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A64730	Cosmography and geography in two parts, the first, containing the general and absolute part of cosmography and geography, being a translation from that eminent and much esteemed geographer Varenius : wherein are at large handled all such arts as are necessary to be understand for the true knowledge thereof : the second part, being a geographical description of all the world, taken from the notes and works of the famous Monsieur Sanson, late geographer to the French King : to which are added about an hundred cosmographical, geographical and hydrographical tables of several kingdoms and isles of the world, with their chief cities, seaports, bays, &c. drawn from the maps of the said Sanson : illustrated with maps.	Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667.; Blome, Richard, d. 1705.; Varenius, Bernhardus, 1622-1650. Geographia generalis. English.	1682 (1682)	Wing V103; ESTC R2087	1,110,349	935

and have some Towns It s chief places the chief of which is James Town commodiously seated on James River a neat Town and beautified with well built Brick Houses and here are kept the Courts of Judicature and Offices of publick concern for the Countrey Next to James Town may be reckoned Elizabeth a well built Town seated on the mouth of a River so called Also Dales-gift Wicocomoco Bermuda and others The Governour of this Country is sent over by his Majesty and the Country is governed by Laws agreeable with those of England and for the better observing the same the Country possessed by the English is divided into the Counties of Caroluck Charles Glocester Hartford Henrico James New Kent It s division into Counties Lancaster Middlesex Nansemund Lower Norfolk Northampton Northumberland Rapalianock Surrey Warwick Westmorland the Isle of Wight and York and in each of these Counties are held petty Courts every Month from which there may be Appeals to the Quarter Court at James Town As to the Natives which here Inhabite they are much of the nature of those already treated of so I shall omit them here Only say that it is the Habitation of divers sorts of Indians which have no dependance upon each other being of particular Tribes and having their peculiar King to govern them every Indian Town being the habitation of a King and these people do rather live at enmity than amity together It s scituation bounds CAROLINA a Colony not long since established by the English and is that part of Florida adjoyning to Virginia in the Latitude of 36 degrees and extendeth it self to that of 29 which makes it extream Southern bounds on the East it is washed with the Atlantick Ocean and on the West it hath that large tract of Land which runneth into the Pacifick Ocean It is a Country blest with a wholsom and temperate Air the heat in Summer nor the cold in Winter which is so much as to check the growth of Plants Trees c. the several fruits and plants having their distinct seasons being no waies troublesome to its Inhabitants but very agreeable to the English and being found thus healthful hath occasioned several persons to remove from the Bermudes to settle here who dwelling in so pure an Air durst not venture in any other Country Nor do those from the Bermudes only remove hither but from most of the American Plantations as well as from England it being esteemed by all one of the best Colonies that ever the English were Masters of for here is altogether Health Pleasure and Profit centered together which cannot be met with in so large a measure in any other part of the Indies This Country has first Inhabited by the English about the year 1660 and became a Proprietorship which his present Majesty King Charles the Second The Proprietors granted by Patent to the Right Noble George Duke of Albemarle the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon William Earl of Craven Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury John Lord Berkley Sir George Cartwright Sir Jo. Colleton and Sir William Berkley and to their Heirs and Successors and the said Lords Proprietors having by their Patent power to Establish a Government and make Laws for the better regulation thereof and the inviting of Inhabitants have formed a Model so well framed for the good and welfare of the Inhabitants that it is esteemed by all judicious persons without compare The Natives of Carolina according to the observation of one Ledener who made three several journeys from Virginia to Carolina about the Year 1670 for a discovery of those parts The Native Inhabitants and the nature and disposition of the Inhabitants are said to be of a ready wit and good