of Castles and Villages such abundance of People and with such Politique Government that she may compare with any The Soil is fruitful both in Corn and Wine it hath many Navigable Rivers stored with plenty of Fishes most excellent Fountains and hot Bathes Mines of Gold Silver Tin Copper Lead and Iron it hath very Learned Men skilful in all Sciences and Mechanick Arts The Religion is here very diverse for there being many free Provinces some are Papists some Protestants and of these again some Calvinists some Lutherans There are six Arch-Bishops and thirty four Bishops The Wars of Germany ushered in by the Comet or Blazing-Star in 1618 have had dire and prodigious effects first the Prince Elector Palatine undertaking the Crown of Bohemia was worsted at Prague and the King of Denmark seconding him was likewise brought very low by Count Tilly the Emperour's General and glad to accept of a Peace upon hard terms when in 1629 enters Gustâ—…vus Adolphus the King of Sweden whose victorious Armes conquered Tilly at the Battel of Leipsick and presently over-run all Germany defeated the Emperours next General Wallestein Duke of Freidland at Lutzen where notwithstanding he was killed his Army had the Day of whom it was said that Before Death in Death and after Death he was victorious At the Battel of Nordlingâ—…in the Fortune of the Swedes failed a great slaughter being made on them by the Imperial Army and so a Peace was afterwards patched and again interrupted till the solemn and general Pacification at Munster since which time the Princes and People have been in quiet The Prince Elector Palatine losing the one half of his Estate as forfeited to the Emperour who hath invested the Duke of Bavaria the Electors neerest kinsman in the upper Palatinate Denmark and Norway are very great Regions bordering southward upon Germany they extend toward the north to seventy one degrees and thirty minutes north Latitude towards the east they border upon Sweden and on the west and north-side they are invironed with the Sea they at this time are under the Government of one King who is Lord of Seland Greenland Hitland and Gothland These Kingdomes afford unto other Lands Oxen Barley Mault Stock-fish Tallow Sand Nuts Hides Goat-skins Masts Deals Oaken-boards Wood to burn Pitch Tarr Brimstone and the like their Religion is the Lutherans The chief Order of Knighthood in it is that of the Elephant their Badge a Collar powdered with Elephants towered supporting the Kings Arms and having at the end the Picture of the Virgin Mary The Arms of the Land are Quarterly Of three Lions passant Vert crowned of the first for the Kingdome of Denmark and two Gules a Lion rampant Or crowned and armed of the first in the Paws a Dansk hatchet Argent for the Kingdome of Norway there are two Arch-Bishops thirteen Bishops This King is allyed to the Crown of England Queen Ann Wife to King Iames being Aunt to this present King Frederick Twice in twenty years not to mention other Wars before hath this Crown been endangered by the Swedes but more neerly in 1657 and 8 when the King of Sweden Carolus Gustavus being drawn out of Poland to prevent the Dane then in Arms against him with strange success almost over-run his Countrey In a most hard Winter he passed his Arms and Canon over the Sea from the Continent unto the Island of Funen where he overthrew the Dane took Cronenburg Castle which Commanded the Sound and at last laid Seige to Copenhaguen the chief City of Denmark where attempting a Storm by night he was repulsed with the loss of three thousand Men and soon after the Hollanders with a Fleet in spight of his Navy and the said Castle entered and relieved the Town with Conceit whereof and a violent Feaver the said King not long after deceased and the Danes in gratitude and Honour of their King Frederick who had so bravely defended and stood by them consented to make that Kingdome hereditary as now it is established all the Estates having done Homage which before was onely Elective the Family of this King afore injoying onely the Crown of Norway by descent and inheritance This Prince suffered much for siding with the Dutch against the English in the late difference seizing there twenty of our Merchant-men on pretence of his Aunts Dower but was forced at last to make recompense for the dammages which the Dutch undertook for him Sweden is a great and mighty Kingdome bordering on the East upon Muscovia on the south upon the Baltick Sea