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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26664	A short account, of the nature and use of maps as also some short discourses of the properties of the earth, and of the several inhabitants thereof : to which is subjoin'd, A catalogue of the factories and places now in possession of the English, French, Dutch, Spaniards, Portegueze and Danes, both in the East and West-Indies.	Alingham, William, fl. 1694-1710.	1698 (1698)	Wing A930; ESTC R19265	18,438	64

Longitudes but they being something foreign to the present Design because not practicable without the knowledge of the nature of Projection and Calculation I purposely neglect them How to measure Distances on right lin'd Maps DIstances are easily Measured on these sort of Maps for having found the two places on the Map whose Distance you require set one foot of the Compasses in one place and extend the other foot to the other this Extent applied either to Bottom Top or Sides of the Map shews you how many Degrees they are distant which multiplied by 70 gives their distance in English Miles if there be any odd Minuits above the degrees for every 6 of them allow 7 Miles But generally to these kind of Maps there is annexed a Scale of Miles so that having the distance betwixt any two places 't is but applying it to this Scale and you have the Miles they are distant by inspection Of the Zones A Zone signifies a Belt or Girdle but here is to be understood a certain quaintity of Land included by one or two Parallels Now the Number of Zones Geographers have divided the Globe into are Five Of which there are two Temperate two Frigid or Frozen and one Torrid The Torrid Zone is that space of Earth contained betwixt the two Tropicks viz. Cancer and Capricorn being in Breadth to 47 Degrees which is 3290 English Miles upon this Zone or Tract of Earth lies most part of Africa a great part of South America also several Islands as Java Sumatra St. Thomas c. The Antients both Philosophers Divines and Poets counted this Zone altogether inhabitable by reason of the extream Heat and therefore termed it intemperate but later Discoveries have prov'd to the contrary The Inhabitants of this Zone are called Amphiscians because they have their shadows both ways at Noon that is one part of the Year it is toward the North the other part toward the South The Temperate Zones are those spaces of Earth included betwixt the Tropicks and Polar Circles the North temperate Zone being that portion of Earth contained betwixt the Tropick of Cancer and Artick Circle the South Temperate Zone is that part or portion of Earth bounded by the Tropick of Capricorn and Antarctick Circle each of these Zones are in breadth 43 Degrees that is 3010 Miles in the Northern Temperate Zone lies almost all Europe and the North part of Africa as also a considerable part of Asia and America the Southern Temperate Zone is not so well known to us it being far distant from our Habitation These Zones are termed Temperate because the Sun-beams being cast Obliquely cannot create that excessive heat as they do where they fall Perpendicular They in some measure pertake of the Extremities of Heat and Cold proceeding from the Torrid and Frigid Zones those that inhabit in these Zones are called Heteroscians because their shadows is but one way The Frigid or Frozen Zones are those two tracts of Earth environ'd by the two Polar Circles that Enclosed by the Artick Circle is called the Northern Frigid Zone the other Encompassed is the Southern Frigid Zone their Diameter is 47 Degrees which is 3290 English Miles Under the Northern Frigid Zone lies Greenland Lapland Nova Zembla and part of the Tartarian Ocean whether there is any Land in the Southern Frigid Zone is not known to us that inhabit this part of the Earth The Coldness of these Zones is caused from the very Oblique falling of the Sun's Rays upon the Earth's Surface from which his Action is so small that the heat proceeding from him in the warmest day they there have is scarce sufficient to melt the Congealed Rocks of Ice and Snow Those that inhabit these parts of the Earth are called Periscians because their shadows are thrown quite round them they are under great inconveniencies First by reason of the extream Cold they suffer and secondly because their whole year is but one Day and Night for when the Sun is once risen he sets not again for half a Year together and when he sets rises not again for as long a time Of the Climates THe Climates are certain