divided into Chile especially so called and Magellanica Here Sir Walter Rawleigh planted two Collenies who for want of timely Succors were either starved at home or eaten by the Salvages as they ranged the Countrey for food Paraguay is bounded South with Magellanica East with the main Atlantick North with Brazila and West with Terra Incognita It is said to be of a fruitfull Soyl well stored with Sugar-Canes Fraught with Mines of Gold Brass and Iron great plenty of Amathyses and Monkeys Lyons and Tigers the People are as the other Salvages and it contains these Provinces viz. Rio de la Plata Tucaman and La Crux de Sierra and it 's chief Towns are Puenas Agrees and Chividad Brazila is bounded East with Mare del Noort West with Terra Incognita North with Guiana and South with Paraguay It s said to be 1500 Mi'es long and 500 broad The Countrey is full of Mountains Rivers and Forests the Air sound and healthfull the Soyl is indifferent fruitfull It s chief Commodities are Sugar and Brazele-wood There is a Plant called Copiba which yields Balsam soveraign for Poyson An Herb called Viva which if touched will shut up and not open till the Toucher is out of fight A Creature which hath the Head of an Ape the Foot of a Lyon and the rest of a Man. The Ox-Fish with Arms Fingers and Duggs the rest as a Cow. So that it may be said of Brasila Semper aliquid apportat novi The people are witty as appears by their sayings to the Christians holding up a Wedge of Gold say'd they Behold your God oh ye Christians on their Festival-days they go Naked both Men and Women and are able Swimmers staying under water an hour and half the Women are delivered without great pain some of the Natives are all over Hairy like Beasts it containeth not Provinces but these Captain-Ships viz. Vincent Rio de Juneiro Holy Ghost Porto-Seguro Des Ilheos Todos los Santos Fernambuck Tamaraca Paraiba Rio Grande Saiara Maragnon and Para. Its chief Cities are Meranhan Tamaracai and Olinda and the great River Zoyal Guiana is bounded East with the Atlantick West with Mount-Peru North with the Flood Orenoque and South with the Amazones The Air here is indifferently good near the Sea it is plain and level up in the Countrey Mountainous here the Trees keep their leaves all the year with their fruit always ripe and growing The Inhabitants are under no settled Government they punish only Murder Theft and Adultery their Wives are their Slaves and they may have as many as they please they are without Religion or Notion of a Deity It doth contain these Provinces viz. Rio de las Amazones Wiapoce Orenoque and the Isles of Guiana Its Comodities are Sugar and Cotton in it are plenty of Beast Fish and Fowles they are Swarthy in Complection and great Idolaters as for Cities it hath none of note Paria is bounded on the East with Guiana West with the Bay of Venezuela North with the Atlantick Ocean and South with Terra Incognita and contains these Provinces Viz. Cumana Venezuela S. Margarita Cutagana and its Isles All which are not very fruitfull it is well stored with Pearls the People paint their Teeth and Bodies with Colour The Women are trained up to ride run leap and swim and also to Till the Land. In it are these most noted Cities Viz. St. Jago St. Michael de Nevery and Mahanao As for the Descriptions of the American Isles I must beg the favour to omit I shall therefore only name them having been so very large already and they are these Viz. Los Ladrones Fernandes the Caribes as Granada S. Vincent Barbados Matinino Dominica Desrada Guadalupe Antego S. Christopher Nieves Sancta Crux and some lesser Isles belonging to them As also Portorico Monico Hispaniola Cuba and Jamaica Thus I have finished the Description of the known Earth Now the Names of the Seas are these Viz. the Ocean Sea Narrow Sea Mediterranean Sea Mare Major Mare Pacificum Mare Caspium the East-Indian Sea Perfian Sea Red Sea and Mare-del-Zuz which are all the Principal-Seas Thus through the Blessing of God I have given you a brief tho'true Description of all the known Earth and Seas and have thus finished my Geographical Descriptions of the Division of the Earthly Globe The Author on the Difficulties in the Collection of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or little Description of the great World. Oh thou Urania Thou that hast now brought Our Ship to Harbour sound and richly fraught Tho'Aeolus his blustring Gales did send And foaming Billows high the Skies did rend Tho'Blustring storms and Thunder loud did roar And darkness Grim opprest our Souls all'ore So that we could not view the Stars nor Sky Nor Sun nor Moon nay Earth could not espy Yet by thy Art such safety we did find Safely to pass both raging Seas and Wind. And at the last a Harbour safe did gain Rejecting fears we quite cast off our pain When Seas are calm and Winds more serene be Then we again will put our Ship to Sea That when refresht we farther may descry And search into this Noble Treasury 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SECT III. Of Geographical Propositions PROP. I. How to find the Distance of any two Cities or Places which differ onely in Latitude IN this Proposition there are two Varieties which are these 1. If both the Places lie under one and the same Meridian and on one and the same side the Equinoctial either on the North or South side thereof then substract the lesser Latitude from the greater and convert their difference into Miles by allowing 60 Miles for a Degree so have you the distance of the two Places propounded 2. But if the two Places lie under one and the same Meridian but the one on the South side of the Equinoctial and the other on the North side then add both their Latitudes together their Sum is their Distance PROP. II. To find the Distance of any two Places which differ only in Longitude There are also in this Proposition two Varieties 1. The two Places may both lie under the Eqinoctial and so have no Latitude and if so substract the lesser Longitude out of the greater and convert the remainder into Miles so have you the distance of any two Places so posuited 2. But if the two Places differ only in Longitude and lieth not under the Equinoctial but under some other Intermediate Parallel of Latitude between the Equinoctial and one of the Poles Then to find their distance this is the Analogy or Proportion As Radius or S. 90° To Sc. of the Latitude So is S. of ½ X. of Longitude To S. of ½ their distance which being doubled and converted into Miles giveth the required distance PROP. III To find the Distance of any two Places which differ both in Latitude and in Longitude In this Proposition three Varieties do present themselves to our View 1. One of the Places
