word Gulph is commonly added reserving the rest to their proper places di Balsora Sinus Persicus the Persian Gulph which divides Persia from Arabia di Lepanto Sinus Crissaeus sive Corinthiacus is a Bay or Branch of the Adriatick Sea which entereth on the West side of the Morea divides it from Livadia or Achaia a part of Greece and extends it self to the six Mile Isthmus which connexes the Morea to the rest of Greece This has been made exceeding famous by a great Naval Victory the Venetians obtained here against the Turks in 1571. in which the Maritim Forces of that Empire were so broken that it has not been able to recover the loss to his day In the year 1687. the Venetians again entered this Gulph and taking its Dardanels are become the intire Masters of it di Mexico a vast Bay which from the North Sea or Atlantick Ocean between Florida Cuba Hâ—â—paniola and the Caribbe Islands insinuates it self a 〈…〉 ms a kind of Semicircle of about twenty degrees from North to South and near fifty from East to West In this Bay Jamaica lies upon the North it has Florida upon the West New Spain on the East and upon the South New Granada The Continent of America is not here in the narrowest part above twenty German Miles and therefore all that lies South of this Streight is called South and the other North America di Taranto Sinus Tarentinus is all that great Bay at the South end of Italy which has Otranto on the East the Basuicate on the North Calabria on the West and the Island of Sardo almost in the middle of it di Venetia the Venetian Gulph or Adriatick Sea is a great Branch of the Mediterranean which divides Greece on the East from Italy on the West at the North end lies the City of Venice which commands this Sea and will suffer no other armed Ships upon it as much as in that State lies but Merchants and the Convoys of them Golle Galliola a River in Soissons in the Isle of France Gollen-berg Asciburgus a Mountain in Poland which is a Branch of the Sarmatian Mountains in the opinion of Ptolemy It begins at the Town of Twardozyn in the Confines of Hungary and running Northwards towards the River Swarta and the Marquisate of Brandenburg ends at the Baltick Sea This Mountain is called Gollenberg by the Inhabitants and Tartary by the Poles Golnow Golnovia a small City in Germany in the Dukedom of Pomerania upon the River Ihna which a little lower falls into the Oder five German Miles North-East of Stetin This City was built in 1188. And was heretofore a great and rich Place but of later times it has suffered much by Fire and Warâ— by the Peace of Westphalia it belonged to the King of Sweden but by the Treaty of S Germain in 1679. it was mortgaged to the Elector of Brandenburg by the Swedes for fifty thousand Crowns Golo Tuolo a River in the Isle of Corsica Gouiera one of the Canary Islands betwixt Tenerissa to the East and the Island of Iron to the West which is twenty two Leagues in Compass and has a Town of the same Name and a large Haven supposed to be that which the Ancients called Theode Gomeres a Tribe of the ancient Bereberes in Africa See Bereberes Gomorrha an unfortunate City of Judaea consumed together with four others by Fire from Heaven Gen. 19. and the Plains they stood in turned into a Dead Sea about the year of the World 2138. Gonfi Gomphi a Town of Thessalia in the Borders of Epirus towards the Springs of the River Penee thirty Miles East of Ragusa it is still called by the ancient Name but reduced to a Village Gonga Gannum Ganâ—s Gonni Gonos a Town in Thrace in the Province of Corp upon the Propontis It lies in the middle between Rodisto to the South and Constantinople to the North fifteen Miles from either It is mentioned in the Councils Gorch a Village of the Lower Hungary upon the River Zarwich between Alba-Regalis and Quinque Ecclesiae Gordium an ancient City of Phrygia in Asia Minor upon the River Sangarius where was that famous Gordian Knott which Alexander cut in two with his Sword when he could not otherwise untye it Goree Goeree and Goure an Island in the Atlantick Ocean upon the Coast of Nigritia in Africa three Leagues distant from Cape de Verde heretofore belonging as a dependent to the Kingdom of Ale in Barbary till taken by the Hollanders who built it a Fort called Nassaw and in 1677. from the Hollanders by the French Goritia Noreja Julium Carnicum Goritia is a small but very strong City in the Eastern Border of Friuli next Carniola upon the River Lisonzo or Isonzo Sontius three German Miles from Friuli East and seventeen from Venice This is the Capital of a small County of the same Name and is well feated over-looking a fair Plain to the South-West The Emperours Governour of the Country lives in the Castle who has a Guard allowed him The Germans call it Gortz This City and County fell to Frederick IV. by Inheritance from the last Earl of Gortz who died in 1473. and ever since it has been in the Possession of the House of Austria It has been esteemed a part of Carniola though it be in truth a part of Friuli Gorkum Gorichemum a City or great Town in South Holland upon the Maes where it receives the Ling one Mile more West than the Confluence of the Maes and Wael three Leagues from Dort to the East and four from Breda to the North built in the year 1230. by a Lord of the Territory of Arkel of which it is the Capital and very strongly fortified Gorlitz Gorlitium a City of the Vpper Lusatia in Germany which is the Capital of that Country It is very strong seated in a Marsh upon the River Nisse which falls into the Oder between Gossen and Franckfort twelve German Miles from Glogaw to the South-West the same from Dresden to the East and eighteen from Prague to the North. It was heretofore under the King of Bohemia but belongs now to the Elector of Saxony Goro Sagis a Haven at one of the Mouths or Out-lets of the Po. Gory a principal Town or small City in Gurgistan or Georgia in Asia upon the River Kur in a Plain betwixt two Mountains built by a General of the Persian Army about forty years ago and defended with a Fortress in which a hundred natural Persians keep Garrison It is already grown a rich and plentiful place Goslar Goslaria an Imperial and Free-City in the Lower Saxony in Germany within the Bounds of the Dukedom of Brunswick Wolfenbuttel in the Forest of Sellerwalt Built by Henry the Fowler and fortified in 1201. The Dukes of Brunswick are its Protectors it stands on the Confines of the Bishoprick of Hildisheim five Miles from that City to the South East and seven from Halberstad to the West upon the River Gosa Gostar which a little lower
Names of Nilus Alopecki a People of Attica near Athens amongst whom according to Diogenes Laertius Socrates had his Nativity Alost a Town in Flanders upon the River Dender This Town was taken by the French in 1667 but restored to the Spaniards again who now have it It lies in the middle between Brussels and Gaunt one mile from Dendermonde There was an Earldom belonging to this place which had Earls of its own till 1165. when it fell to Philip E. of Flanders by Inheritance and was by him united for ever to Flanders Alpes called by the Germans Alben is a long Ridg of Mountains which divide Italy from France and Germany It begins at Port Monaco a Town belonging to the States of Genoua upon the Mediterranean but in the Hands of the French ever since the Year 1641. And ends at the Gulph of Carnaro a part of the Adriatick Sea South of Istria a Province belonging to the Republick of Venice It is divided into divers parts and each of them has its proper Name besides the General From the Port of Monaco to the Fountains of the River Var they are called the Maritim Alpes From thence to Susa the Cottian Alpes from Susa to S. Bernard the less they are called the Greek Alpes from thence to S. Gothard the Pennine Alpes next to these follow the Grison Alpes to the Fountain of the River Piave that part of them which lie near the City of Trent are called by its Name Those that follow as far as Dolak are called the Norician Alpes from the Fountains of Tajamento to those of the Drave they are called the Carinthian Alpes the last are the Julian or Pannonian Alpes Yet some extend them as far as Dalmatia and others carry them to Thrace and the Euxine Sea but it is the most received opinion that they end at the Fountains of the River di Kulpe in Liburnia Thus far Cluvirius Alpheus See Orfea Alpon Vecchio Alpinus a River in the Territories of Verona which falls into the Adige a River which belongs to the States of Venice Alpuxaras Alpuxarae a considerable body of Mountains in the Kingdom of Granada in Spain they were once well peopled but are almost desolate now the Moors that inhabited them having been banished by Philip III. Alre Alera a River in Saxony in Germany See Allere Alrick or Elrick Alriens a River in Twedale in Scotland which falls into the Tweede Al 's or Alsits Alisuntia a River of the Dukedom of Luxemburg in the Low-Countries which washeth the Walls of the principal City and then with the Saar another River of the same Dukedom falls into the Moselle above Treves Alsatia called by the Germans Elsass by the French Alsace in a Province of Germany in the upper Circle of the Rhein lying between Schwaben on the East Lorain on the West the lower Palatinate the Territory of Spire the Dukedom of Bipont towards the North and upon the Switzors toward the South It is divided into three parts Alsatia properly so called and into the lower and upper Alsatia which two last parts with the Bishoprick of Basil Spire and Philipsburgh submitted to Lewis XIII in 1634. and were yielded to the French by the Peace of Munster in the Year 1648. The Territories of the Bishop and Chapter of Strasburg which lie on this side the Rhine belong to the lower Alsatia Alsen Alsa or Alsia is an Island of Denmark in the Baltick Sea on the Eastern-Shoar of the Dukedom of Sleswick from which it is parted by a small Channel At the South end of it stands a magnificent Castle called Suderburgh which belongs to a branch of the House of Holsatia with the Title of Duke and at the North end there is another Castle called Nordoburg possessed by another Ducal Family The whole Island is under the Dominion of the D. of Sunderburgh and is a part of the Dukedom of Sleswick Alsford a Market-Town in Hantshire Alster a River in the Dutchy of Holstein in Germany falling into the Elb above Hamburgh Alssfeldt one of the antientiest Towns in Hassia The Burgers of this Town were the first that embraced Luthers Reformation Alt Alta a small River in Lancashire falling into the Irish Sea at Ahnouth § Another in Transylvania See Olt. Altahein Alteimum an antient Town in the Country of the Grisons Altai a Mountain the same with Belgon Altaich the Upper and Lower is the Name of two famous Monastries on the Danow in the upper Palatinate They have their Names from Altaha Altachum or Altaichum two great old Oaks Altamura or Altavilla Altus Murus a Principality and City in the Province of Bari in Naples Altem-bourg vide Aldenburg Altembourg the Name also of a Town in Transylvania and of another in the Lower Hungary by the Hungarians call'd Owar ◠Of another in Bavaria upon the Danube as likewise of a Ruinated Castle of the Province of Argow in Switzerland giving the Title of a Count. Alten and Altenbotten a River and Branch of the Norwegian Ocean in the Province of Werdhuss Altino Altinum an antient City and Episcopal See within the States of Venice upon the River Sile betwixt Padoua and Concordia Ruined by Attila King of the Huns. The Bishoprick is Transfer'd to Torcello Alton a Market-Town in Hampshire Altorf Altorfium the Capital City of the Canton of Vri upon the River Russ in Switzerland at the Foot of the Alps. § Also a City and University in Franconia upon the River Schwartzac The University was Founded by the Magistrates of Nuremberg in 1579. and received its Privileges from the Emperour Rodolph II. in 1581. There is a Castle to it § A small but antient Town within 2 miles of Ravenspurg in the upper Schwaben in Germany the Guelpian Family were usually Buried here This Town belongs to the House of Austria and is the Residence of the high Commissioners of Suevia Altringham a Market-Town in Cheshire in the Hundred of Buclow Alzira a rich and pleasant tho small City in the Kingdom of Valencia in Spain betwixt two Arms of the River Xucar over which it has two Bridges about 5 Leagues from Valencia Am a famous City in Armenia computed to have 100000 Houses and 1000 Churches Taken by the Tartars in 1219. Amachaches Amacari an American People in Brasil towards St. Sebastian Amacusa an Island and Province under Japan in the East-Indies having its Capital City of the same Name Amadabat or Armadabat a Populous City of great Trade in the Kingdom of Guzurate in the East Indies which finds out of its own Revenue for the Service of the Great Mogul 12000 Horse and 50 Elephants The Chan or Governour assumes the quality of a Prince It is 18 Leagues from Cambaya near the River Indus adorn'd with a Mosque of extraordinary magnificence where lie the Sepulchres of many of their antient Kings being heretofore and Idol Temple of the Heathens till the Turks got the Possession of it Amadan one of the finest and most considerable Cities in Persia
that Tract of Land that was possessed heretofore by the Jazyges Metanastae a Sarmatian People and part of Pannonia Superior and Inferior Wonderfully fruitful yielding Corn and Grass in abundance the latter exceeding when at its greatest length the height of a Man it abounds so in Cattle that it is thought alone to be able to serve all Europe with Flesh and they certainly send yearly into Germany eighty thousand Oxen. They have Deer Partridges and Pheasants in such abundance that any body that will may kill them They have Mines of Gold Silver Tin Lead Iron and Copper store of River or Fresh-water Fish and Wines equal in goodness to those of Candia The People are Hardy Covetous Warlike but Slothful and Lazy not much unlike the Irish Their best Scholar was St. Jerome Their best Soldiers Johannes Huniades and Matthias Corvinus The principal Rivers are the Danube which divides this Kingdom from end to end the Savus the Dravus and the Tibiscus they have one famous Lake called the Balaton which is forty Italian Miles in length The principal Cities are Buda or Offen Presburgh Alba-Regalis and Caschaw The Hungarians are a Tribe of the Scythians or Tartars which in the times of Arnulphus Emperour of Germany possessed themselves of Transylvania and the Vpper Hungary under Lewis IV. Successor to Arnulphus they passed the Danube wasted all Germany Italy Greece Sclavonia and Dacia till broken by the Forces of Germany and sweetned by the Christian Religion first taught them under King Stephen about 1016. by Albert Archbishop of Prague they became more quiet and better civilized This Stephen began his Reign in 1000. This Race of Kings continued to 1302. in twenty three Descents when Charles Martel Son of Charles King of Naples and Mary Daughter to Stephen IV. King of Hungary partly by Election partly by Inheritance and Conquest succeeded to this Crown to him succeeded Lewis his Nephew in 1343. Charles II. another of his Descendents in 1383. Sigismund Emperour King of Bohemia in the Right of Mary his Wife Eldest Daughter of Lewis in 1387. Albert of Austria in the Right of Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Sigismond in 1438. Vladislaus Son of Albert and Elizabeth in 1444. Matthias Corvinus Son of Johannes Huniades by Election in 1458. Vladislaus II. Son of Cassimir IV. King of Poland and of Elizabeth Daughter of Albert in 1491. Lewis II. slain in the Battel of Mohatz succeeded in 1517. and was slain in 1527. John Sepusio Vaiwode of Transylvania chosen upon his Death succeeded that year but was outed by Ferdinand restored by Solyman the Turk and at last died in 1540. The Hungarians Crowned Stephen his Son an Infant in the Cradle but Solyman seized the best part of his Kingdom under pretence of defending it against Ferdinand of Austria and Ferdinand the rest so that ever since this wretched Kingdom has been a Stage of War between the Austrian and the Ottoman Families The former at this time having recovered from the latter all the Lower Hungary and all Tameswaer in the Vpper The Reader may be pleased to know that all that part of Hungary which lies on the West and North of the Danube is called the Lower Hungary what lies on the East and South the Vpper This Kingdom is divided into fifty five Counties three and twenty of which in the beginning of this last War were in the Hands of the Turks and the rest in the Emperor's It has also two Archbishops Sees Gran Strigonium and Colocza thirteen Bishopricks six under the first and seven under the latter Hungerford a Market Town in Berkshire in the hundred of Kentbury upon the River Kennet Hunni the ancient Inhabitants of the Marshes of the Maeotis who for the sake of a better Country to live in invaded Pannonia in great numbers and thence under Attila their King who stiled himself the Scourge of God marched victoriously into Germany Italy and France till Aetius General of the Romans and Meroveus King of France slew 200000 of them in one Battel in 450. Then they retired into Pannonia again and maintain'd themselves in divers Wars At length the Hungarians a Scythian race appeared about the end of the Reign of Charles the Gross and expelled them Huntingdonshire is bounded on the North by the River Avon or Afon which parts it from Lincolnshire on the West by Northamptonshire on the South by Bedfordshire and on the East by Cambridgeshire The North-East parts of it are Fenny but yield plenty of Grass for feeding of Cattle The rest is very pleasant fruitful of Corn rising into Hills and shady Groves The whole indeed was one Forest till Henry II. in the beginning of his Reign disforested it The Town of Huntingdon which gives Name to the County is seated upon the North side of the River Ouse somewhat high and stretcheth out it self in length to the Northward it has four Churches in it a fair Bridge of Stone over the River and near it is the Mount or Plot of an ancient Castle now ruined built by Edward the Elder in the Year 917. Which King David of Scotland who had this County with the Title of an Earl from King Stephen of England for an Augmentation of his Estate in the Year 1135. enlarged with new Buildings and Bulwarks but Henry II. finding great Inconveniences from it razed it to the Ground This was a very considerable Town in the times of Edward the Confessor and perhaps greater than now The first Earl of Huntingdon was Waltheof Created in 1068. two years after the Conquest he being beheaded Simon de Lyze who Married Maud the Daughter of Waltheof was made Earl in 1075. David Prince of Scotland her second Husband was the next Earl in 1108. It continued in this Family of Scotland till 1219. but it is now in the Family of the Hastings George Lord Hastings and Hungerford being by Henry VIII Created Earl of Huntingdon in the Year 1529. Theophilus Hastings the present Earl succeeded his Father in the Year 1655. and is the seventh Earl of this Noble Family Huquang a very large Province in the middle of the Kingdom of China counted the seventh in number but in extent one of the greatest its greatest length is from North to South being bounded on the North by Honan on the East by Nankim and Kiamsi on the South by Quamtum and on the West by Queycheu and Suchen It contains fifteen Cities an hundred and eighteen great Towns five hundred thirty one thousand six hundred eighty six Families The greatest City is Vuchang The great River of Kiam crosseth it and divides it and in the middle of this Province it receiveth two other great Rivers one from the North and the other from the South whose Names I cannot assign And these three Rivers form at their meeting a very considerable Lake between the Cities of Kincheu and Yocheu The Chinese call it also Jumichiti and the Granary of China for its abundance As to which they have a Proverb that the
