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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

the Helm of State have precedency as the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper Lord President of his Majesties Council Lord Privy Seal Lord high Chamberlain the Earl Marshal the Lord Chamberlain the Master of the Horse c. Precedency may be thus observed the King who is the fountain of Honour the Prince of England who is eldest Son to the King and is born Duke of Cornwal and about the age of 17 years is usually created Prince of Wales Princes of the Blood Royal who are the Sons Brothers Uncles and Nephews of the King The Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper the Archbishop of York Lord Treasurer of England Lord President of the Privy Council Lord Privy Seal Dukes Marquesses Dukes eldest Sons Earls Marquesses eldest Sons Dukes younger Sons Viscounts Earls eldest Sons Marquesses younger Sons Bishops Barons Viscounts eldest Sons Earls younger Sons Barons eldest Sons Privy Counsellors that are not Noblemen Judges Viscounts younger Sons Barons younger Sons Knights of the Garter if not otherwise dignified as is rarely found Knights Bannerets Baronets Knights of the Bath Knights Batchelors Colonels Sergeants at Law Masters of Chancery and Doctors and Esquires and those may be comprehended under five several heads 1. Esquires unto the Kings Body 2. the descendants by the Male-line from a Peer of the Realm 3. the eldest Sons of Knights of the Garter Baronets Knights of the Bath and Knights Batchelors 4. the two Esquires attending on the Knights of the Bath at their Knighting and 5. Officiary Esquires as Justices of the Peace Barresters at Law Lieutenant Colonels Majors and Captains and lastly Gentlemen At a Marshal Court held at White-Hall the 18th of March An. Dom. 1615. it was declared and concluded on that there are two degrees that establish and settle the Title of an Esquire by birth the one the younger Sons of Peers of the Realm which do invest into the Heirs-males descended from them the Name and Title of Esquires the other the lineal Heir-male of a Knights House and these may justly assume and challenge the Title of Esquire by birth so that in all reason the younger Sons of Peers are more worthy than Knights so the setling of a Title proceeding from them is more worthy and eminent than that derived from Knights The Dominions of England The Dominions of the King of England are very large for besides that of England Scotland and Ireland there are divers small Isles scituate nigh unto them and do belong to one or the other as the Isles of ORKNEY or ORCADES in number 32 seated against the North-cape of Scotland The Isles of SHETLAND also under the Scotish Dominions the HEBRIDES in number 44 seated Westwards of Scotland the SORLINGS seated in the Westrn-cape of Cornwall the SPORADES being several Isles dispersed about the British Seas amongst which these following are the chief MAN scituate between England Scotland and Ireland JERSEY and GARNSEY on the French Coast WIGHT part of Hantshire PORTLAND part of Dorsetshire STEEPHOLMS and FLATHOM in Somerfetshire AIBBRE in Cheshire DENNY in Monmouthshire CODLEY in Pembrokeshire ANGLESEY which is one of the Welsh Counties SHEPPEY in Kent NORTHEY OSEY and HORSEY in Essex FERNE COCKET and HOLY Isle in Northumberland with several other small Isles not worth the naming as indeed many of these are Then in Africa as TANGIER GVINEY c. In the East Indies several places though belonging to the East India Company of London and in America large Dominions as NEW ENGLAND NEW YORK MARYLAND VIRGINIA CAROLINA all which are on the Continent also divers Isles some of which are very considerable as JAMAICA BARBADOS BERMVDOS ANTEGO NEW FOVNDLAND c. all which shall be treated of as they come in order but first of the English Counties County of Barkshire described BARKSHIRE well clothed with Wood and watered with Rivers is blest with a sweet Air hath a rich Soil fit both for Corn and Pasturage especially in the Vale of Whitehorse and generally the