Selected quad for the lemma: end_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	mile_n	north_n	west_n	1,511	5	9.3473	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03066	Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique Describing especially the two famous empires, the Persian, and the great Mogull: weaved with the history of these later times as also, many rich and spatious kingdomes in the orientall India, and other parts of Asia; together with the adjacent iles. Severally relating the religion, language, qualities, customes, habit, descent, fashions, and other observations touching them. With a revivall of the first discoverer of America. Revised and enlarged by the author.; Relation of some yeares travaile	Herbert, Thomas, Sir, 1606-1682.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 13191; ESTC S119691	376,722	394

Hippodrome lye unmounted one and thirty Demicannons of brasse and twelve iron Culverins brought hither by some late over-throw they gave the Portugall or Turk from Ormus or Babylon Opposite to this Pallace is a faire Mosque but that at the South end of all others most excellent the outside stone not form'd to the Crosse the hyerogliphic of our salvation as ours bee but round either from the Talmud figuring out Aeternity or from the Alcaba in Mecca the shape whereof was reveal'd to Abraham from heaven pattern'd from that Adam sayes their Alcoran reard in Paradise within 't is distinguisht into Iles the wals lined 15 geometrick foot high from the sole with white well polisht Marble without pews or seats in center is a stately Tanck and at the portall another octanguler fild with cristall streams which is first forced to glide round the inside the Medan through a stone channell six foot deep and six in bredth which after a pleasant drilling murmur flowes into this Tanck or watery Magazeen whence it is suckt out by subterranean passages into many private houses and gardens Within the Medan the shops be uniforme the trades are no where severed but united Some be of Mercers of Lapidaries some and most of them of gums drugs and spices so sweet so delicate as not till then could I see the Poet sung well We suckt the Aromatick ayre of Persia Auras madentes Persicorum Aromatum Take the outside of this brave Fabrick thus presented Hippo dromos The Mydan or great Merkitt in Spahawne A. is a Mosque South B. is an archt way to the North. C. is the kings house D. is a Mosque East Mosques The other Mosques call'd here Dear ' and Zunae are orbicular for shape for sight low and indifferently pleasant the materials are Sun-burnt Bricks varnisht and beautified with painted posies few are without their Tancks or cesterns of holy water wherein all Musselmen wash their hands armes eyes having formerly bath'd their face eares breast feet as an operative work to purge sinne and conferre devotion their other Church ceremonies I will contract in the latter end of this book under Title of their religion Hummums The Hummums or Sudatories in this Citie are many and very beautifull quadrated some but most be globous The stone is white polisht and durable the windows are large without crossed and to the inner side made narrow the glasse is thick anneald and darkning the top or covering round and tyld with a counterfeit Turquoise perfect blew and very fresh and lasting The inside of these hot houses are divided into many cells or concamerations some for delight others for sweating in all for use of pure stone all all pav'd with jetty Marble men use them commonly in the mornings women towards night the price is small but so generally us'd as makes the gaine abundant t is the Catholicon against all diseases colds Catarrhs flegm aches agues Luesvenerea c. the womens being there is knowne by a linnen cloth displayed at the doore set there as a warning peece by the jealous Eunuchs The City is ovall each house delighted by large Cypresse gardens Walls the wall is of no force against the confounding vomit of the flaming Cannon it is of use against horse and shock of Launces some parapets and bulwarks it has of more imitation than use the Persian magnanimity ever choosing to dye rather than be inclos'd or seiged It has a dozen Portresses of which foure are shut up Gouldest Chaly Mergh and Cherbaugh made th'entrance of a royall garden The eight are these Hazena-bawt opening towards Shyraz and the gulph De-cridest to Babylon and Ardaveil Tockzy to Cashan Casbyn and Tabryz Kerroen to Yezd and Cawrestan Lamboen to Hamadan Sheydack Madayan opens to Candahor and Indya Yowbara and Dalwaet Pallaces The Pallaces are few the Kings house in the Medan that where wee were lodged belonging to the King but made ready for our Lord Ambassador Conna Meloyembeg Tamas-coolibeg and Haram Beguna are all I saw worth remembring the first is low painted without guilt within well watred and inclosed with fragrant gardens The last a Seralio famous for pretious treasure and as valuable beauties of which being dangerous to inquire or view wee will speake in silence the Castle is very large well wall'd and deeply moated arm'd with some brazen peeces but better defended by a troop of leane fac't beardlesse memberlesse Eunuchs who like so many angry Sagittaries guard their Ladies The battlements are pleasant to looke on but no doubt the Horyzontall plaine which is easily discovered from thirty rising Turrets there yeelds most pleasure Gardens The gardens challenge our attention than which for grandeur and fragor no Citie in Asia out-vies her It incloses so many that at some distance from the City you would judge it a Forest so sweet you would call it Paradize all whose excellencies we will joyne in one at the South-West end of Spawhawn Nazer-jareeb by name a garden famoused deservedly over all this Monarchy If you go from the Medan you passe by Cherbaugh through an even delicate street two miles long at the least most part of the way wall'd on both sides bestrew'd with Moholls or Summer houses but more remarkable in that abundance of greene broad spreading Chenore trees yeelding shade and incomparable order and beauty the