the seruice of God But the Lord being mercifull vnto Abraham restored to him againe and kept for his faithfull children the first language which had not bene so much corrupted in the familie of Sem who parted not so farre from his father Sem â—ent toward the West 6 This countrey reaching foorth as rich as it is large From Peake of Perosites where doth himselfe discharge The stately running Ob great Ob fresh waters king A riuer hardly crost in sixe dayes trauelling To Malaca to th'isles from vvhence are brought huge masses Of Calamus and Cloues Samotra whereon passes The night-equalling line and to the waters far Of Zeilan breeding-pearle and goldie Bisnagar And from the Pont-Eusine and from the brother waues Of those Chaldean streames vnto the sea that raues With hideo us noise about the Straight of th'Amens To Quinzits moorie poole and Chiorzeke from whence Come Elephantick buls with silken haired hides That was the share of Sem for Gods decree it guides How and what nations came of Sem. 7 Ashur t' Assyriland that after some few dayes Chal Râ—zen Niniué their towres to heau'n may raise The Persian hils possest great Elams princely race And those fat lands where-through Araxes runnes apace Lud held the Lydian fields Aram th' Armenian And learned Arphaxad the quarter Chaldean 6 This countrey He setteth downe the lots of Sem Cham and Iaphet first in generall after meaning to shew the particular Colonies of each So then to Sem he allotteth Asia The proofe of these seuerall shares may be gathered out of the 10. Chapter of Genesis It is not meant that Sem in his owne life-time tooke possession of this huge plot of ground although he liued 600 yeares but the posteritie of his fiue sonnes ouer-spred it by succession of time as the Poet declares at large hereafter and a man may perceiue some token thereof in that Moses reckeneth in the foresaid Chapter the sonnes of Ioktan the sonne of Heber peti-sonne of Arphaxad sonne of Sem. Now before I shew the bounds here noted by the Poet in this lot of Sem I will set downe the description and deuision of Asia as now it is The map-drawers of our time differ in their order some consider it by the whole masse others by the sea-borders and parts best knowne which they recken to be nine those particularly deciphered in the first chapter of the 20 booke of the Portugall historie But this kind of deuision because it is more obscure and farther from my purpose I leaue and rest on the other which deuides the masse of Asia into fâ—ue principall riuer Ob or Oby the lake of Kittay and the land-straight that is betwixt the Caspian and Euxine sea The second is Tartary subiect to the great Cham which abutteth Southward on the Caspian sea the hill Imaus and the riuer Iuxartes Northward and Eastward on the Ocean and Westward vpon Moscouie The third part is possessed by the Turke and containeth all that lyes betweene the Euxine Aegean and Midland seas and so further betwixt Egypt the Arabian and Persian Gulfes the riuer Tygris the Caspian sea and the land-straight there The fourth is the kingdome of Persia abutting Westward on the Turke Northward on the great Cham Eastward on the riuer Indus and Southward on the Indian sea As for the fift part it is the same which we call the East-Indies so named of the riuer Indus and distinguished the higher from the lower by the famous riuer Ganges These Indies are verie large countreys as the maps declare and front out Southward as fâ—â—re as Malaca hauing besides an infinite sort of Ilands great and smal which the Card-men haue well set downe both in â—â—ps and writing Now see we the maner how the Poet considereth Asia He takes it first by right line froÌ„ North to South to 〈◊〉 from the peake foreland or cape of Perosites as farre as Malaca where he taketh in the Moluckes and Taprobana and from thence riseth againe to Zeilan and Bisnagar Then draweth another line from the Maior or Euxine sea on the West to the straights of Amen Northeast and toucheth by the way some few countreys most note worthy reseruing the rest vntill his particular description of the Colonies which followeth from the 297 verse vnto the 319. To make plaine some words in the text the Peake of Perosites is a promontory about the farthest part of Moscouy neare the Scythian sea where liueth as Cellarius reports of Asia in his great booke entituled Speculum orbis terrarum and Mercator in his world-map a certaine people which haue so small a vent for their mouth that they are nourished onely by the sauour and steeme of sodden flesh And about this promoÌ„tory the riuer Ob rising from the lake of Kythay groweth to an huge breadth and so emptieth into the Scythian or frozen sea The Baron of Herbestoin noteth it in his map of Moscouie and in his Historie saith as much as here followeth touching this riuer fol. 82. They that haue bene thereon say they haue laboured a whole day without ceasse their vessell going verie fast to passe the Riuer and that it is fourescore Italian miles brode Which agreeth well with that the Poet here saith and with report of Mercator and Cellarius so that by good right it may be called rather then any other streame the king of all fresh waters because in all the world besides there is none so large and this also is of a wonderfull great length for as the foresaid Baron affirmeth from the one end to the other to wit from the lake of Kythay to the frozen sea it asketh more then three moneths sayling The realme and citie of Malaca are described in the sixth booke of the Portugall historie chap. 18. It is neare the Equinoctiall aboue Taprobana so therefore Asia reacheth from the North pole beyond the Equator Th' isles froÌ„ wheÌ„ce are brought huge masses of Cloues Cassia are the Moluckes fiue in number Tidor Terenat Motir Maâ—hian and Bachian beset with diuerse other Isles Islets vnder and neere the Equator in the East which with their properties and manners of their inhabitants are well set downe in the 13 booke of the hystorie of Portugall Chap. 8. Samotra whereon passes the night-equalling line or the Equator is the Isle Taprobana Southward ouer against Malaca it is aboue 450 leagues long and 120 broad I haue described it in the fift day of the first weeke see further the history of Portugall in the sixt booke the 18 chap. Zeilan is an Isle right against the Cape of Calecut aboue Taprobana toward the East it lies North and South in length about 125 leagues and in the broadest place is 75 ouer There are taken out of the sea great store of pearles very faire and bright for the further description thereof see the 4 booke and 20 chapter of the hystory of Portugal Bisnagar is a kingdome lying betweene Decan and Narsingua the
mountaines of Calecut and the sea called the great gulfe of Bengala It is rich in gold which is there found in riuers Look the situation thereof in the Map of the East Indies and in the Asia of Ortelius and Cellarius The Pint-Eusine is now called the Maior or the blacke Sea at the one end thereof toward the Midland sea is Constantinople the Card-men call it by diuers names which Ortelius hath set downe in his Synonym By the Brother waues of those Chaldean streames is meant as I suppose the Persian sea whereinto Euphrates and Tygris both together empty being before ioined about Babylon now called Bagadet and so the Poet takes as much of the breadth of Asia at the West end as he doth at the East the one from Quinsay to Chiorze the other from the sea of Constantinople to the Persian Gulfe Concerning the straight of Anien the Cardmen are not all of one opinion Mercator Ortelius Cellarius Theuet and others set down plainly a good broad arm of Sea betwixt the Northeast point of Asia and America But Vopelius ioines Asia and this fourth part of the world together greatly enlarging Asia and curtolling the other contrary to the opinion of the Authors aforesaid and many Spaniards that haue written of the new-found world the reasons that may bee alledged in fauour of either side require a large Commentary Vopelius his opinion indeed cutteth off many doubts that arise about the enpeopling of America but Mercator and th 'others who are most commonly followed seeme to ground more vpon Geography and better to agree with the seas naturall sway and easie compassing the earth Arias Montanus in his booke intituled Phaleg where he treateth of the habitations of Noes posterity setteth downe a Mappe according to Vopelius this booke of his bound in the volume called Apparatus is ioined with the great Bibles of Antwerp But the Poet followeth Mercator Ortelius and the common opinion of the Cardmen of our time for Ptolome Strabo Mela in their daies had not discouered so much Quinsay which the Poet cals Quinzit is a famous citty in the Northeast point of Asia about tenne leagues from the sea built vpon peeres and arches in a marrish ground it is twenty leagues or 100 miles about and by reason as well of the great Lake-waters there as also of th'ebbe and flow of the sea it hath as M. P. Venet. reports in the 64. chapter of his 2. booke 12000 bridges of stone the most renoumed bound-marke of all Asia and the greatest city in the world if that bee true But Theuet gainsaith it in the 27 chapter of the 12 booke of his Cosmography where he describes the city and Lake with the riuer that causes the lake to swell hee sayeth it is not aboue foure leagues in compasse yet M. Paule affirmes he hath been there Chiorze is another worthy part of Asia set downe here for a bound-marke because of the strange Buls there as great as Elephants with haire as smooth and soft as silke Howsoeuer now adaies that country is nothing so ciuill as others inhabited by the posterity of Cham and Iaphet yet the fruitfulnesse of the ground and great commodities there growing for maintainance of mans life declare it hath beene in times past one of the best portions of the children of Noe. 7 Ashurt Assyriland Moses sayth the sonnes of Sem were Elam Ashur Arphaxad Lud and Aram The Poet here in six verses hath noted out the first habitations of these fiue reseruing afterward about the 300 verse and so forth to shew their first second third and fourth out-going ouer the