whole County for profit and pleasure yieldeth to few Shires in England The principal Commodity that this Shire produceth is Cloth which finds great vent and amongst the Rivers that water the County the Isis the Oke and the Kenet which affords excellent Trouts are the chief It is severed into 20 Hundreds in which are 140 Parishes and hath 12 Market Towns Reading Reading pleasantly seated near the Thames and on the Kenet which is navigable for Barges to London which adds much to its Trade which is considerable especially for Cloth and Mault 't is a large Town containing three Parish Churches is beautified with well built Houses hath fair Streets is well inhabited and hath a very considerable Market for Grains Malt Hops and most Country commodities on Saturdays 'T is a Town Corporate governed by a Major 12 Aldermen and as many Burgesses with sub-Officers enjoyeth several Immunities and sendeth Burgesses to Parliament 'T was formerly beautified with a fair and rich Monastery and a strong Castle built by King Henry the First where in the Collegiate Church of the Abby himself and Queen with Maud their Daughter were interr'd both which now lie in their ruins New Windsor Windsor pleasantly seated near the banks of the Thames and adjoyning to a Park and Forest well stored with Game 't is a fair large well frequented and inhabited Town Corporate governed by a Major and other sub-Officers sendeth Burgesses to Parliament and hath a very good Market for Provisions on Saturdays This Town is of great note for its stately Castle and Royal Palace of his Majesty seated on a great eminency wherein is a Chappel for Devotion a Colledge for Learning and an Alms-house for decayed Gentlemen called the poor Knights of Windsor and famous is this Castle not only for giving birth to so many of our Kings and Princes but for being the place where the ceremony of the Knights of the Garter is solemnized on St. Georges day Nigh unto New Windsor is Old Windsor a Town of greater antiquity though not of so much splendor Newbury Newbury well seated on the Kennet and in a Champain Plain a large well inhabited and frequented Town Corporate governed by a Major Aldermen and Burgesses beautified with a spacious Market-place and well built Market-house sufficiently served with Corn Flesh Fish and Fowl on Thursdays This Town had its rise out of the ancient Spinae now a small Village near adjoyning and called Speenhamland and is of note for its Jack of Newbury who got so great an estate by Clothing which this Town at present is very considerable for Wallingford Wallingford a Town of great antiquity and in times past very strong and large containing four Parish Churches within its Walls which took up a mile in circuit 'T is at present a large Town Corporate governed by a Major Aldermen and sub-Officers enjoyeth large Immunities and sendeth Burgesses to Parliament 'T is commodiously seated on the banks of the Thames over which

Kexholm or Barelogorod INGRIA which is not subdivided into Provinces Notteburg or Orescu Juanogorod Caporia Jamagorod LIVONIA in part as The rest belongeth to the Crown of POLAND ESTEN or ESTONIE where are the parts of Esten Febin Vickeland Pernajo Habsel Harneland Revel Wireland Wiesenburg Tolsburg Alantack Nerva Nyslot Jervenland Wittenstein Kikeland Derpt LETTEN with its parts and places as they lie Towards the West Riga Segenwold Wenden Walmer Towards the South Koekenhaus Creutzburg Dunburg Towards the East Maryenburg SCANDINAVIA Wherein are the ESTATES of DENMARK AND SWEDEN The extent bounds c. of Scandinavia SCANDIA or SCANDINAVIA is only a Peninsula which extends it self from the 56th degree of Latitude unto or beyond the 71 which are near 400 Leagues from North to South and from the 26th degree of Longitude unto the 45th on the Baltick Sea and on the Ocean unto the 53 but this Mass of Land cannot have in its greatest breath above 150 Leagues finishing in two points towards South and North. It s scituation c. It is bounded on the North and West by the Northern Ocean and on the South and East by the Baltick Sea a continual