rich by reason of his great Expences to keep his Dominions in which are eleven Archbishops and 52 Bishops and hath these most notable Cities viz. Toledo Madrid Leon Fax Siville Grenado Mursy Saragosa Bracelon Pamphelune Bilbo Priede St. James of Compostella and Lesbone and Rivers famous are the Dower Tagus Gadian and Guadalguinr Great Britain consisteth of England and Scotland and is the Biggest Isle in EUROPE and the Glory thereof it is a temperate Soyl a sound Air and yieldeth all manner of good things 't is environed all round with the Seas I shall begin first with England England hath many pleasant Rivers well stored with Fish excellent Havens commodious Mines of Silver Lead Iron and Tinn abundance of Woods good Timber plentifull in Cattle good Wool of which is made fine Cloath which serves not only themselves but vended into other Countreys the chief City is London in which are two of the Wonders of the World viz. the Monument and Bridge over the Thames the People are brave Warriers both by Sea and Land as Europe has felt and can testifie to their Grief they are learned in all manner of noble Sciences the Order of Knighthood is that of St. George or the Garter there are 26 Knights of it whereof the King is the Soveraign their Ensign is a blue Garter buckled on the left Leg with this Motto Hony Soit Qui Mall 〈…〉 Pense and about their Necks they do wear a blue Ribbon at the End of which hangs the Image of St. George upon which day this Order is Celebrated secondly of the Bath instituted 1009 they use to be Created at the Coronation of Kings and Queens and at the Enstalling of the Prince of Wales The Knights thereof distinguished by a red Ribbon which they wear about their Necks their Duty is to defend Religion Widows Maids and Orphans with the Kings right Thirdly of Barronets and Hereditary Honour the Arms are Mars three Lions Passant Gardant Sol their Religion is the Protestant they have two Archbishops and twenty Bishops The length of England is 320 and breadth 250 Miles it hath 857 famous Bridges 325 Rivers it 's defended and invironed with Turbulent Seas guarded by unaccessible Cleves and Rocks and defended by a strong and Puissant Navy so that of it may well be said Insula praedives que toto vix eget Orbe Et cujus totus indiget Orbis ope Insula praedives cujus miretur optet Delicias Solomon octavianus opes It s chief Cities are London York Bristol and Rivers are the Thames Severn Humber and the Ouze Wales is bounded on all sides with the Sea except towards England on the East it is a barren and mountainous Countrey It s chief Commodities are their Freeze and Cottons The Inhabitants are faithfull in their promises to all men but yet much enclined to Choler and subject to Passion which Aristotle calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It contains 14 Shires 13 Forests 36 Parks 230 Rivers and 1016 Parishes They are so resolute and valiant saith Henry III. writing to Emanuel then Emperour of Constantinople That they dare encounter Naked with armed Men being ready to spend their Blood for their Countrey and pawn their Life for Praise They are Protestants and have four Bishops but no Towns of Note Scotland is the Northern part of Britain environed all round with the Sea unless where it is joyned to England Polydore saith it is 480 in length and 60 miles in breadth divided into Highlands and Lowlands the Highlands are Irish-Scots and the Lowlands English-Scots It is not so fruitfull as England the chief City is Edenbrough Its Commodities is course Wool and Cloth Malt Hides and Fish. The Order of Knighthood is that of St. Andrew the Knights did wear about their Necks a Coller interlaced with Thistles with the Picture of St. Andrew appendant thereunto having this Motto Nemo me impune lacessit 2. Of Nova Scotia instituted by King James Anno 1622 hereditary the Knight hereof distinguished by a Ribbond of Orange-tawny The Arms of Scotland is Sol a Lion Rampant Mars within a double Tressure counterflowered they are Protestants and have 2 Archbishops and 12 Bishops The Cities most Famous are Edenbrough Sterlin Aberdeen and St. Andrews and they have the Famous Rivers Tay and Tweed Ireland is on all sides environed round with the Irish Seas and St. Georges Channel In length is 300 and breadth 120 miles The Natives are strong and nimble haughty careless hardy bearing cold and hunger with patience and in a word if they are bad you shall neve◠find worse but if good scarcely find better The Wild Irish have a custom to kneel down to the New Moon praying it to leave them in as good health as it found them They received the Christian Faith 435. The Soil is fruitfull and it hath good Pasture yet full of Boggs and Woods and multitude of Fowls and in it will dwell no venomous Creature The Revenues yearly have been 40000 li. The Air is Temperate cooler in Summer and hotter in the Winter than in England Their Arms are Azure an Harp or stringed Argent they are some Protestants and Papists mixt they have 4 Archbishops and 19 Bishops the chief City is Dublin The Islands belonging to Great Britain are 