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A16718	Enquiries touching the diuersity of languages, and religions through the cheife parts of the world. Written by Edw. Brerewood lately professor of astronomy in Gresham Colledge in London	Brerewood, Edward, 1565?-1613.; Brerewood, Robert, Sir, 1588-1654.	1614 (1614)	STC 3618; ESTC S106411	137,209	224

limitation of theirs to be vntrue yet neither can I yeeld to them who esteem it * Horat. Malaguz nel discor so de ● cinque massimi Signo●i greater then the vast dominions of the Emperours of Turkie or of Tartarie c Or to them that extend it from the one Tropique to the other and from the red sea almost to the west Ocean For first certaine it is that I may speake a little of the limits of this kingdome that it attaineth not to the redde sea Eastward neither within the straits of Babel mandel nor without for within those straits Boter 〈◊〉 pro●im cita●o along the Bay of Arabia there is a continuall ledge of mountaines knowne to bee inhabited with Moores betwixt that Bay and the dominion of Habassia So that only one Port there is along all that coast Somman dei regni Oriental apud Ramos vol 1. pag 324 Ercoco by name where those mountaines open to the Sea that at this present belongeth to it Neither without those Straits doth it any where approach to the Ocean All that coast as farre as Mozambique being well knowne to be inhabited with Arabians And as touching the west limits of Habassia I can not finde by any certaine history or relation vnskilfull men may rumour what they will and I know also that the common Charts represent it otherwise I cannot find I say that it stretcheth beyond the riuer Nilus so far commeth it short of the West Ocean For it is knowne that all the west bank of Nilus from the riuer of Zaire to the confines of Nubia Boter Rel●● p 1 lib. 3. ca. Loango A●●zichi is possessed by the Anzichi being an idolatrous and man-eating nation subiect to a great Prince of their own thus then it is with the bredth of the Empire of Habassia betwixt East and West And now to speake of the length of it lying north and South neither doth it approach northward on Nilus side further then the south end of the Isle of Meroe Meroe it selfe is inhabited by Mahumetans and the deadly enemies of the king of Habassia nor on the Sea side farther then about the port of Suachem And toward the south although the bounds of that kingdom be not perfectly known yet that it approacheth nothing neere the circle of Capricorne as hath bin supposed is most manifest because the great kingdomes of Moenhemage and Benomotapa and some others are situate betwixt Habassia and that circle But as neere as I am able to coniecture hauing made the best search that I can in the itineraries and relations that are extant of those parts the south limit of that Empire passeth not the south parallel of six or seuen degrees at the most where it confineth with Moenhemage So that to make a respectiue estimate of the largenesse of that dominion by comparing it with our knowne regions of Europe It seemeth equall to Germany and France and Spaine and Italie laid together Equall I say in dimension of ground but nothing neere equall in habitation or multitude of people which the distemperature of that climate and the drye barrennes of the ground in many regions of it wil not allow For which cause the torride parts of Afrique are by Piso in Strabo resembled to a Libbards skinne Strab. l. 2. the distance of whose spots represent the dispersednesse of habitations or townes in Afrique But if I should absolutely set downe the circuit of that whole dominion I esteeme the limitation of Pigafetta Pigafett de Regn. Cong l. 1. c. 10. nere about the truth namely that it hath in circūference 4000. miles about 1500. in length and about 600. in breadth beeing inclosed with Mahumetans on the north and east and with Idolaters on the West and South Such then as I haue declared is the condition of Christians in the continent of Afrique but the Inhabitants of the Isles along the west coast of Africk as namely Madera the Canaries the Isles of Cabo verde and of S. Thomas and some other of lesse importance are by the Portugals and Castilians instruction become Christian but on the East side of Afrique excepting only * Paul Venet. l. 3. c. 38. Zocotora there is no Christian Isle Euen such is the state of Christians in the firme land and the adiacent Isles of Afrique And it is not much better in Asia for excepting first the Empire of Russia and yet of it a great part is Idolatrous