stands and forty from Koningsberg to the East It is written Kowno Krabaten Croatia Krach Petra See Petra Krain See Carniola Krainburg Carrodunum a small Town in the Lower Bavaria upon the River Inn two German Miles above Oetingen and nine from Munichen to the East Written also Craiburg § Krainburg or Kornburg Carrodunum a small Town in the Lower Stiria upon the River Raab three German Miles from the Confines of Hungary to the West towards Gratz six Miles and twenty four from Krainburg in Carniola to the South-West This is written Cornburg Kraines Carni Taurisci Japodes the Inhabitants or People of Carniola Craiss Chrysiw See Keureuz Kracow See Cracow Kraneburg Burcinacium Burginatium a Roman Town now a Castle only one German Mile from Cleves to the West Kranz Scardus a Mountain dividing Albania from Macedonia Kratzer Vogesus called by the French Vauge a Mountain dividing Lorain from Alsatia and the County of Burgundy out of it riseth the Mosella or Maes which runs North and the Saone or Sosne Arar which falls into the Rhosne beneath Lions Kray Jena an arm of the Irish Sea in the County of Galloway in Scotland Krayn Liburnia Carinthia Krems a City of Austria Cremsa Cremisum seated upon the North side of the Danube over which it has a Bridge ten German Miles above Vienna to the West This Town is walled Krickieth a Market Town in Caernarvanshire in Wales in the Hundred of Esyonid Krim or Krimenda Crimaea a City of the Lesser Tartary in the Taurick Chersonese in the Euxine Sea It stands towards the middle of this Chersonese between Precop to the North and Caffa to the South Very small and almost reduced to the meanness of a Village though it gives Name to the whole Nation in which it stands and is the usual Seat of the Cham. § The Krim Tartars are a Nation of Europe bounded with the Borysthenes Nieper to the West the Psola and Desna two Rivers which fall into the Nieper the Donetz or Lesser Tanais and in part by the Greater Tanais to the North by the last River to the East also and in part to the South the rest of their Southern Border is made by the Euxine or Black Sea into which the Nieper falls The most Southern part of this Country is the Taurica Chersonesus anciently filled with Noble Greek Cities the Principal of which was Theodosia now Caffa but this Hord or Tribe of Tartary which now possess it coming out of Asia have so ruined them that there are scarce any footsteps left of their ancient Grandeur These Tartars lead their Lives after the ancient manner having no fixed Habitations but driving their Cattle Wives and Children about from place to place as Necessity and the Season of the Year require They have only covered Wagons to preserve them from the injury of the Weather And they accordingly value themselves upon this Nomadical way of living as the Protectors of their Cities and Men of such exalted Virtue as is not to be confined within any smoaky Walls In the interim they are extremely proud ignorant nasty and barbarous Their Diet is Roots Cheese Garlick and for the most part Horse-flesh which they eat without Bread and often raw Beef and Venison being reserved for their Great Men. They value Brass and Steel above Gold and Silver They were once Christians but have since Apostatized to Mahometanism yet they retain one Article of the Creed firmly that Christ shall Judge both the quick and the dead in the day of Judgment Upon this account they are more favourable to the Christians that live amongst them than any other Mahometans are They use their own Tartarian Tongue intermixed with Arabick and Turkish and the Chaldean and Arabian Characters This Prince hath heretofore been able to Arm one hundred and fifty thousand of his own Subjects and in 1571. pierced as far as the City of Mosco and set fire on the Suburbs which taking the City in the space of four hours burnt the greatest part of it though thirty Miles in compass Eight hundred thousand People of all Sexes and Ages perishing in this Ruin After all the Turk treats this Prince as his Slave at some times removes at others Murthers him In 1686. there was a League between the Russians and the Poles for the Conquering this People but the former have done no great Wonders yet with an Army of three hundred thousand Men. Kriviezne Haemus a Mountain of Thrace Kronningesard a Castle in the South part of Iseland at which the Viceroy for the King of Denmark resides Also called Besteda Kruppa Carpis a River of Servia which falls into the Danube called now also Crapin Kudack or Kudak a small Town in the Vkraine or Palatinate of Kiovia on the West of the Nieper beneath the Confluence of Samara in 1637. fortified by the Poles to keep the Cossacks from Pyratizing on the Euxine Sea but in 1648. taken by the Cossacks It lies forty Polish Miles beneath Czyrcassy to the South and the same distance by the River from the Euxine Sea to the North. Kulp Krup Culpa Colapis a River of Croatia it ariseth in the Eastern Borders of Carniola from the Alpes which here end and watering Metling in that Province and Carlstat in Croatia it falls into the Save two German Miles and an half above Sisegh in Croatia Kunisberg or Konisberg Regismons a small Town in Stiria upon Mount Rogel in the Confines of Carniola four German Miles from Cilley to the East and eight from Pettaw Koningsberg in Prussia is sometimes thus written Kur Cyrus a River of Georgia which riseth from Mount Caucasus near Akalzike a Fortress and Town consisting of about four hundred Houses upon Mount Caucasus the Seat of a Bassa it was built by the Georgians but is now in the hands of the Turks This River falls afterwards into the Caspian Sea It is much mentioned in ancient Writers Kurzitadan Jerusalem Kuttenberg Cutnae a City of Bohemia written also Cuttemburg and called by the Bohemians Hora. It is a small City seated four Miles from Cazlaw to the North the same distance from the Elbe to the South and seven from Prague to the East Kylan the same with Gilan Kyneton a Market Town in Warwickshire upon a small River running into the Avon And another in Herefordshire pretty large and well built L A. LAbach Loybach Laubach Labacum Nauportus a City of Carniola called by the Italians Lubiana It is seated upon a River of the same Name which after a short course falls into the Save It stands nine German Miles from Trieste to the North-East and fifteen from Villach a Town of Carinthia to the North-West Made a Bishops See by Pope Paul II. under the Patriarch of Aquileja in 1468. together with Cita Nova a place distant from it about sixteen Miles to the South and since this Bishop of Laubach has been exempted from the Jurisdiction of the Patriarch Dr. Brown who saw it saith it is the principal City of Carniola
a City placed by Pliny in Liburnia now in Croatia and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Spalato It stands upon the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea at the bottom of a Mountain thirty five Miles from Nona to the South-West and fifty from the Borders of Italy to the East This City belongs to the Kingdom of Hungary and is under the Emperor it has an old Castle a very strong Fort built on a steep Hill and a Harbour upon the Gulph of Venice Segni Signia Vrbs Volscorum a City of great Antiquity in the States of the Church in Campagna di Roma under the Dominion of the Pope giving the Title of a Duke to the Family of Sfortia It stands on the top of a Mountain called by its own name La Montagna de Segni thirty two Miles from Rome to the East and twelve from Preneste to the South In this Place Organs were first invented and Pope Vitalianus was born The Popes Innocent III. Gregory IX and Alexander IV. were all of the House of the Counts of Segni For this Place was an Earldom before a Dukedom Segorve or Segorvia Segorbia Segobriga a City of the Kingdom of Valentia upon the River Morvedre which a little lower falls into the Mediterranean Sea it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Valentia small and not well Peopled Eight Miles from Valentia to the North-West and twelve from Tervel to the South-East Segovia Vrbs Arcevacorum in Pliny Segubia in Ptolemy Segobia in the Councils is a City in New Castile in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toledo A celebrated Place well Peopled and Rich by reason of a great Cloathing Trade driven in it And besides very large Suburbs it has a Castle called El Alcaser By the City on the North-side flows a small River called Eresma It stands at the foot of an Hill in a pleasant Plain has a noble Aquaduct supported by a hundred and seventy seven Arches in double Rows which reach from one Hill to another built by the Emperor Trajane This City is twenty Spanish Leagues from Toledo to the North. Long. 16. 30. Lat. 41. 15. Segovia La Nueva a City in the Island of Manilia one of the Philippines under the Spaniards on the East side of the Island and a Bishops See Segre Sicoris a River in Catalonia which ariseth in the County of Cerdagne at the foot of the Pyrenean Hills in the Borders of France and watering Livia Cerdagne and Vrgel receives the Noguera Pallaresa and the Noguera Rogercana the first at Camarasa the second above Lerida beneath it comes in the Cinca a great River above Mequinenca below which this River Segre unites with the Ebro nine Miles above Garcia to the West Segura Serabis Sorabis a River of Spain which ariseth in New Castile from a Mountain of the same name and flowing through the Kingdom of Murcia falls into the Bay of Alicant having watered Caravacca Murcia and Orihuela Sehusen Senohusium a City of Brandenburgh Seididag See Agion Oros. La Seille Sala Salia a River of Lorain which ariseth out of the Lake de Lindre and flowing North-West watereth Dieuze Nomeny and Going and at Metz falls into the Moselle La Seine Seyne Sequana one of the principal Rivers of France which ariseth in the Dukedom of Burgundy in a mountainous place near the Castle of Chanceaux two Leagues from a Town called Seine and six from Dijon to the North. Being augmented by some smaller Rivers it watereth Chastillion Bar sur Seine Troye Pont sur Seine above which the Aube comes in and beneath it the Yonne and the Loing so it hasteth by Melun to Corbeil The Marne comes in a little above Paris the Glory of this River and beneath that City above Poissy the Oise the Epte and in Normandy the Eure and the Andelle above Roan the Capital of Normandy At Caudebec in Normandy it forms a great Arm of the Sea which admits the Tides of the Ocean thirty Leagues into the Land gives passage to a Ship of great Burthen as high as Roan and smaller Ships as high as Paris Selby a large Market Town in the West-Riding of Yorkshire and the Hundred of Barkston upon the River Ouse Remarkable for being the Birth-place of K. Henry I. Selemne the name in Pausanias of a River of the Peloponnesus gliding by Patras in the Province of Clarentia Seleschia Seleucia a City of Cilicia which is an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Antioch twelve Miles from the Mediterranean Sea to the North. Long. 64. 00. Lat. 38. 40. The Antients gave it the Titles of Seleucia Olbia Seleucia Hiriae and Seleucia Aspera which latter might be occasioned by the many Mountains in this Country Gregory Nazianzen calls it Seleucia S. Theclae because it was famous for the Sepulchre of that Martyr In the year 359. the Arrians assembled a Council of a hundred and sixty Bishops here to which S. Hilary Bishop of Poictiers came being at that time an Exile in Phrygia Seleucajelbor Seleucia Pieria a City of Syria built by Seleucus Son of Antiochus King of Syria near the Mouth of the River Orontes ten Miles from Antioch which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Antioch Seleucia Aspera the same with Seleschia Seleucia ad Tigrim the same with Bachad Seleucia Pieria the same with Seleucajelbor Seleucia ad Belum the same with Divortigi Seleucia Pisidiae this is an antient City of Pisidia in the Lesser Asia upon the Confines of Pamphylia in which S. Paul established the Christian Faith A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Antioch Now under the Turks called Caragar Carasazar and by others Celestria Selivrea or Selibria Selymbria Selybria a City of Thrace upon the Propontis of great Antiquity being mentioned by Pliny and Ptolemy It was at first a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Heraclea but now the Metropolis it self Great and populous tho without Walls it has a good Harbour too This City stands twenty five Miles from Constantinople to the West also called Selombria Selo See Silaro Seilsey-Isle a Peninsula commonly so called near Chichester in the County of Sussex Assigned about the Year 711. by Edilwach King of the South Saxons to Wilfride Archb. of York for his Seat who being banished his Country by the King of Northumberland came thence to preach to the South Saxons Cedwal King of the West Saxons having Conquered the Kingdom of the South Saxons built a Monastery here and made it a Bishops See which continued in the same place above three hundred years with the Title of the Bishops of Selsey till Bishop Stigard in 1070 removed the See to Chichester It s chiefest Note now is that it yields plenty of excellent Lobsters and Cockles Semigallen Semigallia a Province of Livonia in the Kingdom of Poland which signifies in their Tongue The End of the Earth Bounded on the North by Livonia properly so called cut off by the Dwina on the South by Samogithia on the West by Curland and