rest of Asia Concerning Ashur it may be gathered out of the 10 of Genesis verse the 11 that hauing sorted himselfe with the people that now began to feare Nimrod and liking not to liue vnder that yoke went on further and in the countrey after his name called Assyria built Niniuy which a long time remained one of the greatest citties in the world as appeares by the prophesie of Ionas and other places of Scripture and Caleh and Resen not farre asunder which haue been long-agoe destroyed Elam that was the eldest seated himselfe by the riuer Euphrates neere the Persian Gulfe which now is called the Sea of Mesendin The Poet giueth him a Princely title because the Monarchie began betime and long continued ther-abouts where also raigneth still the Sophi a great Emperor and deadly enemie of the Turks The Riuer Araxes is described by Ptolome in his third Mappe of Asia where hee makes it spring from the foote of Pariard which some men take for the hill Taurus and so passing Scapene Soducene Colthene to emptie into the Caspian sea These countries are very rich and therefore the Poet cals them fat lands Lud hauing passed the Riuer composed of Tygris and Euphrates which straight after void into the Gulfe had Elam on the North the two Riuers ioyned and the Gulfe on the East and on the West the Marches of Seba which is the vpper part of Arabia The Poet here alloueth him the Lydian fields if by Lydia bee vnderstood that part of the lesser Asia called Meâ—nia by Ptolome Herodote and Plinie Lud should haue wandered further then the other foure brothers Moses reports not any thing of his Colonies and his farre going may bee the cause for according to the Poet hee should haue coasted vp as farre as Aeolia and the Midland sea The seat of Aram is Mesopotamia to wit the countries about Babylon and the mountaines of Armenia which were after called by the name of Taurus This also containeth Syria and the great Armenia betwixt the which runneth Euphrates Arphaxad passing Euphrates staied in Chaldea and for that Astronomy and other excellent arts there chiefly flourished the Poet surnameth him the Learned which appertaineth also vnto him in regard of the true doctrine maintayned by his posteritie and after some corruption reformed in the house of Abraham whom the Lord remooued from Vr of the Chaldeans into Syria Cham goes to the â—â—â—â—paâ—â—s 8 C ham Lord was of the land that Southward is beset With scorch'd Guineas waues and those of Guagamet Of Benin Cefala Botongas Concritan That fruitfull is of droogs to poison beast or man Northward it fronts the sea from Abile pent betweene The barren Affricke shoare and Europe fruitfull-greene And on the Westerne coast where Phoebus drownes his light Thrusts out the Cape of Fesse the greene Cape and the white And hath on th' other side whence comes the sunne from sleepe Th' Arabike seas and all the blood-resembling Deepe Nay all the land betwixt the Liban mountaine spred And Aden waues betwixt the Persicke and the Red This mighty Southerne Prince commanding far and wide Vnto the regiment and scept'r of Affricke tide 9 Canan one of his sonnes began to build and dwell â—ow and what â—â—â—â—ns are deâ—â—â—ded of Cham By lordans gentle streame whereas great Israell Was after to be plac'd Phut peopled Lybia Mizraijm
Egypt had Chus Aethiopia 8 Cham. The share of Cham was Affrick which the Poet boundeth out as followeth It hath on the Southside the Aethiopicke Ocean or the sea of Guinea the land of Negres the realmes of Cefala which commeth neere the South Tropicke and 〈◊〉 right ouer against Madagascar or as the Spanish call it the Isle of S. Laurence Botongas lower and hard by the Cape of good hope Guagamet about the lake of Zembre from whence the riuer Nile springeth as Daniell Cellarius noteth in his Mappe of Affricke and Benin that lies aboue the Equator neere the great bay betwixt Meleget and Manicongo As for Concritan that is a great wildernesse betweene Cefala and Botongas which by reason of extreame heate brings forth great store of poisonous things Now the Northbound of Affricke is the Midland sea and on the West it shooteth out three capes or promontories named in the text all toward the Atlanticke Ocean but the greene cape which is more southward and pointeth more toward the Sea called in respect of the Antarticke pole the North Sea though it lie very neere the Equator on the east of Affricke plaies the Arabian Gulfe and the great red sea now called the Indicke Ocean and beyond these bounds the Poet saieth Cham also possest Arabia which is distinguished into three parts the Happy the Desert and the Stony all enclosed by the Mount Libanus and the Red and Persian Gulfes 9 Canan He setteth downe breefly and in foure verses the seuerall abodes of Chams foure sonnes according as they are named of Moses in the tenth chapter of Genesis Chus the eldest brother had Aethiopia which some take for that vnder Aegypt others for the land of Chus which is a part of Arabia the Happy as may bee gathered by many places of the old Testament well noted of M. Beroald in the sixt chapter of his fourth booke of Chronicles Mizraim peopled Aâ—gypt that of the Hebrewes was commonly called Mitzraym and long after Aegypt of the name of King Aegyptus who succeeded Belus in that kingdome and was brother to Danaue who came into Greece and was Author of that name generall to the Grecians which as Saint Augustine thinkes De Cus Dei the eighteenth booke and the tenth chapter happened about the time of Iosua Phut the third sonne of Cham gaue name sayeth Iosephus to the Phutaeans after called Lybians of one of the sonnes of Mesren or Mizrain named Lybis Hee addeth also that in Mauritania there is a certaine riuer and countrey called Phute Ezechiel 30.5 numbreth Phut among those that were in league with Chus and Lud which the Latine interpreter translateth Ethiopia Lydia and the Lydians so also did the 70. Interp. This I say to mooue the Reader that is so delighted vnto a further and more diligent search I thinke Phut was seated neere Arabia and Aegypt although Arias Montanus and others place him in the coast of Affricke now called Barbary about Tunis â—ugie Algeri and the Mountaines of Maroco Now of Canan or Chanaan the fourth sonne of Cham was called that Land of Promise which the twelue Tribes of Israell vnder the conduct of Iosua in due time entered and possessed The bounds thereof are plainly set down in the book of Exodus chap. 23 verse 31 and elsewhere I need not here discourse of them except I were to write a longer Commentary Japhet to the North and West 10 Now Iaphet spred along from th' Ellesponticke waters Th' Euxine and Tanais vnto the mount Gibratars Renoumed double top and that sune-setting Maine Which with his ebbe and flow plaies on the shore of Spaine And from that other sea vpon whose frozen allies Glide swiftly-teemed Carres instead of winged Gallies Vnto the sea Tyrrhene Ligusticke Prouençall Moreas waters and the learned Atticall Against the goodly coast of Asâ—a the lesse The second Paradise the worlds cheife happines And that great peece of ground that reacheth from Amane Vnto the springs of Rha and pleasant bankes of Tane Aâ—â— those braue men of war that France haue ouerspred How and what natiâ—ns came of Iaphet 11 Of Gomers fruitfull seed themselues professe are bred So are the Germaneseke once called Gomerites Of Tuball Spaniards came of Mosoch Muscouites Of Madai sprong the Medes of Magog Scythians Of Iauan rose the Greekes of Thyras Thracians 10 Now Iaphet Moses reciting Genesis 9.27 how Noe blessed his two children sets downe two notable points the one concerning the great and many countries which Iaphet and his posterity should possesse the other of the fauour that God should shew them by lodging them in the tents of Sem that is by receiuing them at length into his church which hath beene fulfilled in the calling of the Gentiles For the first poynt whereas hee sayth God enlarge Iaphet For so the Hebrew word signifieth although some translate it Persuade it is as much as if hee had said Let Iaphet and his race possesse the countries round about him farre and neere And this hath also beene accomplished in that so infinite a multitude of people hath issued out of the stocke of Iaphet and peopled Europe which though it appeare lesser then the other parts hath alwaies had more inhabitants and fewer void countries The Poet hath set downe so parfite a description thereof as it needs no further to bee opened if the Reader haue neuer so little beheld the Mappes On the East it is parted from the greater Asia by the Maior Sea the Meotis Lake called by Ortelius the Zabach sea the Riuer Tane or Don which voids into the Lake and the Spring-heads of Rha Edel or Volga running by Tartarie into the Caspian Sea and from Asia the lesse sometime the honour of the world and exceeding rich as still it hath sufficient it is deuided by the Straight of Gallipoli sometime called Hellespent On the West it hath the Straight of Gibraltar the Spanish and Brittish Oceans on the North the Frozen sea and on the South the Midland sea which is diuersly called to wit the Sea of Marseil by the coast of Genes the Adriaticke about Athens and Morea and otherwise according to the places adioyning This goodly part of the world beside the Romaine Empyre hath many great kingdomes full of people well set foorth by the Card-men Daniell Cellarius accounts it in length from Lisbon to Constantinople about sixe hundred leagues Almaine and very neere as much in breadth from Scrifinie to Sicily 11 Gomer Moses reckeneth seuen sonnes of Iaphet Genesis 10.2 So doth here the Poet notstanding much vpon the order of them to follow the verse of Gomer are come the Gomerites whom the Greekes called Galates Gaules of them came the people that spoiled Delphos and then sate downe about Troas in Asia and were called Gaule-Greekes or Asian Galates who afterward seized a good part of Phrygia The Lord threatning by Exechiel 38. chapter Gog cheife of the Princes of Mesech and Tubal sayth he will destroy him with this
