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A33311	A geographicall description of all the countries in the known vvorld as also of the greatest and famousest cities and fabricks which have been, or are now remaining : together with the greatest rivers, the strangest fountains, the various minerals, stones, trees ... which are to be found in every country : unto which is added, a description of the rarest beasts, fowls ... which are least known amongst us / collected out of the most approved authors ... by Sa. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Gaywood, Richard, fl. 1650-1680.	1657 (1657)	Wing C4516; ESTC R36024	224,473	240

the English under the conduct of Charles Earle of Nottingham Robert Earle of Essex and Sir Walter Rawleigh at which time they burnt the Spanish Indian fleet consisting of forty ships whose lading was worth eight millions of Crowns They overthrew also the Spanish fleet consisting of fifty seven men of war they took two great Gallions with their luggage they spoiled and carryed away abundance of warlike amunition they slew and took prisoners four thousand foot and six hundred horse whence one made this Distich Alcides yeelds to Devereux hee did see Thy beauties Cales but Devereux conquer'd thee The British Islands discribed England is bounded on the East with the German on the West with the Irish on the South with the Brittish Oceans and on the North with the River Tweed and a line drawn from it to Solwal VVestward Formerly the Northern limit was a wall crosse the Island from Carlile in Cumberland to the River Tine It was built by Severus as a fortresse against the Picts at every miles end was a Castle between every Castle many Watch-Towers and through the walls of every Tower and Castle went a pipe of brasse which from one Garrison to another conveyed the least noise without interruption so that the intelligence of an invading enemy was quickly made known to all the borders VVhen the wall failed the strong Townes of Berwick and Carlile were the chief bars against invasion It s in length three hundred and twenty miles concerning our commodities they are thus reckoned up England is stored with Mountains Bridges Wooll With Churches Rivers Women beautiful The Bridges are in number eight hundred fifty and seven The Rivers are three hundred twenty and five the chief is Thames which ebbs and flowes twice a day more than threescore miles The banks of it are so adorned with fair Towns and Princely Palaces that a Dutch Poet made verses of them thus Englished Wee saw so many VVoods and Princely Bowers Sweet Fields brave Palaces and stately Towers So many Gardens drest with curious care That Thames with royal Tiber may compare The second River is Severne whose head is in Plinlimmon hill in Mountgomry-shire and ends seven miles short of Bristol washing in the mean space the walls of Shrewsbury VVorcester and Gloucester The third Trent so called from thirty kindes of fish found in it It s fountain is in Stafford-shire and passing through the Counties of Nottingham Lincoln Lecester and York it meets with Humber the most violent River in all England The fourth Humber made up of the Rivers Dun Are VVarfe You re Darwent and principally Ouze and Trent The fifth Medway a Kentish River famous for harbouring the Royal Navy at Chatham The sixth Tweed the North East bound of England on whose Northern bank stands the strong Town of Berwick The seventh Tine famous for Newcastle and her inexhaustible Coale-pits These with the rest are thus set forth by Draiton the Poet. Our Floods Queen Thames for ships and Swans is crowned And stately Severn for her shore is praised The Christal Trent for foords and fish renown'd And Avons fame to Albions cliffs is raised Carlegion Chester vaunts her holy Dee York many wonders of her Ouse can tell The Peak her Dove whose banks so fertil bee And Kent will say her Medway doth excel Cotswol commends her Isis to the Tame Our Northen borders boast of Tweeds fair flood Our VVestern parts extol their VVillies fame And the old Lea brags of th' Danish blood Our women are the most beautiful in the world without the help of any adulterate Sophistications In a compleat woman say the Italians should bee the parts of a Dutch woman from the girdle downward the parts of a French woman from the girdle to the shoulders over which must bee placed an English face And as their persons so their priviledges are greater here than in any other Nation they being not so servilely submiss as the French nor so jealously guarded as the Italians hence England is called the Purgatory of servants the hell of horses and the Paradise of women And the Italians commonly say that if there were a bridge built over the narrow Seas all the women of Europe would runne into England For here they have the upper hand in the streets and at the Table the thirds of their husbands estates their equal shares in lands priviledges wherewith women