spaces of Earth limited by two Parallels distant from the Equinoctial toward each Pole the difference betwixt the Zones and Climates is this The principal Office of the Zones is to distinguish the quality of the Air in respect of Heat and Cold and the alteration of Shadows But the office of the Climates is to shew the greatest difference in the length of the Days and Nights as also the Variation in the rising and seting of the Stars Those that live under the Equator have their Day and Night equal but those places that recede so far from the Equator as to make the difference of the longest artificial Day half an hour longer than it is where the longest day is 12 hours and a half there ends the first Climate and there the second begins if therefore according to the increase of days the Climates be reckoned there will be 24 in each Hemisphere that is in all 48 counting no farther than the Polar Circles for the places in that parallel of Latitude conciding with either Polar Circle have their longest day above 24 hours long Now Geographers have given Names only to 9 of those in the Northern Hemisphere and these Names are taken from the most famous places through which the Parallel Circles pass that bound them As Dia-Meroes Dia-Syenes Dia-Alexandrias Dia-Rhodu Dia-Rhomes Dia-Pontu Dia-Boristhenes Dia-Britanias Dia-Tanaidos The Southern Climates are distinguished by the Word Ante as Ante Dia Meroes Ate Dia Synenes c. Of the properties of the several Inhabitants of the Earth THose People living put under the Equator have great Heat having two Summers one when he passes the first of Aries the other when he passeth the first point of Libra and has also two Winters which are when he passes the first points of Cancer and Capricorne for then the Sun is farthest remote from those People though not so remote but that their Winters are much hotter than our Summers whence 't is evident their two Summers are our Spring and Autumn and our Winter and Summer their two Winters their Noon-Shades are thrown both to the North and South and sometimes directly under them that is they have none at all Their Artificial Day is always just 12 Hours long they see the whole Phaenomenae of the Heavens for all the Planets and Stars to those Inhabitants do Arise Culminate and Set once in 24 Hours Secondly For those who inhabit betwixt the Equinoctial and Topick of Cancer they have some Seasons as the former viz. two Summers and two Winters for the Sun twice a Year passeth there Zenith their Noon-shadows are likewise thrown both to the North and South part of Heaven and sometimes directly under them their longest day is something longer then 12 Hours Thirdly The Inhabitants under the Tropick of Cancer that is such People that have their Zenith in the

said Tropick have the Sun but once a year in their Zenith and that is when he is in the first point of Cancer they have but one Summer and one Winter their Noonshadow is always toward the North except when he is just in the Tropick and then there is none at all their longest day is 13 h. 36 m. long Fourthly The People that Inhabit betwixt the Tropick of Cancer and the Circle Artick have the Sun never Vertical their shadows are always thrown toward the North and their Artifical Days is of all lengths viz. from 13 h. 36 m. to 24 Hours Fifthly Those that have their Zenith in the Artick Circle that is such who live just upon that Circle have the Pole of the Ecliptick just in their Zenith and consequently the Ecliptick coinciding with their Horizon and therefore the Tropick of Cancer must be all above the Horison and the Tropick of Capricorn quite under the Horizon so that the Sun being in the first point of Cancer their artificial Day is just 24 hours long and their Night but a Moment their shadow is cast quite round them Sixthly The People inhabiting betwixt the north-North-pole and Artick Circle have their Horizon cutting the Ecliptick in two points and a certain portion of it equally distant from the first point of Cancer that never sets but remains always above the Horizon whence it cometh to pass that all the time the Sun is passing this portion of the Ecliptick they have continual Day and no Night the length of which is more or less according to the portion of the Ecliptick that never sets being about one Month long when the said portion is 30 Degrees two Months when the said portion is 60 Degrees or two Signs and so on That is the farther North the longer day till at last you come just under the Pole it self where the whole Year is but