1. Wight the place where I first drew my Breath and the Land of my Nativity 2. Surlings 3. Garnsey 4. Jersey 5. Anglesey 6. Man 7. Hebrides 8. Orcades 9. Portland 10. Sunderland 11. Holy Island And thus I have done with the British Empire all these Parts described belong to it and are under the Royal Sceptre of his Sacred Majesty JAMES the Second whom God long preserve Thus I have finished the description of Great Britain having this only to say Quae Deus conjunxit nemo separet Belgia or the Low Countreys consisteth of several wealthy Provinces viz. The Dukedom of Brabant Guelderland Lymburge Flanders Artois Henault Holland Zeland Mamen Zukfen the Marquisate of the Holy Empire Freezeland Michlen Ouserisen and Graving All which Lands are very fertile and populous having 208 Cities and 6300 Villages with Parish-Churches Castles and Forts and is watered with the Rhine and the Mose the Mara and the Sheld It hath commodious Havens the Inhabitants are brave Warriours good Mechanicks their chief Commodity is Rhenish Wine Linnen and Woollen Cloth Camericks Lace of Gold and Silver Silk Taffatys Velvet Grogerams and Sayes all manner of Twined threds refined Sugars Buff Ox-hides Spanish-leather Pictures Books Cables Ropes and Herrings Now Belgia is bounded East with Westphalen Gulick Cleve and the Isle of Triers West with the Main Ocean North with the River Ems and South with Picardy and Champagne The People are of the reformed Religion all except Flaunders and Artoise and they have the Popish Tenents here are three Archbishops and fifteen Bishops The Order of Knighthood is that of the Golden Fleece instituted 1439. their Habit is a Coller of Gold interlaced with Iron Or.
I can no more In silence leave our Altar and farewell Their Religion is mixt but they are chiefly Mahometans The Arms of this Empire were Mars a Cross Sol between four Greek Beta's of the second Bodin saith the four Beta's signified 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The most famous Cities in Greece are Buda Salonique Adrianopolis Scutary Durazzo La Valone L'Armiro Brevezza Larta Lepanto Setines or Athens Thebes Corinth Patras Misira or Lacaedomia I shall pass over the Islands of Sicily Sardinia Candia and Corsica and thus we have finished the description of the first part of the World called by the Name of EUROPE ASIA ASIA the second part of the World is bounded on the North with the Northern Ocean South with the Red Sea East with the East Indian Ocean and on the West with the Flood Tunais It is bigger than EUROPE or AFRICA and is far more rich Viz. in Pretious Stones and Spices and hath been renowned by the first and second Monarchs of the World. Here Man was Created placed in Eden seduced by Satan and redeemed by our Blessed Saviour In it was done most of the History mentioned in the Old Testament It hath been Ruled by the Kings of China of Persia the Great Turk and the Emperour of Rushia and contains these Provinces Viz. Anatolia Cyprus Syria Palestine Arabia Chaldea Assyria Mesopotamia Turcomania Media Persia Tartaria China India and the Oriental Isles Anatolia is bounded West with the Thracian-Bosphorus Helespont and the Aegean Seas East with Euphrates North with the Black Sea and South with the Rhodian Lydian and Pamphylian Seas It s length is 630 and breadth 210 miles the Air is sound the Soil fruitfull but in some places desolate it is inhabited by Greeks and Turks It hath these Cities of note Viz. Anatolia Bruce Chiontai Augoure Trebisond Sattalie and Rivers are Alie Jordan Euphrates and Tygris Syprus is bounded all round with the Syrian and Sicilian Seas whose length is 200 and compass 550 miles It is stored with plenty of all things so that it wanteth no help of other Nations It s Commodity is Wine Oyl Corn Sugar Cotton Honey c. for which plenty of all things 't was Consecrated to Venus as Ovid saith Festa dies Veneris tota celeberrima Cypro Venerat Ipsa suis aderat Venus aurea festis The People are Warlike Strong and Nimble and very hospitable to Strangers Their Arms are Quarterly 1. Argent a Cross Patent betwixt 4 Crosses Or. 2. Cross-wise of 8 pieces Argent and Azure supporting a Lion Passant Azure Crown'd Or. 3. A Lion Gules 4 Argent a Lion Gules they are of the Popish Religion and have 2 Archbishops and 6 Bishops Syria is bounded East with Euphrates West with the Mediterranean Seas North with Cilicia and South with Palestine and Arabia It s length is 525 miles and breadth 470. They are inhabited by Mahometans Christians and Pagans They are a stout and warlike people In this Countrey there are said to be Sheep whose Tails weigh some 30 and some 40 pounds the People are also gluttenous it is almost overrun by the Turks It s most famous Cities are Aleppo Te Tripoly and Damal Palestine is bounded West with the Mediterranean Seas East with the Arabian Desarts North with the Anti-Libianus and South with Arabia The Inhabitants are of a middle stature strong constitution yet a stiffe necked and murmuring People and Idolaters In this is the Land of Canaan and the famous City Hierusalem tho' now a Den of Idolatrous Mahometans It abounds with all good things Arabia is bounded East with Chaldea and the Gulph of Persia West with Palestine Aegypt and the Red Sea North with Euphrates and South with the Southern Ocean The Inhabitants are Mahometans Job's Habitation was here It yields Frankincense Pretious Stones c. It is now under the Great Turk's Sceptre The most famous Cities are Herac Ava Medina and Mectar and it hath the famous River Cayban Chaldea is bounded East with Susiana West with Arabia Deserta North with Mesopotamia and South with the Persian Bay. The Country is exceeding fruitfull in it is supposed to have been the Garden of Eden they were great Southsayers and therefore flouted by the Satyrist Chaldeis sed major erit fiducia quicquid Dixerit Astrologus credent à fonte relatum Ammonis c. The Inhabitants