the yeare 411. to Philip that now raigneth are eight and twentie in number according to the account of Lazius who reckoneth also two and thirtie kings of Arragon and two and twentie of Nauarre vnto the kings father that now is Of these matters it may suffice to haue touched thus much in a word 22 Such was the French To enter into the whole historie of the FreÌ„chmen or Gaules it was not the Poets meaning but onely to note briefly the chiefe Outroads of this braue nation and that within the compasse of 2000 yeares I will go no further but follow the text The first beginning of the French is diuersly recorded and all the opinions thereof are well gathered and examined by the Author of the French Antiquities who in the end sheweth his owne iudgement and auoucheth it to be verie likely that the land of Gaule which in old time besides the realme of Fraunce did containe also the Low countreys Germany within Rhine Lorraine was first inhabited by the line of Gomer thither comming vpon diuerse occasions and inereasing more and more with the time as also by the Germanes a neighbour people for litle could the Rhine hinder the Gâ—ules and Germanes from coming together but that either as they preuailed in strength might come into others countrey for their better liking And as the men of Marseil are counted an outcrease of Asia it is like the rest of the towns and quarters of Fraunce were peopled after the same sort Amâ—anus Marcollinus liuely painteth out the Gaules in his 15. booke So doth Polybius Caesar Diodorus Siculus Strabo and others All agree they were a very warlike people and their multitude gaue them to thinke vpon such remedie as others had vsed before Their first outroade that was of any account was in the raigne of Tarquinius Prisons and about the time of the Iewes thraldome in Babylon some 600 yeares before the birth of Christ The Celâ—ae which were the auncient Gaules possessed the countreys now called Suisse Sauoy Daulphine Languedoc Vellay Viuaretz Lionnois Forest Auuergne Berri Limosin Quercy Perigort Xanctoigne Angulmois Poictou Brettaigne Anjou Tourraine Maine Perche Normandie within Scine the Chartrain Hurepois Beaulâ—e Gastinois Brie Champagne the Duchie and Counte of Bourgongne their king Ambigat sent forth Sidoveze and Belloveze to seeke other dwelling Sidoveze taking towards Germanie left people in Bauaria Bohemia and Carinthia and seated him selfe in the point of Europe toward and beyond the Riphean mountaines Belloveze a while staying at the foote of the Alpes was after by the perswasions of a certaine Tuscane called Arron drawne into Italie and possessed Insubria Some of his company seating first among the Pyrene hils at length entred a part of Arragon and gaue the name to Portugal But these were nothing so renowmed as the other who preassing further into Italie marched vnder Brenâ—us as farre as Clusium and so to Rome Of his exploits there Liuie writeth and Plutarke in the life of Camillus which was â—86 yeares before the coming of Christ A third companie that followed Bellevoze because they wold haue roome inough ouer-ran Slauonia and maugre all stay entred Hungary and after many skirmishes departed thence in two bands the one coasting into Macedonie the other into Greece where they made the whole world afraid of theÌ„ after they had slaine Ptolomeus Keraunus brother to Philadelphus king of Egypt Pranses was their king whoÌ„ others call BreÌ„nus but was not he that sackt Rome This man not content to haue obtained a great victorie of the Macedonians and harried their countrey presumed so farre as to spoile the Temple at Delphos whereby himselfe and all his were brought to a miserable end Neuerthelesse the French that stayed behynde to guard the frontiers of the countrey fainted not at the report of these newes but went to field with 1500 foote and 3000 horse ouercame the Getes and Triballes and wasted all Macedonie onely through negligence as they retired loaden with spoile they were brought to their end Yet they that remained in Gaule sent forth other companies into Asia who passed on as far as Bossen Dardanie where by reason of a quarell that fell betweene them they sundred themselues One part of theÌ„ cast into Thrace raigned there a long time the other setled about where Sanus and Danubius meete not far froÌ„ Belgrade These that remained in Dardanie when they heard tell of the fruitfull soile of the lesser Asia went on so farre as Hellespont and there because they were three coÌ„panies they parted Natolia betweene them into three partes The Trocynes had the coast of Hâ—llâ—â—pâ—nt the Tolystoboges Eolide and Ionie which the Turkes call Quiscon The Tectosages the countrey further into the maine land All that part of Asia which lyeth on this side Taurus they made their tributarie plaÌ„ting theÌ„ selues all along the riuer Halys that parteth Paphlagoria from Syria That prouince where the Gaules dwelt in Asia froÌ„ their first arriual to the height of the Romane Empire retained the name of Gaul-Greece together with that same language which S. Ierome sixe or seuen hundred yeares after saith was like that he heard spoken in Gaule about the quarter of Treues Thus concerning the auncient Gaules now to cleare some few dark words of the text The worke of Romulus c. He meaneth Rome builded by Romulus the most warlike Citie of all the world and therefore Mars whom the Painims counted the God of warre may be thought the founder of it Cold Strymon A riuer parting Macedome from Thrace as Plinie saith and because Thrace is no very warme countrey he giueth Strymon the adioint of Cold. Th' Emathicke fields to wit Macedonie so called of king Emathion Plinie speakes thereof in his 4 booke and 10 chapter thus Macedonie a countrey containing a hundred and fiftie nations sometime renowmed for two kings he meaneth Philip and Alexander and for the Empire of the whole world it was aforetime called Emathia which word the Poets as Virgil and Lucan do somtimes vse for Thessaly a country neare Macedonie Lucan in his very first verse Bella per Emathios plusquam ciuilia Campos And Virgil in the end of his 2 Georgic Nec fuit indignum superis his sanguine nostro Emathiam latos Aemi pinguescere campos The Pharsalian fields are in Thessaly as Plinie recordeth in his 4 booke and 8 chapter Dindyma A hill in Phrygia The Poet calleth it Dindyme chastré guelt Dindym because the Priests of Cybele called Curetes kept and sacrificed there and were Eunuches attired like women The Poets meaning is that these Gaules harried also Phrygia and called the countrey where they dwelt in Asia Gaul-Greece after the name of that from whence they first came and so planted as it were another Gaule in the middest of Asia What became of their successors in the Romanes time because the Poet makes no mention thereof I passe it also 23 Of people most renown'd He sheweth in few words wherfore he thrusteth no
their length bredth and commodities I neither dare nor wil euer charge therewith my notes entended for short Besides it was not the Poets minde to hold the reader long with view and studie of such matter and questions as may be had and plainly resoiled of the Card-men 35 Now from the center-point Out of Assyria and Mesopotamia Iaphet or the next race from him drew toward the West into those places that the Poet names set downe as they are in the ancient and later Mappes of Asia and Europe I neede not mince euery word of the text Armenie is distinguished into the Great and Lesse it lieth neere the Caspian sea and coasteth toward Europe The sweete Corician cave it is in Cilicia and is described of Plinie in the 27. chapter of his 5. booke and Strabo in his 4. book and Solinus in his 51. chap. Concerning the strange matters which the Poet reports of it reade Pomponius Mela his description of Cilicia the first booke Besides many notable properties of the place he sayth moreouer that when a man hath gone there a troublesome narrow way a mile and more he shall come through pleasant shades into certaine thick woods which make a sound no man can tell how of certaine country-songs and after he is passed thorow to the end thereof he shall enter another deeper shadowe which amazeth much all that come there by reason of a noise is heard loud and passing mans power to make as it were the sound of many Cimballes These are his words Terret ingredientes sonitis Cimbalorū diuinitùs magno fragore crepitantium He sets downe also at large al other the pleasant delights of the place Concerning this musicke some thinke it a fable Others ascribe it to a naturall cause as that the ayre entring by a narrow mouth into a vault of stone wide and very deepe soone growes thereby exceeding raw and so turnes into water then dropping still downe in many places and quantities somewhat proportionable vpon the sounding stone makes in those hollow rockie places a noyse as it were musicall Taure his loftie downes this great mountaine reacheth hence well toward Pisidia Westward and on the other side a great way into Asia as Ptolomee sheweth in his first table Meander a riuer arising out of the mountaines of Pelta and Totradium in Asia the lesse it runneth thorow Hierapolis Pisidia Licaonia Caria and other countries thereabouts into the Midland sea Illios or Troas Bithynia and the rest are higher toward Hellespont and the Maior sea 36 Then boldly passing ore He spake before of Illios which lies in low Phrigia vpon the shore of the Midland sea about the Sigean Peake and the riuer Simöis hard by the Straight of Gallipolie where Abydos on Asia-side stādeth and Sestos on the side of Europe now he saith the second ouercrease of Semites past the Straight it being in breadth but the fourth part of a league as Bellon auoucheth in the 2. booke and 3. chapter of his Singularities In times past there stood two towers one in Sest the other in Abyde in the toppes whereof wont to bee set great lights to waine the marriners by night Looke what we haue noted vpon the word Phare in the first day of the first weeke verse 448. and what vpon the word Leander 1. weeke fift day 912. verse At this time Sest and Abyde are two Castles where the Turke hath Garrisons and are the very keyes of Turkie in that quarter so neere is Constantinople vnto them Strimon