garden or rather fruit Forrest of Nazerjareeb is circled with a stately wall about three miles in compasse entred by three gates strong and elegantly shaped From North to South it gave mee a thausand paces from East to West seven hundred from one end to the other easily discovered by reason a faire open Ally like that in Fountain b'leau runs along in parellell distinguisht into nine Ascents each surmounting other a large foot each distance smooth and even In center is a spatious Tanck made into twelve equal sides each side or square is five foot fild and round set with pipes of lead which after the Italick sort spouts out the liquid element in variety of conceits and postures that sort of pastime continuing thence to the North gate where is rais'd a pile of pleasure antickly garnisht without within divided into foure or six chambers the lower is set out with Tancks of rich white Marble and fumes out a coole breese by quaffing up so much chrystaline water as makes it bubble thither by a constreyned motion cut by incredible toyle thorow the Coronian Mountaine The higher roomes are garnisht with variety of landskips and represents their way of sporting hawking fishing riding shooting wrastling courting and other fancies the roofe or seeling is inricht with beaten gold imbost with azure But what seemd to mee most excellent was the view we enjoyed from her Tarrasses which affoorded us a dainty prospect of most part of the City which save at Rustans Tombe upon a hill two miles thence elsewhere cannot be obteyned This garden is replenisht with trees of all sorts for medicine for shade

fly away assured if he stay'd long at Court of death or blinding by his Zantell the letter is speedily delivered him who as readily obeyes the disconsolate Prince with three thousand horse posting to Achbar-pore from Agra foure and twenty courses whither the Prince escaping in the twy-light from Court comes follow'd by five hundred young Gallants and altogether hasten towards Lahore Iangheer has immediate notice of his sonnes flight and resenting how dangerous it might prove charges Godgee Melec Allybeg Captaine of the Guard with such force as was about him to pursue Cushroo and bring him back for which he should want no acknowledgement The Cutwall with three hundred horse rides after him and Mortaza-Chan with fifteene hundred horse all night posts after Godgee yea after both Iangheer himselfe perswaded to it by Mirza Vmbrave with fifty Elephants and eight thousand men so that the poore Prince was every way pursued yet such was the haste Hassanbeg made afore them that none of the three came neere him by fifteene courses yea though all the way they spoiled the Villages and made havock of all they could prey upon and in the ninth day attain'd Lahore but intending to enter the Castle are kept out by Ebrahim Chan the Governour premonisht of the Princes flight and which was worse by Sayet Chan three course from the Citie and in his way to Bange the place of his government making as if hee would joyne with him upon the river is imprisoned but by bribe escaping returnes to Hussan and receiving there a guilded bait brought by Zalaladen Hassen that the King passing by all offences had assigned him the Provinces of Cabul and Banasoed with which seeming not contented desires the addition of Zerhynd all being but to dally and allure his stay till Iangheer came to catch him Yet the Prince is not so simple but that hee discovers his Fathers subtilties so that after three weekes vaine attempt to sack the Castle he forsakes the Citie and with twenty thousand horse moves back againe with a full determination to bid Iangheer battell It happened that hee pitcht one night where Mortosa-Kawn with six hundred horse hearing of Gushrooes comming was ambushed without any parlee Mortosa falls upon him but such was the premeditated care Hussan had of the place and fight that in two houres space their Enemies were shrewdly beaten and Sha-Chelyal the Captaine slaine so that had not Godgee Meleck with the Kings standard entred proclaiming with great out-cries that the great Mogull was at hand the Kings side had wholly perished but of such terrour was the Kings approach past Sultanpore that Abdul Rajea the Princes Ensigne-bearer most basely threw it away and fled and by his dastardly example all the Army most of them being by the rustick time-serving people chast and knockt downe and all the baggage seized on The King in memory of this deliverance and victory erects there at Tziekerry i.e. a place of hunting a stately Castle and new names the place which I have formerly described Fettipore that is a Paradise Fettipore if the water had bin good Fettipore by this time had triumphed over all the Cities in Indya 't is wall'd about and to the N.N.W. discovers a lake or fish-pond five miles over The N.E. has a faire Buzzar five hundred paces long and well paved built on all sides with pleasant Mansions at one end is the Moguls house and a Mohol most excellently framed the other side is glorious in a Mosque ascended by thirty steps barr'd with a brave gate in all so observable that it is scarce equall'd throughout Indya the top is full of Piramyds the court within six times bigger than the Royall Exchange in London singularly paved with free stone the Iles are large and paved the columns of one stone high beautifull and affronting this gate is a most sumptuous Monument covered with paint and Oyster pearle shells proud in the Kalender there buried The miserable Prince accompanied with Hassenbeg Abdul-Radgee and Chan Badashaw scarce lookes behind him till they attaine Lahore where Radgee stayes but Sultan Gushroo with Badasha crosse the Ravee and labour to arrive with safety at Rantas a Castle inexpugnable but bad fortune followes them for passing the river Tzenob by the trecherous watermen they are brought into the power of Cassem-chawns sonnes then besieging the Castle who without delay mercy speedily convay them to Iangheer by that time past Latir a floud seven dayes travell thence The King overjoyed with this good hap returns to Lahore and by the way puts