understanding they instruct their Children in such things as relate to their Families and Country which is so preserved from Generation to Generation They worship one God as Creator of all things to whom their High Priest offers Sacrifice but believes he hath something else to do than to regard Humane affairs committing them to lesser Deities viz. to good and evil Spirits to whom their inferiour Priests make their devotion and Sacrifice They believe the transmigration of the soul and when any one dieth they interr with them provisions and Housholdstuff for the next World which they fancy to be beyond the Mountains and Indian Ocean In their Marriages they are very Superstitious for the generality they are of a good and honest meaning much addicted to mirth and dancing and above all are much prone to Honour and Valour which they place above all other vertues They are great favourers of the English living together in love and friendship and upon all occasions ready to contribute their assistance unto them The Country is by them divided into several Kingdoms and the people in the one keep no correspondence with those that border upon them often waging War against one another The Soil is rich and fertile and produceth excellent Fruits as Apricocks Peaches Grapes of which the English have made good Wine Olives of which good Oyl is made Wallnuts Apples Pears Plumbs Its Fruits Cherries Figgs Mulberries Strawberries Water-Mellons Marachocks Quinces and other Fruits known to us in Europe which for goodness are no wales inferiour to them and in the Southern part Oranges Limes Pomegranates and Pomecitrons and the earth is generally very apt to produce and bring to maturity Corn all sorts of Garden Herbs Roots c. Commodities The Commodities which this Country doth and may produce are Wines Oyls Silk Mulberry-trees growing wildly Cotton Indico Ginger Tobacco Masts for Shipping which for length streightness and bigness are the best in the World c. And it is believed that here may be made more Wines Oyls and Silk than England will vent Besides the Mulberry-trees here are Cedar Oak both white and red Its Trees Poplar Bay Ash Pine with divers others whose names are not yet known The Woods are well stored with Pheasants large Turkeys Partridges Fowls Turtle-Doves Pigeons great variety and plenty of small Birds also Deer Hares Conies c. The Country is well watered with Rivers which with the Sea sufficiently furnish the Inhabitants with excellent Fish and such common in Virginia here are great plenty of wild Fowl as Geese Cranes Herons Swans Curlews Heath Cocks Oxeys Brants Dotterels Widgeons Teal Duck and Mallard in an undestroyable quantity Here are at present two considerable Settlements viz. at Albemarle River in the North and at Ashley River in the middle of the Country which is likely to be the scale of Trade for the whole Country as being very commodiously seated for Shipping and in a healthful place In all these parts which we have passed under the name of CANADA the the people are very barbarous having neither Religion nor Learning Divers people have diversity of Languages they count their years by the course of the Sun their months by that of the Moon their

nor costly in their Apparels or Habitations they are very Religious and neglect not the Church yet as all People they are inclined to Venery Contentions and Strifes they are not much addicted unto living in Amity together and for Recreation they are so much addicted to the musick of the Violin that there is scarce any Family but is provided therewith The Government As to the Government for Spiritual Affairs it hath a Bishop who at present is the Right Reverend Dr. Henry Bridgman and is called Lord Bishop of Sodore and for Temporal Affairs a Lieutenant or Governour with two Deemsters or Judges a Controller a Clerk of the Rolls a Receiver a Water-Bailiff an Attorney-General and other Officers And to their further assistance as occasion requireth for the deciding of Controversies c. are usually called the 24 Keys of the Isle especially once every year to wit upon Midsomer-day at St. Johns Chapel to the Tinewild-Court where upon a Hill adjoyning to the said Chapel the Inhabitants of the Isle being there assembled hear the Laws and Ordinances agreed upon before in the Chapel which is performed with no small ceremony and pomp especially if the Lord of the Isle be present who is seated on a Chair of State with a Canopy over his head and attended by his Barons viz. the Bishop the Deemsters the Gentry and the Yeomanry The present Lord of the Isle who is called King in Man is the Right Honourable Charles Stanley Earl of Darby Baron