are stout and valiant they are Mahometans Here Julian the Apostate breathed his Soul out to Satan in these dying words Vicisti tandem Galileae the chief Cities are Babylon Bagdad Balfora and Sipparum with the famous River Fazze Assyria is bounded East with Media West with Mesopotamia South with Susiana and North with Turcomania and Chaldea This is a very plain and level Countrey and very fruitfull having good Rivers the Natives are brave stout Warriours formal in their Habit. It is under the Turk's command and governed by one of his Bassa's who is able to bring into the Field at any time 100000 Souldiers here are also a Sect of the Nestorians and fifteen Christian Churches it s most famous Cities are Calach Cittace and Arbela Mesopotamia is bounded East with the River Tigris West with Euphrates North with Mount Taurus and South with Chaldea and Arabia Desertae It aboundeth with all good things necessary for the life of Man they are Mahometans and a people unable to defend themselves but by the assistance of their Neighbours It belongs to the Mahometan Empire It s chief Cities are Edessa and Cologenbar I shall not describe Mount Taurus because it is of no moment Turcomana is bounded East with Media and Mare Caspium West with the Euxine Seas Cappadocia and Armenia major North with Tartaria and South with Mesopotamia and Assyria It is a very mountainous Countrey the people are handsome stout and brave Warriours the Women are good Archers It hath Gold and Silver Mines It yields Grain Fruit and Wine and in Colchis a part thereof and in Assyria they sell their Children The Arms are the Half Moon Or. It is inhabited by Mahometans and under the Turkish Empire It s chief Cities are Musol Bagded Batfora Sanatopdy and Derbent with the famous River Arais Media is bounded East with Parthia West with Aremenia North with Mare Caspium and South with Persia. The Countrey is of a large extent and very different even to a Miracle for in the North part it is cold and barren their Bread is dryed Almonds and Drink the Juice of Herbs and Fruits Their Food is Venison and other Wild Beasts which they catch by hunting And in the South side the Country is of a rich Soil plentifull in Corn Wine c. They have been brave Warriours and it was a custom with them to poyson their Arrows in an Oyl called Oleum Mediacum they are Mahometans Persia is bounded East with India West with Media Assyria and Chaldea North with Tartaria and South with the Southern Ocean This is a mighty rich Countrey governed by the Sophy
not very fruitfull The Inhabitants are dull and slothfull it hath had thirty Dukes and Earls it is a place of Natural strength its Revenues is yearly 1000000 of Crowns The order of Knighthood is that of Anunciado instituted 1480 their Coller hath 50 links to shew the Mystery of the Virgin appendent to it is her Effigies and instead of a Motto these Letters F. E. R. T. i. e. Fortitudo ejus Rhodum tenuit which is engraven on each link of the Chain interwoven like a True-lovers-knot The Number fourteen besides the Duke Soveraign of the Order their Arms are G. a Cross A. Geneva was a City of the Dukedom of Savoy but now a free State having both cast off the Duke and his Holiness the Pope with all the Clergy They are now Calvanist Protestants their Government Presbyterial their Language the worst of French they are an industrious People and good Merchants Wallisland reacheth from the Mount De Burken to the Town of St. Maurice where the Hills do shut up the Valleys so that a Bridge is lain from one Hill to 'tother under which passeth the River Rosue which Bridge is defended by a Castle and two strong Gates on the other side 't is surrounded with steep and horrid Mountains covered with a Crust of Ice not passable by Armies the Inhabitants are courteous to Strangers but unnatural to each other they are of the Romish Religion and subject to the Bishop of Sion the Deputies of the seven Resorts have voices in his Election and joyn with him in Diets for chusing Magistrates desiding Grievancies and determining matters of State. The Valleys of this Countrey is very fruitfull in Saffron Corn Wine and Delicate Fruits they have a Fountain of Salt many hot Baths and Spaw-Waters they have plenty of Cattle with a wild Stag footed as a Goat and horned as a fallow Deer who in Summer is blind with heat Switzerland is bounded East with the Grisons West with Mount-Jove and the Lake of Geneva North with Suevia and South with Wallisland and part of the Alps this Land is a very Mountainous Countrey but yet hath some rich Meddows It is 240 in length and 180 Miles in breadth the Inhabitants are rich but rugged like their Soyl good Souldiers they are some Papists and some Protestants others Zwinglians yet have they toleration under a Popular Government The Countrey of the Grisons is bounded East with Tyrol North with Switzerland South with Suevia Switzerland and Lumbardy it is a very Mountainous and Barren Land their Religion Protestant their Government Popular there are in this Alpin Provinces two Archbishops and thirteen Bishops It s chief Cities are Turin Geneva Basil and Zurich in all of which are Universities France is bounded East with Germany and South and East with the Mediterranean Seas and Alps North with the British Seas It hath been esteemed the worthiest Kingdom in Christendom it yields plenty of Grains and Wines wherewith it supporteth other Lands it consisteth of many great Dukedoms and Provinces It hath great and mighty Cities the People are Ingenious and good Warriers the Government is Monarchial their Religion Popish but intermixt with Protestants which of late hath endured grievous Persecutions Their Orders of Knighthood are that of St. Michael instituted 1409 consisting of 300 Persons their Habit is a long Cloak of White Damask down to the Ground with a Border interwoven with Cockleshels of Gold interlaced and furred with