to death many Vmbraves the Princes followers The Prince was committed to the custody of Zemanaebeg called after Mahobet-chan i. e. beloved Lord Hassenbeg Bedasha and Abdul Radgee are first publiquely disgrac't and then imprisoned Whether some Noblemen reputed Iangheer tyrannicall or that they thought Gushroo had better title to the Empire or that meere envie caused it is uncertaine but one of these so wrought that one night some prime men of quality watching the Prince agreed upon a conspiracie to take away the Mogulls life upon the high mountaines as he passed to Cabul and to place Gushroo in his roome the Traytors were Mirza Cherieff brother of Assaph chan Mirza Mouradyn his Cozen Mirza Petulla Mirza Shaffenbeg Hollabeg and Murdoph-chan Iangheer suspecting no treachery passes on but by good fortune is so attended that they could by no meanes effect their villany In the interim Ethaman Doulet the Treasurer is accus'd by one of his slaves to have converted to his owne use and for th'incouragement of Traytors 500000 roopees out of the Mogulls Treasury that and the newes of Cheer Affenchan Ethaman Doulets sonne in law his trecherous murther of Cotopdy Mamet-chan Goga Liefetenant of Bengala neere Radgee Mahal albeit Affenchann the Turk therefore was also slaine by Gessadine and Kisswer-Chawn brother and sonne to the Liefetenant his Mother and Wife most basely abused yet these reflected so much upon Doulet that he is not only put from his place but also his estate confiscated and himselfe in Dianet-Chans house to his owne great griefe and the astonishment of all Industan imprisoned But greater was Iangheers feare and choler when by the open and resolute defiance of Godgee Vehes hee is acquainted with the late named conspiracie by men of power such as he never injured and as had relation to be neere him in all occasions he is much confounded at it but by Myrza Vmbraves advice throwes off all abject feare and without more dispute or delay commands them all to execution onely Ethaman Danlet at the request of his Keeper is pardoned upon promise of 200000 roopees to the King and him for his life but led back to prison most disgracefully After which he returnes from Cabul unto Lahore and in the way remembring the danger he had escaped and that Gushroo his sonne was partly causer he commands his sonnes eyes by juice of Aeck to be forsetted but the poyson is more mercifull leaving

thence to Moyechaw next day to Pully-pot-shaw leaving Bobbaw-hodgee on our left hand next night pitching a farsangh short of Shiraz where we expected a ceremonious entrance but seeing none came out to meet us our Ambassadour who was ever jealous of his honour sent his Mammandar to the Governour the great Duke was hauking fifty myles thence of purpose absent to demand fresh horses and a befitting welcome The Daraguad in person came to dissemble first excusing his Lord the Duke who would go neer to kill him for not acquainting him with this excellent Advantage to manifest his integrity unto our Nation in comparison of whom all other in the world were odious In a word perceiving our haste he humby beseecht his Lordship to practize but three dayes patience till the great Duke might honour his entrance and display his radiance a favour of a double reflex in that it would infinitely content their Governour and accumulate an incomparable splendor and triumph to his entrance closing his hypocrisie with an if not he was then prest to usher his Lordship to his lodging The Ambassador easily descryed him to be a Synon sent meerly to betray his credulity so as perceiving no remedy the twilight helping his silent passage Apollo had already drencht his fiery tramels in maddame Thetis lapp Cynthia also lookt pale as displeasd with so much knavery we joggd leasurely on upon our Portugall Trumpetters who so soone as they winded the smoak and ayre of this excellent Citty spared the Persians a labour in their brasse pans hoboyes and such Phrygick Musique sometimes braying out at other tymes ecchoing to one another in their Mymallonian Cornets as if some Orgies to Liber Pater had been solemnizing in so much as many ran out of doores others fired their flambeauxes to know the cause and glut their wonder After long circling we arrivd at Shock-Ally-Begs Pallace the Dukes substitute where our Lord was wearied with a prolix Apologie and then made to taste a Banquet of dainties After which they convoyd us to Ally-chan a neat house at the East end of the City belonging to the King incompast with as brave Gardens and as spacious as most in Asia And now the vexation is past why do we make it an indignity as if Nocturnall entries had not equall lustre with the day the Artificiall light we had for ought you know might eclipse the splendor of the starry firmament Holofernes chose the night to make a triumphant entrance into Damas. Proud Antiochus took the same time into Hierusalem Augustulus into Rome and haughty Sapores into this very City Let us now triffle no longer but view the City SHERAZZ so they pronounce it the pleasantest of Asiatique Cities is removed from the Aequator nine and twenty degrees forty minutes and in longitude 88 degrees By Ben Ionas 500 yeares ago cald Syaphaz by Corn. de Iudaeis Sitas and Sivas by Osorius Xiraz by Raleigh Siras by Stephanus Cyrecbatha by Coelius Ciropolis a frivolous conceit since all old Topographers place it and the river Cyrus in Hyrcania in the latitude of thirty nine degrees and a halfe and of longitude eighty three degrees five and forty minutes And of that name is one in Media as Ptol. in Sogdiana one neere Iaxartes as Quintus Curtius in India one as Aelianus a river also so called in Armenia as Pliny notes but none in Persia a Ciropolis This name Sheraz as I conjecture is a derivative from Sheer milk in the Persian language or Sherab a grape no part of the orient shewing better or richer wine from like reason that Aleppo takes name from Halip milke and not from Alepius Leiftenant to Iulian as some dreame of many other Townes in Persia denominating themselves from what they are abundant in as Whormoote a Towne of