Hebre and Nest are three great riuers passing thorow Thrace which is now called Remania and falling into the Aegean sea called now by some Archipelago and by the Turks the White sea Look the 9. table of Europe in Ptolomee The Rhodopeā dales Rhodope is a mountaine bounding Thrace in the dales thereof beside other townes are Philippoli and Hadrianopoli Danubie or Donaw is the greatest riuer of all Europe springing out of Arnobe hill which Ptolomee and Mercator puts for a bound betweene the Sweues and Grisons this Riuer running thorow Almaine Austria Hungaria Sclauonia and other countries with them interlaced receiueth into it aboue 50. great Riuers and little ones an infinite sort so emptieth by sixe great mouthes into the Maior sea Moldauia Valachia and Bulgaria are the countries neere about the fall of Danubie 37 Thrace These countries neere the Maior and Aegean Seas and the Thracian Bosphore thrust on the third ouercrease of people further West and Northward as the Poet very likely fayth the Mappes of Europe shew plainly the coasts he nameth for their chiefe seates But to shew how and when they changed and rechanged places and names of places driuing out one the other and remouing by diuers enterspaces it were the matter of a large booke 38 Now turning to the South He commeth now to handle the Colonies or ouercreases of Chams posteritie first into Arabia Phaenicia and Chananaea which was after called Indaea the site of these countries wee know well they are easie to bee found in the generall Mappes and those of Europe beside the particulars in Ptolomee and other late writers as namely in the Theater of Ortelius When the Chamites had ouerbred Arabia and the countrie south from Chaldaea which lies betwixt th' Arabian and Persian Gulfes they went at the second remoue down into Aegypt betwixt the red Midland seas thirdly they entred Affrick and by little and little filled it The Poet points-out many countries for better vnderstanding whereof wee must cōsider that Affrick the fourth part of the world knowne is diuided into foure parts Barbaria Numidia Lybia and the land of Negroes Barbaria conteineth al the North coast from Alexandria in Aegypt to the Straight of Gibraltar along by the Midland sea and is diuided into foure kingdomes Maroco Fessa Tremisen and Tunis conteining vnder them 21. Prouinces Vnder the same Southward lieth Numidia called of the Arabiās Biledulgerid and hauing but few places habitable Next below that is Lybia called Sarra as much to say as Desert a countrie exceeding hot and marching athonside vpon the land of Negroes that the last and greatest part of Affrick reacheth South and Eastward very farre In the further coast thereof is the countrie of Zanzibar certaine kingdomes and deserts neere the Cape of good hope which is the vtmost and Southerest peake of all Affrick Corene is neer Aegypt The Punick Sea the Sea of Carthage put for the Midland that parteth Europe and Affricke asunder Fesse is the name of the chiefe Citie of that Realme in Barbarie Gogden a Prouince of the Negroes as are also Terminan Gago and Melli neere the same Argin lieth neere the White Cape Gusola is one of the seuen Prouinces of Maroco in Barbarie Dara a countrie in the Northwest of Numidia not farre from Gusola Tombuto a great countrie in the West part of the Negroes neere aboue the riuer Niger So is Gualata but somewhat higher and right against the Greene Cape Mansara which I haue put in
Carion Melact Peucer Althamer Lazius Coropius and others But the Poet holdes that a simple resemblaunce of words is no good ground for a story His reasons are first that hils riuers and seas change their names as by Ortelius his treasure of Geography doth appeare comparing the bookes and tables of Ptolomie Strabo Mela other ancients with the maps of Gemma Frisius Vopelius Mercator Postel Theuet Cellarius and other late writers Secondly that cities and countreys are not alwayes called by the names of their founders and first inhabitants Thirdly that no stocke or nation hath sure hold of any place in the world because of the many chaunges that befall this life Fourthly that as in the sea one waue thrusteth on another so the people and chiefly those of old time haue driuen each other out of place and in a maner played In docke out nettle All stories proue these reasons to be true for the last the Author shewes three notable examples to confirme it 15 Th' old Bretton It is aboue 1200 yeares ago since Vortiger king of England then called great Brettaine or Albion that is a white-sand Isle hauing warre with his neighbors the Scots sent for ayd to the Saxon-English a people of Germany who after they had done him good seruice playd as the Turks did in Greece for they seated the selues in a part of the Island on the East where few yeares after they kept such a coyle that the old Bretton the naturall Inbred of the countrey was constrained to forsake it So with a great multitude passed the sea and landed in Armoricke now called litle Brittaine where they gathered more and more together and increased much by succession of tune See more hereof in the Chronicles of England Brittaine The riuer Loyre fals into the trench of Nantes and so voids into the Ocean 16 The Lombard About the yeare of Christ 568 Alboin king of Lombardes hauing heard of the fruitfulnesse of Italie left Pannonia or Hungarie where he dwelt in gard of certaine Huns vpon conditions and in few weekes after made a rode into Italy with a mightie armie and got many townes chiefly in Insubria now called Lombardy of those Lombards who raigned there aboue 200 yeares till they were ouercome and brought to thrall by the Emperour Charlemaine about the yeare 774. Looke the histories of France and the second part of the Librarie of N. Vignier I shall speake anon of their beginning more particularly 17 Th' Alaine About the yeare 412 when Ataulphe king of Gothes had driuen away the Alaines and Vandals froÌ„ Cordway and Seuill which they possessed as also most of the prouinces of Spaine the Vandals sate downe in Betica which after was of their name called first Vandolosie and then shorter Andalosie The Alaines in Lusitania and the prouince of Carthage or as some say betwixt the riuers Iberus and Rubricatus whereabouts in time past dwelt a people called Iacetani not vnlikely to be the men of Arragon afterward they ioyned and went both together into Affricke where they raigned a long time But in the yeare 534. the Emperour Iustinian who caused the Romane lawes to be gathered together into one bodie sent an armie against them vnder the command of Belissarius he regained Affricke tooke Carthage and led Gilimer king of Goths prisoner vnto Rome After all this the Romanes the Mores also were constrained to giue place in Affricke to the Arabians who preassed in there and encamped them selues in sundrie places 18 This hunger n'ere suffiz'd The Poet saith that desire of rule reuenge and vainglorie ambition and couetousnesse haue chiefly caused so many people to remoue change their dwellings As also manie stories of Scripture and others plainlie shew Seneca rekened diuerse other causes in his booke de CoÌ„solatione ad Elbiam where he saith The Carthaginians made a road into Spaine the Greekes into Fraunce and the Frenchmen into Greece neither could the Pyrene mountaines hinder the Germanes passage ouer wayes vnknowen and vntroad the light-headed people haue caried their wiues and childreÌ„ and ouer-aged parents some after long waÌ„dering vp down seated themselues not according to their free choise but where they first might when they waxed wearie of trauell some on other mens possessions seized by force of armes some as they sought vnknowen places were drowned in the sea some there sat downe where they first began to want prouision And all forsooke not their couÌ„treys or sought other for the same causes Many after their cities were destroyed by warre fled from their enemies and so bereft of their owne possessions were faine to preasse vpon other mens manie left their dwellings to auoide the disquiet of ciuill warres and manie to emptie Cities of their ouercreasing multitude some by pestilence or the earthes often gulfing or like vnsufferable faultes of a bad soile were cast forth and some were entised from home by report of a larger and more fruitfull ground some for one cause and some for another c. 19 I doe not speake-of here The Poet hath Scoenites which I translate Arabes because they were a people of Arabia great robbers harriers of Aegypt and the coast of Affrike the shepheardes Nomades are as I take them the Numidians Moores or as some think a kind of Scythians The Hordies are the TartariaÌ„s who liue in the field in chariots tents Now the Poet leauing the vncertaine course of these roguing nations who haue had no more staie in them then swallowes and other wandring birds intendeth to speake of a more warlike people whereof he alledgeth some notable examples 20 Right such that Lombard was He setteth downe much matter in few wordes concerning the Lombardes There are diuerse opinions of their pedegree Melancthon and Peucer in the third fourth booke of Carions Chron. hold they dwelt in Saxonie by the riuer Albis about where now are the Byshoprickes of Meidburg and Halberstad and a part of the Marquessie of Brandburg from thence vnder the conduct of Alboin entred Italie and in the time of the Emperour Iustin the 2. seated themselues betweene the Appenine hilles and the Alpes where they begaÌ„ a kingdome They were called Lombards either because of their long Iauelines for thence it seemes are come the names of Halbards and Iauelines de barde or because they dwelt in a countrey slat and fruitfull as the Dutch word Bord may signine Som other Authors couÌ„t theÌ„ far-northerne people yet shew not their ancieÌ„t aboad Ptolomee in the 4. table of Lurope deriues them from the couÌ„trey of Swaube as also he noteth in the 2. booke and 11. chap of his Geogr. with whom agreeth C. T acituâ—â— in his Histories But Lazius in the 12. booke of his â—â—grationes of the Northern people Vignier in the first part of his Labratie pag. 905. and our Poet here followes the opinion of Paulus Diaconus they differ not much but onelie about the time of their staie and place of their first aboad