Ermins with a Hood of Crimson-velvet and a long Tippit about their Necks and a Coller woven with Cockleshells with this Motto Immensitremor Oceani to it hangs appendent the Effigies of St. Michael conquering the Dragon Their Seat is St. Michael's Mount in Normandy 2dly the Order of the Holy Ghost instituted 1579 so that whosoever was admitted to the Order of St. Michael must and was first dignified with this proving their Nobility by three Descents and be bound by Oath to maintain the Romish Religion and persecute all Dissenters thereunto Their Robe is a Black Velvet Mantle portrayed with Lillies and Flames of Gold the Coller of Flower-de-Luces and Flowers of Gold with a Dove and Cross appendent to it The Arms of France are Azure three Flower-de-Luces Or It hath seventeen Archbishops 107 Bishops 132000 Parishes and hath these Magnisicent Cities viz. Amiens Rouen Paris Troys Nants Orleans Diion Lyons Burdeaux Toulose Marsailles Grenoble and Anverse the Rivers of most Note are the Loyre Garone Rhone and the Seyne The Pirenean-hills lyeth betwixt France and Spain and are two Potent Kingdoms esteemed 240 Miles long the People are barbarous and scarce of no Religion at all Spain is separated from France by the Pirenean-hills on all other sides environed with the Sea this Land yieldeth all sorts of Wine Oyl Sugars Grains Metals as Gold and Silver and it is Fertile the Inhabitants are Ambitious Proud Superstitious Hypocrites and Lascivious yet good Souldiers by enduring Hunger Thirst Labour c. It containeth divers Kingdoms 1. Goths 2. Navars it hath had 41 Kings Their Arms are Gules a Carbuncle Nowed Or their Order of Knighthood was of the Lilly their Blazon a Pot of Lillys with the Effigies of the Virgin on it their Duty is to defend the Faith and daily to repeat a certain Number of Ave-Maries 3dly Biscay and Empascon hath had nineteen Lords their Arms Argent two Wolves Sable each in his Mouth a Lamb of the second 4ly Leon and Oviedo hath had thirty Kings the Arms Argent a Lion Passant crowned Or. 5ly Galicia hath had ten Kings the Arms Azure Sema of Cressels siched a Chalice crowned Or. 6ly Corduva hath had twenty Kings the Arms Or a Lion Gules armed and crowned of the first a Border Azure charged with eight Towers Argent 7ly Granado hath had twenty Kings the Arms Or a Pomgranet slipped Vert. 8ly Marcia 9ly Tolledo hath had eleven Morish Kings Ioly Castile hath had twenty Kings the Order of Mercia is his chief Order here the Armes is a Cross Argent and four Beads Gules in a Field Or their Habit white the Rule of their Order that of St. Augustine they are to redeem Captives from Turky 11ly Portugal the Native soyl of the most serene Catharine Queen Dowager hath had 21 Kings the Orders of Knight here is first Avis wearing a Green Cross 2dly of Christ instituted 1321 their Robe is a black Cassock under a white Surcoat with a Red Cross hanging in the midst a white Line and their Duty is to expell Mores out of Boetica the Arms are Argent on five Escucheons Azure as many Befants in saltire of the first pointed Sable within a powder Gules charged with seven Towers Or. 12ly Majorica hath had four Kings 13ly Arragon hath had twenty Kings their Order of Knighthood is of Mintesa their Robe a red Cross on their Breast the Arms Or four Pallets Gules all which Kingdoms are now united into one Monarchy under the King of Spain their Religion Popish the King is not
are a Number of Isles full of Barbarous People and Man-Eaters they have abundance of strange Birds It yields Sugar Cocanuts Cloves Oranges c. In some of these Isles they make Bread of the Pith and Drink of the Juice of the Tree called Sagu It hath these chief Towns viz. Senderem and Macassar Borneo lieth West of the Celebes and is in compass 2200 Miles the Countrey yields Asses Oxen Herbs of Cattle and Horses It yields Camphire Agarick and Mines of Adamants They think the Sun and Moon to be Husband and Wife and the Stars their Children they reverently salute the Sun at his first rising Their Affairs of State they Treat of in the Night at which time the Councellor of State meets and ascends some Tree viewing the Heavens till the Moon ariseth and then they go to their House of State. In it are these Towns viz. Borneo Taiopura Tamaoratas Malno and Sagadana It is under the Government of the Kings of Borneo and Laus the People are Idolaters Java Major and Java Minor are two Islands opposite to Borneo They have plenty of Fruits Grains Beasts Fish and Fowls Gold and Pretious Stones The Natives are of a middle Stature broad faced and tawny their Religion Mahometans and they will eat their nearest of kin the chief Town is Panarucan near a burning Hill which in 1586 broke forth and cast huge Stones into the City for three Days together and destroyed much People From the top of this vast high Mountain the Devil environed with a white and shining Cloud doth sometimes shew himself unto his Worshippers which live about those Hills Sumatra lieth North of Java Major betwixt it and the straits of Sincapura its length is 900 Miles and breadth 200 it is full of Fenns and Rivers with thick Woods and hath a very hot Air it is not fruitfull in Grain Its Commodities are Ginger Pepper Agarick Cassia Wax Honey Silk Cotten Iron Tinn and Sulphur It hath also Mines of Gold and is supposed to be Solomon's Ophyr The King's Furniture of his House and Trapping for his Elephants was beaten Gold and he intituleth himself King of the Golden Mountains Here is the notable Mountain Balalvanus said to burn continually out of which or not far off do arise two Fountains the one is said to run pure Oyle and the other Balsamum Sumatra the People are Mahometans The chief City and Seat of the King is Achen beautifyed with the Royal Pallace to which you pass through seven Gates one after another with green Courts betwixt the two outermost which are guarded with Women that are expert at their