Dates Deachow a hilly Towne De-gardow a walnut Towne Baze-bakow Periscow Cutbobbaw c. or from Syrases the incolae of old as Poliaenus has it in his 8 lib. de Semiramide Or if greek Synonymaes would carrie it I might borrow the name from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 catena or more properly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 per aestum But affectation is discommendable For albeit she be raysed from the ruines of Persepolis that does not stygmatize her with an upstart name two thousand yeares being past since it was burned I may therefore reject the peoples Cronicle alluding her first founder to be Iamshed fift King of Persia after whom ruld Chedorlaomer not long from Noah Boterus may be taxed also quando Syras erat Syras tunc Cayrus erat ejus pagus an Adage never us'd by the inhabitants Antient no doubt she is her name in history confirming it Rocnaduddaule Sonne of Sha-Hussan Sonne of Abbaz Viez Lord of Bagdet Kermoen Laristan and Shyraz so 't is then named being here buried Anno Dom. 980. of the Hegira 360. And questionlesse she has been much greater than at this present Vlughbeg a learned Geographer and Nephew to Tamberlang gives her in his tyme fifteene myles compasse Contarenus fifteene and eightie thousand houses Barbarus eightscore yeares ago gives her twenty Teishera after him six and thirty myles circuit Skikard upon Tarich a like vast circumference Iohn of Persia in his time numbred her Inhabitants eightie thousand Ben-Ally thee hundred thousand we may not gainsay their reports because no inquiry can disprove them let us therefore rest contented in her present description which I shall present you God willing without errour Shiraz is distant from Ormus one hundred and eight farsangs or three hundred and foure and twenty myles English From Larr one hundred eightie six miles from Babylon three hundred from Spahawn two hundred two and twenty from the Caspian sea six hundred from Cazbyn foure hundred and eighty six from Periscow foure hundred and forty from Candahor three hundred and sixtie from Yezd two hundred and ninteeen from Faza sixty miles English The Antient dwellers hereabouts are named Artiatae Tapiri Cartii and Orebatii Masqued in Pare Fure Fares and Farsistan Shyraz at this day is the second City for magnificence in the Monarchy of Persia watered by Bindamyr or Bradamyr a sweet river that drawes her descent from the Tapirian Mountaines and after two hundred miles circling in many wanton meanders commixing with Choaspes now Tab and Vlay with them not farre from Valdac old Shushan lose themselves in the Gulph and promiscuously thence into the vast Indian Ocean It shewes some walls built by Vsan Cassan but seems to scorne a limited bondage It stretches from South-east to North-west three miles and not much lesse the other way the compasse nine myles or there abouts is pleasantly seated in the North-west end of a spacious plaine twenty miles long and six broad circumvolved with stupendious hills under one of which this Towne is placed Defended by Nature inricht by trade by Art made lovely the Vineyards Gardens Cypresses Sudatories and Temples ravish the eye and smell in every part sweet and delightfull Here Art magick was

them The place is fruitfull and blest in present prosperity and antick greatnesse the ruines compleating the report of her being once Metropolis the houses at this day are not builded in the meanest fashion glorying above the rest in an old but strong and stately Castle second to none about her which besides the well composed Architecture affoording no small pleasure to the eye is observable in a deep trench fild with water of good defence against the pilfering and rodomantadoes of the adjoyning Taurisians commendable also in some sweet gardens usefull and delectable within the Towne and neere the Castle is a famous Mosque honoured by foure hundred and foure and forty Princes and Prophets of that Kingdome intombed there whose Sepulchers raise admiration in the beholders that especially of Meer Agowmadeen is famous to whose shrine are daily offered serious devotion As I entred I found twenty reverent and well apparelled Arabians in a round close by the Princes Dormitory with each an Arabic Alcoran before him out of which with great modesty and good musick they chanted a dolefull requiem to his ghost in which they were so serious that notwithstanding I came suddenly amongst them and in such a habit as others admired they sung on and in a Dorick sweetnesse continued till they had finisht that their Threnody which ended they arose and bad me heartily welcome readily poynting out the rarities of their Temple Thence I went to the river side over which upon a Bridge we rode the night before hoping to shade my selfe from outrageous Phaeton under some Poplars there abounding but quickly left the place againe for 7 or eight beautious but not bashful Damosells like so many Dorids sprung suddenly out from the water to admire my cloaths never regarding they were naked some my hat my hayre others other-some thought my spurres an antick I wondred no lesse at their immodesty and left them with a frowne dictating their base carriage and my impatience And till by inquiry I saw it came from a greedy novelty I thought them Layesians but it seem'd I erred for when the men such time as Phoebus mounts in his meridian go to sleep the women then enjoy the river and coole their heat in both kinds too much abounding there Their habit is only a smock of transparent lawne wrought at hands neck and skirt with an imbroydery of silk and gold the men are cloathed like the other Hyrcanians From Omoall we travelled to Larry-Iohn or Ioon I cannot tell if that Ionaca in Ptolomy thirty miles thence at which place the Kingdome of Hyrcania takes end and Mount Taurus or Taur-achow beginning Taurus sayes Dion Alexan. Totius Orbis terrarum maximus sic dictus quod instar Tauri elato capite incedit c. But Eustathius thus Veteres omnia grandia robusta Tauros vocavere c. Our journey lay sometimes through inhospitable straits other times over most stupendious hills the