Strange of Knocking and Mohan c. a Dignity hereditary to him and his Heirs Good Orders observed in their Law The Inhabitants have a great happiness above those of England in that they are freed from necessary and chargeable Suits and heavy Fees of the Lawyers for here no Judge or Clerks take any thing for drawing up Orders or making up Processes all Controversies being ended by the Deemsters without Writings or matter of Charge and for the deciding the same they have their several Courts kept at certain times of the year for the Inhabitants of such a sheading or division of the Isle where they have particular Officers which do observe good Rules and Orders The People do here observe two very good Customs the one in not permitting the Poor to get their living by Begging and the other that when the Women go abroad they begirt themselves with their Winding-sheet to put them in mind of their Mortality This Isle is severed into two parts viz. South and North whereof the Inhabitants of the one have affinity with the Scots and the other with the Irish And in these parts are numbred 17 Parishes and many Villages is desended by two Castles and for intercourse of Traffick hath five Market-Towns It s chief places are It s chief places Douglas Douglas the best Peopled Town and of the greatest resort by reason of its commodious Haven unto which the French and others come to Traffick with them for their Commodities as aforesaid and for the security of the Harbour here is a Block-house Russin Russin or Castle-Town where within a small Isle Pope Gregory the Fourteenth instituted an Episcopal See It is fortified with a strong Castle but of no great importance as to the security of the place by reason of its distance from the rocky and shallow Harbour Laxi-Town Laxi-Town seated on a Bay so called Ramsey Ramsey scituate on the Sea where it hath a Haven which for defence hath some Guns mounted thereon Peel Peel or Peel-Castle seated in St. Patricks-Isle a place of great strength towards the Sea and defended by a Castle being a Market-Town as are the former Amongst its other places are these following Balacuri honoured with the Palace of the Bishop Kirh-Androw Kirk-Patriark Kirk-Balalough Kirk-Mighill Kirk-Lennon Kirk-Brodon Kirk-Santon and Kirk-Christ The Isle of Jersey described JERSEY seated near the Coast of Normandy in France and opposite to Hantshire in England of which it is a part it is a place of good strength as well by Nature as Art as being fenced about with Shelves and Rocks and defended by several Castlos It is an Isle of a fertil Soil and the more by reason of their rich manuring it bearing good crops of Corn and other Grain and breeding store of Cattle especially good Flocks of Sheep whose Wool is fine of which they make Jersey-Stockings in great plenty It is ill clothed with Wood instead of which they use for Fuel a kind of Sea-weed which they call Vraic which plentifully groweth on the Rocks and in the craggy Islands and this being dried they burn and with the Ashes they manure the Land Nor are they permitted to gather it but in the Spring and Summer-season and then upon certain days according to the appointment of the Magistrates It s extent This Isle containeth in length from Mount-Orguil-Castle in the East to Sentwon-pool in the West about 10 miles and in breadth from Dubon-point in the South to Plymouth-Bay in the North about 6 and in circumference about 38 miles It s Air and temperature It is blest with a sweet temperate and wholsom Air not being subject to any disease except Agues in September It is well watered with fresh Streams and hath great plenty of Fruit and the Inhabitants who are much of the nature of the French in their Language Manners c. live very happily enjoy the fruits of their labour addicting themselves to Fishing but principally to the Manufacture of Stockings which finds good vent in England and elsewhere The Government of this Isle is as followeth Government viz. a Governour or Captain is sent over by the King of England who appointed Sub-Officers as a Bailiff who together with twelve Jurates or sworn Assistants which are elected our of the 12 Parishes by the choice of the Inhabitants sit and administer Justice in Civil Causes but in Criminal matters he sitteth with seven of them and in Causes of Conscience which are to be decided by reason and equity with only three This Isle is every where furnished with commodious Creeks and Havens and is garnished with twelve Parishes besides several Villages It s chief places It s chief places are St. Hillares so called from St. Hillary Bishop of Poictiers St. Hillares who was hither banished and here interr'd a Town seated on the Sea-shoar nigh unto which is a small Isle so called which is fortified with a Garrison and this Town is the principal in the Isle for its Market Commerce plenty of Inhabitants and for being the place where the Courts of Judicature are kept St. Albans seated not far from the Sea where it hath a a Haven St. Albans as also a small Isle so called St. Clement seated on an Arm of the Sea St. Clements not far from which is the Castle of Mount-Orguil seated on a steep Rock on the Eastern-shoar Mount-Orguil nigh unto which is a place called the Rock and

