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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31608	Compendium geographicum, or, A more exact, plain, and easie introduction into all geography ... after the latest discoveries, or alterations, very useful, especially for young noblemen and gentlemen, the like not printed in English / by Peregrin Clifford Chamberlayne ...	Chamberlayne, Peregrine Clifford.	1682 (1682)	Wing C1861_VARIANT; ESTC R36299	48,706	158

Temperate Zones which do thereby partake of a more equal mixture of Heat and Cold. As the Globe is made up of two parts Earth and Water so each of these Elements have their parts and subdivisions To begin with the Earth it may most properly be divided first into Islands and Continents An Island is a Country or portion of Land compassed about with Sea or other Water as Great Britain Sicily Candy c. Continents are of two sorts First a Continent properly so called is a large quantity of Land having little or no Sea near it as Muscovy Poland c. The other sort of Continents are those which are almost environed with Water to which the name of Peninsula or Chersonesus is more fitly applied such is Morea the South part of Greece Peninsula must be understood quasi penè and Insula almost an Island and Chersonesus is taken from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Terra and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Insula In Isthmus from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to enter is that space or Neck of Land which joins a Peninsula to the Continent and is called sometimes a Straight though improperly A Promontory quasi Mons in Mare prominens now commonly styled Cape or Head is a Hill or Point of Land stretching out into the Sea All the Water upon the Globe goes under the denomination of Seas Lakes and Rivers but where the Sea is of a large extent and not intermingled with Land as between America and Astrick it is generally termed Ocean and when a small part of the Sea is almost environed with Land they commonly give it the name of Gulf as the Red Sea the Gulf of Venice c. and that narrow passage by which a Gulf is joyned to the Main Sea is called a Straight But a Gulf that is of no great compass as six seven or eight Mile is more properly stiled a Bay or Creek yet it is sometimes otherwise A Lake is a large place of a considerable depth always full of Water and compassed about with Land not having any entercourse with the Sea unless by a Subterranean passage or by some River as the Lake of Geneva between Swizzerland and Savoy A River is a stream of Water which has it's beginning from a Spring or Lake from whence it flows continually without intermission and at last empties it self into the Sea Now to make a comparison of some parts of the Earth with others of the Water you will find that the Description of a Continent resembles that of the Ocean and the Form of an Island that of a Lake A Peninsula in point of Figure is not unlike a Gulf and an Isthmus has the same relation to the former as a Straight has to the latter Least any one should make use of Maps that are erroneous or defective this is to give notice that the most exact Maps are those of Sanson and Du Val the two famous French Geographers unto which as being the best I have adapted this little Geography A Short and Easie INTRODUCTION INTO GEOGRAPHY CHAP. I. Of the Earth in general GEOGRAPHY is the Description of the Terrestrial Globe represented by the Maps of Geography which are the true plat-forms of it and by the help thereof it is made easie to us The Terrestrial Globe being round cannot be represented in the Map of the Earth but by two Hemispheres the one Eastern and the other Western To the end that you may know the Situation of the places in the Maps you must observe that the North is always on the top or at least should be so the South at the bottom the East on the right hand the West on the left The Terrestrial Globe is divided into Land and Water The Land is distinguished in the Maps by the places filled up the Sea by the empty and the Rivers by the small lines which go winding in and out through the Land towards the Sea where at last they all end the Mountains and Hills are easily known being made like little Mole-hills or like small Waves the Forests by small Shrubs the Rocks and the Banks of Sand by little black specks pricked in the Water and certain shadows or small stroaks which one may see in the Maps all along between the Sea and Land serve to mark the Sea Coasts and to divide the Land from the Water The Division of the Earth ought to precede that of the Water because it is the dwelling place of Man and because the knowledge of it is more noble and necessary All the Surface of the habitable Earth is divided into four great parts which the Vulgar call Worlds and the Geographers Continents and into several Islands which lie up and down in the Ocean or within narrow Seas which make as it were a fifth part CHAP II. Of the Continents THE first Continent which we inhabit is called the Eastern Continent but most commonly the Ancient World It comprehends three parts to wit Europe situated in the North-west part of this Continent then Asia which is the greatest and most Easterly part and last of all Asrick which lies South-west from the other two The second Continent which lies westerly from us is called America or the New World and by the Merchants and Mariners the West Indies or the little Indies supposed to be called anciently Atlantis Insula the Isle of Atlas It is divided into two parts to wit North America or Mexicana and South America or Peruviana The third Continent which is the most Southerly part is known to us by the name of Magellanica or Terra Incognita The fourth is the most Northern Continent called Terra Arctica whereof we have so little knowledge that we doubt yet whether or no it is separated from America In the old World first Europe is subdivided into eight great parts or to make a more convenient division one may add the Brittish Isles and so divide it into nine parts whereof three are towards the North and cold three in the middle of Europe which are temperate and three towards the South more hot to which great parts add three small ones interlaced between the others The three Northern parts are 1. The Brittish Isles which comprehend the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland the chief Towns are London Edenburg and Dublin 2. Scandinavia which includes the Kingdoms of Swedeland Denmark at first inhabited by the Cimbri or Cimbrians and Norway chief Towns Stockholm Copenhagen and Drunthem 3. Thirdly Muscovy or Russia which with Poland in the time of the Romans was called Sarmaria ch T. Mosco Great Novogrod and Archangel The three parts of Europe which partake more equally of North and South are 4. France ch T. Paris Lyons and Rouen 5. The Empire of the West or Germany ch T. Vienna Prague and Colen 6. Poland ch T. Cracow Warsaw and Dantzick The three Southern parts of Europe are 7. Spain ch T. Madrid Sevil and Lisbon in Portugal 8. Italy ch T. Rome Venice and Naples 9. Turky in