Chain of Mountains dividing it into two almost equal parts of which one is on the Baltick Sea and the other on the Ocean this possessed by the King of Denmark the other by the King of Sweden DENMARK Its Commodities THe Estates of DENMARK contain two Kingdoms to wit DENMARK and NORWAY Denmark is between the Ocean and the Baltick Sea composed of a Peninsula contiguous to Germany and of a Coast contiguous to Sweden and of divers Isles which are between the Peninsula and Coast some likewise in the middle of the Baltick Sea and near Livonia It is scituate partly in the Northern Temperate Zone and partly within the Artick Circle extending from the 55th degree of Longitude or the middle Parallel of the 10th Clime where it joyneth to Germany as far as 71 degrees where it is bounded by the Frozen Ocean the longest day in the most Southern parts being 17 ¼ hours but in the most Northern parts they have no Night for almost three Months whereas on the other side when the Sun is in the other Tropick and most remote from them they have no Day for the like time This Country is very cold and consequently not over fertil nor affording good Fruits The Commodities that this Kingdom affords are Fish Hides Tallow Furniture for Shipping as Pitch Tar Cordage Masts c. also Firr Boards Wainscot several sorts of Armour c. VIRTUTE NON VI To the Rt. honble 〈…〉 Lord 〈…〉 〈…〉 of 〈…〉 D●●●●● Earl of 〈◊〉 and L d of his Maitys most Honourable privy Councell c 1678 of 〈…〉 younger son of one of the Danish Kings that came into England with William the Conquerour This Mapp is Humbly dedicated by R B ●●PP OF THE KINGDOME OF DENNMARKE WITH ITS SEVERALL DIOECESES OR PROVINCES DESIGNED BY MONSIEUR SANSON GEO Its Inhabitants The Inhabitants for the most part are of a good statute and complexion very healthful ingenious and of a ready wit very punctual in performing their Promises proud and high conceited of their own worth lovers of Learning as may appear by those Famous men it hath bred viz. Tycho Brahe the great Mathematician John Cluverus the renowned Philosopher and Physitian Godfrey Gottricus that stout Warriour who not only setled the Government of this Kingdom but also shook the Realm of France likewise Waldemare Christiern the Second and Fourth Canutus and Sueno which two last were the Conquerors of England They are great punishers of Offenders especially Theft and Piracy their Women are of a comly grace very fair and as fruitful in Children discreet and sober The Peninsula called JVITLAND once Cimbrica Chersonesus Juitland from the Cimbrians its ancient Inhabitants it is divided into North and South Juitland North JVITLAND is severed into the Bishopricks of Ripen Arthusen Albourg and Wibourg Diocess of Ripen RIPEN contains 30 Prefectures or Herets as they term them 7 Cities or walled Towns and 10 Castles It s chief places are 1. Ripen seated near the German Ocean the chief place of the Diocess and dignified with an Episcopal See 2. Kolding seated on a Creek of the Baltick Sea 3. Wee l 4. Warde c. Diocess of Arthusen ARTHVSEN containeth 31 Prefecture 7 Cities or walled Towns and 5 Castles It s chief places are 1. Arthusen seated on the Baltick Sea having a commodious and well frequented Port and dignified with an Episcopal See 2. Kalla a strong place seated in a large Bay reaching two Dutch miles to the high Hill of Elemanberg opposite to which lie the Isles of Hilgones Tuen Samsoe Hiarneo and Hiolm c. 3. Horsens 4. Randersen 5. Ebelto and 6. Hobro Diocess of Albourg ALBOVRG which is divided into four parts viz. Thyland whose chief Town is Albourg seated on the Bay of Limford which opening into the Baltick Sea extendeth it self through the main Land almost to the German Ocean 2. Hanebert on the North-west of Limford Bay containeth 4 Prefectures and hath for its chief place Thystad 3. Morsee lying on the Ocean contains 3 Prefectures the Isle of Ageroe the Town of Nicopin and the Castle of Lunstead and 4. Vensyssel according to Mercator Vandalorum sedes or the Seat of the Vandals contains 6 Prefectures 3 Towns and 1 Castle viz. Selby Cagen and Hirring Diocess of Wibourg WIBOVRG contains 16 Prefectures the Isles of Egholm Hansholm Bodum Idgen Cisland and Ostholm also it hath 3 Castles and as many Cities or walled Towns viz. 1. Wibourg dignified with an Episcopal See and the Courts of Judicature for both the Juitlands The point of Scagen or Scean ends this Peninsula towards the North. 