and Denmark on the West upon Norway and on the North upon the Finmark and the Zurick Sea The Merchandises it selleth are Copper Iron Lead costly Furrs Buff and Ox-hides Goat-skins Tallow Pitch Barley Mault Hazel-nuts and such like things their Religion is Lutheran the Arms of the Kingdom Azure three Crowns Or It hath two Arch-Bishops eight Bishops It is a wonder and Men can scarce comprehend how this Nation is come to this greatness to make War in so many parts of Europe being to pass over the Sea or how they get so many Men in Arms the Dominions thereof being large but not populous so that there never came from thence sixty thousand Men. It was reported that many Women in Mens clothes supplyed their places and fought like Amazons The beginning of this upstart greatness was from Charles Duke of Sunderman who being Uncle to Sigismond King of Sweden by Descent and of Poland by Election upon his seating himself in that Kingdom and constituting his Uncle Vice-Roy of his Native Kingdome of Sweden he with the consent of the Senators assumes the Crown and maintaines it against his Nephew whereupon ensued divers Battels the Usurper wafting over his Swedes into Poland and beginning an offensive War when he dying his Son the Great Gustavus prosecuted it afresh till after various Successes a Truce was concluded on before the expiration of which he fell with that strange success into Germany before said After his death his Daughter Christina was Crowned and Reigned seventeen years when another occasion of War hapning they judging her not capable to mannage it procured her to renounce her right to the Crown and resign it to her kinsman Carolus Gustavus who with a powerfull Army invaded Poland prompted thereunto by Cardinal Mazarine and the Usurping Protector of England who by an Ambassador Mr. Whitlock projected that Invasion to keep the Arms of the House of Austria in suspence and attendance of the issue of that War which were raised to the assistance of the Spaniards then in War with both French and English Carolus Gustavus dying as aforesaid the Crown is placed on the head of his Son Charles a Child of five years old by his Wife the Daughter of the Duke of Holsteyn Of their late Conquests within these fourty years there remains to that Crown all Pomerania and the Arch-Bishoprick of Brâ—…men in Germany besides other less Provinces gained from the Dane and several Islands
of all the Provinces of the Kingdom of New-Galicia and the most Southerly It hath all sorts of Grain Herbs and Fruits of New-Spain and plenty of Kine Horses and Swine It is a wholesome good air and hath many silver mines the chief City and Head of the Kingdom is Guadalaira in twenty degrees The Province of Mechoacan lyeth between the Province of Mexico and the Kingdom of New-Galisia it hath in breadth by the coast of the South Sea fourscore leagues and threescore within land Here are many good Mines and it is a fruitful land and hath much Wheat Millet Coco all sorts of Spanish fruits Cotton-wool the rich drug of Choconeel store of Cattel and Fish and the Indians are industrious and given to labour the chief City is Mechoachan it stands in eighteen degrees fifteen minutes and forty and seven leagues from Mexico The Province of Mexico falleth between Mechoacan and Talasvalia it hath in length North and south one hundred and thirty leagues and in breadth eighteen Guaxcaca Province cometh to the Coast of the South Sea and it lyeth between Mexico and Gutamalia Province along the coast of the South Sea one hundred leagues Soconusco is the Westerliest Province of the Kingdom of Gutamalia it joyneth to the Province of Guaxcaca from whence it lieth on the Southeast thirty four Leagues and far into the Land It is plentiful of Wheat Coco Millet and Cattel The Province of Gutamalia is the head of the Kingdome of Gutamalia it joyneth to the Province of Soconusco and on the South Sea it stretcheth 70 leagues the Country is of a good temperature and plentiful of Cotton-Wool Wheat Millet and Cattel and other Seeds and fruits the Winds and Rains in October are very furious This Province hath abundance of Gold some Silver store of Balm and liquid Amber Copal Suchicopal excellent liquors and the Gumme animi with the Beasts that breed the Bezoar stone But the Volcans here are very noysome to those that lie near them for they often burst forth casting out fire-stones and ashes And here are more of those Volcans or fire-pits than in all India