hills arise 150 Rivers of which Iberus and Duerus are chief Tolledo Tolledo is now accounted part of new Castile and extendeth over the South-East of Castile now call'd Campo de Calatrava and so downward toward Murcia The chief Cities of it are 1. Tolledo seated on the River Tagus is passing well inhabited as well of Noblemen who reside there for pleasure as of Merchants who resort thither for Commodity It is now the Seat of an Archbishop who are the chief Prelates of Spain their revenue amounting to 300000 Crowns yearly The second is Calatrava seated on the River Ava The third is Talboia seated on Tagus a very neat Town Murcia Murcia is invironed with Tolledo West Granada South Valentia North and the Mediterranean Sea The chief Towns are 1. Alicante from whence comes our true Alicante Wines made of the juice of Mulberries 2. Murcia on the River Segourg 3. Nova-Carthago Castile Castile is bounded on the East with Navarr Aragon and Tolledo West with Portugal North with Asturia and South with Andaluzia It is divided into the old and new Old Castile The old Castile is situate on the North of the new The chief Cities are 1. Soria 2. Segovia a Town famous for Cloathing 3. Valadolis here is a Colledge for the education of young English Fugitives 4. Salamanca the famousest Academy of this Countrey New Castile It is on the South of the old The chief Cities are 1. Madrid the Kings Seat 2. Alcala 3. Alcantara Portugal This Kingdome is about 320 miles long and 60 broad the Air is very healthfull the Countrey for the most part hilly and bare of Corn which defect is recompenced with abundance of Honey Wine Oyl Allum Fruits Fish white Marble Salt Note that Portugal is at present under a King of their own The chief Cities are 1. Lisbon upon Tagus a famous City for traffick it is in compass seven miles and contains 20000 Houses all of neat and elegant building 2. Miranda 3. Braga the Metropolis of Portugal 4. Conimbra Porto or Portus Galloram Valentia Valentia is invironed with Aragon Castile Murcia and the Sea The chief Cities are Valentia giving name to the whole Countrey 2. Cullera a Sea-Town standing at the mouth of the River Kucar 3. Segorbe Catelogne Catelogne is between Iberus South Aragon West the Sea East and Pyrenean Mountains North. The chief Cities of it are Tyronne the title of the Aragonian Prince seated on the River Betulus and 2. Barcelone Aragon Aragon hath on the East Catte West Castile North Navarr and South Valentia The River Iberus runneth through the middle of the Countrey The chief Cities of it are 1. Lerida seated on the River Cinga 2. Moson 3. Tordesillo and 4. Saragossa Thus much of Spain The Pyrenean Hills Betwixt Spain and France are the Mountains call'd Pyrenei and are that neck of Land which tyeth Spain to the Continent the highest part whereof is Mount Canus whereon if one stand in a clear day he may see both the Seas The French side of these Hills is naked and barren the Spanish very fertil and adorned with Trees On this side standeth the Roncevals so famous for the Battel betwixt the French-men and the Moors in which 20000 of the French were put to rout together with Rowland Cousin to Charles the Great France FRance is bounded on the North with Low-Germany on the North-west it is washed with the British Ocean on the West with the Aquitain Sea on the South it is thwarted by the Pyrenean Mountains which part it from Spain being toward the East-lickt with the Mediterranean Sea and on the full East the Alpes divide it from Italy The figure of it is almost square each side of the Quadrature containing 600 miles Situation The Air hereof in the Northern part of France is purer than that of England and being not covered with Clouds drawn out of the Sea as England is for that cause it becomes more cold in Winter and more hot in Summer and far less annoyed with mists and rainy weather But the parts of France lying towards the Pyrenei and near the Equinoctial Line are subject to intemperate yet often allayed by the Winds blowing from the Sea and by the shadow of the Mountains Fertility It aboundeth with all manner of good Fruits beside store of fresh Fish but the chiefest things which draw forrein Coyns unto them are four especially Wine Salt Linnen coarce Cloth and Corn. They have plenty of Flax and Hemp whereof they make Canv●s Sails Ropes and Cables neither want they Wool whereof they make Cloth though not in quantity to be exported It also yields Saffron and Oad for Dying besides other things of less moment Natures and manners of the pe●ple The French are very various and unconstant and in nothing more they shew it than in their familiarity with whom a stranger cannot be so soon at his House but he will be acquainted with him and as suddenly without occasion loose him again Also they are great scoffers and cannot away with patience and modesty Likewise he is wondrous talkative so willing is he to make himself ridiculous Diet. As well the Gentlemen as the Citizens live more sparingly than the English in