in other countrys are not acquainted The wooll of England is excellent fine especially that of Cotswold in Glocester shire of Lemster in Hereford shire and in the I le of Wight Of it are made excellent broad-cloaths which are dispersed all over the World bringing in much money into the Realm and setting on work so many poor people And the giving of some Cotswold sheep by King Edward the fourth to Henry King of Castile Anno Christi 1465. is counted one of the greatest prejudices that ever hapned to this Nation The wooll transported hath brought into us no lesse than one million and five hundred thousand pound yearly and our Lead half as much Wee have more Parks in England than in all Europe besides Lately we had Chases thirty Forrests fifty five Parks seven hundred forty and five replenished with abundance of Game Our Mines are of Tin Lead and Coals Beer wee have plenty which being transported into France the Lowcountries and Germany is amongst them highly esteemed We have so many well-tuned bells that Forreigners have called it The Ringing Island Our Air is very temperate No seas in Europe yeild more plenty of fish Our Oisters were famous amongst the old Romans Our Herrings yeild great profit to the Netherlanders Our Nobility have not such unlimited power as in other Nations Our commonalty live in far greater reputation than they do in other Countries and have more civility in them Our Ministry is learned and religious and have a more practical and powerful manner of Preaching than in any other Nation Their printed works are so famous that many young Schollers of other Nations come over on purpose to learn our language that they may bee able to make use of our Books they are also the best provided for of any Ministers in the reformed Churches The Diet of England is for the most part flesh In London alone there are slain and uttered no fewer than sixty seven thousand and five hundred beefes and six hundred seventy five thousand sheep besides Calves Lambs Swine and Poultry in a year I beleeve now farre more The Spanish Gondamor when hee was here having often seen our Shambles said that there was more flesh here eaten in a month than in all Spain in a year A Forreigner comming to London and seeing such multitudes of people in the streets wondred where there could bee meat to fill so many bellies but when hee had seen our Shambles and markets hee wondred where there could bee bellies to eat so much meat Our Navy is called the walls of England the like ships for service are not to

bee found in the World and our Marriners and Souldiers are not to bee equalled In King Edward the third his time two hundred of our ships neer Scluse overcame four hundred of the French of which they sunk two hundred sail and slew thirty thousand Souldiers In eighty eight a few of our Queens ships overthrew the Spanish Invincible Armado consisting of one hundred thirty and four great Gallions Sir Francis Drake with four ships took from the Spaniard one million and one hundred eighty nine thousand and two hundred Duckats in his voyage Anno Christi 1587. And again with five and twenty ships hee awed the Ocean sacked St. Jago Domingo and Carthagena bringing away with him besides much treasure two hundred and forty peeces of Ordnance Our Country men Drake and Cavendish have sailed round about the World I omit the voyage to Cales mentioned before Sir Richard Creenvil in one of the Queens ships called the Revenge wherein were but one hundred and fourscore Souldiers and of them ninety so sick as not able to fight yet maintained hee a Sea-fight for four and twenty hours against above fifty of the Spanish Gallions and though when his powder was spent to the last barrel hee yeilded on honorable tearms yet before he had killed one thousand of the Spaniards and sunk four of their greatest vessels And what victories wee have had of late over all the Navies of the Lowcountries I omit to speak of because they are fresh in every ones memory In land service our souldiers are able to endure and resolute to undertake the hardest enterprises witnesse our warres and conquests in Spain France Ireland and Scotland and the Netherlands assisted by us England is a most fertile and a most potent Island as well for situation as for men and ships and the Inhabitants are good souldiers both by sea and land in valour and courage not inferior to any one Nation whatsoever and are more apt to offend by temerity and overmuch forwardnesse than by cowardize It excells all other nations in Mastiffs Cocks of the Game and Women who are incomparably beautiful and therefore have great influence upon the men yea the Queens have commanded here more absolutely and have been much better obeyed and respected than the Kings The division of England is into forty shires and nine thousand seven hundred and twenty five Parishes beside Chappels In these are five hundred fourscore and five Market Towns besides Cities the chief