besides The Province of Chiapa is an inland Province it is Mediterrauean to Soconusco Mexico Tabasco and Verapas and in length forty leagues and something less in breadth It hath store of Wheat Millet and other Grain and Seeds much Cattel but few Sheep Verapas is also an inland Province of Gutamalia and is Mediterranean to Chiapa Youcatan Honduras and Gutamalia of thirty Leagues over it is a moist Country and it hath plenty of Millet and Wheat Cotton-Wool Coco and much of that sort of Fowls whose feathers make the rare coloured Indian pictures and this is a great Merchandise amongst them Panama hath a Council that hath for Jurisdiction no more then the Province of Panama and the election of the Governour of Veragua in regard they are appointed Principals of the Navigation for the dispatch of Peru and ordering the King of Spains Treasure which is yearly transported to Porto Belio over the straight of Darien and from thence to Spain It adjoyneth on Carthagena and Popian to the south-east and south-West The air at Panama is extream unwholsome and the place very sickly but it is mended and made durable by the Trade is brought in by the vast sums yearly brought there to carry to Spain of which the Inhabitants get part The Countrey of Carthegena lyeth on the north sea and is parted from the Province of Panama by the River of Darian from whence to the River Magdalen is fourscore leagues The Land is mountainous and hilly full of high trees this Region is fruitful in some places and in other some as Barren The Seed of England will grow but in few parts of this Countrey but here are many Cattel Horses and Swine The temperature of this Countrey is hot and very rainy neither is their Mines worked either of Gold or Silver but much rozen and liquors which they have from the Trees and Sanguis Draconis Granado THis Kingdome lyeth from the Sea adjoyning on the South part of Cartagena It is a very rich Countrey in Mines of Emralds Gold Steel and Copper store of Pastures with all sorts of Cattel Wheat Millet Fruits and Herbs The Indians are great Traders and able men of body ingenious in the Sciences of the Spaniards The Merchandise cometh up the River Magdalen on which this Land lyeth The Province of Sancta Martha lyeth between Cartagena and the River Hacha on the North sea It is a plentiful Country of Millet Potatoes much Gold Emralds and other rich Stones and Copper The Province of Venesiula lyeth on the north Sea parted from Sancta Martha by the River of Hacha on the east is the Province of Suava or New Andulesia as the Spaniards call it The Coasts of the Sea is near one hundred and thirty leagues of length In this Land are veins of Gold of more than two and twenty Caracts and a half It is plentiful of Wheat and other Seeds for there are two Harvests in a year It hath abundance of all kind of Cattel great and smal Cotton and Salsaparilla Guana This Region comprehendeth all the Land that lyeth between the Province of Venesiula and Brasill which beginneth at two degrees of South latitude this Land is more famous for report than for any certain knowledge of the riches thereof The Provinces of Plate take name from the River on which they lie the passage to them is up the said River but they are almost on the back of Brazil They are large and far wholsomer than Brazil plenty of Sugar Ginger Wine Wheat Millet all sorts of English Fruits store of Cattel Swine and Horses but no mines that are worked They are subjected by the Spaniards and united to the Council of Peru on the South Sea for nearness of lying to that Kingdome there is a common passage from these Provinces thither by land over the Mountains the most of the Land is indifferently inhabited The Coast of Chilia reacheth to twenty eight degrees of South latitude This Region is wholesome above all other in the Indies being of an excellent temperature as neither too hot nor too cold It is abundantly Rich in Gold and Silver Mines and all sorts of Cattel and Grain Fruits and excellent and pleasant Wine The Country men are strong and valiant beyond compare which the Spaniards know to their great cost for they could never totally subdue this Nation The bounds of this Council of Charcas stretcheth from Chilia to Peru It hath abundance of Cattel of all kinds great shag-haired Sheep bigger than Goats that carry great burthens on their backs store of Corn of all sorts Fruits and Wine much Gold and the greatest Mines of Silver in the World There are few Spanish Towns and but one but Port in regard the Spaniards get neat the Hill of Potosi to the City Imperial which lyeth in nineteen degrees of latitude far from the Sea and delivereth that