one Day and Night each being half a Year In this Position also there is a certain portion of the Ecliptick equidistant from the first point of Capricorn that never Rises or comes above the Horizon so that during the time the Sun is passing the said Portion there is perpetual Night to these Inhabitants their shadows are also projected quite round them Seventhly As for those people if any be inhabiting just under the Pole they have the Equinoctial coinciding with their Horizon and have always but the Northern half of the Ecliptick above the Horizon so that their Year is but one natural Day as before was hinted for when the Sun passeth the first point of Aries then to those People he arises and sets not again till he passes the first point of Libra which is half a Year after they never see no more then half the Heavens at once all the Southern Hemisphere being totally obscured from their sight their shadow is likewise cast clear round them the end of it projecting a Concentrick Circle Of the Perieci Antieci and Antipodes THE Inhabitants of the Earth compared with one another in respect of their Scituation are Perieci and Antieci Antipodes The Perieci are those People that dwell in opposite points of the same Parallel that is they have the same Latitude with us but 180 Degrees difference of Longitude and therefore their Days and Nights are equal to ours only they are contrary that is our Noon is their Mid-night and our Evening their Morning c. their Seasons are at the same time with ours Anticeci are those People that dwell over against each other they have the same Meridian and are equally distant from the Equator one having as much South Latitude as the other has North Latitude they have the same Hours with us that is our Noon and their Noon is at the same instant of time But the Seasons are different for when 't is Summer with us 't is Winter with them and contrary The Antipodes as the word imports are such as dwell feet to feet that is they are such People that inhabit just under us having as much South Latitude as we have North and 180 Degrees difference of Longitude their nearest distance is 180 Degrees or 12600 Miles which is half the circumference of the Earth their Hour-Seasons and all other Accidents are quite contrary for our Noon is their Mid-night our Summer their Winter and our Autumn their Spring we can see no more of their Stars than they do of ours and the Stars that never rise to them never set to us and contrary A Catalogue of some of the chiefest Places in the World with their Latitudes and Longitudes from London Extracted from the best Tables now Extant Places Names Lat. Long. ABerdeen in Scotland 58 04 358 15 Alexandria 30 58 35 00 Amsterdam 52 25 5 00 Antwerp 51 12 4 15 Aracta in Syria 36 00 50 00 Athens in Greece 37 42 28 30 Babylon in Caldea 35 00 47 30 Berwick in England 55 50 358 30 Bethlehem in Judea 31 50 42 00 Bononia in Italy 43 49 11 15 Bristol in Italy 51 28 257 00 Breme in Saxony 53 10 9 30 Calicut in East-India 11 30 88 00 Canterbury in England 51 25 01 00 Comportella in Spain 43 00 351 00 Conimbria in Lusitania 40 15 351 45 Cambridge 52 17 0 30 Constantinople in Thrace 43 00 34 30 Damascus in Syria 34 0 45 30 Darby in England 53 3 358 30 Dantzick in Pursia 54 23 18 30 Dublin in Ireland 53 11 353 15 Durham in England 54 17 358 30 Edinburgh in Scotland 57 06 357 30 Exter in England 50 53 356 30 Frankford Odar 52 20 15 00 Frankford Mane 50 2 8 45 Glocester in England 51 58 357 45 Ter Goose in Zeland 51 30 4 15 Gaunt in Flanders 51 04 4 30 Goa in Judia 16 00 87 30 Grats in Styria 47 02 14 00 Haffina in Denmark 55 43 13 00 Hartford in England 51 55 359 45 Huntington in England 52 24 359 45 Jerusalem 32 10 45 30 Leyden in Holland 52 07 5 15 Lisbon in Portugal 38 45 351 30 Leverpool in England 53 22 357 30 London 51 30 00 00 Lyons 45 16 5 00 Madrid 40 45 257 45 Mount in Cornwall 50 39 354 45 Mentz in Germany 51 31 11 15 Munster in Westphalia 51 54 7 00 Naples 40 42 15 00 Norimberg 52 40 12 00 Norwich 52 44 1 00 Niniveh 35 50 54 30 Orleans in France 48 08 00 00 Oxford 51 40 358 45 Prague 56 00 14 30 Paris 48 5 2 30 Quinzay in China 40 0 12 00 Rome 42 2 12 45 Roterdam 51 55 3 45 Roan in Normandy 49 30 1 30 Rochel 45 49 359 00 Smyrna 38 50 33 30 Stockholm 48 50 15 45 Syracuse 36 50 16 15 Thessalonica 41 32 26 45 Toledo 40 10 354 00 Valence in Spain 39 45 358 15 Venice 45 15 12 30 Vienna 48 22 17 00 Uranilerg 55 55 13 00 Warwick 52 25 358 30 Wittenberg 51 52 13 30 Winchester 51 13 358 00 Worms Germany 50 25 7 45 Yarmouth 52 45