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A33342	A new description of the world, or, A compendious treatise of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, countries, islands, cities, and towns of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America in their scituation, product, manufactures, and commodities, geographical and historical : with an account of the natures of the people in their habits, customes, warrs, religions, and policies &c. : as also of the rarities, wonders, and curiosities of fishes, beasts, birds, rivers, mountains, plants, &c., with several remarkable revolutions and delightful histories / faithfully collected from the best authors by S. Clark.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1689 (1689)	Wing C4554; ESTC R26606	137,166	242

Actions formerly much inclined to War and search of Adventures insomuch that they assisted with a great Fleet in the Holy War and taking of Jerusalem by the Christian Army and aided Phillip the French King with 10000 Men against Edward the Third of England where in one Battle they were most of them slain They Aided likewise the Spaniards in 1588 to Invade England with several great Carracts and Galleys which were either lost upon the Coast or cast away in their Flight homeward which loss they have never since fully recovered yet they lately made a stout Defence against the Naval Power of France which could effect no more than beating down some part of their City by Bombing it at a distance as being well assured they had no Fleet capable of Engaging The Country abounds in all the Plenties of Italy and here only the Women have the greatest Freedom without the Jelosie or Suspition of their Husbands of any Italians and as a further Honour to this place it gave Birth to Christopher Columbus the first Discoverer of the New World or Country of America The State of Lucca Described THe State of Lucca is held to be scituate within the Dukedom of Tuscany or Florence comprehending the Town and Terretory of Lucca As for Lucca it is seated in a fruitful Plain strongly fortified with a good Wall and incompassed with pleasant Trees so that at a distance it seems to stand in a Wood and the Plain wherein it is seated is invironed with Mountains or large Hills except towards Pistola where it opens to the Sea and is three miles in compass as for the Streets they are narrow and paved with broad Freestone and in it are many Palaces and Merchants Houses curious built of Free-stone according to other Building in Italy and was formerly a place of great Trade for Silks Stuffs Carpets Cloth of Gold and the like there being a great concourse of Merchants call'd Luccois Merchants that were wont to meet there at several Fairs or Marts held for that purpose but of late the Trade is declined however the Inhabitants inrich themselves by their Manufacture which they send to other places of greater Trade And here there is a strict Law that no Person shall wear any Weapon no not a Knife unless it be blunted the People being generally very courteous to Strangers And thus much for what may be properly call'd Italy which taken in general is one of the most fruitful and pleasant Countrys of the World of which Europe being call'd the Head this is accounted the Face But for brevity sake I must desist any further Comment and proceed to other parts adjoyning The Dukedom of Lorrain Described THIS Country is Invironed with a part of Belgium Alsatia the Country of Burgundy and Campaign and is about 180 Miles in compass exceeding Fruitful in Corn Wine store of Cattle but especially Horses of an Excellent Breed the Rivers and Lakes abounding with Fish and the Soil with rich Mines The chief Town is Nancy seated upon the River Meuse and in it the Ducal Pallace much resorted to for Wines Brandies and other Commodities the Buildings are very stately and commodious most of them of Stone and well fortified with a Wall of great Strength The next to this are St. Nicholas and Vancoleus very strong and well Garisoned by the French into whose hands the Country fell in the Reign of King Lewis the 13. though the present Duke of Lorain now warring in Hungary is on all hands concluded to be the rightful Prince As for the manners and Customs of the people they are a mixture of Germany and France as being seated between those Countries c. The Dukedom of Savoy and Country of Peimont Described c. AS for Savoy it is a very Mountainous Country bounded by the Dauphenet Bress Switzerland Peimont and the Alps the Antient Inhabitants were the Allobroges who submitted to Hanibal when he entered Italy with his Carthagenians to War against the Romans at what time Bruncius and his Brother being at variance about the Succession to the Kingdom he reconciled them afterward it was made a Roman Province and was called from one of the Kings that then Reigned being a Favorite to Augustus Caesar Alpes Coctiae but in the declining of the Roman Empire it became a part of the Kingdom of Burgundy and passed with other rights of the Empire to Germany but now is independent under a Duke who is soveraign Lord of the Country The Chief Towns of Savoy are Chambiers Scituate in a pleasant Valley amongst Mountains and is graced with a Ducal Pallace and many stately buildings of the Nobles who are for the most part