24. degrees and a half Yuemela is in 23. degrees and a half 15. Leagues in Length and North from Hispaniola lyeth Samana 7. Leagues each way Between which two former lyeth Yalaque of 10 Leagues in 22 degrees and a half There are also three small Islands that make a Triangle The Islands of Magaquana Quaqua Makre and Alreo in 20 degrees not now inhated and never but once sailed to by the English with losse too although they go round them yearly St. Christophers Mevis and Montserat and Antego This Island is of Ten Leagues in length and seated by English and French each having a Governour of their own Nation so peopled by both that Ground can hardly be obtained The two Nations are so mixed in their plantations that no secret design upon one another can long be kept so They make some Sugar in this Island some India and Cotton Wool but most Tobacco Mevis is 5. Leagues in length lying within a League of St. Christophers Here is the best Sugar of the Chariby Islands some Indico but little Cotton or Tobacco in 17 degrees lye Barbada and Redanda in the hands of the Cannibals Montserat is inhabited most part by Irish within 5 Leagues of the Redanda planted with Tobacco and some Indico Antego lyeth between 14 and 15 degrees It hath good Air and is planted by the English with Tobacco Indico Cotton-Wool and Sugar The other Chariby Ilands are Magelante Dominica Martinina Santa Luca Guarde-Lupa Todos Santes Deseada inhabited by Caniballs French and Spaniards and Barbadoes or Barbudoes Barbadoes This is a Lee-Iland the Wind usually blowing one way It lyeth in 13 degrees 30 minutes inhabited all with English and Negroes their Servants to such a number that it hath more people and Commerce than all the Ilands of the Indies Their Principal Commodity is Sugar of the worst sort Indico very good Cotton and little Tobacco They buy and sell here and scarce any where else in English Plantations with pieces of 8. ready money Here are store of Cattel but Horses are the most wanting by reason of their great Draught and Trade from place to place It is the worst place either to live in or to make a Voyage or Return For what is here is as well in the rest of the Ilands and much more plenty for here they have too many people and in those there is too few and Grain more then enough It s strength in men makes that they have no fortification yet perfect the reason that induced my Lord Willoughby of Parham sent thither Governour for the King in 1651 upon an attempt of Sir George Ayscoughs sent thither by the Paliament to reduce those Ilands to their subjection who had then declared for the Royal Interest and proclaimed his present Majesty to land some force upon the Iland to hearken to a Capitulation and agreement and render it to him upon honourable Terms This Plantation is now ready to be deserted unless some expedient can be found for Wood or other Fuell to boyle their Sugar divers having already transplanted themselves to Surynam Iaimaica This Iland oweth its name to Columbus who in his first discovery of this part of the World landed here and seized it for the use of the King of Spain being sent out by him at the instance of his Wife Isabella with 15. Ships whose Dysasters it will be too tedious to relate It will suffice to say that for all his great Services he was at last imprisoned in these Countries and sent home in Chains from which he was by the favour of the King released and himself afterwards honoured with the Title of Duke de la Vega a City in this Iland he himself had so named which City is now in being After our unfortunate Defeat at Hispaniola in 1656. where a strange Consternation had seized upon the Spirits of the whole Army none daring to shew their Faces to the Enemy but Major General Hayns and three or four more with him who honourably fell in Fight with that Negro and Devil-like Molatto for lack of Provisions which would not have lasted the whole Army in their resailing to Windward to Barbadoes it was resolved the Fleet should steer for Iamaica which was accordingly effected and upon Landing Proclamation made that it should be present death for any man to turn his back to the Enemy They landed without opposition and while they were marching up the Country the crafty Spaniard the old pocky Governour by a Treaty