are Shrewsbury Northampton South-hampton Lecester Warwick c. Our Universities are two Cambridge and Oxford which for number and beauty of Colledges multitudes of Students and largeness of revenues are not to bee equalled in the Christian world I will not determine which is of greater antiquity this question having been agitated by so many In several places of England there is excellent white salt made I shall describe the manner of the making of it at Nantwich only There is one salt spring which they call the Brine-pit standing close by the River Weever from whence the Brine is conveyed into the severall Wich-houses and when the Bell rings they begin to make fire under the Leads wherein they boil the said salt-water and as it seeths the Wallers which are commonly women do with a woodden Rake gather the Salt from the bottome which they put into long wicker baskets and so the water voideth and the Salt remains In some other places they boil it in Iron pans with coals but they say the salt is not so white The Cities in England Described The City of London Described No Records set down the Original of this ancient City A City it was when Caesar first entred Brittain and by the Testimony of Tacitus Ptolemy and Antonine was called Londinium and by Ammianus Marcellinus for her successive prosperity Augusta the greatest title that can bee given to any In regard of both elements it is most happy as being situate in a most rich and fertile soil abounding with plenty and store of all things and on the gentle ascent and rising of a hill hard by the Thames side which by his safe and deep channel is able to entertain the greatest ships which daily bring in such store of rich Merchandise from all parts of the VVorld that it striveth at this day with the Mart towns in Christendome for the second place and affordeth a most sure and beautiful rode for shipping This City doth shew her self as the Cedar amongst shrubs It was the seat of the British Kings and is the model of the Land and Mart of the World For thither are brought the Silks of Asia the Spices of Africa the Balms from Grecia and the Riches from both the Indies No City hath been so long famous nor in civil Government can bee compared with her Her walls were first built by Constantine the great at the request of his mother Helena reared with rough stone and british brick three English miles in compass through which are seven fair Gates besides posterns A long the Thames this wall at first ranged with gates the one Douregate now Dowgate the other Billingsgate a receptacle for ships In the middest of the City was set a mile mark as the like was in Rome also from whence they measured their stations which stands till this day and is commonly known by the name of London stone St. Peters in Cornhill is thought to have been the Cathedral of Restitutus a Christian Bishop in Constantine the great 's time which was afterwards removed to St. Pauls whose greatness exceeds all others and spires had so high that twice they were consumed by lightning from heaven It hath in it besides this Church one hundred twenty and one Churches more viz. ninety and six within the walls and sixteen without but within the liberties and nine more in her suburbs It s divided into six and twenty Wards governed by so many Aldermen a Lord Maior and two Sheriffs the yearly choice whereof was granted them by Patent from King John In whose time also a Bridge of stone was built over the Thames upon twenty Arches built of excellent freestone and each Arch being sixty foot high and full twenty in distance from one another so that for length breadth beauty and building the like is not again to be found in the world King John gave certain void places in London to the City to build upon and the profits thereof were to go toward the charges of building and repairing the same bridg and the Mason who was the chief wo●kman in building it erected a large chappel upon it at his own charges and largely endowed it which is since turned to a dwelling house It was finished Anno Christi 1209. having been thirty and three years in building Afterwards sundry beautiful houses were built upon it that it seems a street rather than a bridge and many charitable men have given lands houses and summes of money towards the maintenance of it At the East end of this City