Weapons and use both Sword and Guns with great dexterity and are the only Guard the King hath for his Person The Government is Absolute and Arbitrary merely at the King's pleasure Zeiland lies West of Sumatra it is a good Soyl and yields these Commodities viz. Cinnamon Oranges Lemmons most delicate fruit Gold Silver and Pretious Stones it 's full of wild and tame Beasts Fish and Fowls yet destitute of the Vine the People are strong and tall given to Ease and Pleasure and are in general Mahometans The chief Towns are Candia Ventane and Janasipata They have Fish-shells passing currant for money there are other lesser Isles which we do for brevity sake omit and thus we have done with the description of the second part of the World called ASIA AFRICA AFRICA the third part of the World is bounded East with the Red-Sea West with the Atlantick-Ocean South with the Southern-Ocean and North with the Mediterranean Sea and contains these Provinces viz. Egypt Barbary Numidia Lybia Terra-Nigritarum Aethiopia-superior and Aethiopia-inferior with the Islands thereto belonging Its Commodities are Balm Ivory Ebony Sugar Ginger Dates Myrrh Feathers c. Egypt is bounded East with Idumea and the Bay of Arabia on the West with Barbary Numidia and Lybia North with the Mediterranean Sea and South with Aethiopia-superior It s length is 562 Miles and breadth 160. The Natives are of a Tawny Complection their Wives are the Merchants whilst the Husband attends the Houshold Affairs They were the Inventers of Mathematical Sciences they were also Magicians and are still endued with a special Dexterity of Wit They worship in every Town a particular God but the God by them most adored was Apis. This Land is very fruitfull in all manner of Cattle Cammels and abundance of Goats they have plenty of Fowls both wild and tame It hath Metals and Pretious Stones Good Wines and rare Fruits as Oranges Lemmons Cittons Pomgranets Figgs Cherries c. Here also groweth the Palm-Tree which grow the Male and Female together both put out Cods of Seeds but the Female is not fruitfull unless she grow by the Male and have her Seed mixt with his The Pith of this Tree is good for Sallads of the Wood they make Bedsteads of the Leaves Baskets Mats and Fanns of the outward husk of the fruit Cordage of the inward brushes It s fruit is the Dates good for food and finally 't is said to produce all things necessary for the Life of Man and its Branches are worn in token of Victory as saith Horace Palmaque nobilis Terrarum Dominos evebit ad Deos. It hath many other Rarities which I am forc'd to omit In it are these famous Cities viz. Sabod Cairo Alexandria Rascha Damietta Cosir and Surs with the famous River Nilus which by its overflowing makes the Land fertile according to that of Lucia Terra suis contenta bonis non indiga mercis Aut Jovis in solo tanta est fiducia Nilo Barbary is bounded East with Cyrenaica West with the Atlantick-Ocean North with the Mediterranean the Straits of Gibralter and part of the Atlantick-Ocean and on the South by Mount Atlas It is full of Hills and Woods stored with Wild Beasts as Lyons Bears c. Large Herds of Cattle it hath Dragons Leopards and Elephants beautifull swift and strong Horses it is the fruitfullest Countrey â—â— the World in some parts of it for â—liny saith that not far from the City Tacape you shall see a great Palm-Tree overshadowing an Olive under that a Figg-Tree under that a Pomgranat under that a Vine and under all Pease Wheat and Herbs all growing and flourishing at one time which the Earth produceth of it self Its length is 1500 Miles and breadth 300 Miles the Natives are of a Tawnyish Colour rare Horsemen crafty and unfaithfull and above measure Jealous of their Wives It contains these Kingdoms Viz. Tunis Algiers Morocco and Feze and it hath these Isles Viz. Pantalaria Carchana Zerby Gaulos and Malta the two latter of which Isles are inhabited by Christians and are of the Romish Religion but for the other parts of Barbary they are either Mahometans or Pagans The most famous Cities are Morocco Feze Tangier which formerly was a Principal City of Barbary but is now demolisht and lain level with the Ground by the Command of His late Majesty Carolus II. of
blessed Memory and performed by the indefatigable skill and industry of the right Honourable George Lord Darmouth Anno 1683. Teleusin Oran Algiâ—r Constantine Tunis Tripoly and Barca with these famous Rivers Ommiraby and Magrida Mount Atlas is a ridge of Hills of no small length but of an exceeding heighth above the Clouds and is always covered with Snow Summer and Winter full of thick Woods and against ASIA so fruitfull that it affords excellent Fruit of it's natural growth it received it's Name from Atlas a King of Mauritania fain ed by the Poets to be turned into that Hill by the Head of Medusa he was seigned to be so high that his Head touched Heaven The ground of this Fiction I suppose was from his extraordinary knowledge in Astronomy which Virgil seems to intimate Jamque volans apicem latera ardua cernit Atlantis duri Coelum qui vertice foluit Nâ—vidia is bounded East with Egypt West with the Atlantick-Ocean North with Mount Atlas and South with Libia Deserta The Natives are a wandring and unstable People for they spend their Lives in Hunting and continue not above four or five Days in one place but so long as it will graze their Camels Here grow abundance of Dates with which they feed themselves and with the Stones fat their Goats The Air here is so sound that it will cure the Frâ—nch-Pox without any Course of Physick They are Mahometans its chief Provinces are Dara Pescara Fighig Tegorarin and Biledulgerid and its chief Cities are Taradath Dara and Zev they belong to the Scepter of Mâ—rocco Lybia is bounded North with Numidia East with Nuba South with Terra-Nig 〈…〉 tarum and West with Gualata This is well termed a Desart for in it may a man travel