and Presents so delayed the Motion of the Army that they conveyed away their incredible wealth and riches into the woods and other Coverts before it was possible to overtake them He himself remaining as Hostage for the performance of some idle Articles So the English were peaceably at present possest of the Country But not long after came a reinforcement from the Island of Cuba adjacent thereto Divers Spaniards and Molatto's still keeping in the Woods and annoying the English and fortified themselves at Rio Novo where though they were strongly entrenched and twice more in number the Souldiers were so earnest to regain their lost Honour being taunted to their hearing by the Enemy with St. Domingo and undervalued for that Cowardwice that they fell on with incredible Fury and Resolution and forced their Trenches and made them accept of very hard Conditions to depart with their Skins The like they did to other Spaniards who landed about the same time near Poynt Pedro so that there is little danger or expectation of another invasion the Spaniard having such proof of our recovered valour though the Island if it were less fruitful is worth the fighting for though it should cost the Spaniard his best blood for it lyeth within his bowels and in the heart of his Trade For all the Treasure that his Plate Fleet brings home from Cartagena steers directly for St. Domingo in Hispaniola and from thence must pass by one of the ends of this Island to recover the Havana the common rendezvouz of the whole Armado before it returns home through the Gulf of Florida Nor is there any other way whereby to misse the Island of Iamaica because he cannot in any reasonable time turn up to the wind-ward of Hispaniola the which though he might with difficulty perform yet he would thereby lose the security of his united strength which at the Havana from all parts of the Bay of Mexico New Spain and the riches from Nombre de Dios and the South Seas accompany each other home from the said Havana and yet notwithstanding the private English Men of War snap up the Straglers as they lie crusing upon the Coast of Iamaica being fifty Leagues East and West and North and South twenty It is seated between the Tropicks in seventeen and 18 degrees of Northern Latitude and therefore twice every year subjected to the perpendicular Beams of the Sun but proving as happy to the Complexions and Constitutions of English men as Virginia New-England
hath three great Kingdomes The first and principal is the Kingdome of New-Spain The second is the Kingdome of Galisia The third the Kingdome of Gutemalia and the Province of Varagua that adjoyneth to the Straight of Darian and is properly of the Council of Panama The Kingdome of Spain hath in it a Viceroy and Council intituled the Viceroy of Mexico And within his Government the Province and Bishoprick of Mexico that of Tlascala Guaxaâ—…a Mechoachan Chiapa Yucatan and Panuco The Indians of this Kingdome are of two sorts the Chickamecans which are a sort of Rogues that live much after the manner of Toriges or ancient Irish by robbing and spoiling Passengers on the way Towns and Villages and the other live even as decently as the Spaniard and are of all Trades and Vocations as they are of sharp wits and of great agility of body as appeareth by their extraordinary feats of Activity on the Rope and tumblings This Kingdome is a high Country for the most part of it and for riches pleasantness and wholesomeness accounted one of the best in the world as lacking nothing naturally that is to be had excepting Wine and Oil which they might also have but that it is forbidden to plant Vineyards or Oliveyards by the King of Spain and it hath divers things not elsewhere to be had both of Trees Herbs and Drugs New-Galicia THis Kingdome of New Galicia hath no Viceroy but is governed by a Council whose bounds is parted from New Spain at the Port of Nativity on the South Sea to the North North-west and North-east It hath no bounds but may inlarge their Territories as they see occasion on the Indians It hath already these Provinces The first Guadalaica Xalisco Sacaticas Chiamerla Culiacan New-Biscai and Sivaloa And this Kingdome is not much inferiour to New Spain and it hath the same sort of Indians Gutamalia This Kingdome of Gutamalia is governed as the other by a Council without a Viceroy and is the Southwardliest Region of this North America and hath within its bounds the Provinces of Gutamalia from whence