Melancthon and Peucer set them first in Saâ—onâ—e Paulus Diaconus the Poet and others in Scandinanie or Schonland a great near-Isle of the Sound or Baltike Sea from wheÌ„ce they might come in by the banks of Albis all or some of them and some by the coast of Mekelberg c. For Paulus Diaconus in his first booke 2. chap saith of this people they encreased so fast in their foresaid country that they were faine to part themselues into three companies and cost lots which of them should go seeke another seate This I say to shew the Poets cuÌ„ning drift that in so few lines hath set down matter enough for any man to write-on whole volumes of bookes Thus then to follow the Poet the first notable and fast aboad of the Lowbardes who came from the Gothes and Vandalles was Schonland whence a part of them dislodging vnder the conduct of Ibor and Agio setled in Scoring which is about the marches of Liuonia and Prussia and after they had there dwelt certaine yeares were constrained by a dearth to seeke further so as they came to Mauringia and at length to Rugiland and the countreis neare adioyning which Paulus Diaconus setteth down by name There after the death of their leaders they chose Agilmond for their king He had raigned 33. yeares wheÌ„ the Bulgares a neighbour people assailing theÌ„ vnawares stue king Agilmond After him was chosen Lamisson for king who to reuenge the death of his predecessour made warre with the Bulgares got and held a part of Polongne then waxing wearie of that countrey he led his people toward the Rhine to the coast of the Countie Palatine as Tacitus notes in his second booke of Histories Velleius Paterc in the life of Tiberius About Heidelberg there is a towne called Lamberten which seemes to make somewhat for the Lombardes aboad there so saith Lazius But manie yeares after they coasted backe againe and dwelt in Morauie where they warred against the Herules Sucues Gepides Then went they vp into Hungarie vnder the safe-conduit of the Emperour Iustinian to whom they payd tribut as Procopius Paulus Diaconus declare at large There had they cruell war with the Gepides but at length agreed and ioyned with them and vnderstanding by the practise of Narses that Italie was a couÌ„trey much fitting their nature their king Alboin made a roade thereinto and got Lombardie before called Insubria there they rested raigned two hundred yeares vntill Charles the great vanquisht them as is before said 21 Such was the Goth. Lazius in the tenth booke of his Mygrations hath handled well and largely the Historie of Gothes gathered out of Procopius lornandes Tacitus Claudianus Olaus Magnus Eutropius and many others I wil shut vp all in short and by way of Paraphrase vpon the Poets verse The Gothes and Almaine people had for their first assured seat the Isles of the Sound or Baltike Sea Gothland yet retaines the name of theÌ„ In Syllaes time they left these Isles came to dwell in Almaine beside the riuer Vistula now called Wixel After they had warred there against the FreÌ„chmeÌ„ they bent toward TraÌ„ssiluania Hungaria and Valachia where they remained vntill the time of Valintinian maintaining themselues by force of armes against the Greekes Romanes Then for many causes alledged by Lazius they went forward into Thrace and there dwelt and became tributaries vnto Valentinian and â—alens Eutropius saith all went not thither but a good paâ—t of them kept their former place and the cause of their sundring was a ciuill disagreement about religion the one side retaining Heathenisme vnder Athalaricke their king the other vnder Fridigerne mingling with Christenisme the abhominable heresie of Arrius which taketh quite away the true religion of Christ The Arrians drew toward the West were after called Visigothes or Westgothes the other to the contrary and were called Ostrogothes or Eastgothes who out of Thrace moued into Hungarie and the countreys adioyning where they had much adoe with the Romaine Emperours as Lazius well recordeth at last they got Sclauonia and all forward vnto the Adriaticke Sea there growing to a mightie number they determined to set on Italie vnder the commaund of Radaguise their king in the time of Theodosius the first sonne of Arcadius Their armie was in number aboue CC. thousand strong but by the speciall grace of God they were ouerthrowen captiued and sold most for ducats a peece their king slaine and all scattered into diuerse countreis but in the time of Honorius Alaricke the king of Westgothes made another volage and entring into Italie asked the Emperour a place to dwell on hauing obtained the coast that marcheth vpon Fraunce as hee was going thitherward with his companie vpon Easter day one of the captaines of Stilico set vpon him and taking him so at disaduantage by treason slue a great number of the Goths They stirred vp with anger and disdaine of such vnfaithfull dealing of Romaines make backe to Rome wast Italie and in the moneth of September 1164. beleaguer and take the Citie and three dayes after depart thence loaden with the spoile As Alaricke was marching toward Rome there appeared a reuerend personage vnto him and aduised him since hee would be counted a Christian that hee should not make such hauock as hee did whereunto the king answered it is not my desire to goe to Rome but euerie day am I forced by some one I know not who that still cryeth vnto me Go on go on and destroy Rome As the Gothes retired Alaricke dyed and Athaulph succeeded him who led them backe to Rome again So they went through with their saccage and led away captiue Galla Placidia the sister of Honorius whom Athaulph married He was after slaine of his own people at Barcelona in Spaine for seeking peace for his wiues sake with Honorius The third road they made into Italie was vnder the commaund of Vidimer but they were encountred and beaten backe by Glycerius as Iornandes writeth and so they preassed againe vpon the French and Spanish nations Afterward the Gothes of Sclauonia wearie of easie liuing got leaue of the Emperour Zeno and entred Italie and ouercame Odoacer the Exarch of Rauenna and there held estate for many yeares At leÌ„gth about the yeare of Christ 411. in the time of Honorius they seated themselues in Spaine vnder Alaricke and his successours Now during the time of their aboad neare the Meoticke marshes they had nine kings while they remained in Gothland which is now deuided into the East and West Gothie betwixt Swethland and Norway they had 28. kings and 10. about the bankes of Wixel and in Transsiluania and Sclauonia 26. After that being sundred into Eastgothes and Westgothes the Eastgothes had in Italy 11. kings from Alaricke to Teias who with the greater part of his people was ouerthrowen by Narses The Westgoths in LioÌ„ Gaule in Languedoc and Guien had 6. kings and the kings of Westgothes in Spaine from Alaricke in
farther into discourse of the out-roades the people made in old time For though Carion Melancthon Peucer Lazius Rhenanus Goropius and others of our time haue that way farre ventured and somewhile with very good successe He groundeth all his discourse vpon holy writ and sheweâ—h more particularly how the 3. sons of Noe peopled all the World yet it cannot bee denied but that they leaue manie doubts and do not alwhere cleare the matter See then how fitly the Poet addes that followeth 24 It shall suffise me then to keepe me ne are th'encloses And carefull hanging on the golden mouth of Moses Amram his learned sonne in verses to record Sem Cham and Iaphet fill'd this round worke of the Lord And that of mighty Noe the far out-roming boat Did thus the second time all countries ouer flout 25 Yet not as if Sems house from Babilon did run Together all at once vnto the rising Sun To drinkâ— of Zâ—iton the water siluer-fine To peopl'all rich Catay with Cambalu Chine Nor Iaphet vnto Spaine nor that vngodly Cham Vnto the droughty soyle of Meder and Bigam The fields of Cefala the mount of Zanzibar The Cape of hoped good in Affrick most afarre Very meece coÌ„parisons For as th' lblean hilâ—s or those Hymettick trees Were not in one yeares space all ouer-buzz'd with bees But that some litle rocke that swarmed ev'ry prime Two surcreases or three made on their tops to clime Their sydes and all about those nurslings of the Sun At length all ore the Clyffes their hony-combes to run Or as two springing Elmes that grow amids a field With water compassed about their stocks do yeeld A many yonger trees and they againe shoot-out As many like themselues encroaching all about And gaining peece by peece so thriue that aft'r a while They for a shared mead a forest make that Isle Accordingly the Wrights that built proude Babels towre All scattering abroad though not all in an howre At first enhous'd themselues in Mesopotamie By proces then of time encreasing happily Past riuer after riuer and seiz'd land after land And had not God forboad the world should euer stand No countrey might be found so sauage and vnknowne But by the stocke of Man had bin ere this ore-growne 26 And hence it comes to passe the Tig'r-abutting coast In all the former Age of all did slonish most That first began to war that only got a name The cause why the first monarchie was in Assiria And little knew the rest but learned of the same 27 For Babilon betimes draw'n vnd'r a kingly throne Th'emperiall scepter swayd before the Greekes were knowne To haue a Policie before by charming tones Amphion walled Thebes of selfe-empyling stones Or Latins had their townes or Frenchmen houshold-rents Or Almains Cottages or Englishmen their tents The Hebrues their neighbors were learned religious before the Greekes knew any thing 28 The sonnes of Heber had with Angels often spoke And of all stranger Gods detested th'altar-smoke They knew the great vnknowne and ô most happy thing With faithfull eyes beheld their vnbeholden king The learned Chaldee knew of stars the numb'r and lawes Had measured the skie and vnderstood the cause That muffleth vp the light of Cinthia's siluer lips And how her thwarting doth her