temperate but not so clear as ours in England it doth not therefore ripen Corn well but causeth grasse to grow abundantly The Winter is more subject to wind than snow The soil is uneven wooddy wilde watrish and boggy full of Loghs and Meers yea great ponds are sometimes found upon high mountains hence new commers are subject to Rheumes dissenteries and Fluxes the usual cure whereof is Uskebah This Island breeds no venemous creature neither will any live there if brought from other places All the breed in Ireland except women and Grayhounds are lesse than in England The commodities are cattel and sheep which are twice shorne in one year but their wool is course of which they make Mantles Caddows and Coverlets their Hobbies also are of great esteem Bees there are in great abundance The people are generally strong and nimble patient of hunger and cold implacable in enmity light of beleef greedy of glory The Kernes or wilde Irish are extreamly barbarous not behaving themselves as Christians scarcely as men The chief Rivers are 1. Shenin or Sinei beginning in Ulster and running two hundred miles till it falls into the Vergivian Sea and is navigable threescore miles 2. The Slane 3. Awiduff or Blackwater 4. Showre c. of which Spencer makes these verses There was the Liffie rowling down the Lea The sandy Slane the stony Aubrian The spacious Shenin spreading like a Sea The pleasant Boyne the fishie-fruitful Bann Swift Awiduffe which of the English man Is call'd Blackwater and the Liffar deep Sad Trowis that once his people over-run Strong Allo tumbling from Slewtogher steep And Mullamine whose waves I whilome taught to weep There also was the wide embayed Mayer The pleasant Bandon crown'd with many a wood The spreading Lee that like an Island fair Enclosed Corke with his divided flood And baleful Oure distain'd with English blood With many more c. The principal Lakes are Lough Earn Lough Foile and Lough Corbes in length twenty in breadth four miles in which are three hundred Ilets abounding with Pine-trees Dublin the Metropolis of Ireland is seated on the Liffie in which is an University Our King John was the first that was entituled Lord of Ireland which title the Kings of England retained till Anno Christi 154● at which time in an Irish Parliament King Henry the eight was declared King of Ireland as a name more repleat with Majesty The Province of Mounster described Mounster hath on the South the Vergivian Sea on the North part Connaught on the East Leinster and on the VVest the Ocean It s in length from Baltimore in the South unto the Bay of Galway in the North fourscore and ten miles Its breadth East and West from Waterford haven to Feriter haven is one hundred miles The air is mild and temperate the soil in some parts hilly with woods and solitary mountains the vallies beautified with Corn-fields The commodities are Corn Wood Cattel Wool and Fish especially abundance of Herring and Cod. The principal City is Limrick compassed about with the famous River Shannon by the parting of the channel Also neer unto the River Savaren which issues out of Muskerry mountains stands the City of Cork and lastly in this Province is the fair City of VVaterford having a commodious Haven for trade and traffick The Province of Leinster described Leinster hath on the East the Irish Seas VVestward on Connaught side it s bounded by the River Shannon Northward with the territory of Lougth and Southward with part of Mounster It s in length fourscore miles in breadth seventy The airds clear and mild the soil generally fruitful and plentifull both in fish and flesh stored with corn cattel and pastures It s well watered with Rivers and for the most part well wooded except the County Dublin where it is much wanting It breeds excellent Hobbies that amble very easily It hath in it three Rivers of note Shour Neor and Barraeo which issue out of the huge Mountains Blandinae and meet together before they empty themselves into the Ocean In this Province are 1. Kilkenny a fair midland Town 2. Kildare 3. VVexford which was the first English Collony 4. Dublin the Metropolitan City which is strong beautiful and frequented by Merchants Near to it is the beautiful Colledge consecrated to the holy Trinity which Queen Elizabeth made an University The Province of Connaught described Connaught is bounded Eastward with part of Leinster Northward with part of Ulser Westward with the main Ocean and Southward with part of Munster It s in length one hundred six and twenty miles and in breadth fourscore The Air is not so pure and clear as in other Provinces by reason of the many Bogs In it Twomond or the County of Clare is best both for Sea and Soil Galway commodious for shepheards Maio replenished with Cattel Deer Hawks and Hony Slego with pasturidge Le Trim full of rank grasse and forrage Roscomen plain and fruitful fit for cattel or husbandry The principal City and indeed the third in Ireland is Galway built in manner much like a Tower and is well frequented with Merchants having a convenient Haven near unto it is the Isle of Arran The Province of Ulster described Ulster on the North is divided with a narrow Sea from Scotland Southward it extends to Connaught and Leinster and on the VVest is beaten with the vast Ocean It s length is near one hundred miles from North to South the breadth one hundred and thirty and odd miles The air is temperate which causeth the ground to bring forth great store of several trees both for building and fruit-bearing plentiful it is of grasse for Cattel well furnished