Zeila is well frequented by Merchants nigh to a lofty Promontory which they call Mount Fellez And the last is seated near the Cape of Guardafuy The People inhabiting on the Sea Coasts are descended from the Arabs and of the Mahometan Religion but those towards the Inland Countries of the old Aethiopick Race and wholly Gentiles The Coast of Abex with its chief places and Isles The Coast of ABEX hath for its principal places Aquico of old Magnum Littus Maczuma Isle Macaria Insula and Suaquem Ptolomais Ferarum The Turk hath a Bassa at Suaquem and some say another at Maczuma or Aquico Suaquem is in the midst of the Coast of Africa which lies on the Red Sea or Arabian Gulph distant from Sues in Egypt which ends this Gulph 250 and odd Leagues and from Babel-Mandel which begins it 260 or little more So the Authority of this Bassa exten●● almost quite over this Sea The Isle of Maczuma hath good Pastures feeds much Cattle Aquico is almost opposite to Maczuma and both have commodious Havens It s other chief places are Canfila Daffila Emacen Barba Zama Corberia and Carna About this Coast of Abex are several other Isles as Bahia de Cabras Suaquem Mire Meger Ballaccia Maczua St. Peitre with several others not worth the naming All this Coast of Abex hath been under the Government of Bernagasso in Abyssin and belonged not to the Turk till within this hundred years A Country dry untilled but of some Trade the People fierce retaining much of their ancient Barbarism They Fish Coral near the Isle of Suaquem and Aquico they frequently pass from Suaquem to Ziden in Arabia which serves for a Port to Mecca and is about 100 Leagues over This is the Traject which the Arab of Nubia describes between Adhab and Giodda which answer to Suaqnem and Ziden The Empire of the ABYSSINS or the LOWER AETHIOPIA with its Empires Kingdoms Land c. which may be divided into or comprehended under three Parts or Heads and then The First shall contain The Kingdom of CONGO with its Kingdoms or Provinces of LOANGA Loango Sette Majumba Quanvi Quiloogo Sellaga Kaye Katte PANGO Pango Cundi Funquenes Angote Chicaco de Lula SUNDA Sunda Betequa Quincasso SONGO Sonho Bommo Matinga Cascais Melemba Calinde Palmarinho Mombalas Quivala BAMBA Bamba Mussula Lengo Loanda St. Pavo Fort Mols Motole Bengo Azele PEMBA St. Salvador Pemba Tinda Simba Lemba BATTA Batta Agisimba Gongou ANGOLA Engaze Maisirgan Benguela Quicongo Manikimsombo Manikilondo Gunze Mapongo Embacca GIAQUES Zaire Dagar Elifie MALEMBA Meri Debsan The Second shall contain The Empire of MONOMOTAPA with its Kingdoms or Parts of SUTUA Batua Carma Zet Dobdel Augesa Calburas Bafat Quiticui Degme Hagala Giera Amara Matagasi Bera Armeta Gallica MONOMOTAPA particularly so called Monomotapa Zuggi Tialso Zimbro Jouros Garma Mosata Vigiri Magna The Empire of MONOEMUGI wherein are some Kingdoms whose chief places are Agag Astagoa Leuma Camur Beif Bagametro Zembre The Third shall contain The Land and Coast of CAFRES which encompasseth the Empire of MONOMOTAPA with its Parts of MATAMAN Angra dos Negros Cabo Negro Doileus portus Coast of CAFRES particularly so called Cape St. Anthony Cape St. Lucia St. Martins-Bay Cape of Good Hope Carascalis Portus Biscarius Portus St. Nicholai CHICANGA Zimbaos QUITEVA Deje Cuama ZEFALAN Zefalan THE EMPIRE OF THE ABYSSINS Or THE Lower Aethiopia The Lower Aethiopia and the Power and Riches of its Emperours THE Empire of the ABYSSINS Heylin makes to be the Dominions or Empire of Prester John and saith That he is of such great force that he is able to bring into the Field upon a sudden occasion a Million of Fighting Men and of his Wealth and Riches many speak wonders some saying he is able to purchase half of all the World if it were to be sold Others make it not so great but say that besides his necessary expences in the management of State Affairs the payment of his Army the pomp in his Court c. he lays up yearly in his Treasury Three Millions of Crowns But without doubt his Revenue and Force is great for it is said That he himself proffered the Portugals a Million of Money