bredth from one side to another about fifty English miles from Omoall to Damoan the length fifteene hundred towring in a hedge of hills from Armenia to the furthest part of Indya and after two dayes painfull climbing got so high that wee might see the middle region under us and we involved in chill exhalations Taurus Mons omnium maximus sayes Aristotle yet the sublime height did not disaminate us as did the danger of descending the path was so uneven and craggy yea the rocks so unskilfully cut out for a passage that great heed must be taken in the treading or a terrible precipice into a bottomlesse lake indangers us in one hill for three miles together the way was carved by some unskilfull workman in the mid-part of a most horrible aspiring perpendicular Mountaine the lane in some places a yard in some but halfe a yard in breadth so as if by accident two horsemen meet I could not see how both could have safe passage nor is it higher than ones head if mounted a wretched passage for whiles I was sometimes looking at the wonderfull height above us and anon casting my sight downwards into that dark Abisse a rock bending ill-favoredly into the narrow way struck me such a blow as for a great while I was astonied and happily delivered from a downfall a rock demanding an uncivell tribute from all carelesse passengers At length wee got safe out of that formidable path of death into the broad and lofty Mountaines from whence the lying Greekes beheld Prometheus sonne of Iapeth by Asia his wife and brother to Atlas cheyned to these rocks his heart gnawed by a Vultur for daring though Pallas helpt him up to steale celestiall flames from Apollo's Chariot wheeles to inspire life into his Images The mythology is this from these high Mountaines Prometheus first studied and observed the firmamentall motion the acronicall rising and setting of the Stars and other bodies celestiall the causes of Meteors eclipses and other hidden rarities of nature Hence Pyrrha's stones are fabled Saturn's reigne The birds of Taurus Promeths theevish veine Hinc lapides Pyrrhae jactos Saturnia regna Caucasiasque refert volucres furtumque Promethei Hence also let us view from this highest Tarrasse of the world North East and fix our dim sight upon Corason Corazon I take for that old writers intitled Coraxi in Pliny Corziana in Procopius Corasphy in Ptolomy Chorasmia in Athaeneus vicinating the Seres part of Sogdiana the one of Aria the other famous in silk and delicate wooll by Lucan memorized Quid Nemora Aethyopum molli canentia lana Velleraque ut foliis despectant tenua Seres What Aethiops woods made white with tendrest wooll Or Seres leaves which scorns soft fleece to pull Tzetza thus in their commendations Seres atque Tochares the first seat of the Turks or Turqu'stans gentes prope Iudiam texturas pulcherrimas texentes omnium quae praeciosiores antiquis temporibus Iberes occidentales now Georgia Coraxi now Corazon similiter texturas pulcherrimas lana operianur c. Nunc autem abuteus ut multi dixeram illud ex Thebis ex Sericis non ignarus ut alli c. Whereby it seemes though silke in the Latin is from the Seres yet they had it from the Iberians and they from Aegypt so likewise now Hyrcania is most excellent Sydonius Apollinarius also thus Assyrius gemmas Ser vellera thura Sabaeus Assur yeelds gems wooll Seres Saby fumes Corazon included twixt 36 and 40 degrees is divided into three large Provinces Hery Farghan and Tocharistan i.e. Aria Paropamisa Tocharia all at this day adding lustre to the Persian Diadem Of Hery and Farghan I have elsewhere spoken Tocharistan or Turquestan is a member of the Ouzbeg-Tartar in 40 degrees adjoyning Gaznehen and S'marcand Townes of note there are Tuz in 38 degrees the birth-place of Nazarradyn the great Mathematician Commentator upon Euclyde Nishapore Sarkas Gelack c. extending from this part of Taurus to the river Nycaphtac of old call'd Oxus the Terminus to the ambitious Persians subdivided into

encreasing from eight persons those that issued from the Ark upon Ararat in Armenia This building was hastned by five hundred thousand men in few yeares raising it from its basis which was nine miles about to above five thousand paces into the skie whence Ovid fabled his Giants warres Affectasseferunt regnum Coeleste Gyant●s Altaque congestos struxisse ad sydera Montes The heavens look't pale with wonder to be behold With what attempts and rage Giants bold Sought to affront the gods by raising high Mount upon mount to inhabit in the skie intending no doubt to peepe into heaven But hee that sits above and accounts the best of mans power and policie but meere weaknesse and folly not only distracted their designe but severed them into seventie Companies sending them seventie wayes to better imployments from one tongue the Hebrew Goropius dreamt it was Dutch ordaining seventy other Languages But though the Tower of Babel stood for ever unfinished albeit Alexander the great by some months labour in vaine of 100000 men made to desist by strange diseases and affrights thought to have finisht it the Citie notwithstanding swell'd to a prodigious greatnesse and though Arphaxad sonne of Sem sonne of Noah begun to inhabit in this vale of Shynaear yet Nimrod sonne of Cush or Iupiter Belus sonne of Cam or Iupiter Hamon the accursed sonne of Noah wrested it from his other kindred yea behaved himselfe so proudly amongst his brethren that to gratifie his memorie they deified him by name of Sudormyn by the Romans converted into Saturne Nimrod lived six and fiftie yeares after the beginning of Babell hee at last gave way to Death and was buried I know not where some say at this place some say at Persepolis Idolatrie was soone hatcht in the world Nimrods successours strove to make their hellish progenitors earthly gods for after Ninus his sonne had erected many Temples to put his Grandsires Images in he attracted infinit people to inhabit there by whose labours hee not only agrandiz'd this Citie but by their helps grew to tyrannize in the world and to augment his Empire whence he is accounted the first that incroacht on others