brothers beames eclips The priest of Memphis knew the nature of the soule And straightly marked how the heau'nly flames do roule Who that their faces might more flaming seeme and gay In Amphitrites poole once wash them eu'ry day He Phisick also wrote and taught Geometree Before that any Greek had learnd his A Be Cee Th' Egiptians Tyrians had all riches and delights before the Greeks and Gaules knew the world 29 All Egypt ouershone with golden vtensilis Before the limping Smith by Aetna's burning kill 's Had hammerd Iern barres before Prometheus found The fire and vse therof vpon th' Argolian ground Alas we were not then or if we were at least We led an vnkouth life and like the sauage beast Our garments feathers were that birds in moulting cast We feasted vnder trees and gaped after mast When as the men of Tyre already durst assay To rase the salty Blew twixt them and Africa Were set on Marchandize with purpl'en-gâ—â—â—rt their flankes And all the pleasures rain'd about Euphrates bankes 30 As if a pebblestone thou on the the water fling Of any sleepy poole it frames a litle ring About whereas it fell and far about doth rase The waâ—â—ng marbl ' or eu'n the trembling Chrystal face With gâ—â—tâ—l moouing of a number circles mo That reaching further out together waxing flow Vntil the round at length most outward and most large Strikes of the standing poole both one and other marge So from the cent'r of All which here I meane to pitch Vpon the the waters brinke where discord sprong of speech Man dressing day by day his knowledge more and more Makes Arts and wisdome flow vnto the Circle-shore As doth himselfe encrease and as in diuerse bands His fruitfull seede in time hath ouer growne the lands 31 The first Colonies of 〈…〉 the East For from Assyria the Semites gan to trauell Vnto the land beguilt with Hytans glestring grauell And peopling Persiland drooke Oroates lâ—yse And cleere Coaspes eke that lickes the walles of Suse So to the fruitfull dale and fowerbearing plaine Betwixt high Caucase tops whereas th' Arsaces raigne And some in Medie dwelt and some began to make The second The fields abutting on the great Mesendin lake 32 These mens prosteritie did like a flood surround And ouer flow in time the Cheisel-fronting ground They came in diuerse troopes vpon Tachalistan Carz Gadel Chabula Bedane and Balestan 33 The third Their of spring afterward broke vp with toiling hands Narzinga Bisnagar and all the plenteous lands That Gauges thorow-flowes and peopled Toloman The Realme of Mein and Aue and muskie Carazan And saw the fearfull sprights in wildernesse of Lop The fourth That maske in hundred shapes wayfaring men to stop 34 Long after sundry times this Race still coasting East Tipura seizd that breedes the horny-snowted beast Mangit and Gaucinchine that Aloes hath store The first Colonies of Iaphet in the west And stopt at Anie Straights and Cassagalie shore 35 Now from the center-point enclining to the Set Far spread abroade themselues the Children of Iaphet To Armenie the lesse and after to Cilice So got the hau'ns at length of Tarsis and of Ise The sweete Corician Caue that neare Pernassus Hill Delights the commers-in with Cimbal-sounding skill Huge Taure his lofty downes Ionie Cappadoce Moeanders winding bankes Bithyne and Illios The second 36 Then boldly passing ore the narrow Cut of Sest They dronke the waters cold of Strimon Heb'r and Nest The Rhodopean dales they graz'd and laid in swathes The leas that running by Danubies water bathes The third parted into many branches 37 Thrace did athonside fill the
for the verse sake as I left out Aden it lies neere Melli vpon the lowest mouth of Niger By Aden that the French hath I take to bee meant Hoden which is betwixt Argin and Gualata or somewhat lower The Wildernes of Lybie is surnamed Sparkling because the sands there ouerchafed with a burning heate of the Sunne flye vp and dazle mens eyes Cane Guber Amasen Born Zegzeg Nubie Benim all are easie to be found in the Mappe neere about the riuer Niger sauing Benim which is lower by the Gulfe Royal and Nubie higher toward Nilus Amasen which I haue added is a great countrie neere the place where Niger diueth vnder the Earth From these quarters South and Eastward lies the great Ethiopia a countrie exceeding hot sandie and in many places vnhabitable because of the sands which by the wind are so moued and remoued oftentimes that they ouerheate and choke-vp diuers great countries that might otherwise bee dwelt in There the great Negus called Prester-Ian raigneth farre and neere His Realmes Prouinces customes lawes Religion and the manner of his peoples liuing are set foorth at large by Franciscus Aluares in his historie of Ethiopia that is ioyned with Iohannes Leo his description of Affrick 39 If thou desire to know Hitherto the Poet hath told vs how Asia Europe and Affricke were peopled by the successors of Noe. But he hath not shewed how the Japhethites from Chaldaea got vp to the furthest Northerne parts and that he now goeth about and doth in 16. verses supposing them from Euphrates to coast vp toward the mountaines of Armenia and so to enter Albania and the neighbour places from thence to people Tartaria Moscouia and all the North countries they are plainly set downe by Mercator Ortelius Theuet and others in their Maps of Europe and I thought good for causes often aforetold not here to entreate of them particularly There is left vs yet to consider two notable questions concerning these out-roades and Colonies of Noes posteritie The one how they came vnto the West India which hath so lately within these 100. yeares been discouered The other how it came to passe that so few of them in the short space of some hundreds of yeares were able to encrease to such a number as might empeople and fill so many huge and diuers countries of the world The Poet straight makes answere hereunto Let vs marke his discourse vpon either the demaunds 40 But all this other world How America was peopled that Spaine hath new found out By floting Delos-like the Westerne Seas about And raised now of late from out the tombe of Leath And giu'n it as it were the Being by the death How was 't inhabited The first obiection if long agone how is' t Nor Persians nor Greeks nor Romans euerwist Or inckling heard thereof whose euer-conquering hoasts Haue spred abroad so far and troad so many coasts Or if it were of late The second obiection how could it swarme so thick In euery towne and haue such works of stone and brick As passe the tow'rs of Rome th'antike Aegyptian Pyramis The King Mausolus Tombe the walles of Queene Semiramis 41 What then alas Answers negatiue by an Ironic belike these men fell from the skie All readie-shap'd as do the Frogs rebounding frie That aft'r a soultie day about the setting hower Are powred on the meades by some warme April shower And entertouch themselues and swarme amid the dust About the gaping clifts that former drought had brust Or grew of tender slips and were in earthy lap In stead of cradle nurst and had for milk the sap Or as the Mousherom the Sowbred or the Blite Among the fatter clots they start-vp in a night Or as the Serpents teeth sow'n by the Duke of Thebes They brauely sprong all arm'd out of the broken glebes 42 Indeed this mightie ground that call'd is Americk The first earnest answere Was not inhabited so soone as Afferick Nor as that learned soyle tow'r-bearing louing-right That after Iupiter his deer-beloued hight Nor as that other part which from cold Bosphors head Doth reach the pearly dew of Tithons saffran bed For they much more approach the diaprized ridges And fair endented banks of Tegil bursting-bridges From whence our ancestors discamp'd astonished And like to Partridges were all-to-scattered Then doth that newfound world whereto Columbus bore First vnder Ferdinand the Castile armes and lore 43 But there the building are so huge and brauely dight So differing the States the wealth so infinite Generali That long agon it seemes some people thither came Although not all at once nor all by waies the same Some by the clowdy drift of tempest raging-sore Perhaps with broken barks were cast vpon the shore Some other much anoyd with famin plague and warre Particular Their ancient Seates forsooke and sought for new so farre Some by some Captaine led that bore a searching minde With wearie ships arriu'd vpon the Westerne Inde 44 Nay could not long ere this the Quinsay vessels finde A way by th' Anian straight fro th' one to th' other Inde The second As short a cut it is as that of Hellspont From Asia to Greece or that wher-ore they wont Sayle from the Spanish hil vnto the Realme of Fesse Or into Sicilie from out the hau'n of Resse Colonies according to the second Answere noting by the way certaine meruailes of the countrie 45 So from the wastes of Tolm and Quiuir where the kine Bring calues with weathers fleece and camels bunchy chine and hair of Courserots they peopled Azasie Coss Toua Caliquas Topira Terlichi The flow'r-entitled Soile Auacal Hochilega Saguenai Baccalos Canada Norumbega And those white Labour-lands about whose bleachy shore The sweeter waterd seas are most-anon befrore 46 They sow'd athother side the land of Xalisco Mechuacan Cusule and founded Mexico Like Venise ore the wat'r and saw astonished The greenest growing trees become all withered As soone as euer touch'd and eck a mountaine found Vesenus-like enflam'd about Nicargua ground So passing foorth along the straight of Panama Vpon the better hand they first Oucanama Then Quito then Cusco then Caxamalca built And in Peruvi-land a countrie thorow-guilt They wondred at the Lake that waters Colochim Al vnder-paued salt and fresh about the brim And at the springs of Chinck whose water strongly good Makes pebble stones of chalk and sandy stones of mood 47 Then Chili they possest whose Riuers cold and bright Run all the day a pace and slumber all the night Quinteat Patagonie and all those lower seates Whereon the fonâ—y Brack of Magellanus beats Vpon the left they spred along by Darien side Where Huo them refresht then in Vraba spide How Zenu's wealthie waues down vnto Neptune rould As big as Pullets egges fair massie graines of gould And in Grenada saw mount Emeraudy shine But on Cumana banks hoodwinked were their eyne With shadie thickned mist so quickly from Cumana They on to Parie went