and another of Men if they would employ them in a War against the Infidels The Government of this Emperour is absolutely Tyrannical the People being used more like Slaves than Subjects treating them as he pleases as well to their lives as Estates giving Honours to whom he pleases which upon any slight occasion he taketh away again He is held in such great reverence among all his Subjects as well Rich as Poor that at his name they bow their Bodies and touch the ground with one of their fingers and reverence his Pavilion as they pass by it though he is not in it And to keep up this Reverence which he holds due to him he seldom shews himself to his Subjects and then not without his Crown on his head a Silver Crucifix in his hand and his Face covered with a Veil of Taffety which according as he is pleased to grace the person he talketh with he lifteth up and putteth down to shew him his Face His Titles The Title of this Great and Mighty Emperour I shall borrow from Heylin who thus hath it N. N. Supream of his Kingdoms and the beloved of God the Pillar of Faith sprung from the Stock of Judah the Son of David the Son of Solomon the Son of the Colomn of Sion the Son of the Seed of Jacob the Son of the Hand of Mary the Son of Nahu after the Flesh the Son of St. Peter and Paul after the Spirit Emperour of the Higher and Lower Aethiopia and of the most Mighty Kingdoms Dominions and Countries of Xoa Goa Caffares Fatigar Angotae Balignazo Adea Vangne Goyame where the Fountains of Nile Amara Banguamedron Ambea Vagucum Tigremean Sabaim the Birth-place of the Queen of Sheba Bernagassum and Lord of all the Regions unto the confines of Egypt They prosess the Christian Religion Their Religion which was first made known unto them by the Eunuch of Queen Candace who was baptized by Philip the Evangelist and more generally received by the Preaching of St. Matthew the Apostle Since which they have much swerved from the purity of the true Religion by their many corrupt Opinions which are crept in amongst them as they use Circumcision both to their Males and Females when they are Children and they Baptize their Males 40 days and their Females 80 days after Circumcision That Infants dying unbaptized are sanctified by the Womb by vertue of the Eucharist which the Mother receives after her Conception They administer the Eucharist to Infants presently after they are Baptized They Baptize themselves in Pouds and Lakes every Epiphany-day as supposing that to be the day that John Baptized Christ in Jordan They hold that the reasonable Soul of Man is derived from their First Parents by Seminal Propagation They acknowledge but one Nature and

one Will in Christ After the receiving of the Sacrament they hold it unfitting to Spit until Sun-fet Those Beasts which in the Old Law are held unclean are so esteemed with them They keep their Sabbath-day on Saturdays they allow their Priests no yearly means or slipends neither do they suffer them to beg but they are forced to get their livelyhoods by the sweat of their brows and labour of their hands They accept only of the three first General Councils They have moreover a Book which is writ in eight Volumes and as they say by the Apostles assembled at Jerusalem for that purpose the Contents thereof they most strictly keep We have divided AETHIOPIA into the Higher and Lower esteemed the Higher that which is towards the North and the East the Lower that which is towards the South and West We have succinctly discoursed of the Parts of the Higher proceed we now to the Lower Lower Aethiopia its extent and bounds This Lower AETHIOPIA extends it self from the River of the Camaronts where the bottom of the Gulph of St. Thomas is and so turning about the Capes of Negro Bona Esperanza and Des Carientes into the River of Cuama which bounds it from Zanguebar part of the Higher Aethiopia as the other doth from the Kingdom of Benim part of Guiny which is in Libya Interior We have like wise subdivided this Lower Aethiopia into three parts It s division and parts viz. into Congo Monomotapa and the Country of the Cafres We may yet subdivide these three Parts each into two others which will make six The first shall be what is between Guiny and Congo the second Monomotapa and Mona-Emugi and the last the Land of Cafres on this side and Westward and the Land of Cafres beyond and Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope Between Guiny and the Kingdom of Congo there are divers Kingdoms and divers People The Ambosins and Camarones are on the Sea then the Kingdoms of the Capones the Country of Angra the three Kingdoms of Cacombo Gabom and Pongo of which this last is