rights to satiate his ambition and as he is named the first Emperour of the earth so none died so miserably for his wife Semiramys detruded him into prison where shee made him die a hatefull death such as became a monster The Virago Queene sat confidently at the helme and steered through an Ocean of stormes and miraculous passages till burning in flames of lust in stead of embraces hersonne Nynias thought Amraphel and Mars to revenge his Fathers death slew her but by that murder became mad and in that frenzie marched against King Cancasus Iaphets great grand-son and subdued him howbeit he himselfe was so serv'd by Abraham such time as he rescued his Nephew Lot captivated by Arioch Tydal and Chedorlaomer Semyramis to eternize her memorie fought many brave Combats and return'd oft times victorious she subjected many Kings subjugated many Provinces built many famous Castles Cities and Gardens the ruines of some of them are in Medya to this houre remaining Wee will confine her into Babylon where shee erected two inimitable Pallaces one was at the East end th'orher at the West the first extended thirty the other sixty furlongs both were immured with walls of stupendious height and architecture but excelling those she built another in the heart or center of Babylon which she dedicated to Cush or Iupiter Belus the shape whereof was of foure equilateralls or sides from every angle were one thousand in all foure thousand paces 't was circled with a thick and towring wall entred by foure gates of polisht brasse in midst was elevated a strong and stately Tower upon which eight other Towers rose one upon another farre above the middle region whence from a continued serenity of the sky the Priests or Caldaean Astrologers precisely markt the planetary motions and if possible to heare their rowling harmony for being above the clouds they delighted to regard the exact light and magnitude of the Starres their heliacall acronicall matutine and vespertine motions rising and falling Apollo's progresse the constellations aspects influences and the like and at the top of all a Turret inricht with three great golden Images or Statuas representing Iupiter Ops and Iuno i. e. her father in law her husband Ninny and her selfe continuing there in divine esteeme for many ages and whereto sayes Herodatus in way of sacrifice was yeerly consumed a hundred thousand Talents in franc-incense till Cyrus An. Mun. 3432. by drayning Euphrates into other channells entred this Epitomè of the world and ransackt her bravery But I have not spoken all Semyramis also circled this gallant City with a wall which in after ages was call'd a wonder some say Nabuchadonozar made it but an ancient Poet sings otherwise Semyramis built Persian Babylon Persarum statuit Babylona Semyramis Vrbem The circuit of which Wall was after Solynus threescore miles English or as hee reckons it foure hundred and eighty furlongs Diodorus Siculus computes three hundred and sixty five each day in the yeere chalenging a furlong Quintus Curtius numbers three hundred fifty and eight differing in his Arithmetic but seven furlongs The compasse I admire at but am amazed at the height and spissitude two hundred cubits high it was and fifty cubits thick so thick and spacious that at the top six Chariots might take the ayre driving together abrest not one before another Nynus and Semyramis begun it bravely yet Nabuchadnezzer and Nytocris his wife daughter of Aliattes beautified it in a stupid admiration crying out Is not this great Babel that I have built a boast so much offending the sacred Majesty of God that hee rent the Kingdome from that proud Assyrian and made him a companion for beasts and birds to the astonishment of all such Atheists Cyrus by one battell at Borsippa prostrated it and wreathed his Persian brow with that Monarchic Dyadem Anno Mundi 3432 seventeen yeeres after the captivity of Iudah and Israel by Nabuzaradan his Liefetenant five hundred and fifty two yeeres before the birth of our Saviour after which it was often vassaled Seventy nine yeeres after Anno Mundi 3511 Artaxerxes Longimanus ruling Persia the Prophet Ezdras went hence to rebuild the Temple at Ierusalem and thirteene yeeres after that was seconded by Nehemiah from Shushan The victorious Macedonian conquered it Anno Mun. 3633 at which time as Aristotle reports one part of the City knew not in three dayes after that the enemy had entred it a vast bignesse but easily credited if Pausanias in Assyr say true Babylon omnium quas unquam Sol aspexit Vrbium maxima c. either to parallell it with Ierusalem destroyed by Vespatian in their solemne sacrifices in which times the people multiplyed or rather to fulfill that prophesie 51 Ieremiah 31 One Post shall runne to meet another to shew the King of Babylon that his

than their tayles which is of like use with them the Proboscis is to the Elephant their mouths are very wide at one gulph able to swallow horse or man their teeth are ingrailed they have no tongue nor can they move their upper jaw-bone their bellies are penetrable backs hardly to be peirced the brumall quarter they fast from food but the rest of the yeare devoure all sort of prey with much voracity and gredinesse No lesse notable is the Females burthen sixty dayes passe ere she lay her egs and which be commonly sixtie numbred sixtie dayes shee conceales them and when she sits sixtie dayes consume in hatching and to agree in one sixtie yeares is usually the Age of this detested beast fish or Serpent by Sea-men improperly cald Alligator corrupted from Allergardos a mixture of Spanish and Alman language the name Crocodile is taken a croceo colere or per Antiphrasin quòd crocum timeat It is the most obnoxious of all sea monsters and rightly becomes the Dissemblers epithite In quibus est astutia Hyaenae piet as Crocodili the Aegyptians of impudency awed by none save the Ichnenmon who steales into his belly and gnawes his guts whiles he opens his chaps to let the little Trochil pick his teeth which give it feeding Hence saile we by many small Iles as Marrah and Lampon in the straits of Sundy so