very Gentile Active and Airy though the Country people on the contrary are very Imbicil and Slugish Tarantaise an Arch-Episcopal See Scituate amongst Mountains as the former full of pleasant buildings Aquabelle Mauridune another Arch-Episcopal See. Under the power and Jursdiction of the Savonian D●ke it is Peimont unless a small part of it claimed by the Duke of Mantoua seated at the Foot of the Mountains and bounded on the East with Milain on the West with Savoy on the North with Switzer-land and on the South with the Mediterranean being more fertile than the other containing 52 Earldoms and 15 Marquesats besides Barronies and Lordships and here dwell the progeny of the Albigenses who about the year 1100 stood for the Liberty and Doctrine of the Church of their Predecessors and about the year 1250 were near all destroyed and ruined by the Popes and French Kings when the remainder prefering their Concience before their Country retired up into the Mountains and by their Industry and Indefatigable Husbandry made the very Rocks bring forth Grass and Herbage for themselves and their Cattle c. and here they worshiped God according to the Worship of rhe reformed Churches greatly increasing in number as being followed with blessings untill the latter end of the Reign of Francis the first at what time happened the Massacre of Merinianum or Mariguan Gallis and Chabriers and in the year 1662 and 1663 they were again persecuted by the Savoiard and since that in the year 1684 we had a Mellancholy account of their treatment and although there are many good Towns under the Government of Savoy yet the Duke chiefly resides at the City Turin Scituate on the River Po and is the seat of an Arch-Bishop and a University where Erasmus took his degree and for Scituation is accounted one of the plesantest in Europe The Seignory of Geneva and the Alps Described GENEVA is within the Limits of the Dukedom of Savoy the whole Seignory not exceeding Eight Leagues in compass Scituate on the Lake Lemanus and devided into two parts by the River Rosne The City strongly walled and fortified as being the head of a Free state containing a flourishing University Governed by a Common Council or 200 of the chief Burghers four of which are called Sindiques As for the Church Government it is

Germans but the French possess most of the lower part and indeed they speak either Languages in most of the Villages and in manners participate of both Nations and bordering upon this Dukedom is the Famous Forrest of Ardena formerly accounted the greatest in Europe as being 500 Miles in compass consisting mostly of Chest-nut Trees but now burnt and otherways destroyed to the circumference of 90 Miles and near it are found the Spaw Baths so much frequented by divers Nations for the restoring them to Health by removing sundry Malladies and Diseases and in this Region are held to be 7 Earldoms and many other petty Governments The Soil is naturally Fruitful and Pleasant by Scituation Brabant BRabant has for its boundard on the South-East and North the River Meuse on the West the Schald or the Sclade in length it is accounted 70 Miles and in breadth 60 containing 26 walled Towns and 700 Villages the principal of the former being Lovaine a City 6 miles in compass inclosing beside the stately Building pleasant Hills Valleys Meadows Fragrant Gardens and is a noted University consisting of 20 stately Colledges The next of note is Bruxelles or Brussels the usual seat of the Governor for the King of Spain pleasantly seated and Inviorned with Gardens and little riseing Hills and near it is the City of Bergeaupzone a garrisoned place strongly fortified and here is found likewise the Town of Breda surprised by the Prince of Orange and taken from the Spaniards by a small number of Gentlemen who came upon it in the night time in a Boat covered with Turfs and desperately setting upon the Garrison possessed themselves of it and yet more famous for the Treaty between his Late Majesty of England and his Subjects whereupon ensued his happy Restauration and in this Province is contained the Marquesa●e of the Empire whose chief Town or City is Antwerp 7 Miles in compass once a famous Empori or the Scale of Europe by reason of its Scituation on the River having two Marts yearly and for the more safe Resort of Strangers qualified with extraordinary Priviledges and here the Portugals exposed their East India Goods to Sale and dispersed them through Europe but of late the Hollanders growing powerful at Sea and great Traffickers have removed the Scale for the most part to Amsterdam Flanders THIS Province which amongst the vulgar passes current for the 10 is divided into Galicam Imperialem and Tutonicam the latter being separated from the two first by the River Ley where is found the City of Gaunt the Birth Place of John Duke of Lancaster Son to Edward the Third of England from thence called John of Gaunt and is so large within the Walls that there is large Pastures and Corn Fields besides many Gardens and other pleasant places and is Commodiously seated upon the River Schald which devides it in many parts so that for the conveniency of the Inhabitants there are 98 Bridges The next to this are Brugis and Ypres walled and well fortified and within the Jurisdiction of the Province are the