the Kingdome taketh name Soconusco Chiapa Suchiâ—…epoque Verapas Honduaras and Cacos Saint Saviour and Saint Michael Nievaraqua Chuluteca Taquesgalpa and Costarica or the rich Coast. The Indians here are more warlike than the rest and have more unwillingly submitted to the Spanish Yoke and therefore they have had almost continual wars the most of the Indians living till very lately after the manner of the Chickamecians though many of them are docible as the Indians of Mexico This is a rich wholsome Kingdome not inferiour to Galicia but rather exceeds it But when I come to each particular Province I shall name them as they adjoyn on the Coast of the Sea Panuco is a Province near adjoyning to Florida and parted from it by the River of Palms which lyeth in 28 degrees of North Latitude That part of it that lyeth next to Mexico is the best and hath the greatest plenty of Victuals with some gold the other side which is next Florida is poor and barren The next to Panuco on the Coast of the North Sea lyeth the Province of Talascalia or Losangels It hath abundance of Flax Wheat Sugar and Ginger diversity of herbs and fruits abundance of Cattel Hogs and Horses many silver mines 200 chief Indian Towns and at least 40 Monasteries of Friers Youcatan The North part of this Province adjoyneth to the South of Talascalia It is a peninsula and in compasse 150 Leagues The temperature is hot and moist it hath no Rivers but is full of good willows It is a woody country nor will it bear English grain neither hath it gold or other mineral The Province of Honduras adjoineth unto the South part of Youcatan this coast stretcheth along the north Sea as far as Nicaragua which is near 150 leagues It is a hilly Countrey plentiful of all sorts of Cattel and store of Wheat and Mines of Gold and Silver Nicaragua lyeth next to the South-side of Honduras it is a plentiful Countrey of Coco Cotten-Wool Millet Cattel and much gold It hath five Spanish Towns and abundance of peaceable Indians which are most expert in the Spanish tongue The Province of Costarica lyeth between Nickuragua and Caragua between which it hath 90 Leagues in length It is a good Land and very fruitful in Millet Wheat Flax and Sugar plenty of Mines both of Gold and Silver and it hath two Spanish Towns The Province of Varagua lyeth between Costarica and Panama adjoyning on the South part to the Straight of Dariana The northerliest is in eleven degrees it hath East and West 50 leagues and in breadth 25 and is washed as Costarica with the north and south seas It is a Mountainous Country full of bushes without Pasture or Cattel Wheat or Barley but it hath some Millet and is full of rich Mines of Gold The Indians are few and they be in continual wars with the Spaniards And at the end of this Varagua beginneth the southern America And therefore I shall return back to the other parts of this north America which is not yet discovered The Province of Cibloa is the most northerly Province that the Spaniards possess in America It hath but one Spanish Town Here are store of all sorts of our Cattel and the Ox of the Countrey which hath a bunch of Flesh on his back of the bignesse of a mans head and his hair is shaggy and long his horns smaller then our Kines horns but his body much bigger this is an Inland Province and lyeth from the Sea many Leagues The Province of New-Biskay lyeth on the south-west of Cibloa it hath store of Provision and Cattel and divers Mines of Silver It hath two fair Spanish Towns that is to say Sancta Barbola and the Baro of Saint Iohn with divers peaceable Indians It is an Inland Province but of much Commerce by reason of the silver Mines The Province of Chiamerla lyeth in more than two and twenty degrees of hight It is ten Leagues broad and something more in length it lyeth along the south Sea but hath no Ports of name The Province of Guliacan is the most northerly Province the Spaniards possesse on the Coast of the south Sea It lyeth west of Chiamerla there are much Cattel Seeds and Fruits of England Sacetas lyeth south-east from Biscay It is very wholesome in some parts of it and as sickly and unwholesome in other parts which causes that in some places there is much want and in other places as much plenty But to amend all defects there are in most places rich silver Mines The Province of Xalisco hath the City of Compostella near the south Sea in one and twenty degrees nineteen Minutes there is the Village of the Purification south-west from Gudalaria thirty leagues this land is hot and sickly but hath Mines of Gold and Silver good store of provisions and excellent Horses that are well bred for any service Guadalaira is the best