and with it into the Ocean Seyde Sidon by the Germans called Said is a City of Phoenicia in Syria upon the Shores of the Mediterranean North of Tyre about a League distant from the remains of the ancient Sidon Sister to Tyre in the Scripture for its Sins and the Punishments of them A populous City full of Merchants and Artisans of all Nations driving a great Trade in Cotton and Silk The Franciscans Capuchins and Jesuits have each their Chappels the Turks seven or eight Mosques and the Jews one Synagogue here The Maronites of Mount Libanus and the Armenian Greeks enjoy the like Liberties Without the City appear many Gardens of Oranges Citrons Tamarines Palm-trees and the Fig-trees of Adam so called because bearing a Leaf of the length of six foot and the breadth of two Adam it is supposed covered his nakedness with them It hath two small Fortresses but so far ruined as to remain indefensible The Turks keep a a Sangiack here under the Bassaw of Damascus a Cady or Judge and an Aga of the Janizaries The French a Consul All which Officers are handsomely lodged the rest of the Houses are ill built The Harbor formerly was capable of receiving many and great Vessels but is now choaked with Sand to that degree as to admit only of Skiffs whilst Ships lye in the road behind the Rocks for Shelter In the Christian times it was a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Tyre The Eutychians held Council here of twenty four Bishops in 512 under the protection of the Emperour Anastasius In 1260 the Tartars became Masters of it from whom the Turks obtain'd it about one hundred and fifty years since There is now a Caemetery upon a part of the Mountain Antilibanus in the place where the Old Sidon stood for the use of the Christians of Seyde And the Maronites have a poor Chappel by it Seyne See Seine ◠Sezza Setia a City of Campagna di Roma in Italy of good Antiquity mentioned by Martial It is said to have sometime been a Bishop's See though not now Du Val places an Epispocal City of the same name in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples Sfacchia Leuci a Range of Mountains in the Territory of Cydonia on the West side of the Island of Candy which gave name to the Sfacciotes who signalized themselves by their valiant resistance against the Turks when they endeavoured the ravishing that Island from the Seigniory of Venice of late years Shaftsbury Septonia a Town upon the Stoure in the North-East Borders of Dorsetshire towards Wiltshire seated in the form of a Bow on an high Hill which affords it a serene Air and a large delightful Prospect but deprives it very much of Water In the times of the Norman Conquest it had one hundred and four Houses and after this ten Parish Churches now three with about 500 Houses built of the Freestone of its own Hill Some write King Canutus the Dane died here This Town was built by King Alfred in 880 as Mr. Cambden proves from an old Inscription mentioned in William of Malmesbury In 1672 Charles II. created Anthony Ashley Cooper then Lord Chancellor of England Earl of Shaftsbury who died in Holland and his Son succeeded him in this Honour Shannon Shennyn or Shennonon Senus Sinejus a River in Ireland which is one of the principal in that Kingdom It ariseth in the County of Roscomon in the Province of Connaught out of Mount Slewnern and flowing Southward through Letrim forms a vast Lake called Myne Eske and Ree towards the North end of which on the East side stands Letrim in the middle Longford towards the South Ardagh on the West side Elphem and Roscomon and at some distance from the Lake to the South Athlone Beneath which comes in from the West the Logh a vast River from three other Lakes more to the West called Garoch Mesks and Ben-Carble on the East it receives the Anney so passing by Bannogh and Clonfort to the Lake of Derg at Kiloe it leaves that Lake and passeth to Limerick where it turns full West and between Munster to the South and Connaught to the North enters the Vergivian Ocean by a Mouth five Miles wide between Cape Leane and Cape Sanan having in this Course separated Leinster and Munster from Connaught Shap a large Village in the County of Westmorland in Westward near the River Lowther in which in the Reign of Henry I Thomas Son of Jospatrick founded an Abbey and the same was the only Abbey in this County There is near this Town a noted Well which ebbs and flows often in a day and a perfect Bow of vast Stones some nine foot high and fourteen thick pitch'd at equal distances from each other for for the space of a Mile Sheale a Town in the Bishoprick of Durham in Chester-ward upon the Mouth of the River Tine The Newcastle Coal-Fleet takes its Cargo here Sheffield a large well-built Market-town in the West riding of Yorkshire in the hundred of Strafford upon the River Dun of particular note for Iron Wares even in Chaucer's time who describes a Person with a Sheffield VVhittle by his side It shews the ruines of one of the five Castles formerly seated upon the same River Dun in the compass of ten Miles Corn especially is much bought up here for the supply of some parts of Derby and Nottingham shires as well as Yorkshire Shefford a Market Town in Bedfordshire in the Hundred of Clifton situated between two Rivulets which below it join to fall in one Stream into the Avon Sheppey Shepey Toliapis an Island on the Eastern Coast of Kent at the Mouth of the Thames and Medway Separated by the River Medway from Kent and on all other sides surrounded with the Sea About eight Miles long and six broad Fruitful in Pasturage and well watered especially on the South by Rivers The Danes Earl Goodwin his Sons and their Adherents much harassed it in former times Queensborough is its chief Town it hath several other Towns besides and hath been honoured with the Title of an Earldom in the Lady Dacres Countess of Shepey Shepton-Mallet or Malley a large Market Town in Somersetshire in the hundred of VVhiston Shipton a Market Town in VVorcestershire in the hundred of Oswalderston upon the River Stower It stands in a slip of the County taken off from VVarwickshire Shirburne Clarus Fons a Town and Castle in the North-West of Dorsetshire on the Borders of Somersetshire upon a River of the same Name which afterwards falls into the Parret the Capital of its Hundred Built on the side of an Hill in a fruitful and pleasant Country and much increased in the number of its Inhabitants and its Wealth by the Cloathing Trade In 704. a Bishop's See was erected here translated afterwards to Sunning and thence to Salisbury The Family of the Digbys Earls of Bristol are Barons of Shirburne § Also a Market Town in the West riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of
the name of Baden The Original of the Noble Family now possessed of this Honor was from the Duke of Zering for Bertholdus I. was the Father of Hermanaus the first Founder of this Family which is now divided into two Branches the one professing the Protestant and the other the Roman Catholick Religion of the later Branch comes the present Prince Lewis who since the Death of the Duke of Lorrain has been honored by the Emperor with the general Command of all his Forces in Hungary and obtained great Victories Baden Aquae Pannoniae a Town in Austria 3 Leagues from Vienna to the South seated at the foot of the Mountains Badenoch in Latin Badenochia is a County in the North of Scotland of a barren Soil full of Mountains divided in two by a great Lake and bounded by the Counties of Murray Ross and Athol Badenweiler a City in the Province of Brisgow in Germany between Friburg and Basil yet a part of the Marquisate of Baden and famous for Hot Baths Baeotia See Boeotia Baern See Berghen Baetica one of the 3 antient parts of Spain taking its name from the River Baetis which we now call Guadalquivir See Spain It s principal Cities were Sevil and Corduba From the time that Alphonsus King of Castile was defeated here by Aben Joseph K. of Morocco in the Year 1195. the Saracens possessed it unto the Reign of Ferdinand V. Baeza Biatia a City of Andalusia It was heretofore an Episcopal City under the Archbishop of Toledo but in 1249. its Bishoprick was united by Pope Innocent IV. to that of Jaen or Gaën Glenna This City was recovered from the Moors by Ferdinand King of Castile in 1227. It was a Roman Colony then called Vrbs Baetica Here is an University erected in 1538. and the Town is large and stands upon a Hill one League from the River Guadalquivir Baffin's Bay a Gulph extended from the 70th to the 80th deg of North Lat. in the Terra Australis of America discovered by an Englishman who gives his Name to it Baffo Paphos a City in the Island of Cyprus once famous now ruin'd Bagaloag a Town upon the Frontier of Bosnia in Dalmatia under the Turks Bagamidri a Kingdom in the upper Aethiopia lying along the Nile to the West It is ordinarily divided into 17 Provinces whereof some are large enough to be Kingdoms Bagaudes a People amongst the antient Gauls They revolted twice from the Romans at the end of the third and in the Fifth Century and were each time defeated Bagaya Bagy Vaga a City of Numidia in Africa The Emperor Justinian Wall'd it and new-nam'd it Theodora from his Empress In 394. the Donatist Bishops celebrated a Council here concerning the Cause of Primianus Bishop of Carthage Bagdat or Bagdet See Bachad Bagdasan Bactra a small City at the foot of Mount Caucasus seated in a fruitful Soil much celebrated in antient times now of no Note Bagnabar See Golconde Bagnarea Balneum regis Balneo regium Novem populi so called by the order of Desiderius King of the Lombards as Paulus Diaconus saith It is an Episcopal City in S. Peters Patrimony built upon a Hill near the Lake Bolsena it stands almost in the middle between Mount Fiascone and Orvieto from which last it is not above 6 Miles distant to the South In this Place S. Bonaventure who flourished in the twelfth Century with the Title of the Seraphical Doctor was born Bagneres a Town in the County of Bigorre in Gascony in France famous for its hot Baths till 1660. when that natural Fire which heated them was extinguished by an Earthquake as Brietius saith Bagni d'Abano Fontes Aponi Aquae Petavinae a place that has Baths in the Territory of Padoua in Italy Bagni di Salviati a place not far from Cuma where Cesar the Dictator had a Country House Bagni di Tritolino a place in Campania where Cicero had a Country House not far from Puteolum To these and divers other places in Italy they gave the Pre-names of Bagni from their Baths wherein the antient Romans delighted so that P. Victor reckons 800 of them in Rome only Bagrava Galesus a small River that springs from the Apennine Hills near the City Oria in the County of Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples and running Westward falls into the Bay of Taranto not far from that City which gives its Name This River is now commonly called Galeso Bahama an Island and the most rapid Channel in all America Eastward from Florida through which the Spanish Fleets pass to the Havana Baharen Ichara Tylus an Island in the Persian Gulph Others say it is Carge another Island in the same Gulph over against the mouth of the River Euphrates that the Ancients meant by these Names It is called by others Elchadr Bahar-Eunil one of the Branches of the Nile in Aethiopia Bahar-Zocoroph the Persian Gulph Bahar-Rumi the Mediterranean Sea Bahia de todos los Santos the same with S. Salvador in Brasil Bahuys Bahusium a strong Castle situated in a small Island made by the River Trolhetta which falls a little lower into the Baltick Sea It heretofore belonged to the Kingdom of Denmark but in 1658. was taken by the King of Sweden together with the County of the same Name It stands two Danish Miles from Gottenburg towards the North. This Castle was built by Hakin IV. King of Norway in 1309. surrendred by Treaty to the Swedes in 1660 who before were in Possession of it attempted by the Danes in 1678. but without any good Success The Province in which it lies is bounded on the East with West Gotlandt on the West by the Baltick Sea and by the County of Aggerhuis towards the North. It lies 100 Miles in length from the North to the South but it is not above 30 Miles broad and in many places but 15. It has besides the Castle I mentioned a Town called Malstrano This Territory was yielded to the Swedes by the Treaty of Roschild in 1658. Baja Baiae a City of Campania in Italy now ruined It was the delight of the antient Romans Separated from Pozzuoli by an Arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea about 2 Leagues over which the Emperor Caligula cover'd with a famous Bridge passing and repassing the same in Triumph The noble Rests yet extant discover that it has been a very magnificent Place Since the times of Christianity an Episcopal Chair was placed and settled in it till its ruine was effected by Earthquakes Bajaria Eleutherus a River of Sicily It falls into the Mediterranean Sea 8 Miles East of Palermo and the River Oreto on the Western side of the Island Baicadul Batancaesarea a City of the East-Indies within Ganges Baida a Region of Tartary the Desart See Badai Baieux a City and Bishops See under the Archbishop of Roan in Normandy in France upon the River Aure which a little lower buries itself under ground It stands not above 2 Miles from the Brittish Sea towards the South The College of Bajeux at
restore her Virginity § Also a City in Caelosyria in Asia which has sometime been a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bastro mentioned by Ptolomy Canavese a Country in the principality of Piedmont betwixt the City Juraea and the River Po yielded to the Duke of Savoy by the Treaty of Querasque in 1631. Canche Cantius Quentia a River of Picardy springing near Blavincour in Artois passing by Ligny sur Canche receiving the Ternois at Hesdin and falling into the Ocean at Montreuil and Estaples Cancheu a great City in the Province of Kiangsi in China with a Territory of the same Name that is honored with the Government of a Viceroy distinct from the Viceroy of Kiangsi who resides in this City and commands also some Towns in the Provinces adjacent of Fokien Quantung and Huquang It is a place of extraordinary Trade and concourse Candahar Candahara the Capital of the Province of that Name belonging to the Kingdom of Persia and one of the greatest inland Cities of Asia seated on the Eastern Shoar of the River Balcan which running Northward falls into the Oboengir which last by Oxus or Gehun is conveyed in the Caspian Sea On the East it is defended by a strong Wall on the West by an high Mountain in the middle of it is a Rock on which is built a Castle The Suburbs are greater than the City and much frequented by the Persian and Indian Merchants who pass to and fro through it It lies in Long. 110. Lat. 34. 40. This City has been often taken and retaken between the Mogul and the King of Persia till at lâ—st the latter possessed himself of it and still keeps it Cande or Candes Candensis Vicus a Town in the Province of Touraine in France upon the Loyre where S. Martin the Bishop so much extolled by Sulpitius Severus who writes his Life dyed Nov. 11. An. Dom. 400. § Likewise a River in Languedoc falling into the Aveirou Candea or Candi the most considerable Kingdom in the Island of Ceylan in the East-Indies and a great and populous City the capital thereof upon the River Trinquilemale Candei an antient People of the Gulph of Arabia call'd heretofore Ophiomages from their eating of Serpents Candelaro a River of the Kingdom of Naples springing out of the Apennine Mountains in the Capitanata and ending in the Adriatick near Manfredonia Candelona or Candelora a Town and principality in the Province of Caramania in the lesser Asia The Town stands upon the Bay of Laiazzo between the lesser Asia and Syria eight Miles from Antioch to the North and 5 from Scanderoon to the South Candia Creta Jovis Insula in Virgil being heretofore consecrated to him is one of the noblest Islands in the Mediterranean Sea lying opposite to the Mouth of the Archipelago In Length from East to West two hundred and fifty Miles in Breadth sixty in Circuit five hundred and forty Heretofore it was full of a hundred potent Cities and thence call'd Hecatompolis most of which are now ruined To omit the more antient Story of this Island it was granted by Baldwin Earl of Flanders to the Earl of Montisferat who in 1194. sold it to the Venetians Others say that when the Latins in 1204 took Constantinople this and the other Islands in the Aegean Sea fell to the Venetians for their share In 1645. the Turks invaded it and in 1669. by taking of Candia possess'd themselves of all but two or three Forts upon the Sea The inland Parts are very mountainous yet fruitful especially of Wines and other such Fruits but it wants Corn. Whilst it was under the Venetians it was so populous that they might raise in it 60000 Men. The Language there then used was the vulgar Greek and they were accordingly of the Greek Church though with a mixture of the Latin Service in some places Now divided into four Territories or jurisdictions call'd Candia Canea Rettina and Sittia from the four Principal Cities in it of those Names Long. 51. Lat. 34. § Candia the chief City of the Isle of Crete called by the Greeks Castro and Candax was an Archbishop's See great rich and populous as long as it continued in the Hands of the Venetians And stood the longest Siege against the Turks of any place in the World but was at last forced to submit September 27. 1669. upon Conditions very honourable after a Blockade of 22 Years from 1645. to 1667. and a Siege of two more from 1667. to 1669. In which space the Turks are thought to have lost about 600000 Men before it It lies on the Northern shoar of that Island something nearer to the Western End The Labyrinth of Minos in a Grott cut out of a Rock is yet to be seen here Canea an Episcopal City in the Island of Candia and the Capital of an adjacent Territory denominated from it Taken by the Turks Aug. 26. 1645. which loss was an Introduction to the long Blockade and Siege of Candia Canesham a Market-Town in Somersetshire seated at the fall of the River Chire into the Avon near Bristol Cangria See Gangra Canisa See Kanisa Cannares Savages of Peru in the Province of Quito Cannae Cannata desâ—rutta in Italian is a ruined small Town in the Province of Apulia in Italy where Hannibal engaging the Romans in a bloody Battle slew 40000 of them upon the Place in the Year of Rome 558. with Paulus Aemilius Consul and so many Gentlemen that he sent to Carthage three Bushels of Rings as a Token of his vast Victory Cannes a Town in Provence in France to the Sea over against the Lerin Islands misunderstood by Cluverius to be the Oxibius Portus of Strabo because it has no Port. Cannibals the Savages of the Caribby Islands notorious for eating their Enemies whether taken alive or slain in the Field Cano or Ghana a Kingdom in Nigritia in Africa bounded by the River Niger to the South the Kingdom of Cassena to the East the Agades to the West and the Desart to the North. The Capital City bears the same Name with it and stands upon a Lake Canopus an antient City of Aegypt towards that Mouth of the Nile which is distinguished by the same Name It has been an Episcopal See formerly and in the opinion of some Authors the Country of the Poet Claudian The modern Bochira near Alexandria is supposed to be this antient Place under a new Name Canosa Canusium an antient City in the Terra di Bari in the Kingdom of Naples with an Episcopal See that is united to the Archbishoprick of Bari five Miles from the Ruines of Cannae upon the Ascent of a Hill with the River Ofanto at the Foot of it Horace gives the Character of Bilingues to its Inhabitants in the old Roman Times because the Language they spoke was an ill mixture of Latin and Greek It was a famous place for fine Russet colour'd Cloath whence the Word Canusinati in Martial for such as wore of it In this City the Emperor Henry IV.