named by Ptolo. and from a point and Town in the next great Iland Of Polygundy also we might speak but love not to land there paenitisse juvabit such bad luck by malevolent Venus or ill dyet had our late plantation wherby the Monopoly died with them out of their graves only springing a new deterring name of Kill abundance But cast we Anchor an ozier ground and fix our wandring eyes upon a more delighted object Iava an I le both great wealthy and famous Insula Iabadiae Niger ghesses it Of Java major IAVA the greater is an I le nigh the Bengalan Sea declining seven some observe nine degr 40 minutes towards the Antartick Pole from the Equinoctiall and in the 120 degrees of longitude From East to West it stretches one hundred and fifty leagues or of english miles foure hundred and fifty from North to South nintie leagues or two hundred and seventie miles the midland is for the most part mountainous and ill peopled the marittim low and populous the first is windy but conducing to health the latter marish and insalubrious It is full of small villages and inhabitants the sea coast by reason of trade for pepper has Townes well built most wealthy and best defended upon the North side and to the N.E. especially are Bantam Palamban Iackatra new named Batavia by the Duch but formerly Sunda-Calapa by the Inhabitants Iaparra Tuban Iortan Greecy Chyringin Serebaya c. Bantam is under Antartick declination or latitude 6 degr 20 minutes and of westerly variation 3 degrees the biggest Citie in the Iland ownd by the Natives built well nigh two miles long distinguisht into a Buzzar the Pengrans Pallace a few streets and at the furthest end the Cheneses live together in low built dwellings Of it selfe it affords nothing save ryce pepper and cotten woll though indeed pepper for the greatest part is brought hither by the crafty but infinitely industrious Chyney men who each Ianuary anchor here and unload their Iuncks or Prawes from Iamby Borneo Malacca and diversother places making Bantam their Magazen or Beehive out of which they furnish the English other merchants These Chyneses are men of peace voluptuous venereous costly in their sports great gamesters and in trading over subtle for young Christian merchants oft-times they are so wedded to dicing that after they have lost their whole estate wife and Children are stak't and parted with yet in little time by gleaning here and there he will be able to redeeme them if not at the day they are sold in the market The lavan Kings are five Viceroys I might better call them foure of them are subordinate to the Mattaran's command who is able to bring unto the field 200000 desperate slaves black but valiant they have small order or pollicy in warre yet dare attempt any thing they are so forward The climate burnes so fiercely that little apparell pleases them most goe most part naked they use lances darts arrowes and shields but their sole braverie is in their crizes a weapon commonly two foot long broad waved sharp edgd and small pointed but against the lawes of Nature and honour basely poisoned the hilt or handle is usually of wood or horne some have them of gold silver and Ivory cut into the crooked shape or figure of a deformed Pagod yet were they a thousand times more ugly these savages would dare to adore them especially in that they aske the Idoll on their creast pardon after they have perpetrated homycide or such like villany a trick us'd by Lewes the eleventh to the Crucifixe in 's hat to his eternall infamy But these ●avans are drunck in their demonomy they the more earnestly imbrace it by how much their poysoned natures abhorre honesty They trade in murthers adulterie thests rapine deceit and all kinds of knaveries Magique also and Astrologie delights them a study their Priests are execellent in and in which Satan instructs them the better to oblige their gratitude and to worship him as the Apollo of knowledge which wee inculcate and abominate yea say with Isaiah Is there any God besides the Lord Iehovah yea there is no God we know not any Isa 44. hee maketh the diviners mad hee turneth the wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish Let us not learne the way of the heathen Ier. 10. they are altogether brutish and foolish his molten Image is falshood and there is no breath in them they are vanity and in the day of account they shall perish But in the Lord shall all true beleevers bee justified and shall glory These people know better how to swim than navigate yet are not ignorant in sea affaires nor want they vessels to doe mischiefe in Their chiefe delight is hunting Tygres Ounces and such beasts as give chase and resistance They know Mahomet in some parts of the I le who as an infectious ayre is suckt by many people of remote Ilands Friendly they are to English men and delight to serve them especially since the Duch forced Iacatra from them betwixt whom is such mortall variance that fifteen ryalls is given by either as a reward for each prisoner dead or alive either people can take nor is there ever hope of true Amity with Barbarians The Oran-kays or best sort of people here are lasie sociable but not to bee too much trusted they suppose themselves descended from Chyna in a Iunck 700 yeares ago forced hither by Tuffon or tempest They are proud and weare their hayre pretty long and about their crispes wreath a valuable Shash or Tulipant go naked to to the wast where they gird them