famous Sea Ports or Frontier Towns of Dunkirk taken from the Spainards by the Valour of the English and since delivered to the French Scluse which has a spacious Haven capable of containing 500 Sail of Ships and to these we must add Newport and Ostend Imperial Flanders so called for Distinctions sake is devided from Brabant by the River Dender and in it are found the Towns of Alost and Dendermond scituate very pleasantly upon the Banks of that River with Hulst a considerable Town indifferently fortified the Country is generaly fruitful and the people very thrifty and sparing c. Gallicam or Gallica Flanders taking its Denomination from its dependency on the French or the nearness to that Country has for its chief Town Lisle or Lile a Town of great Trade and much Resort where sundry Merchants have Ware-Houses and some petty Factories the next to it in Dignity is Doway much noted for its University and the great Resort of most Christian Nations thither to see the curious Library and other Rarities and here likewise stands Tornay taken from the French by King Henry the Eighth of England and ransomed by the Inhabitants at 100000 Ducats there are moreover 32 walled Towns of lesser note and 1178 Villages within the Jurisdiction of this Province adorned with stately Buildings and pleasant Gardens replenished with Fountains and pleasant Streams and is in all parts very Fruitful as lying low and not any where incumbred with Mountains from which indeed the Provinces are generally free c. Artois is a very pleasant Province and was once intirely French but now as the rest I have mentioned under the Government of the King of Spain quitted by Henry the Second of France to Philip the Second of Spain in the League of Chambray and is said to contain 854 Villages and 12 Towns of note the chief being Arras from whence our Cloath of Arras comes and Lilliers The Principal Frontier Towns that opposes Piccardie are Hedinfort Ayre Pernes and St. Omers most of them very strong and sencible Hainault is considerably spacious as being Sixty Miles in length and Fourty Eight in breadth in which are computed 950 Villages and 24 considerable Towns as Monts Famous for the overthrow of the French Army under the command of the Duke of Luxemburg by the Dutch and Germans under the command of the Prince of Orange c. routed near this Town 1676. Valenciens very commodiously seated so that it cannot be besieged but by a considerable Army divided into three parts Conde and Bavais Towns of considerable strength the latter supposed to be built upon the ruins of the antient Belgium the Province in general is very pleasant and fruitful Namurre is very commodiously scituate and yields the Inhabitants great Advantages from the Iron Mines and Marble Quars as also those of Free Stone and what is indeed a wonder in nature viz. The Stone Cole which is extinguished by Oyl but burns the brighter for having Water cast upon it and here are found the City Namurre giving name to the Province as also Charlemont Valen-court or Bornies with about 182 Villages accommodated with rich Pastures pleasant Gardens with store of Fruits and Cattle Machlyn though it is reckoned to be scituate within the circuit of the Province of Brabant yet has in it 9 Villages with several Castles and Places of strength as its dependences being a strong Town seated in the midst of the Waters of the River Dole so that upon drawing up the Sluces the Country about it may be drowned and was of such esteem before the Wars with Spain that it was the seat of a Parliament but now is somewhat impaired by a fire that happened some years since by the blowing up of a Magazine of 800 Barrils of Gun-powder These are those properly called the Spanish Provinces and Neitherlands which were formerly free Estates and most of them Independent governed by their proper Princes and

also Coneys Land and Water Fowl in great Plenty taking great Pride in Bracelets and Chains of certain Shells called Esurgnie which the● gather on the Coast and here are many great Rivers of fresh Water which together with Mountains of Snow render it very cold yet Wheat and ●ulse grows pretty kindly though but few Fruit Trees and here the Women Labour more than the Men and if so the Man who is allowed two or three Wives dye the Widows will not be induced to Marry again but continue in their sort of Mourning which is to daub the naked parts of their Body over with Coal-dust for in some parts of this Tract they go Naked both Men and Women VIRGINIA is a Country somewhat more pleasant than what we have described bounded on the North with Canada on the South with Florida on the East with Mare del Noort and on the West with the Woods of the Country the end of them not Discovered and is a Colony of the English along the Sea Coast and considerably upland so called in Honour of Queen Elizabeth that Virgin Queen and Glory of her Sex by Sir Walter Raleigh in the Year 1584. though by the Natives called Apalchen from a Town of that Name the Sea-coast only being Pleasant for as much as what lies more In-land is full of barren Mountains and rough Woods where notwithstanding the Natives Inhabit in poor and miserable Houses under sundry Chiefs or Petty Kings and yet frequently at War amongst themselves for those wretched Dwellings and sometimes make