their ordinary private Diet. They dine most with sodden and liquid meats and sup most with roast but their feasts are more sumptuous than ours and consist for the most part of made fantastical meats and Sallets and sumptuous Compositions rather than of flesh or Birds Their temperancy I cannot commend for besides dinners and suppers they use Breakfasts and Bevers which they call Collations and Gouster so eating four times a day Apparel In general Men and Women excepting Courtiers and some of the Gentry wear light stuffs and rather delicate than sumptuous Garments Your Countrey people wear close Dublets with large Breeches with a large Coat hanging down to their knees all of light stuffs and their Wives in like sort attired have their Heads all over wrapped in linnen Buildings Concerning their Buildings they are magnificent and stately for in general all the Towns and Cities in France are fairer than ours in England Provinces The divers Provinces of this Kingdome are many of which are Picardy Normandy the Isle of France Beavois Poictu Aquitain Bretaign Daulphin Languedock Provence Champaigne Burgundy Of these in order Picardy Picardy is invironed with Normandy Belgium Champaigne and the Sea It is divided into the higher and lower in the higher are the Towns of Calice distant from Dover about 28 or 30 miles 2. Bullen taken by our Henry the Eight In the lower Picardy are S. Quineus Abenile and Amiens No●mandy Normandy hath on the South Main and the Isle of France East the River Some and other parts the Ocean This Dukedome contains divers fair Cities and Towns the chief whereof are 1. Constance 2. Cane 3. Bayeux The chief Haven-Towns are Harflew Deepe and New-Haven Isle of France This Isle is sited in the circlings and confluences of Seine and other petty Brooks The chief City of it is Paris the Metropolis of all France the circuit of which excluding the suburbs is said to be six miles The buildings of this City is for the most part stately of unpolished stone with the out-side plastered and rough cast and the Houses for the most part are four stories high and in some places six The streets are somewhat large and among them the fairest is that of St. Dennis the 2. St. Honore the 3. St. Antonie and the 4. St. Martine The Market-places which are in this City are 11 in number The chiefest building in this City is the Cathedral Church of the blessed Virgin vulgarly call'd Notredam It is supported with 120 pillars whereof 108 are less and 12 very great being all of free-stone The Chauncel is in the midst of the Church which hath 174 walking paces in length and 60 in breadth It hath 45 Chappels in the circuit thereof which are shut with grates of iron In the front it hath 2 double doors with fair statues of 28 Kings Upon the sides are 4 Towers or Belfreys 34 cubits high The greatest Bell called S. Mary requires 24 Men to ring it The second Town of note is S. Dennis ● Charenton Here is in this Isle the royal Palace of Fountain-bleau the fairest House not of France but as they say of all Christendome Labeausse This Province hath on the East France or the Isle West Main North No mandy and South the Loyre The chief Cities are 1. Estampes 2. Chartres The third and principal City of it is Orleance It is seated on the Loyre and is one of the most pleasantest Cities in all France Poictou Poictou hath on the North Brittain and Anjou East the Dukedome of Berry South Xamtoign and Guieon West the Aquitain Sea The chief Cities are Poicters seated on the River Claive being next to Paris for greatness 2. Mailsay 3. Lasson Aquitain Aquitain containeth the Provinces of Gascoign and Xantoign It is bounded with the Pyrenean Hills the Aquitain Ocean and the Garond The chief Cities are 1. Tholouse 2. Bourdeaux a Town famous by the general concourse of Merchants trading for French Wines Bretaigne Bretaigne is invironed with Main Tourein and the Sea The chief Cities hereof are 1. Nantes on the Loyre 2. Rhenes 3. S. Breine 4. Rhoan seated on the North side of the River Seine partly in a plain partly on the side of Hills and the building is for the most part of free-stone Daulphine Daulphine is environed with Avergn West Provence South Savoy East and Bress North. The chief Cities are 1. Lyons a famous Mart-Town and University 2. Valence 3. Vienna Languedock Is almost encompassed with the Pyrenean Hills The chief Cities are 1. Narbon 2. Montpelier seated on the side and is an University Berry This Countrey is invironed with Poictu Toureine Labeause Champaign Bourbon and Limosin The chief City is Burges The Citizens at six Fairs in the year sell great quantity of woollen Cloth 2. Sancerre 3. Argent Tourein On the South-East of Anjou betwixt it and Berry lyeth Toureine The chief City of it is Tours 2. Amboys 3. Bloys Provence Provence is invironed with Languedock Daulphine Piedmont and the Mediterranean Sea The principal Towns are 1. Marseilles a famous Mart-Town 2. Aix 3. Arles the Metropolis of the Burgundian Kingdome 4. Aveignon a very fair City seated on the Rhosne famous in that it was the seat of the Popes for 70 years Champaign Champaigne so called because it is a Champain Countrey It is invironed with Picardy Belgium Lorraine the Burgundy Berry Bourbon and the Isle The chief Cities are 1. Rheims 2. Treys 3. Brir and 4. Chalons Within Rheims is a Colledge for the education of young English fugitives Burgundy Dutchy This Dutchy is invironed with Champaigne the County of Bress and Bourbonoys The chief Cities are 1. Digion 2. Autum 3. Beaulne where there is an Hospital equal to the Palace of any Prince in Europe Labress On the South-East of Burgundy Dutchy and North of Savoy is the Countrey of Labress The chief Towns of it are 1. Castilion 2. Monkeal and 3. Bourge an exceeding strong Town Within the limits of France are four Provinces which as yet acknowledge not the French Command viz The 1. Seignury of Geneva 2. Savoy 3. Lorrain and 4. the County of Burgundy Burgundy County THis County is invironed with Champaign Lorrain Switzerland Bress and the Dutchy The length of it is 90 miles the breadth 60. The people are much renowned for warlike affairs marching under the colours of divers Princes under the name of Walloons The Ground is so exceeding fertil that as France may be call'd the Garden of Europe so this may be accounted the fairest flower of that Garden The chief City is Besanson the Metropolis of both the Burgundies 2. Dole a Town for strength riches and beauty to be prefer'd before any in Burgundy 3 Salines rich in salt-Fountains 4. Castillion Here also are more than 26 walled Towns and 160 Lordships Lorrain THis Dukedome is compassed about with part of Belgium Alsatia the County