with horses sheep and Oxen. The Rivers carry Vessels for pleasure and profit furnished they are with great store of fish especially of Salmons abounding more in some of these Rivers than in any other place in Europe Indeed in some places this Country is barren troubled with Loughs Lakes and thick woods but in other places fruitful enough if it were but well husbanded The principal place in this Province is Armagh near unto the River Kalin which though it make but a poor shew yet lately was an Archiepiscopal See wherein once sate Richard Fitz-Ralph commonly called Armachanus who Anno Christi 1355. wrote so sharply against the begging Friers detesting such voluntary beggery in Christians Thus was the state of Ireland before the late horrid rebellion brake forth what alterations the same hath produced I am not able to write The Isle of Man Described Man is situated in that part of the British Sea that is called St. Georges channel It lyes between England and Ireland containing in length about thirty miles the broadest place exceeds not nine miles the narrowest is not lesse than five Generally it s an high land upon the Sea-Coasts defended with rocks lying out into the Sea The Harbours for shiping are 1. Douglas the safest 2. Rainsway 3. Ramsey 4. Laxie all towards England

Agates Emerauds Amethists c. Within it is the History of Christs Passion with the twelve Apostles all in Amber In the third is a Cabinet with Calcedonie Pillars filled with ancient Medals of gold Round about this Room are an infinite number of Natural and Artificial curiosities As the Emperours head cut on a Turquoise bigger than a Walnut with thousands more Next is the Armory wherein are the habits and diverse sorts of Arms of several ages and people There is likewise a Loadstone that bears up fourscore pounds weight of Iron In the last Cabinet are curious turned works of Ivory A Pillar of Oriental Alabaster c. In another Room are twelve great Cupboards of silver Plate of all sorts and another of all pure massie gold A Saddle all embroydered with Pearls and Diamonds besides many other things of great worth From hence is a private passage to the Dukes Court on the other side of the River The front of which edifice is very Majestick towards the Basis of Dorick work in the middest of Ionick and the uppermost story of Corinthian In the Court is a Grotto with Statues and a Fountain over it and a Loadstone of a most prodigious greatnesse The Gardens belonging to it for their largenesse have the face of a Forrest for their variety of a Paradise Here are Cypresse Groves their Walks with Statues Here a Sea of Fountains these Swans Ostriches and other delighting Creatures The Cathedral Church is of a vast bulk and exquisite workmanship made of Red White and black Marble The Cupola is so high that the brass Globe at the top will hold sixteen persons No lesse excellent is the Steeple composed of the same stone and materials with the Church but with more Art and Ornaments The Chappel of St. Laurence seems more than terrestrial It s wholly overlaid with fine polished stones neither is there any colour upon Earth but it 's there in stones naturally Near to this is a famous Library filled with great variety of Manuscripts In brief the houses of Florence are generally built high the streets are paved with great stones even and large and adorned with many excellent Fountains and other publick Ornaments The chiefest Cities of Italy are thus usually distinguished Rome the Un-holy Venice the Rich Naples the Gentle Florence the Fair Genoa the Proud Millan the Great Bolonia the Fat Padua the Learned and Verona the Ancient Idem Belgia or the Netherlands described Belgia is bounded on the East with the River Ems and part of Germany On the West with the Germane Sea on the North with East-Friezland and on the South with the Some Champaigne and Lorrain It s in compass one thousand miles The Country is very populous the men well proportioned and ingenious the inventers of Clocks Printing and the Compass They found out diverse musical instruments the making of Chariots Painting with Oil colours working pictures in Glass making of Worsteads Sayes Tapestry c. The women govern all both within doores and without The Country lies low upon the Seas and therefore is very subject to inundations In the reign of our King Henry the second Flanders was so overflown that many thousands of people whose dwellings were devoured by the Sea came into England and were by the King first planted in York-shire but afterwards removed into Pembrook-shire Since then the Sea hath swallowed up in Zealand eight of the Islands and in them three hundred Towns and Villages the ruines of the Churches c. being seen at low water till this day The commodities are Linnen Skarlet Worstead Sayes Silks Velvets Armour Cables Ropes Butter Cheese c. The chief Rivers are 1. Rheine 2. Mosa which compasseth half the Country 3. Ems dividing the two Friezlands 