English Miles from Thessalonica to the North-West upon the Borders of Macedonia and Albania See Dr. Brown's Travels Cossir See Cosir Costagnazo Haemus a Mountain in Thrace Coustantz See Constance Costa-Ricca A Province of New Spain in the South America lying betwixt the two Seas and Westward of Veragua The Capital whereof is the City Carthage There are some Gold and Silver Mines in it and a Soil which makes it worthy of its Name Coste des dents or Coste de l' Ivoire the Ivory Coast is a part of the Coast of Guiny in Africa betwixt the Cape of Palmes and the Cape of three Points whither the English French Hollanders c. traffick for Elephants Teeth It is said to be well inhabited and to lye very conveniently Coste d'Or or the Golden Coast another part of the Coast of the same Country so call'd from the quantity of Gold that they find upon it It is about one hundred and thirty Leagues long reaching from the Cape of three Points where the former ends as far as to the River Volta and the Kingdom of Benin The English Danes and Dutch have divers Settlements upon it The latter having dispossessed all the Portugueze Cothon the ancient Name of the Port of Carthage in Africa Cotatis the principal City of Imiretta a Kingdom or Province of Georgia built at the Foot of an Hill by the River Phasiâ— consisting of about two hundred Houses those of the Grandees and the Kings Palace stand at a distance The Town has neither Fortifications nor Walls nor any Defence except where it is enclosed by the River and the Mountains On the other side of the River upon the top of an Hill higher than that under which the City is built stands the Fortress of Cotatis which appears very strong As Sir John Chardin describes this City in his Travels Cotbus Cotbutium a Town in Lusatia in Germany upon the River Havel which also passeth by Berlin from which it lies thirteen Miles to the South and ten from Franckford to the South-West This Town came into the Hands of the Duke of Brandenburgh in 1645. and is sometimes called Cotwitz Cotrone Croton a City of the further Calabriâ— in the Kingdom of Naples which of old was twelve Miles in Compass as Livy saith and built eighty years after Rome but now very small and thinly inhabited yet it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Regio and has a Castle built by Charles V. It stands on the South-East side of Italy fifteen Miles South-East of Severina The Cottian-Alpes Alpes Cottiae a part of the Alpes heretofore under the Dominion of King Cottius mention'd in Suetonius as an Ally with the People of Rome in the Reign of Augustus and therefore by the Ancients called Cottiae from him They begin at the Fountains of the River Var and reach to Susa that is from Mount Viso to Mount Cenis dividing the Dauphinate from Piedmont Cotzchin or Chotozin or Kotym a Castle in Moldavia upon the Niester four Polish or twenty English Miles from Caminieck to the South-West where in 1673. an Army of the Turks consisting of two and thirty thousand Men under the Command of Solyman Aga designed for the ruine of Lemburgh were encamped having the Neister behind them a Range of Rocks and Precipices on one side the Castle of Cotzchin on the other a Trench before them defended by Half-Moons a Bridge over the Nieper and another over the Castle yet Zobietsky then Marshal but now King of Poland with much lesser Forces coming up October 9. battered down their Brest-Work with his Cannon and the next day dismounting his Cavalry to second the Lithuanian Foot which had been beaten off in Person at the head of his Men stormed their Camp took it slew or took Prisoners thirty one thousand five hundred Turks and the rest hardly escaped Solyman their General being slain In 1621. Vladislaus Prince of Poland Son of Sigismund King of Poland in the same Field defeated the Forces of Osman I. and slew the greatest part of them amongst the rest Vssain le Borgne who was esteemed the best Commander the Turks had in those times Couco Coucum a Kingdom in Barbary in Africa with a City of the same Name sixty Miles from the Shoars of the African Sea between the Kingdoms of Algiers and Bugia Coucy a Seigniory in Picardy giving Name to a Family of Honour Coventry Conventria a City in the County of Warwick upon the West Side of the River Sherborne which is of no very great Antiquity but neat strong rich and populous by reason of the Cloathing Trade Also a Bishop's See in Conjunction with Litchfield under the Archbishop of Canterbury It has three Churches the Priory or Convent whence the Name Coventry was the most ancient Foundation of the City being built by Canutus the Dane And the Cross may be reckoned amongst the finest in England The Noble George Villiers late Duke of Buckingham was created Earl of Coventry in the twenty first of James I. A Title that had lain buried ever since the Death of Edwin a Saxon whom William the Conqueror created Earl of Coventry in the first Year of his Reign Henry VI annexing the adjacent Towns and Villages to this City made it with them a County Corporate distinct from that of Warwickshire Coulan a City and small Kingdom in the East-Indies in the great Promontory of Malabar on the Western Shoar thirty five Leagues North of the Cape of Comâ—ry and about seventeen South of Cochin The Country is well watered and fruitful not above twenty Leagues long from North to South and eight or ten broad from East to West Bounded by the Kingdoms of Cochin and Travancor There are many Christians in it by the means of the Portuguese The City has a Castle and a safe Haven with the Character of a rich and flourishing Place The Portuguese were driven out of it by the Hollanders in 1663. Coulour a Town of the Hither East-Indies in the Kingdom of Golconde in Malabar seven days Journey from the City of Golconde There is a Mine or Quarry of Diamonds very near it Courreze Curretia a River in Limosin in France which riseth two Miles above Tulle and having watered both it and Brive falls into the Vesere two Miles above Condat Courtenay Cortenaeum Corteniacum Curtiniacum a small Town in the Isle of France six Miles distance from Sens West The Princes who have born the Title of this small Place are frequently mentioned by the French Historians and some of the Emperors of Greece are deriv'd from their Family Courtray Corteriacum by the Natives called Cortrick a Town in Flanders upon the River Lys five Leagues from Tournay to the North and four from Lille to the West Made famous by the Defeat of the French in 1302. This Town was taken by the French in 1646. and fortified and again in 1667 But in the Treaty of 1679. it returned under the Obedience of the King of Spain who is still possessed
City belonging to it which the Turks in the Years 1538. and 1548. besieged in vain This Island is a part of the Kingdom of Guzarate and lies fifty Leagues from Surata to the West at the Entrance of the Bay of Cambaya It hath been in the Hands of the Portuguese ever since 1535. Divan Du Rou Insulae Divandurae a Knot of five or six small Islands in the Archipelago de Maldivas in the East-Indies under the King of Cananor About twenty seven Leagues distant from the Island of Malicut They are reputed extreamly healthful Dive in Latin Diva and Deva a River in Normandy which riseth near the Town of Dive and running North-West takes in the Ante at Morteaux the Leison and Vie at Hervetot the Mauch the Beverrone and some others and falls into the British Sea below Cabour five Miles and a half West of Honfleure § There is a River in the Province of Poictou of this Name which takes its Rise at the Town Grimaudiere receives the Gron at Moncontour and continuing its Course to Londun takes in the Matrevil and the Briaude till below S. Just it self is received by the Thouay which soon after falls into the Loyre Divertigi Selucia ad Belum a City of Asia which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Apamea lying in Syria thirty Miles from Antioch to the East It may be supposed to be now ruined being hardly to be found in the later Maps Divice a famous Fountain at Bourdeaux Diul Indus Dixmuyde or Dixmude Dixmuda a very strong Town in Flanders in the Possession of the Spaniards though it has been often taken by the French This Town stands upon the River Ipre three Miles from New-Port to the South and is now a Frontier Town against the French Doblin Dublinum a City in Curland upon the River Terwa in the Confines of Samogitia six German Miles from Mittaw to the West and fourteen from VVomic or Mednici to the East Under the Duke of Curland Dobroncha Epidaurus a Maritime City of Dalmatia Dobrzin Dobrinum Debricinium Dobriznum a Town in Poland which is the Capital of a Palatinate upon the Vistula between Ploczko to the South and Wladislaw to the North a few Leagues above Culm The Palatinate is usually taken for a part of that of Ploczko on which it borders to the North as it does on the Vistula to the West and Prussia to the North. Docastelli Lycastum a Town of Cappadocia in the Borders of Paphligonia upon the Shoars of the Euxine Sea near the Bay of Amisenum between Halis and Iris Irio distant from Amiso to the East thirty six Miles Docum Dockum or Dorkum Doccumum Docomium one of the principal Towns in West-Friesland four Leagues from Leeuwarden towards the North-West and five from Groningen upon a Canal near the Sea Dodbrook a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Colrudge Dodona an ancient City of the Kingdom of Epirus in Greece in the Country then called Molossia famous for the neighbouring Grove of Dodona in which Jupiter had his Temple and his Oracle with the Title of Dodonaeus thence It stood near a River of the same Name that joined it self with the Achelous Doesbourg or Doesborck Doesburgus Drusiburgus Arx Drusiana a strong rich and populous Town in the Province of Guelderland in the Low-Countreys upon the Issel at the Mouth of the old Canal of Drusus one German Mile from Zutphen Taken by the French in 1672. It is no very great Town Doffrini the Mountains of Scandinavia Doggers bank the Name of some Sands in the German Ocean Doira and Doria a double River of Piedmont The Greater which is called Doria Balta springeth from the Grecian Alpes in the Borders of Le Vallais and leaving Aosta Pont de S. Martino and Inurea to the East at the latter it divides sends one Branch to Vercelli called the Naulio then continuing its course it receiveth from the West the Cuisella and ends in the Po at Verolengo or S. Giovan thirty two Miles from Alexandria to the north-North-West The Lesser Doria riseth in the Cottian Alpes from the Mountains called the Genebre in the Dauphinate and running East it washeth Susa Bozolengo and Aviglana and falls into the Po not above half a Mile beneath Turino Dol Dolum Neodunum Tollium a City in the Lesser Britainy in France which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tours called by the Ancients NEODVNVM stands in a Marshy Ground and of no great Circumference not above two Leagues from the British Sea and four from S. Maloe's with a Castle There was a Council here assembled by Pope Vrban II. in 1094. The Bishops of this See have formerly made strong Pretensions to the Metropolitanship of Bretagne Dolcigno See Dulcigno Dole Dola ad Dubim a City in the Dukedom of Burgundy strongly fortified being the Capital of that Dukedom the Seat of the Parliament and an University founded in the year 1426. by Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy It stands upon the River Dou Dubis nine Miles from Dyon to the East and from Verdun to the North. This Town was sack'd by Lewis XI in 1479. Fortified by the Emperor Charles V. in 1530. Besieged by the French without their taking of it in 1636. Taken by the French from the Spaniards in 1668. Retaken in 1674. and by the Treaty of Nimeguen annexed to the Crown of France for ever The Country about is called the Bailage de Dole which together with the Town was then resigned to the French King Dollert a vast Lake or Bay at the Mouth of the River Amasus between Groningen and Emden which in 1277. was made by an Inundation of the Sea in which thirty three Villages were swallowed up and irrecoverably lost It is otherwise called the Gulph of Emden The South part of Groningen suffered not much less by such another raging Overflow from Groningen diep in the year 1686. Dolomieu A Village in Dauphine betwixt Moresel and La Tour du Pin. Much spoken of in France in the year 1680. for a feigned Story of the killing of a Flying Dragon there and of a Carbuncle in his head of extraordinary value Dombes Tractus Dombensis a small Territory of France incompassed on all sides by le Bresse except on the West where it is bounded by the River Saone which parts it from Baujolois It lies between Mascon to the North and Lyon to the South and though small is yet very fruitful honoured with the Title of a Principality under its own Princes of the House of Bourbon The Capital of it is Trevoux four Miles above Lyon to the North. This Principality was given to Lewis II. Duke of Bourbon by Edward the last Duke of the Race de Baujolois in 1400. Domburg a Town of good Antiquity and pleasantly situated in the Isle of Walcheren in Zealand about two Dutch Miles from Middleburg in the same Island to the West Domezopoli Domitiopolis once a famous City of Isauria in the Lesser Asia and a Bishops See under
are Bamberg Nuremberg Rotenberg Schweinfurt Weisemberg and Weinsheim This Country anciently inhabited by the Sicambri in the times of Valentinian the Emperour having subdued the Alani took the Name of Franckenland that is Freedland But in after times being perpetually exagitated with the Incursions of the Goths they resolved to seek a new Habitation and under Marcomir their King or Duke settled about 433. in Friseland Guelderland and the adjoining Countries before which faith my Author the Name of Franks was scarce known This Country is partly Level and partly Mountainous yet the Mountains in it are not high nor is the Soil over-fruitful it being Sandy for the most part yet the Hills produce grateful Wine especially about Wurtsburg Of the Dukes of Franconia these obtained the Empire Conradus I. in 912. Conradus II. in 1026. Henry III. in 1039. Henry IV. in 1056. Henry V. in 1108. Besides the Cities before named Hoffman reckons Coburg Culembach Franckfort Mentz Anspack Franco-ville a Village in the District of Paris in the Isle of France Franeker Franequera a small City in Friseland two Leagues from the Sea and from Leuwarden the principal City of that Province made an University in 1585. Franza-curta Fran̄cia parva Little France a Territory in the States of Venice in Italy lying about Brescia which took this Name from an Establishment of the French in it towards the end of the eighth Century after Charles the Great had defeated the Lombards Frascati Frascata Tusculum a City of Campagnia di Roma under the Dominion of the Pope seated at the foot of an Hill as Holstenius proves at large twelve Miles from Rome to the East in which were many of the Country Houses of the Roman Princes It is now a Bishoprick by the Title of Episcopus Tusculanus which always belongs to one of the six Senior Cardinals This ancient Roman City being ruined in the time of Pope Celestinus III. Frascati was built in the same place Towards Rome there is a small Theatre which seems to have belonged to some private Roman and not to the City Near this place is the Tusculanum or Village which belonged to Cicero where he wrote his Tusculan Questions Frascolari Oanus a River of Sicily it falls into the Lybian Sea on the South side of the Island a little below Camarina Frat. See Euphrates Frawenburg Fravenburgus a Town in Prussia Regalis belonging to Poland upon the Bay of Frish Haff where it takes in the River Schon which has also a noble Haven belonging to it and stands not above three German Miles from Elbing to the South-East In this place N. Copernicus the great Astronomer and Mathematician a Canon of the Church of Frawenburg died in 1543. There is also a Castle and a Cathedral Church with a College of Canons Fraxinet Fraxinetum a famous Retreat of the Saracens in the ninth and tenth Ages out of which they made their Incursions to burn and plunder the Country Some place it in Spain others in Italy in Oauphine in Provence and with the greatest probability in the latter there being yet a Castle in the Diocese of Frejus near the Gulph of Grimaut which retains the Name of la Garde du Fraxinet and Guarda Fraxineti Frèddano Egelidus Frigus a River in Tuscany in the Valley of Aretino Freddo Acis a River in Sicily which ariseth from Mount Aetna and is received by the Ionian Sea between Catana to the South and Tavormina to the North. This River which ariseth from so warm a Bed as Mount Aetna is yet so remarkably cold that its Name is taken from thence Freddo in Italian signifying Cold. Freiburg Friburgus is a German City in Brisgaw upon the River Threisem at the foot of the Mountains four German Miles from Brisack to the South and six from Basil built in 1120. by Albert Duke of Austria Here was an University opened by Beroaldus Duke of Zeringen in 1450. It was taken by the Swedes and French in 1638. And when in 1644. the Spaniards attempted to regain it they received a great Defeat here Yet it was afterwards restored to them and retaken by the French in 1677. and left to them again by the Treaty of Nimmeguen in 1679. Freiburg Friburgus a Town and Canton in Switzerland seven German Miles from Solothurn or Soleurre as the French call it to the South and three from Berne to the North-East It was once an Imperial Free City but in 1481. exempted the Bishop of Lausanne resides here It stands upon the River Sana built by Berchtoldus IV. Duke of Zeringen twelve years before Bern in 1179. In such a Site that whereas all parts towards the North East and South are encompassed with steep and craggy Rocks and Mountains the Western side is defended by a deep Dike and has a District of three hours riding annexed to it Frederick Barbarossa made it a Free City in 1218. After the death of the Founder it became subject to the Count of Kyburg It was sold afterwards to Rodolphus I. Emperour of Germany by one of these Counts it was after this two hundred years under the House of Austria till about 1403. being much oppressed by the Nobility this City entred a League with that of Bern but yet continued still under the House of Austria till 1481. when they were admitted into the general League of the Swiss and made the Tenth Canton And when many of the Cantons embraced the Reformed Religion this stuck to the Roman Catholick they use the German and French Tongues but the former most Freinwalt or Fridwalt Colancorum a City in Brandenburg seven Miles from Berlin upon the confluence of the Fubre and the Oder to the North-East twelve from Stetin to the South and six from Franckfort upon the Oder to the North. Freising Freisingen Frisinga Fruxinum a German City in the Vpper Bavaria which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Salisburg near the River Isara Iser It was an Imperial Free City but is now exempt and under the Jurisdiction of its own Bishop It stands upon the confluence of the Iser and Mosack partly in a Plain and partly on a Hill four German Miles from Munick to the North and ten from Ratisbon Freius Forum Julium Forum Voconii Civitas Forojuliensis a City of Provence in France built in a Valley amongst Marshes half a League from the Mediterranean Sea thirteen from Toulon to the East at the mouth of the River Argens It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Aix and a place of very good Antiquity as the Amphitheatre Aqueduct Statues Inscriptions c. yet extant demonstrate Pope John XXII was sometime Bishop here Fresingfield a Country Town in the County of Suffolk six Miles from Halsworth to the West and four from Harlson to the South Dr. William Sancroft Archbishop of Canterbury was born in this Town and has since erected in it a Free-School Fremona a Town in the Kingdom of Aethiopia in Africa believed to be the Primis Magna or Premnis of