Omagu Caribana Then by Maragnon dwelt then entred fierce Bresile Then Plata's leuell fields where flowes another Nile The third Answâ—re 48 Moreouer one may say that Picne by Gronland The Land of Labour was by Brittish Izerland Replenished with men as eck by Terminan By Tombut and Melli the shore of Corican 40 But all this other world This is the first of the foresayde questions how it came to passe that the new world discouered in these latter times could be so replenished with people as the Spaniards who haue thereof written very much did finde it He speaketh of the West Jndia which is called another world or the new world for the hugenes thereof being more then 9300. leagues about as Gomara saith in his Indian Historie 1. book 12. chap. it is longer then all the other three parts of the world and two or three waies as broad as Asia and Europe laide together This quarter so great and full of kingdomes and people if it haue been long agone inhabited how hap saith our Poet the Persians Greekes and Romans who vndertooke so many farre voyages came neuer there nor once heard thereof For Ptolomee Strabo Mela and other auncient writers make no mention of it and if it were peopled but of late yeares he asketh how came so many people there so many great cities and stately monuments as Gomara Benzo Cieque Ouiede Cortes and others write of Benzo and Barthelemi de las Casas doe report that in that little the Spaniards haue there gotten within these 30. or 40. yeres they haue slaine aboue twentie millions of people vndone and brought to great distresse as many or more and wasted and vnpeopled twise as much ground as is contained in Europe and a part of Asia to that Neuerthelesse in many places and euen in Mexico New Spaine and Peru where they haue vsed all the crueltie wickednes and villanie that mans heart or the diuels rage could imagine there are yet liuing many thousand Indians Concerning the auncient Monuments of this new world I will reckon at this time but one of theÌ„ taken out of the fourth booke and 194. chapter of Gomara there are saith hee in Peru two great high-waies reaching the one through the hilles the other ouer the plaines froÌ„ Quito to Cusco which is aboue 500. leagues out right a worke so great and chargeable that it is well worthie noting that ouer the plaines is 25. foote broad and walled on either side and hath little brookes running along in it with store of the trees called Molli planted on the bankes The other is of like breadth cutting thorough the rocks and filling vp the lower grounds with stone worke for they are both of them leuell without mounting or descending any hill straight without stopping at any lake or poole In a word whosoeuer hath seene either of them will say it is a work farre surpassing all the great buildings and paued causies of the Romanes or the walles of Babylon built by Queene Semyramis or those most wonderfull Pyramides of Aegypt Guaynacapa a certaine king of the Indians who liued about 100. yeares agoe caused these wayes to be repayred and enlarged but he was not the first beginner of them as some would make vs beleeue for he could not haue finished them in all his life time and the stone-worke seemes to be much more ancient There are built vpon them a dayes iourney asunder many goodly pallaces called Tambos wherein the Court and armies of the Princes wont to lodge But Gomara sayth our Spanyards haue by their ciuil warres vtterly destroyed these causies and cut them asunder in many places that they might not come one to the other yea the Indians themselues haue broke-off and seuered their parts in time of warre Now let vs heare the Poets answere 41 VVhat then alas belike His first answere is that the people of the West Indies fell not out of the ayre as many little frogges doe in a warme shower framed by the vertue of the Sunne of the dust or vapours arising out of the earth nor that they grew not out of the ground like rootes or plants nor by any straunge and vaine inchantment as of the Serpents teeth sowne by Cadmus the Poets faine grew souldiers in complet harnesse But these they are men well-featured stout and long-liuing chiefly in the North and South-parts of the countrie where both men and women in stature strength and continuance farre excell the people of Europe Asia and Affrick The coÌ„modities they haue for health their meat drink and dwelling their ceremonies ciuil gouernment other properties duly noted by the Historians make very good proofe of the Poets saying 42 Indeed this mightie ground This new-found world is called America of the name of Americus Vespusius a certaine famous Pilot of Florence one of the first discouerers of the countrie not much more then a hundred yeares agoe His second answere is that this part of the world could not bee so soone enhabited as the other three because it is discoasted further from the plaine of Sennaar for in Asia the plaine it selfe was And Arabia being peopled Affrick was very neere at hand and Europe from the lesser Asia is parted but with a narrow Phare whereas America is farre beyond all these which way soeuer we coast He calleth Europe a learned Soyle tow'r-bearing louing-right for the number of learned men and cunning Artisans of kingdoms and states well gouerned and Fortresses that are there That after Iupiter his deer-beloued hight to weet Europa that was the daughter of Agenor king of Phaenicia For the prophane Poets faine their great god being in loue with her to haue taken the shape of a Bull and on his backe to haue carried her ouer Hellespont and therefore the place where he first landed her was called by her name From this fable seemes to be drawne the name of Bosphore which is as much to say as Bull-ferrie Perhaps this Iupiter was some notable pyrate or tyrant thereabout raigning who in a Ship called the Bull stole away some yong Lady fled for safetie into Europe These words which from cold Bosphors head Doth reach the pearly dew of Tithons saffran bed set down the length of Asia that is from the Bosphore of Thrace vnto the East-Ocean The Castile armes and lore that is the Spanish Religion and forces which Christopher Columbus brought first into America and there planted in the name of the Spanish king 43 But there the buildings The third answere is that the stately buildings infinite treasures diuers gouernements that are there will witnes that the countrie hath been long enhabited although hard it is to learne how I haue alreadie spoke of the great Causeyes of Peru. Now the sumptuousnes of Themixtetan the great citie of the kingdome of Mexico and the kings Pallaces of Peru such they are described by the Spaniards make further proofe of the Poets saying As forth vncountable wealth of the Indies it plainely
Hochilega and other landes thereabouts Reade Theuet also the latter Card-men For the French Calicuza I haue translated Caliquas according as I finde it written both in others and in Ortellius who also hath for Mechi Terlichi-mechi and therefore I translate it Terlichi 46 They sow'd at'hother side Xalisco nowe called Noua Gallicia is described by Gomara in the 21. Chapter of his 5. booke It is a land very fruitfull and rich in honny waxe and siluer and the people there are Idolaters and Men-eaters Nunnius Gusmannus who seized the countrie for the king of Spain in the yeare 1530. hath written a discourse thereof and it is to be read in the third volume of the Spanish Nauigations The Prouince of Mechuacan from whence not farre lyeth Cusule is about 40. leagues lower southward then Xalisco that also the said Gusmannus conquered after he had most cruelly and traiterously put to death the Prince and Peeres of the countrie as Gomara sheweth in his booke chapter aboue quoted Mexico which some count all one with Themixtetan is the mother Cittie of that kingdome now called Hispania Noua wonderfull rich it is and strong and of high renoume built farre more curiously then Venice vpon a lake salt on the northside because it is there of a Sea-like breadth and on the southside fresh because of a Riuer that empties there into it Greater is the Cittie thought to be then Seuille in Spaine the streetes are passing well set and their channels in such manner cast as can not be mended Diuers places there are to buy and sell-in the needefull and ordinary wares but one there is greater then the rest with many walkes and galleries round about it where euery day may bee seene aboue threescore thousande Chapmen There is the Iudgement hall for common Pleas and were also many temples shrines of Idols before the comming of Ferdinando Cortez who made thereof the first conquest for the K. of Spaine exercising most horrible cruelties vpon all both yong and old in the Citie as Barthelemi de las Casas a Monke Bishoppe of Spaine reports in his historie of the Indies where he stayed a long time Looke the description of Mexico in the thirde volume of the Spanish Nauigations fol. 300. See also Benzo of Millaine his historie of the newe worlde the 2. booke and 13. Chapter Now from these partes aboue named after report of some wonders of many there seene and worthie a larger discourse by themselues the Poet drawes his Colonies down further towardes Peru by the Land-straight of Panama which parts the South-sea from the Ocean and thereabout is hardly 20. leagues in breadth The fiery mountaine of Nicaragua is by Gomara described in his 5. booke Chap. 203. so are the other wonders which the Poet here notes in his 4. booke chap. 194. 