2. Lemwick and 3. Holcker South JVITLAND is divided into the Dukedoms of Sleswick and Holstein SLESWICK a Country for the most part level Sleswick enriched with fertil Fields both for Corn and Pasturage it is very well provided with good Bays on the Baltick which are found commodious for Merchants The chief places in this Dukedom are 1. Sleswick seated on the Slea which falls into the Baltick where it hath a commodious and well frequented Haven it is a fair Town the chief of the Dukedom and honoured with an Episcopal See 2. Hussen seated on the German Ocean 3. Sternberg the ordinary residence of the Governour for the King of Denmark 4. Hadersleben seated on a navigable In-let of the Baltick and fortified with a strong and fair Castle 5. Flensborg seated on the Baltick amongst high Mountains having a Port so commodious and deep that Ships do lade and unlade close to their Houses and 6. Gottrop where there is a strong Fort belonging to the Duke of Sleswick seated at the end of a large Bay of the Baltick of note for the Custom-house or Tole-booth there erected for Cattle sent out of these parts into Germany

Mouth of the River Bany where it hath a good Por● and is a place well fortified Ross Ross seated on the Sea-shoar once of good account when it had a go●● Road and Port which now is barred up Yoghall Yoghall fortified with a Wall and scituate on the River Broadwater at i● influx into the Sea where it hath a good Haven which makes it to be well i● habited and to enjoy some Trade County of Waterford described WATERFORD a pleasant and fertil County washed with the Sea 〈◊〉 divided into seven Baronies viz. Deeceis Gualtier Cashmore and Coshbrid● Middle-third Vpper-third Glamhery and Waterford-Liberty And hat● for its cheif places Waterford Waterford by the Britains and Irish called Portblargy said to be built 〈◊〉 certain Pirates of Norway seated on the River Showr on which it hath 〈◊〉 commodious and capacious Port where about a 1000 Sail of Ships may safe●● ride at Anchor It is a fair and well inhabited City enjoyeth a good Trade 〈◊〉 dignified with the See of a Bishop and is esteemed the second place of ●●te i● the whole Kingdom Dungarvan Dungarvan a well fortified Town on the Sea-shoar where it hath a goo● Road for Ships which makes it to be of some account Ardmore Ardmore also seated on the Sea-shoar Lismore Lismore a place of some note Divers small Isles in the British Sea And thus much for the Description of Ireland besides which and Grea●-Britain there are a vast number of lesser Isles which may be comprehende● under the denomination of the British Isles and may be considered under fou● sorts or heads viz. the Orcades the Hebrides the ●or●inges and the Isles o● Scilly with those of the Sporades And of these in order MAPP OF THE ISLES 〈◊〉 WIGHT IARSEY GARNSEY ●●RKE MAN ORCADES ●●D SHETLAND BY RIC Blome by his Matys Comand SHETLAND ISLE OF M●● To the R t honble Will Earl● of Derby L d Stanley and Strange of 〈…〉 〈…〉 L d Lieutenant 〈◊〉 County 〈◊〉 of Lancaster Chesir Admirall of the 〈…〉 Lord of Man 〈…〉 This Mapp of 〈…〉 humbly dedicated by Rich Blome .. ●●●E OF WIGHT To the Worshipfull Thomas Bucclugh of Swaynston Brixton in the Isle of Wight Esq Son heir to the Sr. Io Barington of Barrington hall in Essex Kt. and Bart. This Mapp of the Isle of Wight is Humbly dedicated by Ric Blome ORCADES ●ARSEY To the R t honble S. r George Carteret Kt Bar t 〈◊〉 Chamberlaine of his Maj●●s household one of his Matys most honble privy Councell c This Mapp of Jarsey is humbly dedicate● by Ric Blome GARNSEY To ye. Rt. Hon Christopher Haton Baron Hatton of Kirby Governour of the Isle of Garsey c. This Mapp of Garnsey is Humbly DD. by Ric Blome Isles of Orkney when first discovered and how