from the Shoars of Dithmarsh to the West Heretofore four German Miles in Compass but in 800. a great part of it perished by a Tempest and in 1300 another part of what was left before was swallowed up by the Ocean which in its Rage sometimes casts away Islands like common Vessels It consists now but of one single Parish Heilsberg a Town in the Regal Prussia upon the River Alle which has a Castle Seated in the Territory of Ermelandt or Warmerland The Bishop of which Province resides in it eight German Miles from Regensperg to the South Built in 1240. Heis Hericus Herue an Island on the Coast of Poictou near the Confines of Bretagne Heitersheim or Haitersheim a small Town in the Province of Brisgow in Germany in which the Grand Prior of the Order of Malta for Germany who is a Prince of the Empire ordinarily resides The Island of S. Helen is seated in the Atlantick Ocean in 16 deg of Southern Lat. Discover'd by Joannes de Nova a Portuguese in 1502. on S. Helen's Day It is thirteen Miles in Compass and lies at a vast distance from all other Lands between Africa to the East and Brasil to the West nearer the former It is mountainous but fruitful and abounds with what is useful for the Life of Man except Wheat It has four Valleys and as many Springs towards its North end For a long time it lay open to the Benefit of all Mankind but about twenty years since the English settled a Colony here which is become exceeding numerous Helicona Helicon a Mountain in Baeotia now called Stramulipa near Parnassus if not a Part of it Sacred to the Muses of old thence entituled Heliconides and much celebrated by the Greek and Latin Poets In it was the Sepulchre of Orpheus the Fountains of Hippocrene and Aganippe Near it were the Cities of Thespia Ascra and Nissa now Zagaya There was also a River in Sicily so called which is now the Olivero on the North side of that Island And another in Macedonia now the Faribo Heliopolis an ancient City of the Kingdom of Egypt near Cairo to the East It received this Name from a stately Temple there that was dedicated to the Sun The Arabians called it Ain Schemes i. e. the Eye of the Sun Now nothing but the Ruines is extant of it § There were two other Cities of the same Name in the days of Antiquity one in Phaenicia and one in Cilicia in the Lesser Asia both of them Episcopal Sees The first under the Patriarch of Constantinople the second Antioch § Also a City of the Vpper Saxony in the Marquisate of Brandenburg in Germany built by Charles M. and now called Sotwedel i. e. the Valley of the Sun There had been a Statue dedicated to the Sun and venerated here in the Pagan Times Hellespont the Famous Streights betwixt Europe and Asia now called the Streights of Gallipoli or the Dardanelles and the Arm of S. George It was here that Xerxes whipt the Sea and after his Loss of the Battle of Thermopylae escaped to Abydos out of a Storm in a Fishermans Skiff Helmechtmenich Gedrosia a Province of the Kingdom of Persia Helmesley a Market Town in the North-Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Ridal upon a small River which afterwards falls into the Derwent Helmont Helmontium a Town of Brabant which has a very ancient Castle and is the Capital of Kemperland under the Vnited Provinces It lies in the middle between Boisleduc to the West and Roermond to the East six Miles from the latter and six from Nimeguen to the South Helmstad Helmestadium Hemopolis a small and inconsiderable Town in Germany under the Duke of Brunswick Wolffenbuttel ever since 1490. having before that been subject to its Abbot It stands in the Confines of the Dukedom of Brunswick between Brunswick to the West and Magdeburg to the East upon the River Aller six German Miles from Wolffenbuttel to the East eleven from Hildesheime to the North-East and five from Halberstad to the North. Julius Duke of Brunswick opened here an University in 1576. which from him is called Academia Julia. Helmstad a strong Sea-Port Town in the Province of Hallandt on the Baltick Sea towards the Borders of Scannia which by a Treaty in 1645. was yielded to the Swedes Helsingford Helsingfordia a small City of Nyland a part of Finland upon the Shoars of the Bay of Finland where it receives the River Wanda over against Revel in Long. 43. 45 Lat. 60. 10. Helsinglandt Helsinga a Province of Sweden between Dalecarl to the West Jemplandt and Midlepad to the North and the Baltick Sea to the East the principal Town of which is Hadswickwalt Helson a Borough Town in the County of Cornwall in the Hundred of Kerryer which elects two Parliament Men. Hemia Amisus a City of Paphlagonia in the Lesser Asia called Amid and Hemid by the Turks and Simiso by the Greeks It is an Archbishop's See built on the Shoars of the Euxine an hundred Miles from Sinope to the East upon the Outlet of the River Casalmach which comes from Amasia twenty German Miles South of Hemid or Simiso as it is called in the Maps Hemid or Cara-Hemid Amida a City of Mesopotamia which now gives Name to that Country it being the Capital of it and is called Diarbeck from this City It is a great and populous City the Seat of a Turkish Governor and of a Christian Archbishop It stands from Arziri a City of the Lesser Armenia to the South-East an hundred and twenty Miles from Aleppo to the East sixty See Caraemit Long. 78. 15. Lat. 39. 30. Hempsted a Market-Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Dacor Hemz Emisa Emessa a City of Syria called Haman by the Turks Kemps by Postellus which is an Archbishop's See under the Patriarch of Antioch upon the River Orontes which passeth by Antioch forty three Miles from Damascus to the North eighty from Antioch to the East and about sixty from Palmyria to the West It is a pretty Town walled with black and white Stone half a Pike high it had formerly a Dike now filled with Rubbish It has twenty five Towers six Gates and five Churches The chief Church was built by S. Helen and was in the Hands of the Chistians till about 160 years agone On the South it has a Castle not taken from the Christians without much Bloodshed and therefore left to be ruined See M. Thevenot part 1. pag. 223. and Haman Henley a Market-Town in Oxfordshire in the Hundred of Binfield upon the River Thames over which it has a fair Bridge This Town drives a great Trade of Malt. § There is another Henly in Warwickshire in the Hundred of Barlickway upon the River Alne called Henley in Arden for Distinction from the Precedent Henneberg an ancient Castle in the Circle of Franconia in Germany seven Leagues from Schweinfurt and eight from Fuld upon a Rock at the Foot whereof passes the River Strew This Castle gives Name to
City § The Bishoprick of Hildesheim makes a particular District of it self about ten or twelve Leagues long between the Dutchies of Brunswick and Lunenbourgh and the Principality of Halberstad In which extent there are divers Towns following the same Religion Himera an ancient City of the Island of Sicily so called from its situation at the Mouth of the River Himera or the modern fiume ai Termine Hannibal destroyed it about six hundred forty eight years before the coming of Christ two years after which the Carthaginians near its Ruins built another named Thermae Himerae or Thermae Himerenses from the Hot Baths that were in the place This is now called Termine The Poet Stesichorus was a Native of the ancient Himera Hinckley a Market Town in Leicestershire in the Hundred of Sparkingho Hindon a Corporation in VViltshire in the Hundred of Mere which elects two Members of the Lower House Hingham a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Forehoe Hinghoa a great City of the Province of Fokien in China The Capital of a Territory of the same Name commanding one other old City and divers Towns and Villages It is beautified with Magnificent Buildings and many Triumphant Arches and Sepulchres Hippocrene a celebrated Fountain in Boeotia in Greece sacred to the Muses amongst the ancient Poets Hippone Hippo Regius See Bonne Hippopodes an ancient People mentioned by Mela that dwelt about the Scythian Sea and were fabulously reported to have Horses feet from nothing but their agility and swiftness in running Hirpini an ancient People of Italy amongst the Samnites so called from their Capital City Hirpinum which is now a Village says Leander by the Name of l' Arpaia The farther Principate in the Kingdom of Naples was the Seat and Country of this People Hirschfeld Herofelda a small Town in Hassia upon the River Fuld which had heretofore a celebrated Abbey and was an Imperial Free-Town under the Jurisdiction of its own Abbot together with the Territory in which it stands but is now under the Landâ—-Grave of Hessen-Cassel with the Title of a Principality by the Treaty of Munster It stands five German Miles from Fuld to the North and seven from Cassel to the South Hispahan See Haspaam Hispaniola San Domingo and S. Dominique a great Island belonging to the North America called by its Natives Ayti First discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The Spaniards afterwards gave it this Name though it is also commonly called La Saint Domingue from its principal Town It is seated in the Bay of Mexico with Cuba and Jamaica to the West Porto Rico and the Caribbe Isles to the East the Atlantick Ocean on the North and the Bay of Mexico on the South It extends from 299 to 307. deg of Long. being one hundred and forty Spanish Leagues from East to West sixty in breadth and four hundred in compass between eighteen and twenty degrees of Northern Latitude The Spaniards have some Colonies at the East end the French others at the north-North-West end towards Cuba The Air is extreme hot in the Morning but cooler in the Afternoon by reason of a constant Sea Brize which then riseth The Country is always green affords most excellent Pasture the Cattle grow wild for want of Owners they encrease so prodigiously Herbs and Carrots in sixteen days become fit to Eat It affords Ginger and Suger-Canes in vast abundance and Corn an hundred fold It has also Mines of Brass and Iron some say of Silver or Gold When first discovered extreamly populous but the Spaniards in a few years destroyed three Millions of Natives so that now there are very few left The prinpal Town is St. Domingo built by Bartholomew Columbus in 1494. and removed in 1502 to the opposite Shoar of the River Ozama Whilst the Natives were Masters of this Island it stood divided into divers petty Provinces each under the obedience of a distinct Cacique or Prince of their own The Spaniards have cast it into five Cantons viz. Bainora Cubaho Cajaba Cassimu and Guacayatima San Domingo stands in Cassimu In 1586. Sir Francis Drake made a Descent here took Domingo and kept it a Month till the Spaniards redeemed it with their money again Histria Hystereich Istria is a County in Italy which on the East West and South has the Adriatick Sea and on the North Friuli It is full of Woods and Quarries affords Venice under which it is Materials both for Ships and Houses but otherwise not comparable to the rest of Italy in point of Fertility the Air is besides sickly and unwholsom The compass of it is about two hundred Miles This Country was conquered by the Venetians first in 938. and finally subdued in 1190. ever since which they have been under this State though they have made several attempts to shake off their Yoak and regain their ancient Liberty Hitchin a Market Town in Hartfordshire The Capital of its Hundred Hoaiching one of the principal Cities in the Province of Honan in the Kingdom of China Hodu the Persian Gulph Hoddesdon a Market Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Hartford upon the River Lea. Hoeicheu a City of the Province of Nanquin in the South part of it towards Chekiam which stands in a Mountainous Country and has five small Cities under it Hoencourt a Town in the Bishoprick of Cambray near which the French were defeated in 1642. It lies three German Miles from Cambray to the North-West and a little less from Arras to the South-West Hoentwiel a Fortress in Schwaben in Germany belonging to the Duke of Wirtembergh seated upon a Rock between the Rivers Schlichaim and Breym which both fall into the Necker one above the other beneath Rotweil This Castle is seated less than two German Miles from the Danube to the North and two Miles and an half from the Fountains of the Necker to the East It stood seven or eight Sieges against the Imperialists who in one of these viz. that in 1641. spent a whole Summer upon it and at last could not take it Hog-Magog-Hilis a ridge of Hills two Miles South-Eastward of Cambridge on the top whereof is seen a Rampier formerly so strengthened with three Ditches as to be esteemed almost impregnable The same was a Danish Station Hohenloe or Holach Holachius an Earldom in Franconia in the Borders of Schwaben by the River Cochar between the Marquisate of Anspach and the Dukedom of Wirtemberg under its own Count or Earl Holbech a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Ellow Holland one of the three parts in the division of the County of Lincoln which contains the Southern Towns from Lindsey towards the Sea Adorned with the Title of an Earldom since the year 1624. When King James I. created Henry Rich Earl of Holland whose Grandson Edward Rich is the present Earl of Warwick and Holland Holland Batavia Hollandia the principal Province of the Vnited Netherlands called by the Spaniards la Olandia and by all others Holland because
Isles of Scotland over against Cantyr in 56 deg of Lat. twenty four Miles long and sixteen broad plentiful in Wheat Cattle and Herds of Deer The principal Towns in it are Kilmany Dunweg and Crome besides which it hath divers Villages Ilchester a Market and Borough Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Tintinhull which returns two Burgesses to the House of Commons It stands upon the River Ill or Yeovel having heretofore sixteen Parish-Churches as a place of great Note Strength and Antiquity now reduced to two The County-Goal is kept here Iler Hilarus Ilarus a River of Schwaben in Germany which riseth in Tirol and running Northward watereth Kempten then falls into the Danube over against Vlm Ilerda Lerida Athanagia a fortified and strong City in Catalonia in Spain which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona seated upon the River Segre Sicoris three Leagues above its fall into the Ebro in the Confines of Arragon This City is mentioned in Livy as taken by Scipio and rendred famous for an Encounter near it between a General of Sertoris and Manilius Proconsul of Gallia where the latter was defeated with the loss of three Legions of Foot and 1500 Horse Ilion See Troja Ilfordcomb a Market Town in Devonshire in the Hundred of Branton Ill Ellus Hellus Hellelus a River of Germany which ariseth in Suntgow and passing through Alsatia watereth Mulhausen Ensisheim Colmar and Strasburg below which it falls into the Rhine Illyricum Illyris Illyria In the antient Geography of Europe this Country lay betwixt Pannonia to the North and the Adriatick Sea to the South divided into two parts Liburnia and Dalmatia whereof the first was subjected to the Romans a little before the second Punick War the other the Eastern part not till the Reign of Augustus It is now nigh wholly comprehended under Dalmatia and Sclavonia under the respective Dominion either of the Venetians or the Turks except the Republick of Ragusa and some Places more The Illyricus Sinus is now call'd the Bay of Drin and the Gulph of Venice Ilmen a considerable Lake in Russia towards Livonia on the South of the City Novogorod which disburthens it self into the Lake of Lagoda by a River which passeth on the East of that City called the Wolga Ilment Arabius one of the most considerable Rivers in the Kingdom of Persia it ariseth from the Mountains of Sibocoran in the Province of Sigistan and watering Mut Gilechi Racagi beneath Sistan it takes in the Sal beneath Sereng the Ghir beneath Chicheran the Ilmentel and beneath Pasir falls into the Arabick Ocean in Long. 106. 30. near Macran to the West Iltz or Izilz Ilza a small Town in the Palatinate of Sandomir in the Lesser Poland with a Castle which belongs to the Bishop of Cracow Ilmister a Market Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Abdick Imaus is one of the greatest Mountains in the Greater Asia it begins at Mount Taurus near the Caspian Sea and running Southward through the whole Continent of Asia it divides the Asian Tartary into two parts and ends at the rise of the River Ganges where it again spreads it self East and West and becomes a Northern Boundary to the Empire of the Great Mogul or Indostan having performed a Course of 450 German Miles and taking various names from the Nations it passeth as Althai Belgan Dalanguer c. Imiretta or Imaretza a Kingdom in Gurgistan in Asia stiled by the Turks Pacha Koutchouc or a Little Principality is inclosed betwixt the Mountain Caucasus Mengrelia the Black Sea Guriel and Georgia properly so called About 120 Miles in length in breadth 60. Wooddy and mountainous yet not without its agreeable Valleys and Plains Mines of Iron and the Necessaries of Life Under a Prince of its own to whom heretofore Mengrelia and Guriel after their shaking off of the Yoke of the Emperors of Constantinople and Trebizond own'd Subjection but now together with them tributary to the Turk who obliges the King of Imireta every year to send him eighty Children as a Tribute There are three Fortresses in this Kingdom Scander towards the South and Regia and Scorgia towards the North near the River Phasis besides scattered Villages It s most valuable Commodities are Wine and Swine which makes it difficult here to observe the Laws of Mahometanism The Kings pretend to be descended of the race of King David Imzagor Claudius a Mountain in Stiria Immirenieni an antient People towards the South of the Kingdom of Persia of which History relates that they embraced Christianity in the Reign of the Emperor Anastasius about the year 500 and at their request had a Bishop sent amongst them Imola Cornelia Forum Cornelii Imola a City in the Dominions of the Church in Romandiola upon the River Santerno This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ravenna of which Alexander VII was Bishop when in 1655 he was chosen Pope It is a fine and a populous City twenty Miles from Bononia to the East and twenty five from Ravenna Narses is said to have ruined and the Lombards to have repair'd it Caesar Borgia made himself Master of it in the Pontificate of Alexander the Sixth from which time it became subject to the Church Imperiati a small City in the Kingdom of Chili in America near a River of the same Name four Leagues from the South Sea said to be an Episcopal See under the Spaniards Inacho Apheas a small River of Epirus which watereth Larta on the South and falls into the Bay called the Gulph of Larta Index Vid. Indus India is taken for a considerable part of Asia commonly called the East-Indies to distinguish it from America which is called the West-Indies It is thought to be the Havilah in the Holy Scriptures by the Natives Indostan Bounded on the North with the Asiatick Tartary the Mountains of Imaus and Emodus on the East with the Kingdom of China on the South with the Indian Ocean and on the West with the Kingdom of Persia This Country consists partly in a vastly extended Continent partly in Islands some of which are very great That upon the Continent is divided into three Parts 1. The Empire of the Great Mogul or North India which is a part of India intra Gangem Indum and more peculiarly called Indosthan in this there are thirty five Kingdoms 2. The Peninsula of Malabar 3. The India extra Gangem In the India extra Gangem are four more considerable Kingdoms Pegu to the West Ava to the North Siam to the South and Cochinchina to the East each of which contains many particular or lesser Kingdoms in it The principal of the Islands are Borneo Ceylan Java Sumatra Celebes Mindano Luconia Hainan Pakan Gilolo the Moluccaes and Philippine Isles Many of these are so great as to be divided in many Kingdoms some of them have never been throughly discovered by the European Nations This Country extendeth in length from deg 106. to 159. of Long. and from deg 10. of