eight or ten Days and not see any Water no 〈…〉 Trees nor Grass So that Merchants are forced to carry their Provision with them on Camels which if it fails they kill their Camels and drink the Juice of their Entrails It contains these Provinces Viz. Zahaga Zvâ—nzâ—ga Targa Lembta and Bordea They are governed by the chief of the Clans and are a People only differing from Brute-Beasts by their Shape and their Speech Terra Nigritarum is bounded East with Ethiopia-superior West with the Atlantick-Ocean North with Lybia and South with the Ethiopick-Ocean The Countrey is under the Torrid-Zone full of People and most excessive hot the soyl is exceeding fruitfull brave Woods Multitudes of Elephants and other Beasts they have Mines both of Silver and Gold very fine and pure the Natives are Cole-Black or very Tawny and are now some of them Mahometans but most of them Pagans It hath now these Provinces Viz. Ora Anterosa Gualata Agadez Cano Caâ—â—na Sanaga Gambra Tombrutum Melli Gheneoa Gâ—ber Gialofi Guinea Benin Guangara Bornum and Goaga in which groweth a Poyson which if any eateth but the tenth part of a Grain it will end his Days Bito Temiano Zegzeg Zanfara Gothan Medra and Daum And in it are these most remarkab'e Cities Gue Eata Gueneha Tomta Agadâ—s Cu 〈…〉 a Tuta Waver and Sanfara The Rivers here that are most famous are Sernoga Cambua and Riâ—-Degrand Aethiopia-superior is bounded East with the Red-Sea and Sinus Barbaricus West with Lybia-inferior Nubia and Congo North with Egypt and Lybia Marmarica and South with Monta-Luna Now its length is said to be 1500 Miles and Circute 4300. It is under the Command of the Abassine Emperour here the Air and Earth is so hot and pieircing that if the Inhabitants go out of their Doors without Shoes they lose their Feet here they also roast their Meat with the Sun they have some grain their Rivers are almost choaked up with Fish their Woods stuffed with Deer yet they will not trouble themselves to catch them The Inhabitants are Lazy and destitute of all Learning â—hey are of an Olive Tawny here is also a Fountain that if a man drinks thereof he either falleth mad or else for a long time is troubled with a continual Drowsiness of which Ovid thus speaks Aethiopesque Lacus quos si quis faucibus hausit Aut furit aut patitur mirum gravitate saporem And it contains these Provinces Viz. Guagere Tigremaon Angote Amara Damut Gojamy Bagamedrum Barnagasse Dancali Dobas Adel Adea Fatigar Xoa and Barus Now as for the Government of these Empires'tis merely Regal here is the Order of St. Anthony to which every Father that is a Gentleman is to give one of his Sons out of which they raise about 12000 Horse which are to be a standing Guard of the Emperour's Person their Oath is to defend the Frontiers of their Kingdom to preserve Religion and to root out the Enemies of their Faith the Principals of their Religion are these First they circumcise their Children both Males and Females Secondly they Baptize the Males at 40 and Females at 80 Days after Circumcision Thirdly after the Eucharist they are not to spit till Sun set Fourthly they profess but one Nature and one Will in Christ. Fifthly they accept but of the three first general Councils Sixthly the Priests live by the own labour of their hands and are not to beg Seventhly they baptize themselves every Epiphany in Lakes or Ponds because that Day they say Christ was baptized by John in Jordan Eighthly they eat not of those Beasts which Moses pronounced unclean keeping the Jews Sabbath with the Lord's Day Tenthly they administer the Lord's Supper to Infants presently after Baptism Eleventhly they teach the Reasonable Soul of Man comes by Seminal Propagation Twelfthly that Infants dying unbaptized are saved being sanctifyed by the Eucharist in the Womb and finally they produce a Book of Eight Volumes writ as they say by the Apostles at Jerulalem for that purpose the Contents whereof they observe most solemnly and thus they differ from the Papists Now the chief Cities in this Empire are these Viz Barone Caxumo Amarar Damont â—â—â—â—tes Narre Goyame and Adeghena with the famous Rivers Zaire and Quilmâ—nei Aethiopia-inferior is bounded East with the Red-Sea West with the Aethiolick Ocean North with Terra-Negritarum and the higher aethipy and South with the Main Ocean And it contains these Provinces Viz. Zanzibar Mâ—nomotapa Cafravia and Manigongo The Natives are Black with curled Hair and are Pagans In it are great Herds of Cattle abundance of Deere Antelopes Baboons Foxes Hares Ostriches Pelicans and Herons and in a Word what else is necessary for the Life of Man. In it are these most famous Cities Viz. Banza Loanga S. Salvador Cabazze Sabula Simbaos Butua and Tete The Rivers are Cuama Spiritus Sancto and Dos Infante The Islands in AFRICA are these Viz. the Aethiopick-Isles Madagascar Socofara Mohelia Mauritius St. Helens the Isles of Ascention St. Thomas-Isles the Princes-Isles the Isles of Annibon the Isles of Cape d'Verd the Canaries Madera Holyport and the Hesperides The Description of all which I am forced to omit because I have been so very large
