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A90869 A compendious view, or Cosmographical, and geographical description of the whole world. With more plain general rules, touching the use of the globe, then bave been yet published. Wherein is shewed the situation of the several countries, and islands: their particular governments, manners, commodities, and religions. Also a chronology of the most eminent persons, and things that have been since the creation, to this present: wherein you have a brief of the gospel, or a plain, and easie table, directing readily where to find the several things, that were taught, spoke, done and suffered, by Jesus Christ, throughout the said gospel. The which is not onely pleasant, and delightful; but very useful, and profitable; for all. But cheifly for those who want, either time, to read, or money to buy, many books. / By Tho. Porter. Porter, Thomas, fl. 1654-1668. 1659 (1659) Wing P2998A; Thomason E1863_2; ESTC R210226 74,944 154

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  7 F   8 E D 9 C   70 B   1 A   2 G F 3 E   4 D   5 C   6 B A 7 G   8 F   9 E   80 D C 1 B   2 A   3 G   4 F E 5 D   1686 C   year it declareth that year to be Leap-year Note When you come to the year 1686 which is the last year in the Table you must begin again and must call the year 1659. 1687. and so continue the Table for ever The use of the perpetual Almanack HAving by the former directions found the Sunday letter look in the Almanack what day of the week standeth under that letter for that is the day of the week representeth by the figures under every moneth Example 1659 the Sunday letter is B under which is Friday therefore the figures 18. 15. 22. 29. which stand under April and July doe represent the Fridayes of those moneths so likewise the figures 4. 11. 18. 25. which stand under March November and February do represent the Fridays in those moneths and so of the rest And the Fridayes in every moneth of the year being thus discovered the other dayes are easily known for if the fourth of March or the first moneth be Friday the fifth must be Saterday the 6th Sunday the 7th Munday the 8th Tuesday c. Onely Note that if it be Leap-year there are two Sunday letters each of which will give you a several day as in the year 1660 the Sunday letters are A G the letter gives me Saturday which serves for January and February and G gives me Sunday which serveth for all the year after A Definition Explanation and Description of several Names or Terms of Water and Land THe Terrestrial or Eartly Globe is defined to be a Spherical or round Body proportionably composed of Earth and Water A Figure of which you have expressed at a corner of the Map The Earth is first to be considered and is affirmed by the latest best and most ●●arned Writers to be in compasse 21600 English 〈◊〉 and plainly appears thus Every of the greater Circles contein 360 degrees every degree being accounted 60 English miles let 360 be multiplyed by 60 and the sum or product will be 21600 as was aforesaid The Earth is divided into real and imaginary parts and these usually and commonly into Continents and Islands A Continent is a great quantity of Land not separated or enterlaced by any Sea from other parts of the World in which are conteined many Countries or Kingdoms as Europe Asia or as the Countryes of France Germany Tartary or the like An Island is a part of Land environed or encompassed round about with Water as England and Scotland together or as Ireland alone And these are subdivided or again divided into Peninsula's Isthmus and Promontories A Peninsula is almost an Island that is to say a Tract or part of Land which is but almost encompassed with Water being joyned to the firm Land by some little part of Land or Isthmus as Morea in Greece c. An Isthmus is a little narrow neck of Land which joyneth any Peninsula to the Continent as the straights of Corinth in Greece and Dariena in America A Promontory is a high Mountain which shooteth it self into the Sea the utmost end of which is called a Foreland or Cape as the Cape of Good-hope Cape Verde in Africa and St. Michaels Mount in England There are also other real parts of the Earth as Plains Vallayes Hills Woods and the like but these are so well known by every one that they need no explanation The second real part of the Globe is Water which is divided into Ocean Sea a Straight a Creek or Bay and Lake 1 The Ocean is a general collection of Water which environeth or encompasseth the Earth on every side 2. The Sea is a part of the Ocean to which we cannot come but through some straight as the Mediterraneum sea the Black-sea the Red-sea c. Now it is plain and certain that divers and sundry names have been given to the Sea as well as to the Earth taken either from the Contries and places adjoyning to or watered by it as the Brittish-sea the Spanish-sea the Indian-sea c. or from the divers Climates Situation or parts of the World from whence came the North-sea the East-sea the West-sea the South-sea Mare del Nort Mare del Zur The Sea which floweth between Europe Africa and Asia is called the Mederiterraneum or Mid-land Sea because it lyeth as it were between the aforesaid places She hath sometimes her name from the colour as the Red-sea which also called Arabian Gulf not that the Water is red but the Red sand which lyeth under it make it to appear so Moreover it takes its name oftentimes from the nature effects and events of things as appears in that which did be fal the Spaniard in the Sea between Spain and the Canaries or fortunate Islands for they carrying over a great company of Mares to put in the places they had taken which were destitnte of them that they might there increase and multiply and because by tempest they were drowned in the Sea they called it the Gulf of Mares About the North-pole it is called the frozen Sea because it is there almost alwayes frozen 3. A Straight is a part of the Ocean restrained within narrow bounds and opening a way to the sea as the Straights of Gibralter and the Straights of Magellaniea 4. A Creek or Bay is a crooked shore thrusting out as it were two arms to embrace the sea as the Corinthian and Persian Creeks also Button's and Hudson's Bay 5. A Lake is a great Collection or gathering of Water which hath no visible entercourse with the sea as the Lake of Lough-Neauh in Ireland the Dead-sea in the Land of Canaan and the Caspian-sea though by reason of the bigness of the two last they are called seas And hereunto belong Rivers Brooks and the like which are so well known by every man that we will pass them over without more ado Of the flowing and ebbing of the Sea You must know that it is not always alike for in divers places it doth encrease for the space of 6 whole hours and decrease as many but in the Promontory of Erithrem in Africa commonly called Cabo Rosso it increaseth 4 hours and decreaseth 8. In divers places it keeps alwayes at one state without ebbing or flowing And so at the Cape called Das Palmas it runs still towards the East although by vertue of the first mobile or chief moveable and of the Moon the whole Sea seems to move towards the West Notwithstanding when by interposition of the Earth she is hindred from her natural course it cometh to pass that her course is variable not onely in the aforesaid places but also in many others For the same cause it is that about Florida the Sea runs still towards the North without any return and