Basil Pierreport and Botzberg more South Schafmat and by the Swiss Leerberg Iurat a part of the Mountain Jura which lies between Burgundy and Switzerland also called Jurten Iurea Eporedia called Vrbs Salassiorum by Ptolemy and Eporaedio by Antoninus in his Itinerary at this day Jurea by the Inhabitants Jurée by the French is a City of Piedmont in Italy the Capital of the Territory of Canavese and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Turin seated upon the River Doria Duria which falls into the Po beneath Rivarotta between Chivas to the West and Casal to the East thirty Italian Miles from Turin to the North and twenty five from Aoust to the South-West This City has been under the Duke of Savoy ever since 1313. who has taken care to fortifie it very well it has also an ancient Castle and a Stone Bridge over the River Doria The French took it in 1554. during the Wars of Italy It has of ancient time given the Title of a Marquess Iuriogrod See Derpt Iustinopolis or Justiniana See Achrida Cabo di Istria and Giustandil Iutland Jutia Cimbrica Chersonesus is a very great Province of the Kingdom of Denmark extended in the form of a vast Peninsula from North to South and only joined to the Continent at the South end where Holstein a part of this Promontory joins it to Germany on the West it has the German Ocean on the North and East the Baltick Sea It is divided into the Northern and Southern Jutland The Northern Jutland is divided into four Dioceses viz. Rypen Arhusen Alborch and Wisborch this part is under the King of Denmark the Southern is divided into three viz. Sleswick Flensborg and Hadersleben this is under the Duke of Sleswick who is of the Blood Royal of Denmark Charles Gustavus King of Sweden took Jutland in his late Wars and thence passed over the Ice into the Neighbouring Islands It was the Country most suppose of the ancient Cimbri Ixar a small Town in the Kingdom of Arragon upon the River Martinium twelve Miles from Sarragoza to the South which gives the Title of a Duke Ixe a Kingdom on the South of Japan Iyo a Province in Japan in Xicoca towards the West of it and the Island Ximoam which has in it a Town of the same Name K A. KAchemire a Kingdom in the Estates of the Great Mogul along the Mountain Caucasus towards the Kingdom of Lahor and the Borders of Indostan with a City its Capital of the same name The City is all built of Wood unwalled traversed by a River over which it has two Bridges and near a great Lake four or five Leagues in circuit falling into the same The Country affords excellent Pasturage about thirty Leagues long and twelve broad Kaimachites a Province or Tribe amongst the Asian Tartars by the great River Ghamma between Mongal to the North and the Kingdoms of Thibet and Tangut These People give Name to that part of the Ocean which bordereth upon them Kalisch Calisia a City in the Kingdom of Poland built upon the River Prosna which a little lower falls into the Warta five German Miles from the Confines of Silesia and twelve from Breslaw to the North-East It is the Capital of a Palatinate in that Kingdom and suffered very much from the Swedes in the year 1657. Kalmar See Calmar Kalmintz Celemantia called by Ptolemy the Town of the Quades is now a Village in Austria not far from the Fountains of the River Teye in the Consines of Moravia thirty Miles saith Baudrand from Zuaian a Town of Moravia to the West Kalmouchs a People or Tribe of the Grand Tartary toward the Coast of the Caspian Sea Kam the ancient Name of Egypt Kamenieck Camienick Camenecia Clepidava Camenecum a strong City in the Vkraine in the Kingdom of Poland which is the Capital of Podolia The Poles call it Kaminieck Podelsski It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lemberg and stands upon a Mountain by the River Smotrzyck which a little lower falls into the Neister thirty Miles from Lemberg to the South-East eighty from Warsaw and one hundred and seventy from Constantinople towards the Frontiers of Moldavia The Turks very often attempted this Place without any success but having suffered much by Fire in 1669. and being thereupon in 1672. besieged by them it was taken the Poles being then engaged in a Civil War amongst themselves and the Town not in a condition to defend it self The Cossacks under the Command of the Sieur Mohila blocked it up in April 1687. The Polish Army offered to attack it about September following but upon the Approach of the Ottoman Forces they were both of them forced to retire the Polish Army kept it in a manner blocked up by their Encampment in September 1688. About a Month after they left the Tartars to put a Convoy of Provisions into the Place In 1689. August 20. the Forces as well of Lithuania as Poland under the Command of the great General of Poland setting down before it began a formal Attack till on the eighth of September following being crossed with ill success they raised the Siege Kaniow Kaniovia a strong Town in Poland upon the Nieper where the River Ross falls into it in the Palatinate of Kiovia It lies seven German Miles from Czyrcassis to the North West twenty seven from Kiovia to the South-East and upon the same side of the River This Town is one of the strong Places which belongs to the Cossacks Kanisa Canisia a Town of the Lower Hungary seated upon the River Sala in the County of Zalad between the Lake of Balaton and the Drave not above one Mile from the Confines of Stiria to the East This was taken by the Turks in 1600. though the Imperialists did all that was possible to prevent it the year following the Arch-Duke of Austria besieged it from the beginning of September to the end of October without any success In 1664. Count Serini besieged it and had infallibly carried it if he had been succoured in time In 1688. June 30. the Count de Budiani blockaded it with a Body of six thousand Hungarians and two thousand Heydukes which continued till April 13. 1690. when in pursuance of a Capitulation that the Emperour had ratified the Keys of the Gates hanging upon a Chain of Gold were delivered to the Count de Budiani by a Turk saying I herewith consign into your hands the strongest Fortress in the Ottoman Empire The Imperialists found in it great store of large Artillery taken heretofore from the Christians and some with old German Inscriptions Kargapol Cargapolia a City in Muscovy in the Western parts of that Kingdom near the Lake of Onega between the Confines of Sweden and the Dwina there is a Lake and a River of the same Name belonging to this City Karkessa a Town in Arabia Deserta Karn Taurn a Mountain in Carinthia Karnwaldt a Forest in Switzerland Karopnitze Orbelus a Mountain in Macedonia which is a Spur of
Tir-Oēn but being presently besieged by the Lord Montjoy Lieutenant of Ireland both by Sea and Land in December and Tir-Oën coming up to relieve the Spaniards with six thousand Foot and five hundred Horse amongst which were two thousand fresh Spaniards who had landed a little before at Berehaven Baltimore and Castle-haven being defeated December 24. by a Detachment drawn out of the English Camp D' Aquila thereupon January 2. following surrendered the Town to the English and was Transported with the Remainder of his Men by the English into Spain The Forces under the Earl of Marleborough possessed themselves of this Town Octob. 2. 1690 the next day they took the Old Fort by Storm the Governor for King James II. with several other Officers being slain upon the Ramparts On the seventeenth following the New Fort surrendered upon Articles and the Garrison of about 1200 Men marched out with their Arms and Baggage to be conducted to Limerick Kintzig Kintia a small River in Schwaben in Germany which ariseth in the Dukedom of Wirtemberg in the Black Forest and running South-West through the Territory of Ortnaw it watereth Wolsach Hussen and Offenburgh then falls into the Rhine at Strasburgh four Miles South-West of Baden Kiovia Kiow a City of Poland seated upon the Nieper in the Vkrayne which is the Capital of a County or Palatinate of the same Name and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Lemburgh having still a very strong Castle The Ruins of its Walls shew that it was once a great and a magnificent City containing eight miles in circuit which appears also from the Cathedral Church Towards the North it is yet full of People but what lies to the South and West has only a Timber Fence This City was built by Kio a Russian Prince in the Year 861. After this it was the Capital of Russia in which it stands which then had Princes of its own And at last it was taken by the Poles In 1615 it was taken and burnt by the Tartars and could never since recover that loss Within these thirty years last past it has suffered very much from the Cossacks and Moscovites In 1651 the Poles took it from the Cossacks but they having afterwards recovered it mortgaged it to the Moscovites who are in that Right still possessed of it It s Long. is 61. 20. Lat. 50. 51. This City is called by the Poles Kiouf or Kioff and lies forty Polish Miles from the Borders of Moscovy to the West seventy from Caminieck to the North-East and an hundred from Warsaw to the East § The Palatinate of Kiovia is called Volhinia Inferior and also the Vkrayne it is a part of Red Russia and lies on both sides of the River Nieper between Moscovy the Desarts of the Lesser Tartary Volhinia Superior the Palatinate of Barlaw and the Tartars of Orzakow In 1686 this was yielded to the Russ to engage them in an Alliance with the Poles against the Crim Tartars Kiri Drinus See Drino Kirkby or Kirby Lonsdale a Market Town in the County of Westmorland The Capital of its Ward upon the Banks of the River Lon in a rich and pleasant vale called Lonsdale large well built and populous having a fair Church and Stone-bridge over the said River The Name signifies the Church in the dale or Valley of Lon. § Kirkby Moreside a Market Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Ridal upon a small River which after some course falls with others into the Derwent § Kirkby Stephens a Market Town in the County of Westmorland in East Ward near the skirts of the Hills which sever Cumberland from Yorkshire It has a fair Church and the Lord Wharton a Seat near it called Wharton-Hall Kirkham a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Amounderness near the mouth of the River Rible Kirkton a Market Town in Lincolnshire in the division of Holland and the Hundred of Corringham adorned with a fair Church built Cathedral wise in the form of a Cross with a broad Steeple in the midst It stands upon a rising sandy ground Kirkwall Carcoviaca the principal Town in the Isles of Orkney which has a Castle and a large Haven It is seated upon the Island called Mainland on the North Side of the Island but towards the Eastern End and is in subjection to the King of Scotland the Seat of the Bishop of the Northern Isles Kisdarnoczi Claudius a Mountain between Stiria to the West and the Lower Hungary to the East which has various Names given by various Nations Klagenfurt or Clagenfurt Claudia Claudivium a City of Carinthia Dr. Brown in his Travels saith it is a fair four-square Town inclosed with a handsom Wall the Rampart is very broad at each Corner there is a Bastion and one in the middle of each Curtain the Streets straight and uniform as well as the Works There is a very fair Piazza or Square in the middle which was thus adorned by the Lutherans whilst they held this place who also erected the Noble Fountain in the Piazza the Figure of which is represented by this Author This is the Capital of Stiria at this day and lies upon a small River a Mile and half N. from the Drave thirty one from Vienna to the South-West and seventeen from Aquileja to the North East Kleckgow Eremus Helvetiorum a small Tract by the River Rhine between Scaphuis to the East and the Canton of Vnderwaldt to the West in Schwaben in Germany but on the very Borders of Switzerland Klein Glogaw Glogavia Minor See Glogaw Klogher an Episcopal City in the Province of Vlster in Ireland and the County of Monagham Knapdaile Knapdalia a County in the North of Scotland between Argile separated by an Arm of the Sea to the East the Isle of Jurai to the West Cantyr to the South Domin and Lorn to the North. Kilmore is the chief Town in it Knaresborough a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Claro which elects two Members of the House of Commons It a Castle upon a Rock and a Well says Mr. Speed which petrifies Wood. Knaringen Grinario a Roman Town in Schwaben in the Marquisate of Burgaw upon the River Carnlach a Mile from Burgaw to the West and four from Vlm to the same quarter Knighton a Market Town in the County of Radnor in Wales the Capital of its Hundred Knin Arduba a City of Dalmatia Knockfergus Carrickfergus Rupes Fergusii a City in the County of Antrym in the Province of Vlster on the British Sea over against the Isle of Man seated on the North Side of a fine Bay which affords it the Convenience of a large safe Haven This Bay is called by Ptolemy Vinderius at present the Bay of Fergus from a King of these parts who is said to have led the Scots out of Ireland into Scotland and afterwards to have been drowned here This City is more populous rich and frequented than any other in this part of