namely the region betweene the riuers of Pechora and Ob and some part of Permia secondly the regions of Circassia and Mengrelia lying along Moe●tis and the Euxine sea from Tanais Eastward as farre as the riuer Phasis Thirdly the prouince of Georgia and fourthly the mountaine Libanus in Syria and yet the last of these is of the Turkes dominion excepting these few I say there is not any region in all Asia where Christians liue seueral without mixture either of Mahumetans or of Pagās for although Vitriacus a man well experienced in some parts of the orient Iacob a Vitriaco Histor. Orient c. 77. as being Bishop of Acon and the Popes Legate in the East at what time Palestina and Syria were in the hands of Christians hath left registred that the Christians of the Easterlie parts of Asia exceeded in multitude the Christians of the Greek and Latine Churches yet in his time for he writ almost 400. yeares agoe Christianity began to decline and since his time it hath proceeded infinitely to decay in all those parts of Asia first by the inundation of the idolatrous Tartars who subdued all those regions and after by the intertaining of Mahumetanisme in many of them The time was indeed and but about 400. yeares agoe when the King of Tenduc whom the histories of those times name Presbyter Iohannes a Christian but a Nestorian Prince ruled farre and wide in the Northeast part of Asia as hauing vnder his dominion beside Tenduc which was his owne natiue and peculiar kingdome all the neighbouring prouinces which were at that time for a great part Christian but after that his Empire was brought to ruine and he subdued by Chingis a rebell of his owne dominion and the first founder of the Tartarian Empire which happened about the yeare 1190. the state of Christian Religion became in short time strangely altered in those parts Paul Venet. l. ● cap. 8. for I find in Marcus Paulus who liued within 50. yeares after Vitriacus and was a man of more experience in those parts then hee as hauing spent seuenteene yeares together in Tartarie partly in the Emperours Court and partly in trauailing ouer those Regions about the Emperours affaires that except the Prouince of Tenduc which as I saide was the kingdome of Presbyter Iohns residence for it was the Prince of that kingdōe Scaliger de En●●●ndat tempor l 7. Annot in comput Aethiop which is rightly vsually For Scaligers imagination that it was the King of the Habassines

Anatolia could vnderstand and speake the Greeke tongue but most of the inland people also both by reason of the great traffique which those rich Countries had for the most part with Grecians and for that on all sides the East onely excepted they were inuironed with them Yet neuerthelesse it is worthy obseruing that albeit the Greeke tongue preuailed so farre in the Regions of Anatolia as to be in a manner generall yet for all that it neuer became vulgar nor extinguished the vulgar languages of those Coūtries For it is not onely particularly obserued of the Galatians by Hierome Hierō in P●oem l. ● com Epist. ad Galat. Strab. l. 14. that beside the Greeke tongue they had also their peculiar language like that of Trier and of the Carians by Strabo that in their language were found many Greeke words which doth manifestly import it to haue beene a seuerall tongue but it is directly recorded by * Lib. citato lōg post med et Plin. l. 6. c. 1. Strabo out of Ephorus that of sixteene seuerall nations inhabiting that tract onely three were Grecians and all the rest whose names are there registred barbarous and yet are omitted the Cappadocians Galatians Lydians Maeonians Cataonians no smal prouinces of that Region Euen as it is also obserued by Plinie and others that the 22. languages wherof Mithridates king of Pontus Plin. l. 7. c. 24. Val. Max. l. ● c 7 Gell. l. 17. c. 17. is remembred to haue bene so skilfull as to speake them without an interpreter were the languages of so many nations subiect to himselfe whose dominion yet we know to haue bene contained for the greatest part within Anatolia And although all these bee euident testimonies that the Greeke tongue was not the vulgar or natiue language of those parts yet among all none is more effectuall then that remembrance in the second Chapter of the Acts Act. 2.9 1● where diuers of those Regions as Cappadocia Pontus Asia Phrygia and Pamphylia are brought in for instances of differing languages Fiftly Of the greatest part of the maritime coast of Thrace not onely from Hellespont to Byzantium which was * Dousa I●in Constantinopolit