Anian and 't is divided into these four parts viz. Quivira Cibola Califormia specially so called and Nova Albion All which Countreys are indifferent fruitfull full of Woods and both wild and tame Beasts plenty both of Fish and Fowl wild and tame They worship the Sun as their chief God They go naked both Men and Women in some parts others are half way cloathed and so very various that I cannot in this small Tract describe them It s chief Town is Chichilticala And here I cannot chuse but remark that in Quivira their Beasts are of strange forms and are to them both Meat Drink and Cloathes For the Hides yields them Houses their Bones and Hair Bodkins and Threed their Sinews Cords their Horns Guts and Bladders Vessels their Dung Fire their Calveskins Buckets to draw and keep Water in their Blood Drink and their Flesh Meat and so much for Califormia Nova Gallicia is bounded East and South with Nova Hispania West with the River Buena Guia and the Gulph Califormia and North with Terra Incognita It comprehendeth these Provinces viz. Chialoa Contiacan Xalisco Guadalajara Zacatecas New Biscay and Nova Mexicana In which Provinces the Air is indifferently temperate yet sometimes given to Thunder Storms and Rain It is full of Mountains yields Brass Iron c. They have plenty of Fish Beast Fowls Fruit and abundance of Honey The Natives are wavering crafty and lazy given to singing and dancing They go not naked they are subject to the King of Spain It s chief Cities are Guadalajara and St. Johns Nova-Hispania is bounded East with the Gulph of Mexico and the Bay of New-Spain West with Nova Gallicia and Mare-del-Zur on the North with part of Nova Gallicia and part of Florida and on the South with the South Sea. It comprehendeth these Provinces Viz. Mexicana Mechoacan Panuco Trascala Guaxata Chiapa and Jucutan In all which the Air is healthfull and temperate rich in Mines of Gold and Silver Cassia Coccineel which grows on a shrub called Tuna yields grain and delicate Fruit Birds and Beasts both Wild and Tame their Harvest is in October and in May. The Natives are witty and hardy yet so ignorant that they thought the Spanish-horse and Man to have been but one Creature and thought when the Horses Neighed they had spoken The Spaniards whose Cruelties will never be forgotten did in less than 17 years kill of the Natives 6000000 here is a Tree called Meto it bears 40 kinds of Leaves of which they make Conserves Paper Flax Mantles Matts Shoes Girdles it yields a Juce like Syrup which boyled becomes Hony if purified Sugar the Bark roasted is a good Emplaisture for Punctures or Contusions and it yields a Gum Sovereign against Poyson here is also a Burning Mountain called Propaeampeche which sends forth two streams the one of Red and the other of Black Pitch the Inhabitants are Pagans Guatimala is bounded North with Jacuta and the Gulph Honduras South with Mare-del-Zur East with Castella-Aurea and West with New Spain The Soyl and People are as in Nova Hispania it contains these Provinces Viz. Chiapa Verapaz Guatimala Hondarus Niceragna and Teragna And Towns of most Note are Cutrinidao and St. Michael's the People are Pagans And so much for Mexicana Peruana the Second Part of AMERICA so called from Peru a Place of Note therein and it doth contain these Provinces Viz. Castella-Aurea Nova-Granada Peru Chile Paragnay Brasile Guyana and Paria and its Isles But such Isles that fall not properly under some of these must be referred to the general Heads of the American Islands Castella-del Oro is bounded East and North with Mare-del-Noort West with Mare-del-Zur and South with Granada And it containeth these Provinces Viz. Panama Darien Nova-Andaluzia St. Martha and De-la-Hacha In all which Provinces the Air is very hot and unhealthfull the Soyl either Mountainous and Barren or low and Miry plenty of Beast and Fowls Here is said to be a Tree which if one touch he is poysoned to death the old Natives are now almost quite rooted out It s chief City is Carthagena which Sir Francis Drake in 1585 took by Assault This Land hath abundance of Gold. Nova-Granada is bounded North with Castella Aurea West with Mare-del-Zur East with Venezâ—â—la and South with Terra Incognita It s length is 390 Miles and as much in breadth It doth consist of these two parts Viz. Granada specially so called and Popayan both which hath a temperate Air brave Woods well stored with Cattle and Fowls both wild and tame plenty of Emeralds and Guacum the People tall and strong the Women handsome and better drest than their Neighbours The chief Towns are S. Toy d'Bagota and Popayan Peru is bounded East with the Andes West with Mare-del Zur North with Popayan and South with Chile It is 2100 Miles in length and its breadth is 300 Miles it is a Mountainous Country And here 't is to be noted that in the Plains it never raineth and that on the Hills it continually raineth from September to April and then breaks up In the Hilly Countreys the Summer begins in April and endeth in September In the Plains the Summer beginneth in October and endeth in April So that a man may travel from Summer to Winter both in one Day be frozen in the Morning when he setteth out and scorched with heat before the dawning of the Day It is not very plentifull of Corn nor Fruits but they have a kind of Sheep which they call Pacos as bigg as an Ass profitable both for fleece and burthen but in tast as pleasant as our Mutten So subtile that if it be overladen it will not for blows move a foot till the burthen be lessened and it is a very hardy Creature Here is a Figg-tree the North part of which looketh towards the Mountains and yieldeth its Fruit in Summer only and the Part facing the Sea in Winter only They have another Plant that if put into the hands of the Sick and the Patient looks merry they will recover but if sad die It yieldeth also Multitudes of Rarities more It 's chief Commodities are Gold Silver Tobacco Sarsaparilla and Balsamum d'Peru and many other rich Drugs The Natives are almost now rooted out of the Country They are fierce and Barbarous Now it contains these Provinces viz. Quito Los Quinxos Lima Cusco Charcos and Collaâ— Chile is bounded North with Deserta Alacama West with Mare del Zuz South with the Straits of Magellan and East with Rio de la Plata It s length is 1500 miles and breadth uncertain The Soil hereof in the Mid-land is mountainous and unfruitfull towards the Sea-side level and fertile with products of Maize and Wheat plenty of Gold and Silver Cattle and Wine The Natives are very tall and warlike some of them affirmed to be eleven foot high their Garments of the Skins of Beasts they are of a white Complexion their Armes Bows and Arrows It is