and Conflans upon it stands Luxevil which is about six Leagues from Langres to the East Lantriguet See Treguier Lanzano See Lanciano Lanzerote or Lanzarotta Pluitalia one of the Azores or Canary Islands which lies in Long. 4. Lat. 27. 40. The Kingdom of Lao or Laos in the East Indies is bounded by the Kingdoms of Tunquin to the East Cambaia to the South Siam and Pegu to the West and Ava to the North. Of great strength against Invasion from the Mountains surrounding it Fruitful temperate and very healthful under a King heretofore tributary to China but now absolute who receives the Tributes of divers petty Kings as their Soveraign It is divided into seven great Provinces governed by Viceroys and watered by the Mother of Rivers as they call it the River Lao which springing from about the high Mountains of the Province of Junnan upon the Frontiers of China divides into two great Rivers some Leagues from Lao whereof one passes West by Pegu to the Gulph of Bengale the other expands it self in divers Branches throughout all Lao cutting the same in two from North to South The Capital City is Langione in 18 deg of Lat. The King of Tonquin attempted not long ago to unite this Kingdom with his own but not with success It has been a Kingdom since the year 600 before which it was a sort of a Republick and before that a Member of the Kingdom of China Laodicea See Eskihisar Laudichia and Lyche Laon Laudunum Lugdunum Clavatum a City in Picardy in France which is commonly pronounced Lan. It is great and very well fortified and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Rheims Baudrand placeth it in the Isle of France on a high Hill but in the borders of Picardy of which he saith it was once a part ten Miles from Rheims to the North-West and twenty eight from Paris to the North-East The Bishop is always one of the twelve Peers of France and a Duke The Diocese belonging to this City is called Laonnois or Lannois It is bounded on the North with Tierache a part of Picardy on the East by Champagne and on the South and West with Soissonne it takes this name from the principal City Some French Synods have been assembled here Lapord Lapurd Labord more commonly called Bayonne See Bayonne Lapathios Lapithus a City at the North end of the Isle of Cyprus which is yet a Bishop's See and retains the Greek Rites It is very ancient and called Lapethos by Pliny and Lapatho by Strabo Lapithae an antient People of Thessalia dwelling in the Country about Larissa and the Mountain Olympus Ovid styles them Sylvestres Virgil ascribes to them the Invention of Bridles Lapland Lapponia Lappia called by the Inhabitants Lapmarck by the Swedes Sabmienladti by the Germans Laplandt by the Moscovites Loppi and by the French Laponie It is the most Northern part of Scandinavia first mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus about the year of Christ 1190. Bounded on the North with the Frozen Sea or the North Ocean on the West with the Kingdom of Norway on the South with Bothnia and Finia two Provinces of Sweden and on the East by the White Sea It was heretofore divided into three Kingdoms and is now at this day divided between three Princes the Emperor of Moscovy the King of Sweden and the King of Denmark of which the King of Sweden has the greatest share Johannes Schefferus lately put out a very exact Account of these Countries towards the North and East it is extreamly Mountainous and barren but the South is more level and well watered with Rivers and Lakes There have been not long since found in it Mines of Brass Iron Silver and Lead besides divers sorts of precious Stones As this is one of the Hyberborean People who are buried the greatest part of the year in Snow and Darkness so they are extreamly Rude Ignorant Poor and Barbarous so fearful that they will start and be in a fright at the noise of a Leaf infamous for Witchcraft and Conjurations yet Christians in Profession and so revengeful that they will throw themselves sometimes into a River to perish willingly with one they hate in their Arms if they can but so destroy him The more Northern are the most barbarous Lar Laria a great and magnificent City in that Province of the Kingdom of Persia which gives name to a Kingdom seated in the Confines of Caramania upon the River Tisindon a hundred and seventy Miles from Ormus to the North-East but in the later Maps it is placed only forty German Miles from Ormus and on the West side of the River Monsieur Thevenot gives a large Account of this Town in the second part of his Travels cap 4. to whom I refer the Reader It lies Long. 93. 40. Lat. 27. 40. Mr. Herbert saith it consisted of about two thousand Houses and had had five but lost three thousand in an Earthquake It is as he saith famous for nothing but its Castle built at the north-North-end on an aspiring Mountain and stored with the Cannon brought from Ormus § The Kingdom of Lar took its name from the last mentioned City lying near Ormus and the entrance of the Persian Gulph Schah Abbas King of Persia annexed this to the rest of his Dominions in the end of the last Century viz. in 1596. by a Conquest of the Guebres who were before Masters of it and were Governed by a Prince of their own stiled King of Lar the last of which was slain by the Persians with all his Progeny to secure this barren and poor Kingdom to the King of Persia The Water of this Kingdom is extream bad and unhealthful as both Herbert and Thevenot agree the Soil barren and sandy and they both say also that in this Kingdom there are a vast number of Jews But Mr. Herbert saith That there is neither River nor Rivolet near the City of Lar by a hundred Miles and Thevenot they had nothing but Cistern-Water to drink which was subject to Corruption which seems to confirm Mr. Herbert's Report See Herbert pag. 52. Thevenot Part. 2. pag. 131. § Ptolemy mentions an Arabian River Lar Now called Om. See Om. Larache L'Haris or Arays Lixa a Town in the Kingdom of Fez in Africa in the Province of Asgar at the mouth of a River of its own name call'd by Castaldus Lusso by the Italians Fieume di Larach in Silius Italicus Lixus towards the Atlantick Ocean between Cape Spartel and Mamera taken from the Spaniards by the Moors in November 1689. after a Siege of three months mutually asserted and resisted with extraordinary Bravery Larad or Lara a Town in Old Castile in Spain upon the River Arlanza at the foot of the Mountains remakable in the Spanish History for giving name to the Family de Lara which once had seven Sons all Knighted in a day Laranda a City of Cappadocia called by the same name it now has by Ptolemy and Strabo It is a Bishop's See under the
to the West and sixteen from Magdeburg to the South It has a Castle called Pleisenburg and an University opened here by Frederick Marquess of Misnia in 1409. Upon the Banishment of the followers of Jerome of Prague from that City four thousand Students retiring to this In 1520. Luther disputed here with Eckius against the Popes Supremacy soon after which they embraced the Reformation In 1547. this City which then belonged to Maurice Duke of Saxony was besieged by John the Elector of that House in the Month of January Maurice tho a Protestant having joined with the Emperour against the rest of the Augustane Princes who had taken Arms for the defence of their Religion and Liberty against Charles V. And although the City was not then taken yet it was much defaced by the Battery and its Suburbs burnt In 1630. Gustavus Adolphus gave the Forces of Ferdinand II. a great defeat near this place In 1642. the Swedes defeated the Forces of Ferdinand III. under the Arch-Duke Leopold and Piccolomineo and thereupon the City was forced to yield it self to the Victorious Swedes It is not great but rich by reason of its Mart twice every year and the great concourse of Students to this University Leyte Leyta Lutis a River of Austria which washing the Town Prurck adder Leyta in the Lower Austria at Altemburg falls into the Danube three Hungarian Miles from Presburg to the South and six from Javarin Lez Ledum Liria a River of Languedoc it ariseth three Miles above Montpellier and a little beneath falls by the Lake of Maguelone into the Mediterranean Sea See Les. Lhon See Lippe Lhundain the Welsh Name of London Lhydaw the Name of Bretagne a Province in France in some of the Writers of the middle Ages Liacura Parnassus a Mountain in Greece in Achaia Liamone Pitanus or Ticarius a River in the Isle of Corsica Liampo the most Easternly Cape of all the Continent of China in the East-Indies taking its Name from a Town so called in the Province of Chechiara Lianne Liana Elna a small River in Picardy in France which ariseth in the Confines of Artois and flowing through the County of Bologne by the Capital City of it falls into the British Sea Liasto Liguidon a Sea-Port on the East of Sardinia an Island in the Mediterranean Sea Libano Libanus the greatest and best known Mountain in Syria which alone produceth the Cedar Tree in that Country It beginneth between the Confines of Arabia and Damascus and ends at the Mediterranian Sea near Tripoli having run from East to West one hundred and twenty five Miles It is the oftenest mentioned of any Mountain in the Sacred Scriptures exceeding high and very far spread fruitful and pleasant and was the Northern Boundary of the Holy Land and Mother of the River Jordan Now inhabited by divers Towns and some Cities amongst which is the Seat of the Residence of the Patriarch of the Maronites The Rivers Rochan Nahar-Rossens and Nahar-Cardicha spring from it The Northern part is said to be continually covered with Snow It hath Palestine to the South Mesopotamia to the East and Armenia to the North with one foot in Phoenicia another in Syria and the Mediterranean to the West Opposite to it stands a Mountain called Antilibanus separated only by a Valley See Antilibanus Libaw Liba a Town in the Dukedom of Curland in the Kingdom of Poland which has an Haven on the Baltick Sea in the Confines of Samogitia eighteen German Miles from Memel in Prussia and twenty five from Mittaw the Capital of Semigallia to the West This Town was often taken and retaken in the late Wars between the Swedes and Poles at last by the Treaty of Olive-Kloster in 1660. it was restored to the Duke of Curland Liburnia a Branch of the ancient Illyricum now thrown partly into Croatia and partly into Dalmatia It s principal City was Scardona now Scardo in Dalmatia The Lopsi were some of its ancient people to whom is owing the invention of light Frigats thence called Naves Liburnicae Libya is so considerable a part of Africa in the old Geographies that the Greeks called all Africa Lybia It stood divided into the Exterior and Interior The former lay along the Mediterranean betwixt Egypt and Marmorica or from Egypt South according to others along the left Bank of the Nile as far as to Aethiopia in which space the Desart of Elfocat and the Kingdom and Desart of Gaoga now are contained The other ran from the Mountain Atlas to the River Niger containing the now vast Desart of Zaara And this latter is Libya properly so called Which together with Libya Marmorica now Barca and Libya Cyrenaica makes up a second division that we find in Writers of Libya Lichfield Lichfeldia a City which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Canterbury seated in the County of Stafford twenty four English Miles from Leicester to the West ten from Stafford to the North-East and sixteen from Coventry to the North-West It is a low seated beautiful and large City divided into two parts by a clear Brook which is crossed by Causeys with Sluces in them for the Passage of the Water That part which lies on the South Side of this Water is the greater by far and divided into several Streets and the North Part though less has the Cathedral Church the Close incompassed with a strong Wall in which are the Prebends Houses and the Bishops Palace This has been a Bishops See very long for in the year of our Lord 606. Oswius King of Northumberland having conquered the then Pagan Mercians instituted a Bishoprick and settled Dwina as Bishop here to instruct them in the Christian Faith his Successors were in such esteem with the following Kings of Mercia that they did not only obtain large Possessions for the maintaining the Dignity of this See but were also reputed the Primates of Mercia and Archbishops Ladulph one of them had a Pall sent him as such upon the Golden Solicitations of Offa King of the Mercians about 779. Which Dignity lasted not long for it died with this King and Archbishop Ladulph A Synod held in 1075. ordaining that the Bishops Sees for the future should be settled in the greatest Cities Peter Bishop of Lichfield removed this to Chester Robert Lindsey another of them removed it to Coventry Roger Clinton a third Bishop but the thirty seventh in Succession in 1148. began the beautiful Cathedral here which he dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and S. Chad and rebuilt the Castle which is now intirely ruined The Ciose in the old Rebellion was garrisoned for the King But the Lord Brook a zealous Parliamentarian coming before it March 2. 1642. though the General was slain and so paid dear for his Disloyalty yet the place was taken by that Party The twenty second of that Month the King's Forces returned and besieged it the second time and April 8. after a Defeat of three thousand that came to the Relief of
called Gueguere but by the Inhabitants Neube Indeed Lobus a Portugal in his History of Aethiopia is of Opinion there is no such Island at all and saith the Nile makes never an Island in Aethiopia and the Ancients were much deceived in placing this pretended Island so far from the Red Sea therefore he is not pleased with their conceit who make the Kingom of Goyaume to be Mero◠and upon the whole he concludes the distance of the place and difficulty of access gave occasion to all those fictions of the Ancients concerning this Island which by them was placed in Lat. 16. 23. Mersburgh Martinopolis Mersoburgum a small City in Misnia in Germany which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Magdeburgh upon the River Saal three German Miles from Hall to the South and as many from Leipsick to the West The Bishop of this Diocese imbraced the Augustane Confession in 1565. In 1592. John George Bishop of it became Elector of Saxony his Successors have ever since been Administrators of this Bishoprick being chosen upon every vacancy by the Chapter and in this Right they are possessed of the City of Mersburgh which was once an Imperial Free Town but long since exempted § There is another Mersbourgh in Schwaben upon the Lake of Constance where the Bishop of Constance resides Mersey the Arm of the Sea into which the River Dee in Wales falls See Dee Merton-méer a great Lake in Lancashire Mesember Mesembria a City of Thrace ascribed by Ptolemy to Moesia Inferior and in our latter Maps placed in Bulgaria on the North side of the great Mountain Hermus upon the Shores of the Euxine Sea twenty seven German Miles from Adrianople to the North-East and thirty two from Constantinople to the North-West It is now an Archbishop's See and in the hands of the Turks Mesendin the Persian Gulph Mesmes a Castle and Seigniory in the Diocese of Bazas in the Lower Guienne in France which gives Name to an Honorable Family there Mesopotamia a large Country of Asia enclosed within the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates and heretofore making a considerable part of the Assyrian Empire It s principal Cities now are Caramit the Capital Merdin and Heren The Arabians call it Al-Gezira as the Hebrews did Aram Naharajim i. e. the Syria betwixt two Rivers in conformity to the Greek of Mesopotamia Vid. Diarbeck Mesrata the same with Cairoan Messapia a Province of the Antient Italy where now lies the Terra di Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples It had a City of its own Name called afterwards Messana Apuliae and now Mesagna Virgil mentions the antient Inhabitants with the Character of Equum domitor Neptunia proles Messene See Moseniga Messin See Metz. Messina Messana an ancient and very celebrated City on the Northern Point of the Isle of Sicily ten Miles from Reggio in Italy sixty from Catania to the North and a hundred and fifty from Palermo to the North-East It is a great rich well traded City an Archbishop's See the Capital of the Province of Demona and the second City in the Island being five Miles in compass having an Harbour of great safety and wonderfully frequented by Merchants Nobly built has a Princely Palace a well furnished Magazine a noble Metropolitan Church and great plenty of Silk Weavers It is of a long figure with four great Suburbs The Philosopher Dicaearchus was a Native of this City Charles V. in 1535 spent very much in fortifying it and built four Castles to that purpose This City was recovered out of the Hands of the Saracens by Roger the Norman in 1060. The Spaniards provoked it so far that in 1674. it shook off their Yoke who were never able to reduce the place again under their Obedience till March 16. 1678. The Inhabitants pretend to have a Letter which was Written to them by the Virgin Mary and certainly they have great reason to value that singular favour Messo Bermius a Mountain lying between Macedonia Thessalia and Epirus called in the latter Maps Mezova It stretcheth from North-West to South-East and ends at the North Point of the Isle of Negropont and seems to be the same with Mount Pindus or a part at least of it Mesuna Medama a River of the further Calabria it falls into the Sea about four Miles South of Nicotera Mesapontum a Town of the ancient Lucania in Italy now called Torre di Mare Metelin Lesbos Mitylene an Island in the Archipelago on the Coast of the Lesser Asia six Miles from its Shoars to the South Now commonly called Mitelino from its principal City which is seated on the East side of the Island and an Archbishop's See It has two other Cities which are Bishopricks that is Gerema and Calono The Circuit of this Island is 140 Miles its length from North to South 40. It was under the Family of the Catelusii from 1355. to 1462 when it was taken from Dominico Catelusio the last Prince of this Race by Mahomet II. Emperor of the Turks This Family being of a Genouese Extraction the Island is generally said to have been so long under the States of Genoua Written also Mettelen It pays eighteen thousand Piastres Tribute to the Turks Metoro Metaurus a River in the Dukedom of Vrbino which ariseth in the Confines of Tuscany near Borgo S. Sepulchro and running East watereth saith Baudrand S. Angelo and Vrbino In the Maps it is placed more South and watereth Fossombrone Forum Sempronii and so falls into the Gulph of Venice between Fanno to the North and Sinigaglia to the South Metramo or Marro Metaurus a small River of Calabria the further which falls into the Sea eleven Miles South of Nicotera Metz Meta Metis Mediomatricum Divodurum Mediomatricorum a City and Bishop's See in the Dukedom of Lorrain under the Archbishop of Trier and the Capital of the Territory of Messin It stands upon the Moselle where it takes in the Seile Sala ten Leagues from Nancy to the North and Verdun to the East and sixteen from Trier to the South At first the Capital of the Kingdom of Metz after this an Imperial Free City and being exempted it fell in 1552. into the hands of the French Charles V. the same year with a powerful Army sat down before it and omitted nothing that Courage or Art could dictate to recover it but failing in the Attempt fell out with the World and soon after resigned all his Dominions to his Son in 1555 and went into a Monastery Some considerable Councils have been formerly assembled at this place Meulan Mulanum a Town and Fortress upon the Seine in the Government of the Isle of France which has a Stone Bridge over the River It stands nine Leagues above Paris to the West Henry IV. could not take the Fortress in 1589 tho he made himself Master of the Town Meun or Mehun a small Town in the Province of Berry in France upon the River Yeure betwixt Bourges and Vierzon shewing the Ruines of a Castle heretofore