most powerful Among these Estates are the Capes of Lopo Gonsalves up in the Land are the Kingdoms of Biafra Medra Dauma c. The Land of AMBOSINS and CAMARONES are near the River of Camarones a Country very fertil The Lands of Capones and Angra are pleasant because of the many fresh Streams which water them The first are poor the Capones are malicious those of Angra addicted to Arms. The Estates or Kingdoms which are about the Cape of Gonsalves It s People have their People of the same Tongue the same Religion who are Idolaters and the same Manners and their Kings and Lords are in peace and in good intelligence with one another Those nearest the Sea are the most courteous and civil by reason of the confluence of Strangers and when they trade with those of Europe they white their Faces with Chalk their beautiful Garments are made of Mats tissued with the Rind of certain Trees and properly accommodated Those of Biafra more advanced in Land are very barbarous addicting themselves to Witcherafts and sometimes sacrificing their Children to Devils Those of Medra Dauma and some others further off are almost quite unknown and possibly not worth regard The Portugals traded here alone a long time and possessed several Parts on this Coast within few years the Hollanders have taken divers places from them some of which they have since retaken The Kingdom of CONGO Kingdom of Congo with its Parts or Kingdoms described BEyond the Equinoctial Line and unto Cape Negro lies the Kingdom of CONGO under the name of which we comprehend many others which have been Subjects Tributaries or Allies to the King of Congo as are the Kingdoms of Loanga and the Anziquaines to the North of Cacongo and the People Gallas or Giaquas to the East of Angola Malemba Mataman and others to the South Kingdom of Loanga described The Kingdom of LOANGA hath its principal City of the same name others say Banza Loango or simply Banza it is seated on the Sea as is Quilongo Quanvi and Majumba It comprehends six Provinces and is throughout indifferent fertil in Grains affords excellent Fruits Wine of Palms breeds many Cattle and all things necessary for life is found here it is well stored with Elephants having more than any other Country in these parts they have quantity of Ivory but have neither Gold nor Silver The Country is very hot by reason of its lying under the Line but indifferent healthful and well peopled Their King once subject writes himself now but Ally to the King of Congo and is called Mani-Loango and the Governours of the six Provinces likewise Mani that is Lord of such or such a Province Their Subjects are all Bramas who by Religion are Heathens Kingdom of Congo and its Provinces The Kingdom of CONGO may be said to be the fairest of the Lower Aethiopia though those of the Monomotapa and Mono-Emugi have more extent yet hath he alwaies been esteemed the most Polite hath had all his neighbours Subjects and the most part yet his Allies It may have in length 200 Leagues and about 120 on the Coast It is subdivided into six great Provinces to wit Bamba Songo Sunda Pango Batta and Pemba which together hath 30 or 40000 little Towns Songo Sunda and Pango lies upon and mounting from the Sea up the River Zaire Bamba Pemba and Batta are towards the River of Coanza and the Lake of Aquilonda these three last making the most Southern parts the three other the most Northern of the Kingdom and all take their names from the principal places where the Governours of the Provinces reside The Country of BAMBA is well stored with Beasts and Birds Bamba both tame and wild well watered with Rivers hath Mines of Silver and its People exceeding strong It s chief places are Bamba on the River Loze Motole on the River Dorati Bengo also Pavo Lengo and Mussulo on the Sea SONGO lies on both sides the River Zaire Songo which sends forth many turbulent Streams and hath so many Islands that one part of it hath very little to do with the other its chief places are Sonho nigh to Cape de Pedro and on a branch of the Zaire also Bommo Matinga Cabinde Malemba and Cascais which three last are on the Sea SVNDA is indifferent fertil Sunda hath several rich Mines of Metals among the rest the Inhabitants set the greatest esteem upon Iron by reason that of it they make their Materials for War it is parted by the Zaire This Country furnishes forreign Merchants with several rich Furs as Sables Martrons c. It s several chief places are Sunda Betequa Iri and Quincasso PANGO is but barren Pango its Inhabitants barbarous but strong in Arms It s chief places are Pango Cundi-Funquenes and Angote and this Country is watered with the River Zaire BATTA is