4. Scaldis which rising in Picardy runs through Artois divides Henault and Brabant and a little above Antwerp emptieth it self into the Sea 5. Ley which runs quite through Flanders In Zealand and Holland especially they are fain to defend themselves against the Sea by huge banks about ten ells high and five and twenty in breadth at the bottom made of the hardest Clay with great pains and maintained with great charge their inside is stuffed with wood and stone and their outside covered with strong and thick Mats It s divided into seventeen Provinces which are these that follow 1. Limbourg and the Bishoprick of Leige environed with Brabant and Namurce on the West with Brabant and Gulick on the North with Gulick and Collen on the East and with Luxenbourg on the South In the Bishoprick are four and twenty walled Towns and one thousand and eight hundred Villages the chief City is Leige seated on the Meuse the buildings of it are very fair It s a famous University wherein were students at one time nine Kings Sons four and twenty Dukes sons twenty nine Earles Sons besides Barons and Gentlemen The next Cities are 2. Tongres 3. Dinand neer Namur 4. Huy 5. Bilsen 6. Truden The Dutchy of Limbourg contains five Towns 1. Limbourg on the River Weser 2. Walkenbourgh 3. Dalem 4. Rode le Buck. 5. Carpen besides one hundred twenty and three Villages Luxenbourg which is bounded on the North with Limbourg on the South with Lorrain on the East with the Bishoprick of Triers and on the West with the Meuse It s in circuit two hundred and forty miles in which stand one thousand one hundred sixty and nine villages and twenty and three walled Towns The chief are 1. Luxenburgh on the River Elze 2. Bostonack commonly called the Paris of Ardenne 3. Thionville 4. Mommedi 5. Danvillers 6. Ivoy 7. Neuse Chastel 8. Rocke de March 9. Arluna Here is the Forrest of Ardenna once five hundred miles in compass now scarce ninety In the edges whereof are the famous hot Baths called the Spaw which are of most vertue in July because then hottest In the skirts of this Countrey towards France is the Dukedome of Bovillion whose cheif Towns are Sedan where is Schola Illustris and Bovillon The Duke is a Peer of France and hath been a great friend to the Protestants 3. Gelderland which hath on the East Cleve on the West Brabant on the North Frizland and on the South Limbourg It contains three hundred villages and twenty four Towns the chief whereof are 1. Nimmegen seated on the branch of the Rheine which is called Whael 2. Ruremond 3. Arnheim 4. Harderwick 5. Doesbourgh 6. Buren It s a fertile soil for feeding of Beasts which grow so great and fat that Anno Christi 1570. there was a Gelderland Bull killed at Antwerp that weighed three thousand and two hundred pounds 4. Brabant having on the East North and South the Meuse and on the West the Scheld It s in length seventy five in breadth sixty miles comprehending seven hundred villages and twenty six Towns whereof the chief are 1. Lovain in compasse within the walls four miles and six without It s an University wherein are twenty Colledges and a Seminary

beds of Cotton called Hammackoe● and they worship only the Sun and Moon They have Parrats bigger than Pheasants with backs breasts and bellies of a purple colour In Guadabuza is a fountain so hot that it will quickly boil a peece of meat In Mevis also there is an hot bath like ours in England In Mona are wild Boars and great wild Bulls in Moneta are abundance of Fowl The Antiles Islands are seven St. Vincent Granado Lucia Matalina Dominica Guadalupa and Aysey where the Natives paint themselves to keep off the Muskitoes wear their hair long cut their skins in diverse works worship the Devil and poison their arrows Boriquen or St. Johns Island is three hundred miles long and seventy broad traversed with a rough Mountain out of which flow many rivers Here the Spaniards have some Towns the chiefest is Porto Rico taken by the Earl of Cumberland Anno Christi 1597. from whence hee brought about eighty cast peices and much other wealth Mevis hath in it great store of wood and in a valley betwixt two hills there is a bath like unto ours in England There are in it store of Conies sundry kinds of Fowl and plenty of Fish some of our English under Captain Middleton Anno Christi 1606 passing through the woods came to a most pleasant Garden being one hundred paces square on every side and had many Cotton trees growing in it and many Guiacum trees about it were such goodly tall trees growing as if they had been planted by Art In the Islands of Margarita and Cubagua which are situate nigh unto the Golden Castile there is neither Corn Grass Trees nor water so that sometimes the people will give a tun of Wine for a tun of Water But they have abundance of precious stones hence called Margarites and the gems called Unions because they alwayes grow in couples Jamica described Jamica or the Island of St. James which