Inroads and Plunder the English Territories killing as many as fall within the compass of their Power and then Fly to their Woods and Fastness where they know they cannot without great hazard and danger be conveniently pursued The Country properly called Virginia extends from 34 to 38 Degrees of North Latitude and is very Temperate by reason of the frequent Breizes and refreshing Gales of Wind that allay the heat so that it affords abundance of Pleasant Valleys Spacious Fields Fruit Trees as in England yielding a greater Increase and has sundry Veins of Allom as also Pitch Turpentine Cedar and Olive Trees with many Pleasant Hills which are Planted as Vineyards store of Fish Fowl Cattle and above all sundry large Plantations of Tobacco especially upon James and York Rivers and have considerable Towns and Villages many of them well Fortified to prevent Incursion of the Savages whose Neighbouring Petty Princes the Governour obliges to pay Tribute and to send their Slaves if any outrage be committed by them in the Territories of the English to James Charles or any other Town appointed to be Punished according to the degree of the Fact and here the Natives such as border on the Plantation are much Civiliz'd in consideration of those that are more remote Trading with the English for Furrs Skins and Indian Corn which they fet with a Stick as we do our Beans which is the work and business of their Wives as soon as they have bought them of their Parents and Built them a House which for the most part is of Poles pleated on the Sides and Tops Hurdle-wise and if Female Children be Born they as soon as they are able go into the Field to work with their Mother but the Male goes along with his Father to shoot in the Woods and so Lazy are the Men that if they kill any considerable Game they leave it at a certain remarkable Tree and when they come home send their Wife to fetch it who dares not on pain of Death disoblige her Husband But this is only meant of the Natives for the English are there as here Governed by wholsom Laws and live for the most part in great Plenty MARYLAND lies on the South of Virginia in the same Tract divided from it only by some considerable Rivers and is as the former a Tobacco Plantation abounding likewise with Corn Cattle and considerable Gardens and Orchards of Fruit Trees Planted by the English. As for the Natives Bordering it they differ not in manner and quality from the former going mostly loosly Arrayed in Beasts skins Feathers compacted and armed with Bows and Darts NEW ENGLAND an English Colony in this Tract is bounded on the North-East with Norumbegua on the Southwest with Novum Belgium and on the other parts by the Woods and Sea coast scituate in the middle of the Temperate Zone between the degrees of 41 and 44 equally distant from the Artick Circle and the Tropick of Cancer which renders it very temperate and very agreeable to the Constitution of English Bodies the Soil being alike Fruitful if not in some places exceeding ours all sorts of Grain and Fruit trees common with us growing kindly there The Woods there are very great wherein for the most part the Native Indians dwell Fortefying themselves as in Towns or places of defence living upon Deer and such other Creatures as those vast Wildernesses whose extents are unknown to the English abound with there are in this Country store of Ducks Geese Turkies Pigeons Cranes Swans Partridges and almost all sort of Fowl and Cattle common to us in Old England together with Furs Amber Flax Pitch Cables Mast and in brief whatever may conduce to profit and pleasure the Native Indians in these parts are more tractable if well used than in any other many of them though unconverted often saying that our God is a good God but their Tanto evil which Tanto is no other than the Devil or a wicked Spirit that haunts them every Moon which obliges them to Worship him for fear though to those that are converted to Christianity he never appears This English Colony after many Attempts and bad Successes was firmly Established 1620 at what time New Plymouth was Built and Fortified so that the Indians thereby being over-aw'd suffered the Planters without controul to Build other Towns the chief of which are Bristol Boston Barstaple and others alluding to the Names of Sea Towns in Old England and are accommodated with many curious Havens commodious for Shipping and the Country watered with pleasant Rivers of extraordinary largeness so abounding with Fish that they are not taken for dainties The Religion professed is Presbyterial and for a long time they were all Governed at their own dispose and Laws made by a Convocation of Planters c. but of late they have submitted to receive a Governer from England NOVVM BELGIVM or the New Neither-land lies in this Tract on the South of New England extending from 38 to 41 degrees North Latitude a place into which the Hollanders intruded themselves considerable Woody which Woods naturally abound with Nuts and wild Grapes replenished with Deer and such Creatures as yield them store of Furrs as the Rivers and Plains do Fish and Fowl rich Pastures and Trees of extraordinary bigness with Flax Hemp and Herbage the ground very kindly bearing the Product of Europe and here the Natives such as live in Hutts and Woods go clad in Beasts Skins