structure and daily served by a multitude of hellish Priests or Bonzees not admitted to attend there except they be young well shap't and as strong in venerie as was Hercules Every new Moon they solemnly betroth unto the Devill a Damosell whose Parents account the ceremonie happie and honourable if any be more faire or singular than another shee is selected by the lustfull Priests devoted and brought into the Temple and placed right against the Mamada or Idoll the roome is first made glorious with Lamps of burnisht gold and a preparation by incendiating Lignum vitae or other gums and perfumes such as be curious and costly by and by the Lamps extinguish by myracle and in a grosse darknesse the Prince of darknesse approaches and abuses her so shee imagines and the rather credited in that the Devill leaves behind him certaine scales like those of fishes an argument of no phantasma but by this hellish conjunction they swell not unlesse the Bonzee second it Sathan is no sooner gone but she is saluted by the Bonzees who ravish her with songs and pleasant musique which ended shee acquaints them with her fortune and resolves them in such questions as she by their instruction propounded to the Devill and he had satisfied her in shee issues with applause and ever after is reputed holy and honourable many other things I could present you from tradition but I avoyd as much as may be to insert incertainties from hence therefore faile wee West and land in Chyna where though the travaile be difficult yet suffer me to glean a little though it but expresse my industrie and care to offer you the truest Novelties Of China CHINA is the most Easterly part of Asia A Kingdome both great and wealthie famous also but scarce discovered Their jealousie and discourtesie to strangers they suffer any to enter none to returne chiefly causes it It is subject to many severall names scarce any two strange people accord in one Nomenclation and no wonder since amongst themselves they affect variety the Kings new naming the whole Kingdome at their Coronation as they fancie it Ptolomy long agoe call'd it Sinarum Regio other Geographers Seres the Moores in Industant call it Cathayo the Arabians T'synin the Syamites Cyn the Malayans Tabenzo the Japonites Thau and T'syn the Tattarrs Ham Alhacen Tangis Paulus Venetus Mangi the Inhabitants if Perera Riccius and Trigautius say true Tamen and themselves Tamegines But how various soe're that be this is not uncertaine that it is a very spatious Monarchie for it extends from 17 deg to 43 of North Latitude and to the South Cantam to the North Pequin two royall Cities seeme to terminate it But thus confined On the East it has the Sea of Iapan Corea is part of China no Ile but to the North conjoyned with the Continent On the West the Desarts of Industant On the North the Tattars On the South the Phillipinae Iles and the South West adjoyneth to Cochyn-China and Pegu with part of Siam All agree that it is square and that from any one side to another is 1500 English miles the circuit above 4000. the Country is generally champaign fruitfull full of sweet and navigable rivers and which are no lesse inhabited than the Villages and Cities be of which China has no fewer than 600 Cities 2000 wall'd Townes 4000 unwalled 1000 Castles and of Villages scarce to be numbred and many they had need to be since they give lodging to above threescore millions of men and boyes besides women which be not inrolled The whole Empire is divided into fifteene great Provinces governed by so many Quon-fu and Lausia who have their Tutans and Chyans or Deputies under them Each of those Provinces has a Metropolis full of people fairely built and very spatious But every way more excellent than the rest are these foure Paquin by some called Pasquin Nanquin or Nanton Cantam or Canton and Quinsay by them called Ham-ceu of which foure at this day Paquin is chiefe or Emperiall PAQVIN elevates the North Pole 41 degr 15 minutes and by late Geographers is accounted that same Citie which some call Cambalu watered by Polisanga and China then must bee Cathaya yea if Pantoja and Di Canti say true the Chyna Monarch is that same great Cam which M. P. Venetus and Mandevile afore him have famoused The Citie Pequin is questionlesse the most spatious and best peopled in Asia if not in the world since it has 30 Duch leagues ninety English miles circumference it includes many stately buildings and Mausoleas 24000 are numbered of the Mandarins Sepulchers the meanest of which is not without beauty and a no lesse number of little guilded Chappell 's beside 3800 Temples devoted to Idolatry It has as many Gates Posterns as be dayes in a yeer sixscore Buzzars or Market-places above a thousand Bridges of stone and such water as is every where potable This City is not above a hundred miles from that marvellous wall which Crisnagol their King Zaintzon the 117 King some say built 1000 yeeres ago to keep out the invading Tartarr a wall 1200 miles long six fathoms high twelve yards thick and such as was seven and twenty yeeres erecting by a continued labour of 750000 men NANQVIN the second Citie for grandeur and bravery till of late was the China Metropolis It elevates the Artick Pole 32 degr and is distant from the Sea 8 leagues or there abouts The City is 12 leagues about circled with three strong walls and ditches the Kings Pallace is glorious and vast the other buildings many for 200000 are reckned but meanly beautifull the Temples are above a thousand the streets fayre the people industrious from Paquin removed East six hundred miles English most part of the way is navigable CANTAM is at the South end of China in 17 deg a Towne both rich and spatious our Ships came almost in view of it from it to Paquin is two months travell QVINZAY or Ham-ceu borders Cochin-China of old the greatest at this day the most admirable for variety of antick rarities in the Orient These bee the most noted but many other great and populous Cities this great Empire conteineth generally of one shape and alike governed None be without their Meani or Temples fild with Deastri or Idols The Countrey is generally champaign and fruitfull the husbandmans care and paines make it to fructifie and repay its thanks in various tribute each Province there is well watered and few of those rivers but abound in fish which the Chyneses not only banquet on but on Frogs Snakes Rats Dogs Hogs and such food as many other Nations abhominate they fish with Cormorants The people are Olive coloured more black or white as they vary from the Aequinoctiall they weare their haire very long and fillited their eyes are commonly black their noses little their eyes small their beards deformedly thin and nailes often times as long as their fingers serving as a mark to distinguish the