County of Vallesia S. Neots or S. Needs a Market Town in the County of Huntingd. in the Hundred of Toseland Deriving its Name from a learned Monk of Glastenbury called Neotus whose Body being translated hither from S. Neots or Neotstoke in Cornwall the Palace of Earl Elfride in this Town was in honour thereof converted into a Monastery S. Nicolas Fanum Sancti Nicolai a pleasant Town upon the Meurte in Lorain two Leagues above Nancy to the South much addicted to the Honour of S. Nicolas Bishop of Myra whose Reliques it reserves § There is another Town of the same Name in Flanders three Miles from Antwerp toward Gant from which it stands five Miles S. Nicolas a City of Moscovy upon the White Sea on the Western Shoar of the River Dwina over against Archangel from which it stands ten German Miles to the North-West A Place of so considerable a Trade that the White Sea is from it frequently called the Bay of S. Nicolas into which the Dwina falls S. Omers Audomarensis Vrbs a City in Artois heretofore called the Abbey of Sithieu upon the River Aa which beneath Gravelin falls into the British Sea eight Miles from Bologne to the East three from Arras to the North six from Dunkirk to the South-East and five from Gravelin to the East It has this Name from Audomarus a holy Bishop who died here in 695. Made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cambray in 1559. in the stead of Terouanne a ruined City which stands three Miles from it to the North. Fulco Abbot of S. Bartin began to wall it about the year 880. Baldwin II. Earl of Flanders perfected that Work in 902 There was a Council held here in 1099 under Robert Earl of Flanders and another in 1583. About 1595 Philip II. King of Spain sounded here a College for English Jesuits to which he gave a good Annuity That House has since purchased Watton Cloister a pleasant Place belonging before to the Benedictines two Leagues from S. Omers which is worth five hundred pounds a year In 1639 the French besieged this Place without any good success But in 1677 the Spanish Forces being much weakened after the Battel of Cassel they took it and by the Treaty of Nimeguen in 1678 it was yielded to them Long. 23. 22. Lat. 50. 47. It is a handsome large City strongly sortified near a great Lake with the River and a Marsh on one side of it and a Castle and Fosses on the other S. Palais Fanum S. Palatii the capital Town of the Lower Navarre under the French situated upon the River Bidoussâ— near Grammont S. Papoul Fanum Papuli a small City in Languedoc which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tolouse by the Institution of Pope John XXII who changed its antient Monastery that had been sounded about the end of the eighteenth Contury into a Cathedral in the year 1317. Five Leagues from Carcassone to the south-South-West and nine from Tolouse S. Paul de Leon. See Leon or Leondoul S. Paul de Trois Chasteaux Augusta Tricastinorum Sancti Pauli Tricastinorum Civitas an ancient City ascribed by Pliny to Gallia Narbonensis now in the Dauphine and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Arles but formerly of Vienne It is a flourishing Town built upon an advanced Cliff one Mile from the Rhosne four from Montelimart to the South and from Oranges to the North. The Huguenots had the possession of it near fifty years in the last Age till 1599. It is the Capital of the Territory called Tricastin which preserves the name of the antient People Tricastini mentioned by Ptolemy S. Pierre le Moutier Monasterium Sancti Petri a Town in the Province of Nivernois in which the Law-Courts of that Province are fixed It stands between Nevers to the North and Moulins to the South seven Leagues from either S. Pons de Tomiers Tomeria or Pontiopolis Sancti Pontii Tomeriarum Vrbs a City of Languedoc which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Narbonne from whence it stands eight Leagues to the North and a little more from Alby to the North-West It is a small City seated amongst the Mountains not much peopled and honored with this Bishops See by Pope John XXII in 1318 who at the same time changed its Benedictine Abbey that had been founded in the year 936. by Raymond sirnamed Pons Pontius Earl of Tolouse into a Cathedral The Bishop is Lord of the Place S. Quintin Augusta Nova Veromanduorum Quinctinopolis Samarobrina Quintini Fanum a City of Picardy upon the River Somme or rather between it and the Oyse which sprung out of a Roman Town called Augusta Nova c. two Miles from this Place It stands six Leagues from Peronne to the North-East and seven from Cambray to the South Taken by the Spaniards in 1557 after a great Defeat of the French Forces upon S. Quintin's day Aug. 10 and restored by the Treaty of Cambray in 1559. The French sometimes write it S. Quentin It is the Capital of the County of Vermandois in Picardy hath been honoured with the Sessions of French Synods in the yeares 1235. 1237. and 1271. and now contains divers Monasteries and Churches besides a Collegiate Church S. Semi a small Town in Provence four Leagues from Arles adorned with a Collegiate Church of the Foundation of Pope John XXII about the year 1330. It s antient Name was Glanum There are Urns Medals and Inscriptions frequently discovered here which prove its Antiquity And near it a triumphal Arch with a stately Mausoleum illustrated with Trophies is observed with admiration S. Semo Fanum S. Remuli or Remigii a Sea-Town upon the Coasts of Genoua in Italy in a fruitful Country for Oranges Citrons and Olives Santa Saba so called by the Italians or the Province of Arcegovina lies between Dalmatia Bossinia and the Quarter of Montenegro seventy Miles long thirty broad inhabited by about fifty thousand Families of which the Turks make not the tenth part Castlenovo stands in this Province The Inhabitants were very forward to put themselves under the Protection of the Venetians in 1688. S. Salvador Soteropolis the Capital City of the Kingdom of Congo in Africa seated one hundred and forty Miles to the East from the Ocean and sixty from the River Zaire to the South The Inhabitants call it Banza but the devout Portuguese gave it this Name S. Salvador Soteropolis a City in South America which is the Capital of Brasil an Archbishops See the Seat of the Vice-Roy and of the Courts of Justice for that Kingdom It stands on the Eastern Shoar of Brasil has a capacious Harbor on the Ocean strongly fortified and defended by three Forts yet the Hollanders took this City in 1624. The year following the Portuguese recovered it and are at this day in the Possession of it The Archbishops See was erected in 1676 by Pope Innocent XI San Salvaâ—oâ— a â—â—â—ll City in North America in the Province of Guaâ—iâ—â—ala called by the Natives Cuzcatlan
Miles in Circuit fruitful and populous forty from Negropont to the North and seventy from Macedonia to the East West of Scio. It has a small City called Skiro which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Athens and four other small Villages The City has a Port to the South-West in subjection to the Turks Called also San Georgio di Sciro Schonen Sconia Scania a Province of Sweden called by the Inhabitants Schaane by the Swedes Skone by the Germans Skonen It lies upon the Baltick Sea over against Zeeland from which it is divided by the Sownd it has the Sea on all sides but the North being almost an Island on the North it is bounded by Haland and Westrogothia and it is its self the principal part of South Gothland This County was sold to Magnus King of Sweden in 1330 by John Duke of Holstein for seventy thousand Marks of Silver Christopher II. King of Denmark having Mortgaged it before to these Dukes Waldemarus King of Denmark redeemed it from the Swedes in 1341 but in 1658. the Swedes recovered the Possession of it by the Treaty of Roschild This Country was Converted to the Christian Faith by Othingar a Bishop about 980. The principal places in it are Lunden Landskroon Matmuyen and Helsingborg Schoonehoven or Schonaw a Town in the South of Holland upon the River Leck with a capacious Port where they take amongst other Fish a great number of Salmons Agnian 2. Bishop of S. Asaph in Wales in 1268 a Dominican was a Native of this Town Schorndorff Schorndorfium a small City well fortified in the Dukedom of Wurtemberg in Germany upon the River Remms which gives name to the District in which this City stands four German Miles from Stutgard to the East and six from Hailbrune to the North-East It has a Castle and obtained its Charter from Frederick II. in 1230. In 1647. it was taken by the French but after restored to the Duke of Wurtemberg under whom it now is Schowen or Schouwen Scaldia an Island of Zeeland one of the Vnited Provinces near the East Mouth of the Schelde heretofore much greater than now There are three places of Note in it Ziriczee Brouwers and Bommene It is six French Leagues long from East to West and above two broad So near in former times to North Beveland another Island of Zeland that the Inhabitants of each could discourse from them with another But the passage has been mightily since inlarged by tempests Schut Cituorum Insula a great Island in the Lower Hungary made by the River Danube called by the Hungarians Chalokewz by the Germans Schut It extends from Presburgh to the North-West to Comora East nine German Miles about four broad and in circuit twenty four It has three hundred Villages its principal place is Comorza beneath which the Danube again unites in one Stream It is wonderfully fruitful well peopled and watered affording good Gardens Warrens and Pasturage and was the cause of the present War between the Emperour and the Turks The latter demanding it to be put into his Hands about 1682. or 1683. and the Emperour denying it as he could not part with it without exposing all his other Dominions to their Ravage Thereupon the Turks besieged Vienna This Island called the Great Schut has another very near it which is accounted a part of it by the name of Little Schut Schwaben Suevia a great Province or Circle in Germany called by the Germans die Schwaben by the French Souabe by the Italians Suevia by the Poles Szwabska Bounded by Bavaria on the East the Rhine dividing it from Alsatia on the West Switzerland to the South and Franconia to the North. It had heretofore Dukes of great Name and Power but now divided into several lesser Territories under several Princes the chief of which are the Dukedom of Wurtemburgh the Bishopricks of Ausburgh and Constance the Marquisates of Baden Schwartzwalt Burgow and Ortnaw the Principalities of Furstemberg and Zollern the Counties of Ettingen and Hohenburgh the Territories belonging to the Abbat of Kempten and Algow There are also in it many Imperial and Free Cities the Capital City of this Circle being Vlm The others are Augsburgh Kempen Constantz Hailbrun Hall en Souabe Lindaw Memningen Nordlingen Stugard Tubingen and Vberlingen Schwauberg the present name of the Norick-Alpes Schwartwatter See Vecht Schwartzwaldt Martina Sylva Bacenis the Black Wood or Forest a Province in the Circle of Schwaben in Germany towards Mount Abenow and the Fountains of the Danube and Necker between the Dukedom of Wurtemburgh to the East and Brisgow to the West it lies extended from North to South from the Marquisate of Baden to the Cities of Seckingen Rheinfelde and Ortnaw This Country is a part of the vast Hercynian Forest which in ancient times run through the whole Body of Germany and perhaps through Moscovy and ended at the Frozen Ocean or White Sea Schwartz-Zee the German name of the Euxine or Black Sea Schwartzembourg a County in the Province of Thuringia in Germany And a Town and Bailywick under the Cantons of Bearne and Fribourg in Switzerland Schweidnitz Suvidnia a City of Silesia upon the River Westritz thirty Miles from Wratislaw to the West twenty five from Lignitz to the South and twelve from the Borders of Bohemia It is the Capital of a Dukedom of the same name and a very strong place yet taken and retaken several times in the great Swedish War Near this City the Swedes defeated Albert Duke of Brandenburgh in the year 1642 by which Victory they made themselves Masters of the greatest part of Silesia Schweinfurt Schuinfurtum a City in Franconia in Germany upon the Mayn within the Dominions of the Bishop of Wurtzburgh almost seven German Miles from Bamberg to the West and five from Wurtzburgh to the South-East It belonged formerly to the Counts of Heneburgh till Henry II. Emperour dispossessed them and gave this City with the Title of Marquisate to one Otho which Family ending in 1112 the City returned to the Empire now an Imperial and Free City and a place of great strength yet taken by the Swedes in the German War Schwerin the chief Town in Mechlenburgh upon a Lake eighteen Miles from Hamburgh to the East and five from the Baltick Sea to the South The usual Residence of one of the Dukes of Mechlenburgh in the Lower Saxony Sciglio Scyllaeum a Town and Promontory on the Coast of Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples near Regge to the North. The famous Rock Scylla lies upon this Coast in the Streights of Messina Scillo or Scilla Scylla a famous Rock on the aforesaid Shoar nineteen Miles from Messina in Sicily the North-East upon the Channel which parts Sicily from Italy at the West end of it The Water within its Caverns makes a noise like the barking of Dogs whence probably came the ancient fiction of a Scylla becoming half a Rock and half a Dog Scio. See Chio. Sciocco Togisonus a small River in the
Vberrimus undis Millia qui novies distat ab Vrbe decem Sultzbach Sultsbachium a small Town in Nortgow in the Vpper Palatinate of the Rhine one Mile distance from Amberg to the South-East which gives the Title of a Prince to some Branches of the Palatine Family Sumatra a vast Island in the East-Indies to the South-West of the Promontory of Malaccia from which it is separated only by a narrow streight as also by another from the Isle of Java to the South It extends from North-West to South-East one hundred and eighty five German Miles or nine hundred and ten English and is two hundred and ten broad in the middle There are several Kingdoms in this Island which ordinarily go to war with one another The principal of which are Achem Camper Jamby Menanchabo Pacem Palimban and Pedir The principal City in the whole Island and Kingdom is Achem towards the North the King whereof possesses one half of the Island The Coast upon the streights of the Sund is under the obedience of the King of Bantam Some parts are covered with Wood and Mountains amongst which latter one in the middle of the Island casts forth flames by intervals It is divided by the Equator into almost two equal parts the Air is very hot and unhealthful the Soil will produce little Grain but Rice and Millet It yieldeth Ginger Pepper Camphir Agarick and Cassia in great abundance Wax and Hony Silks and Cottons rich Mines of Tin Iron and Sulphur and such quantity of Gold that some conceive it to be Solomons Ophir and some the Taprobane of the ancients The Inhabitants are for the most part Pagans except the Sea Coast where Mahometanism has got some footing It has a vast number of Rivers and Marshes which with the Woods do much promote the unwholsomeness of the Air. The Hollanders enjoy four or five Fortresses in it and are become more powerful than some of the Kings The Portuguese traffick to it but it is when the others will permit them for they have no establishments here Sie Sund Sundae Fretum Sundicum fretum a streight between the Baltick Sea and the German Ocean call'd by the Dutch Ore Sunn by the English the Sound It stretcheth fifty Miles from North-West to South-East about fifteen at its greatest breadth but between Elsingburg and Cronenburg not above three over which necessitates all Ships that pass to and fro to pay a Toll to the King of Denmark he being able otherwise by the Cannon of his Castles to shut up the Passage § This name is attributed also to the Streights betwixt the Islands of Java and Sumatra in the East-Indies The Dutch call it Straet Van Sunda and Latin Writers Sundae fretum The Island of the Sund or Souud comprehend in the Portugueses's accounts who gave them this name all those Islands in the Indian Ocean which lye beyond the Promontory of Malaca some near some under the Equinoctial Commonly divided into the Islands of the Sund to the East and to the West Of the former Gilolo Banda Flores Macasar and the Moluccaes are the Principal Of the other Borneo Java and Sumatra Sundenberg or Sunderbourg a Town and Duchy in the Isle of Alsen near Iutland Sunderland Sunderlandia a small Island at the Mouth of the River VVere in the North-East part of the Bishoprick of Durham in Esington Ward once a part of the Continent but rent off by the violence of the Sea from whence it has the name of Sunderland A place of no great note only for its Sea-Coal Trade till it was made the Title of an Earldom by Charles I. who in 1627 Created Emanuel Lord Scrope of Bolton President of the North Earl of Sunderland He dying Childless Henry Lord Spenser of VVormleighton in 1643. was Created Earl of Sunderland and slain the eighth of June the same year in the first Battel of Newbery To whom sucâ—eeded Robert his Son sometime Principal Secretary of State and President of the Council to King James II. Sungkiang a trading and populous City in the Province of Nanking in China The Capital over two others Suntgaw or Sundgow Suntgovia a Province of Germany now under the King of France by the Peace of Munster Bounded on the North by Alsatia on the East by the Rhine and the Canton of Basil which last is sometimes included under this name on the South by the Dominions of the Bishop of Basil and on the West by the Franche Comté The Principal Places in it are Befo rt Mulhausen Ferrete whence it hath the name also of the County of Ferrete and Huningue The last has been lately fortified by the King of France Sura an ancient Episcopal City of Syria near the Euphrates The See is a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Hierapolis § Plutarch remembers us of a Town of this name in Lycia in the Lesser Asia famed for Oracles in ancient times delivered there Betwixt Phellus and Strumita Surate Surata a very famous City of the Hither Indies in the Kingdom of Guzarat upon the Bay of Cambaya under the Dominion of the great Mogul which has a convenient Port or Haven much frequented by the European and Armenian Merchants for Diamonds Pearls Ambergrease Musk Civet Spices and Indian Stuffs procured from divers parts and here laid up in Mazagines It lies saith Monsieur Thevenot 21. deg and some minutes from the Line and was then designed to be Fortified with a Brick instead of its ancient Earthen Wall which had not been able to preserve it from the depredations of a Raja In the time of the Monson or Fair kept in the Spring Quarter it is exceeding full of People not meanly furnished at others nor are those Inhabitants less considerable on the account of their Wealth than Number The English and Dutch have their Factories here it is the Staple of the English Trade in the East-Indies It has a Castle at the South end of the Town upon the River which is square flank'd at each corner by a large Tower The Ditches on three sides are filled with Sea Water on the West the River runs and there are many Cannon mounted in it The Governor commands over all the adjacent Provinces and keeps the train and equipage of a Prince For the rest you may consult Thevenot Part III. pag. 15. Surina a Province of South America between the confluence of the River Cayana and that of the Amazons Surrey Suria is separated on the North from Buckingham and Middlesex by the great River Thames on the East it is bounded by Kent on the South by Sussex and Hampshire and on the West by Hampshire and Barkshire In length thirty four Miles in breadth about twenty two in circumference one hundred and twelve including one hundred and forty Parishes with eight Market Towns The Air is sweet and pleasant the Soil especially in the verges of the County fruitful the middle Parts being somewhat hard to cultivate Whence the People are used to say their County is like a