was once very populous but now is almost destitute of Inhabitants the Spaniards having slain in this and a neighbouring Island called Boriquen above sixty thousand living souls so that the women used to kill their Children before they had given them life that they might not serve so cruel a Nation It s in length two hundred and fourscore mil●s and in breadth threescore and ten It s well watered and hath two Towns of note Oristana and Sevil Here the English have this last year planted themselves Jamica is very subject to Hurricanes which are such terrible Gusts of wind that nothing can resist them They ●urn up Trees overturn houses transport ships from Sea to Land and bring with them a most dreadful confusion they are most frequent in August September and October The natives are of quicker wits than in other Islands Cuba is three hundred miles long some say three hundred leagues and threescore and ten broad It s full of Forrests Rivers Lakes salt and fresh and mountains Here the people were prohibited the eating of Serpents as a dainty reserved for the higher powers The air is temperate the soil is fertil producing excellent brass but the gold is drossie it abounds with Ginger Mastick Cassia Aloes Cinamon Sugar Flesh Fish and Fowle The chief Cities being seated on the Northern shoar are St. J●go and Havana a safe rode for ships where the King of Spains Navie rides till they carry home their rich lading In this Isle of Cuba two things are admirable one a Valley trending between two hills for three leagues which produceth abundance of stones of a perfect round form like bullets The other a Fountain whence Bitumen or a pitchie substance floweth abundantly and is excellent to pitch ships In these Islands the Inhabitans have been wasted by the Mines of Hispaniola and Cuba to the number of twelve hundred thousand Bermudae were discovered by Sir Thomas Summers and thence called Summers Islands they are four hundred in number In the biggest is a Colony of English who found it fruitful and agreeable to their constitutions The commodities in these Islands are variety of Fish plenty of Swine Mulberries Silk-worms Palmitos Cedars Pearls and Amber-greese They have great variety of Fowle as big as Pidgions which lay speckled Eggs as big as Hens Eggs on the Sand. Another Fowle there is that lives in holes like Conie-holes Tortoises they have and in the belly of one of them they finde a bushel of Eggs very sweet One of them will serve fifty men at a meal Their winter is in December January and February yet not so sharp but then you may meet with young birds It s so invironed with Rocks that without knowledge a Boat of ten Tuns cannot bee brought in and yet within is safe harbour for the greatest ship Hispaniola which lamenteth her loss of three millions of her inhabitants murthered by the bloody Spaniards It s in compass one thousand and four hundred miles having a temperate air fertil soil rich Mines Amber and Sugar It excels Cuba in three things 1. In the fineness of gold 2. In the increase of Sugar one Sugar-Cane will here fill twenty sometimes thirty measures 3. The great fruitfulness of the soil the Corn yeelding an hundred fold The chief City is St. Domingo ransaked by Sir Francis Drake Anno Christi 1585. And lately attempted by our English but through miscarriages they lost their opportunity of taking it which made them go to Jamica Hispaniola seemeth to enjoy a perpetual spring the trees always flourishing and the Medows all the year cloathed in green It s in a manner equally divided by four great Rivers descending from high mountains whereof Junna runneth East Attibunicus West Nabiba South and Jache Northward Diverse of their Rivers after they have run a course of ninety miles are swallowed up of the earth On the top of an high Mountain is a lake three miles in compasse into which some Rivolets run without any apparent issue In one part of this Island is a Lake whose water is salt though it receive into it four great fresh rivers and twenty smaller It is thought to have some intercourse with the sea because some Sharks are found in it it is subject to stormes and tempests Another Lake there is that is partly salt partly fresh being twenty five miles long and eight broad These are in a large plain which is one hundred and twenty miles in length and between twenty five and twenty eight miles in breadth Another valley there is that is two hundred miles long and broader than the former and another of the same breadth but one hundred and eighty miles long One of the Provinces in Hispaniola called Magua is a plain compassed about with hills wherein are many thousand Rivers and Brooks whereof twelve are very great some thousands of them are enriched with gold Another Province is most barren and yet most rich with Mines From this Island the Spaniards used to bring yearly four or five thousand Duckats of gold This Island is much infested with flyes whose stinging