sailing towards the North about on thousand six hundred forty further than Guinny discovered divers Lands and passing on the South-side sailed about the East coast of New Guinny and so going on Westward he came to the Indies whence we may certainly gather that all the former descriptions and definitions of the Magellanick and unknown Lands are but mean abuses and certain devised Fables These Lands and Countries being subdued in the space of 60 years with much blood and hazard were settled as his Dominions in the year 1550 from which time they have continued without any remarkable alteration setting aside some private inroads of the English Dutch and French till the business of Iamaica which now threatens some danger to the vast and potent body of the Spanish Empire Brazil This Province beginneth where Guana endeth at two degrees of south latitude where there is a point called the Cape of Snakes from whence it lyeth along the Coast of the North-Sea to twenty five degrees and on the back-side west lyeth the Provinces of the River of Plate The air is the whole year through very hot the Winter which your Summer distinguished only with the rain that falleth at that season Here are many venemous Worms and great Serpents 't is plentiful of Pastures Cattel and Horses little Millet and no English grain wherefore their bread is Casabi or Potatoes which are in great plenty There are great shews of silver and gold but none gotten nor Mines certainly known The chief commodity is Sugar Cotton-wool Bombast and Brazil wood It hath near the Sea-coast about 20. Portugal Towns many Ingeniowes or Sugerworks the first Town of the Country is called Tamerico and five leagues to the south of that Farnambuck or Recif then All Saints a hundred leagues from Farnambuck in fourteen degrees forty minutes The Town of the Sure-haven in 16 degrees and a half the Holy-Ghost in 20. There is another Town on the River Generio in twenty three degrees near which they cut much Brasil-wood There are on the coast eight or ten Ports more principal than the rest which are the River Saint Dominick northeast of Farnambuck by the Cape of Saint Augustine which standeth in nine degrees The Island of Tamerico before rehearsed the River of Saint Francis in ten degrees and a half It is very great The Bay of All Saints is three leagues and thirteen up into the land The River of Trinidado and the River of Canamon in 13 degrees and a half and the River of the Virgins in 16 and Portesceurae in 17. The River of Parague in twenty near the Town of Sanctus Spiritus and in twenty three degrees Cold Cape beyond Saint Vincent This Province hath been in difference betwen the Portugeses and West-India Company of Holland and as the Dutch got great footing there without right so the Portugals since their falling from Spain have surprized them again and recovered them by the same slight they got the East-Indies from us but not with such vile murthers as they committed on the English This Reconquest of it by the Portugal from the Dutch was in 1654 the strong Fort of Recif which held out the last being delivered to them with the whole Land by certain Articles which contained the whole surrender for which the Dutch General there Sigismond Schop at his comming home into Holland was tried for his life but his Friends or the Justice of his Cause preserved him And thus now God enabling me I have finished the Description of the World and the four parts thereof and leave my endeavours herein to the judgement of the Reader The chiefest Cities of America with the Names of the Rivers IN the Northern part of America are Greenland East-land and Iceland in which are the Towns of Bearford and Scalbod In Canada or new France are the Towns of Quebec and Port-Royal some degrees more southerly are New-England the New-Low-countries Virginia the Isles of Bermudes and more southerly of them the Islands of Barbadoes and Saint Christophers In Virginia are the towns of Iames In New-England the towns of Plimmouth and Boston the Rivers in Canada that be most famous are the River of Canada or Saint Lawrence the River of Chesseapeac or Powatan Trinity and the River of May. The Cities in New-Mexico that are most remarkable are the End and the Granado In Hispaniola is the City