pag. 24. that part of Constantinople in the East corner of the Citie where the Serraile of the Great Turke now standeth but aboue it all along to the out-lets of Danubius And yet beyond them also I finde many Greeke Citties to haue beene planted along that coast Scylax Carimand in Periple Iornand de Reb. Getic c. 5 Scylax of Carianda is my Author with some others as far as the Strait of Caffa and specially in Taurica Yea and beyond that strait also Eastward along all the sea coast of Circassia and Mengrelia to the riuer of Phasis thence compassing to Trebizond I finde mention of many scattered Greeke Cities that is to speake briefly in all the circumference of the Euxine Sea Sixtly from the East and North to turne toward the West it was the language of al the West and South Ilands that lie along the coast of Greece from Candie to Corfu which also was one of them and withall of that fertile Sicilie in which one Iland I haue obserued in good histories aboue 30. Greeke Colonies to haue beene planted and some of them goodly cities Scrab L. 6. in medi● specially Agrigentum and Syracusa which later Strabo hath recorded to haue beene 180. furlongs that is of our miles 22. and ½ in circuit Seuenthly Not onely of all the maritime coast of Italy that lyeth on the Tyrrhene Sea from the riuer Garigliano Liris it was formerly called to Leucopetra the most Southerly point of Italie for all that shoare being neere about 240. miles was inhabited with Greeke colonies And thence forward of all that end of Italie that lieth towards the Ionian sea about the great baies of Squilacci and Taranto which was so thicke set with great and goodly Citties of Grecians that it gained the name of Magna Graecia but beyond that also of a great part of Apulia lying towards the Adriatique sea Neither did these maritime parts onely but as it seemeth the Inland people also towards that end of Italie speake the Greeke tongue For I haue seene a few olde coines of the Brutians and more may be seene in Goltzius hauing Greeke inscriptions wherein I obserue they are named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Goltz in Num●smat Magnae Greciae Tab. 24. with an ae and two tt and not as the Romane writers terme them Brutij And I haue seene one peece also of Pandosia an inlād Citie of those parts with the like Neither was the vulgare vse of the Greeke tongue vtterly extinct in some of those parts of Italie Galat in descriptione Callipolis till of late for Galateus a learned man of that Country hath left written that when he was a boy and he liued about 120. yeares agoe they spake Greeke in Callipollis a Cittie on the East shore of the Bay of Taranto But yet it continued in Ecclesiasticall vse in some other parts of that region of Italie much later Bar. lib. 5. de Antiquit. Calabriae for Gabriel Barrius that liued but about 40. yeares since hath left recorded that the Church of Rossano an Archiepiscopall Cittie in the vpper Calabria retained the Greeke tongue and ceremony till his time and then became Latine Rocca Tract de Dialectis in Italica li●gua Nay to descend yet a little neerer the present time Angelus Rocca that writ but about 20. yeares agoe hath obserued that he found in some parts of Calabria and Apulia some remainders of the Greeke speech to be still retained Eightly and Lastly that shoare of Fraunce that lieth towards the mediterraine sea from Rodanus to Italie was possessed with Grecians for * Strab. l. 4. non long a princip Thuscid l 1. Massilia was a Colonie of the Phoceans and from it many other Colonies were deriued and * Strab. loco citato Plin. L. 3. C. 5. placed along that shore as farre as Nicaea in the beginning of Italie which also was one of them And yet beside all these forenamed I could recken vp verie manie other dispersed Colonies of the Greekes both in Europe and Asia and some in Afrique for although I remember not that I haue read in any history any Colonies of the Grecians to haue beene planted in Afrique any where from the greater Syrtis Westward except one in Cirta a Cittie of Numidia placed there by Micipsa the son of Masinissa as is mentioned in Strabo yet thence Eastward it is certaine some were Strab. L. 17. for the great Citties of Cyrene and Alexandria were both Greeke And it is euident not onely in * Loco iam citato Ptolō Tab. 3. Africae Mela. l. 1. C. 8. Strabo and Ptolemie but in Mela and other Latine writers that most of the Citties of that part carried Greeke names And Lastly Hierome hath directly recorded that Libia which is properly that