47 Then Chili they possest Gomara in his fourth booke chap. 131. holds opinion that the men of Chili are the right Antipodes or Counter-walkers vnto Spaine and that the countrie there is of the same temper with Andaluzie This Chili lyeth on the shore of el Mar Pacifico so also doth Quintete which I haue put for Chinca both neere the Patagones or Giants whose countrie is full of people and hath certaine riuers that runne by day and stand by night some think because of the snowes which in the day time are melted by the Sun and frozen by the Moone in the night but I take it rather to be some great secret and miracle of nature The cause why here I made exchange of Chinca was first for that the Poet had spoke before of the springs of Chink which I take for the same then because it is so diuersly placed of the Card-men for Ortelius in his Mappe of the new world sets it aboue and Theuet beside Chili in either place it stands well to be taken for the Chink afore-named but Mercator placeth it a great deale lower and on the contrary coast neer the riuer of Plata where indeede is a countrie called Chica that perhaps hath bred this error Lastly Quintete stands so right in way which the Poet followes from Chili to the Patagones that I thought it not amisse to take the same rather then the doubtfull Chinca By the fomy Brack of Magellanus he meanes the sea and Straight of Magellan close by terra Australis Gomara describeth it well in the beginning of the third booke of his Portugall Historie The Poet hath alreadie shewed how people came first on the North America from the kingdome of Anian ouer the maine land to th' Atlantick sea shore then on all the further coasts from Quiuir to the Magellan Straight along th' Archipelago de San Lazaro Mar del Zur Pacifico and now he takes the higher side on the left hand from the Land-Straight of Panama to the riuer of Plata which is not farre from the Magellan noting by the way the most note-worthie places of all this huge reach of ground represented as it is by our late writers in their generall and particular Mappes of the New-found world Huo is a great sweet-water streame rising at Quillacingas that lieth vnder the Equatour and running athwart the countrie now called Carthage into the sea at Garia Vraba is the countrie that lieth betwixt that riuer and Carthagene Concerning Zenu marke what Gomara sayth thereof in his second booke and 69. chapter It is the name of a riuer and citie both and of a Hauen very large and sure The Citie is some 8. leagues from the sea There is a great Mart for Salt and Fish Gould the inhabitants gather all about and when they set themselues to get much they lay fine-wrought nets in the riuer of Zenu and others and oftentimes they draw-vp graines of pure gold as big as egges This countrie is not farre from the Straight of Darien In the sayd second booke chap. 72. he describes also Noua Grenada and the Mount of Emeraudes which is very high bare and peeld without any herbe or tree thereon growing and lieth some fiue degrees on this side the Equatour The Indians when they goe-about to get the stones first vse many enchauntments to know where the best vaine is The first time the Spanyards came there they drew thence great and little 1800. very fayre and of great price but for this commoditie the countrie is so barren that the people were faine to feede on Pismers till of late the Spanish couetousnesse hath made them know the value of their Mountaine Cumana is described in the foresaid booke chap. 79. in the ende whereof Gomara sayth the vapours of the Riuer of Cumana engender a certaine little mist or slime vpon mens eyes so as the people there are very pore-blind Parie is described in the 84 chapter of the said second book Maragnon a Riuer which as Gomara sayth 2. booke 87. chapter is three-score miles ouer It emptieth at the Cape of Aâ—inde three degrees beiond th' Aequator but springeth a great way further
South by Tarama in Peru thence running Eastward it casteth onely an Arme into th' Amazon about Picora Which hath caused many the first writers of America to count from that place both but one riuer So also doth our Poet here otherwise he would haue mentioned first how the people passed th' Amazon that other great streame now knowne by the name of Orenoque which riseth about Carangui and emptieth as Theuet sayth 104. leagues aboue the mouth of Maragnon Bresile which the Spaniard discouered in the yeare 1504. is surnamed fierce because of the Canibales Caribes and other man-eating people there lâ—de Leri hath written very fully all the historie of his aduenture in part of the countrie where dwel the people called Toupinamboes The riuer of Plata the Indians call Paranagacuc which word importeth as much as a great water Gomara speaking thereof in the 89. chapter of his second booke sayth In this riuer is found siluer pearles and other things of great price It containes in bredth 25. leagues makes many Islands and swels like Nilus and about the selfe-same time It springeth first out of the mountaines of Peru and is after encreased by the in fall of many riuers for the countrie thereabout is leuell or flat whereof it seemes to haue receiued the name of Plate Thus the Poet gesseth at the maner of this new-found worlds empeopling by the coast of Asia Whereunto I will adde what Arias Mont. that learned Spaniard hath written thereof in his book entituled Phaleg He saith Ioktan the double pety-son of Sem that is whose double grandfather Sem was had thirteene sonnes which are named by Moses in the 10. of Gen. and some of them peopled the West Indies from the East That which Moses saith Gen. 10.30 concerning Sephar a mountaine of the East Arias applies to the great hils of Peru which the Spaniards call Andes they reach out further in length then any other in the world and neere them stands an ancient towne called Iuktan Moreouer there lies higher a Neer-isle betwixt Cuba and Mexico called Inkatan which may be thought to resemble still the name of him that first brought people into the country To Ophir one of the sonnes of Ioktan Arias allots the land of Peru for as much as in the 3. chap. and 6. verse of the 2. booke of Chron. there is mention made of the gold of Paruaim To Iobab the countrie of Paria which is neere the Straight of Panama very rich also in gold and pearle I haue said elsewhere that Arias Montanus tooke Asia to be all one main-land with America and knew no Anian Straight If that bee true sure the race of Sem peopled those quarters But others considering the horrible ignorance and brutishnes of the West-Indians so lately discouered and the rather to excuse their outragious crueltie exercised vpon the poore people cannot thinke but that they are some relikes of the race of Cham. This opinion hath but a weake ground as he may well perceiue that will dulie examine the circumstances For strange it is not that the race of Sem after so many generations and in so farre-discoasted countries should at length bee thus corrupted Besides the West-Indians in diuers places liue still after the manner of the East But for better answering sundrie obiections that make to proue them Chamites reade the Preface to the New-found world of Benzo Frenched by M. Vrbain Chauueton 48 Moreouer one may say This is another guesse of the Poet as that the West-India was peopled from the North by some Iaphethites who veÌ„tured ouer the Straight of Groâ—land Indeed these Northerne countries haue euer swarmed with people and well it may be that some thence by others driuen or by necessitie or of their owne heads haue sought that way other places more to their liking As also that the coasts of Bresile and Plata which I thinke the Poet meanes by the Shore of Corican were peopled by some Chamites from Temian Tombut and Melli countries lying in the West of Africk about the fall of Niger For vnlikely it were seeing Almightie God gaue the whole earth to Noe and his three sonnes Gen. 9. that the race of any one of them should engrosse all this New-found world beside his part in the other Thus rather doubtlesse as the Poet guesseth and I am further bold to gather by little little at sundrie times and places did all the three families of Noe possesse those quarters as the rest that the wil of God might be fulfilled and the light of his glorie appeare in so equall-parting ouer-peopling the whole earth howsoeuer all that huge reach of ground that lieth vnder the South-pole and is thought the fift and greatest part if it all be habitable is as yet vnknowne or very little discouered How is was posâ—â—ble that 〈◊〉 his three sonnes should encrease as they did 49 Well may I graunt you then thou'lt say perhaps ther 's naught In all this vnder-world but may at length be raught By mans Ambition it makes a breache in Hilles It runneth dry by sea among the raging Scylles And in despight of Thirst it guides the sailing Holme Amids th' Arabick Sandes the Numid and the Tolme But verely methinks it goes against all sence One house beds only four should break so large a fence As t'ouerbreed the landes af Affrick Europe Ase And make the world appeer to narrow for the Race 1. Answer 50 If little thou regard th' I mortals pow'rfull hest That once againe the bond of sacred Marriage blest And said 2. Answer Encrease and Fill 51 If thou profane deny That Iacobs little train so thick did multiplie On Pharces fruitfull ground that in 400. yere The 70. lyuing soules fiue hundred thousand were 52 At least consider 3. Answer how because in elder time The fruites they ate grew not vpon so foggy slime As ours doe now nor was their meates with sauces dight Nor altered as-yet with health-destroying slight Of gluttonating Cookes because with murdring sword Of raging enemies they were not laid aboord Because their bodies were not ouercome by sloth Or void of exercise they waxt in liuely groth And liu'd some hundred yeres and eu'n in latter daies With siluer-haired heads were able sonnes to raise So that Polygamie then taken for a right This world an Ant-hill made of creatures bolt-vpright And many people rose in short time if thou marke From out the fruitfull reines of some one Patriarch 53 Right so a graine of wheat Two fit comparisons if all th' encrease it yeildes Be often times resow'd vpon some harty feildes Will stuffe the barnes at length and colour mighty lawnes With yellow-stalked eares likewise two fishes spawnes Cast in t ' a standing poole so fast breed vp and downe That aft'r a while they stoare the larders of a towne An example of late yeares 54 Hath not there been of late a certain Elder known That with his fruitfull seed a