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A59140	A new systeme of geography, designed in a most plain and easy method for the better understanding of that science accommodated with new mapps of all the countreys, regions, empires, monarchis, kingdoms, principalities, dukedoms, marquesates, dominions, estates, republiques, Soveraignties, governments seignories, provinces, and countreys in the whole world with geographical tables, explaining the divisions in each mapp / John Seller ...	Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.	1685 (1685)	Wing S2477; ESTC R3904	48,442	207

Lima 4. Cusco and 5. Arica of which we have no other Relation than what the Spaniards reports Of Brasil THough it lies under the Torrid Zone nevertheless the Air is Temperate and Fertile The Commodities besides Brasil are Amber Balsom Tobacco Train-Oyl Cattle of divers sorts Sweet-Meats and Sugar in abundance It is divided into several Capitanies as 1. Siara 2. Saltan 3. Para 4. Paraiba 5. Pernambuco 6. St. Salvador 7. Ilheos 8. Porto Segaro 9. Spirito Sancto 10. St. Sebastian and 11. St. Vincent Of Amazones AMazones or Guiana hath its Name from a River so called the Air is Healthful the Soil is good in some places for Tillage of Maniac Cotten Sugar Tobacco Gums Wood. Stones of divers sorts Parrots and Monkeys Places of most Note are 1. Coropa and 2. Villago Dor but very little known to us by reason that the Spaniards suffer none besides their own Nation to come into the Countrey but kill all strangers they find Of Terra Firma OR Castill del Ore the latter given by the Castilians the chief places are 1. Panama 2. Cartagena 3. St. Fed Bagota 4. Venezuola 5. Surranam and 6. Manoa The Air is very unhealthful the Commodities divers as Balsom Rosin Gums Long Pepper Dragons Blood Stones of divers sorts and Gold They have several sorts of Beasts as the Viuves or Rams c. which you may find in Helyns Cosmography The chief Rivers in this Southern America are 1. Oronoque which overfloweth once a Year as doth the Nilus 2 Amazones the greatest and swiftest in all America 3. St. Francisco 4. Paraguay or Plata 5. Vraguay Of the Islands of AMERICA Of the Caribbees BEtween South and North America li●s several Islands the first are the Carribee or Cannibal Islands which are several small Islands which lie extended from the Coast of Paria to the Isle Porto Rico the chief are 1. Granada 2. St. Vincent 3. Dominica 4. Barbados 5 Antego 6. St. Christophers 7. Nevis 8. Monserat c. The Air good considering how they lie the chief Commodities being Sugar Cotten Ginger and Tobacco Inhabited by several Nations Of the Lucaie Islands SO called from Lucaien the Name of the biggest of little Note unless for a Fountain which is said to Renew Youth again and for their handsome Women of which they are reported to have great store Of Porto Rico. THe Air is very Temperate and pleasant the Soil indifferent Fertile the Commodities Sugar Ginger and Cassia Of Barmudas IT is an Isle of a good Temperature the Soil Fertile and Good yielding Two Crops a Year having excellent Fruits the Commodties are Sugar Oranges Cochaneel and Tobacco and some Cotten also they have but no great store It is subject to the Crown of England Of Jamaica THe Soil Rich and Fat the Trees and Plants being always green and pleasant the Air more temperate than any of the other Isles The Commodities besides Sugar Cotten Indico and Tobacco are divers and plenty they have Cattle Fowl Fish and Fruits of divers sorts It is subject to the King of England Of Cuba THe Air is temperate and good the Soil fertile the Commodities are Ginger Cassia Mastich Aloes Cinamon and Sugar also Gold but somewhat drossy Of Hispaniola THis is much like Cuba saving that the Gold is more pure without Dross It is subject to the King of Spain somewhat Hot and Unhealthful much subject to Thunder and Lightning by reason of its situation so near the Equinoctial CHAP. III. Of North America in Particular Of New Miexico IT is a Province little known to the Europians the Inhabitants being divers in Language Manners and Customs It is divided into New Mexico Arian Quiviria and Libola Of Mexico or New Spain A Countrey enriched with innumerable Mines of Gold and Silver The Air temperate the Soil fertile and good The chief Towns are 1. Mexico 2. Guatamala 3. Truxillo 4. Acupulco 5. Panaco The Commodities besides Gold and Silver are Copper Iron also Wool Silk Sugar and divers Medicinal Drugs They have also several other Commodities which are too long to insert in this place It is fully subject to the Spaniard Of Florida IT is a place of very good Temperature the Soil very Fertile full of Fruit Trees the Towns well peopled yet the Coast is very inconvenient for great Vessels by reason of the Shallowness of the Water Places of most Note are St. Martha and Cofa Of Carolina IT is a Countrey blest with an excellent Temperature of Air the Soil Rich and Fertile producing excellent Fruits the Earth also apt to bring to Maturity Corn all sorts of Garden Herbs and Roots The Commodities are Wines Oyls Silk Cotten Indico Ginger and Tobacco plenty of Fish Fowl and Cattle the chief Town is Charles Town Governed by one at the Appointment of the Proprietors Of Virginia THe Air of this place is sufficiently pleasant the Soil exceeding Fertil it produceth all sorts o● Grain and Pulse divers sorts of Garden Herbs and Roots Silk Worms also which make good Silk the Commodities divers but the chief is Tobacco The place of most Note is James Town Governed by one Deputed by the King of England Of Pensilvania IT is a place not yet well Planted but may be in time the Soil and Air being fit for the Nature of an Englishman Granted by Patent from his late Majesty King Charles the Second unto William Penn Esq and his Heirs for ever and therefore caled Pensilvania Of Mary-land HAving given you so full an account of Virginia I need say little more only that the general way of Commerce in both places being by interchanging one Commodity for another and that which setteth a Price upon all other is Tobacco there being such abundance of this Imported into England that the King hath 60000 l. per Annum for Excise and Custom The chief Town is Baltamore Of New Jersey FOr Temperature of Air and Fertility there hath been enough said already in Virginia and mary-Mary-land this place partaking of all the Properties and Advantages of them both Of New York A Colony so called from his Royal Highness the Duke of York our present King A Countrey sound to produce the same Birds Beasts Fishes and Fruits with New England being Rich and Fertile The chief Town James Town Of New England IT is a vast Tract of Land healthfully seated the Soil exceeding Fertile for it yields Wheat Rye Pease Beans Barley Cats Indian Corn Flax Hemp and all sorts of English Herbs It hath plenty of Cattle of divers sorts Fish Fowl and good Cyder It excels with good Cellarage to preserve all which is not common in Virginia the chief Commodities are Furs Flax Amber Iron Pitch Tar Masts and Timber to Build Ships Their Metropolis is Boston well seated and adorned with fair and beautiful Houses and well peopled Of New Scotland New France Canada THree Places full of Stags Bears Martens Hares Foxes and store of Conies Fowl and Fish not over Fertile The chief places are Port Royal in New