of Domingo in Cubai the City called Havana In the Isle of Iamaica the City called Sevilla In the Island of Boriquenrie Puerto-Rico In Florida is Saint Augustino In Mexico or New-Spain are these great Cities Mexico Mechoacan or Wallodolid Saint Estevan Del Puerto Los-Angeles Antequera De la Vetoria Meroda Guadalaida Compostella Saint Sebastian Saint Miguel Gernada and Zacateca There are also Saint Iago De Guatimala Guevetulan Cividad Real Verapax Valadolid or Commagaiva Leoa de Nicaragua Cartago La Conception Porto ello and Panama The Rivers here most famous are North of New-Mexico Spiritu Sancto towards the east Spiritu Sancto towards the west Econdido Panuco Barania Zacatula and Desaguadero de Nicaragua In Terra Firma are the famous Cities of Cartagena Saint Martha Saint Fe de Bogatta Na Sa de los Remedios Veneznella O Cori Cordova Lannuenâ—… O Comana Manoa O el Dorado In Peru are these remarkable Cities Cali Popaian Saint Francisco de Quito Bacca Saint Iuan de las Selinas Lima O los Reyes Cusco Potosi la Plata Sancta Cruz de la Sierra Saint Iago de Chili and L' Imperiale The Rivers which are most famous in Terra Firma and in Peru the River Grand O de Darien the River Grand O de Santa Martha Paria Orinoque Essequebe and Desaguedero de Peru. In the south part of America is Terra Magellanica where is the City of Del Rey Felippe there are the Magellan Isles and Terra del Foco. In Brasil are these fifteen memorable Cities Para Maranhan Ciara Potenii Paraiba Tamaraca Olinda Seregippe Saint Salvador Los Isteos Porto Seguro Spiritu Sancto Sancte Sebastian Los Santos and Farnambuck The Rivers in Brasile are Orelane or des Amazones Maragnan O de Mirari Tabacourn the great River of Potengi the River Zoyal In Ria de plata are the Cities of Saint Iago del Festero Cordova de Tucuman L. Assumtion Cividad Real O Ontiveros The River here that is most famous is called Paraguay FINIS A Catalogue of some Plates Maps Pictures and Copy-books that are Printed and Sold by John Overton dwelling at the sign of the White Horse next door to Little Saint Bartholomews Gate in Little Brittain General Maps A Map of the World A most excellent Map of England Scotland and Ireland A Map of France A new Map of England adorned and beautified with the chief Cities and Towns thereof more exact than hitherto Maps of Shires Kent two sheets Essex Surrey Hartfordshire Norfolk Suffolk Staffordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire Leicestershire and Rutland in one Cheshire Lancashire Virginia Pictures of Men in Quarto The Picture of Oliver Cromwell Sir Tho. Overbury Cardinal Wolsey Sir Tho. Gresham D. of Buckingham Prince Princess of Orange Prince Rupert Prince Maurice E. of Salisbury Mr. Brightman Bish. Usher Dr. Eravius M. Shelton Gen. Lashly L. Say E. of Pembrook E. of Manchester Great Sheets The Pourtraictures of their most excellent Majesties King Charles 2d and Queen Katherine most excellently Graven to the life beyond all Draughts before in Imperial Paper The Pourtraictures of all the Royal Progeny Battel of Nazeby 2 sheets with observations Dunbar-battel in 2 sheets 4 Plates of signs or badges for Inns or Taverns 42. The City of London Gunpowder Treason and 88. The Arms of the Trades and Corporations of London 74. A Death Jerusalem 2 sheets Collonel Ludlow on Horseback X Commandments X Persecutions of Christians Orpheus Copy-Books Some late Copy-Books by Ed. Cocker with several Books of Flowers Beasts Birds Flies and Worms very delightful and useful to all Naturalists A Book of Flowers and Fishes with the same curiosity of Art Davis Copy-Book Billingsley in Quarto Billingsley in Octavo One published by P. S. 2d by Lewis Hews 2d called Hancocks 22. Plates And all other sorts of Copy-Books that are to be had in London Books for Draughts of Men Birds Beasts Flowers Fruits Flyes Fishes c. 1 Book of J. Fullers Drawings 15. plates 1 Book of Draughts of Mr. Hollars work and Mr. Vanderburghs 18 plates Flora 13 plates Beasts Birds c. 1 Book of Birds sitting on sprigs 16 plates 1 Book of Beasts 1 Book of branches 11 plates 1 Book of Flowers 12 Plates for Cheese trenchers Pictures in Sheets of their Excellencies Rob. E. Essex Tho. L. Fairfax Also O. Cromwell Divers Pictures of Mr. Payn Hollar Faythorn Pumbarp Gaywood and other Artists works And all other sorts of Maps Pictures Copy-books c. that are usually sold in black and white and in Colour Minerva and 7 liberal Arts. FINIS The Earth The Air. The Fruits