subdued THe ORCADES or ISLES of ORKNEY are in number 32 and scituate against the Northern Cape of Scotland from which it is separated by a narrow Streight In Solinus his time they were uninhabited and overgrown with sledgy or rushy Weeds and at present they are not over-crowded with People as not being very commodious to dwell in being very cold destitute of Woods and unfit to bear Wheat so that instead of Bread-corn they make use of dried Stock-fish which they beat to powder And these Isles according to Tacitus are said to be first discovered by Julius Agricola when he sailed round Britain with his Fleet at which time he brought them under his subjection After that according to Ninnius Octha and Ebissus Saxons who served under the Britains sailed about the Picts Country with 40 Sail of Cyules that is Flyboats or roaving Pinnaces and sorely wasted these Isles Soon after this they fell into the hands of the Norwegians who kept the possession thereof until the Year 1266 at which time the Scots waging War with them Magnius the Fourth of that name then King of Norway was constrained to surrender them up again upon composition unto Alexander the Third King of the Scots which was afterwards confirmed by King Haquin And in Anno 1498 Christian the First King of Norway and Denmark upon the Marriage of his Daughter to James the Third King of the Scots renounced all his Right for himself and his Successors thereunto It s People And the People that inhabit these Isles as well in Language as Behaviour resemble much of the wild Irish and are called Redshanks a sort of People utterly rude and barbarous The chief of these Isles are as followeth POMONIA by Solinus called Pomona Diutina Pomonia and by the Inhabitants Mainland for that it is far larger than all the rest being about 26 miles in length and 6 in breadth an Isle well stored with Lead and Tin is indifferently inhabited and hath for its chief Town Kirke-wale a large Town dignified with an Episcopal See Kirkwale is fortified with two Castles and for Divine Worship hath 12 Churches one of which to wit its Cathedral is a fair Structure Hoy with other Isles HOY indifferent large having several Towns Souna Flotta South-Ranals Burra Siapins Eglis Roous Wester Papa Fana Heth or Eda Streoms Sand-Isle and North-Ranals with divers others of less note and not worth the naming Shetland Isles The ISLES of SHETLAND by some though falsly esteemed the Thule of the Ancients and by the Commentator upon Horace the Fortunate Island where according to the fabulous Opinion of Tzetzes the Souls of good men are Ferried over into those Elysiian Fields which are always clothed in their Summer-Livery but the mistake is very gross for on the contrary this Isle lying in the Latitude of 63 degrees is extreamly Cold and the greatest part of the Year pestered with Ice and Snow and the more as lying on every side open to the bitter Storms of the Northern Ocean Isle of Hebrides described The HEBRIDES HEBVDES or Western Isles as seated Westwards of Scotland are about 44 in number and for the generality are plentifully provided with Corn Woods Sheep Salmons Herrings and other Fish as also with Fowl Deer and Conies And for the People according to Solinus they are said to be uncivil ignorant of Religion Arts and Literature contenting themselves in a mean condition for Food Rayment or Habitation and all these Isles were anciently ruled by a King of their own which was not by succession but election and to that end their Kings were prohibited to marry but were permitted to enjoy other mens Wives which he fancied when and as long as he pleased And 't is said that in the other part of Scotland according to ancient Custom the Virginity of all New-married Wives were the Landlords due until such time that King Malcolme made a Law that half a Mark should be paid for redemption It seemeth Maiden-heads in these parts were then of no great value for a Mark Scotch is little above a Shilling English The

of Ships in like manner are they found in the Gulph or Bay of St. Laurence Besides the Cod-fish here are other sorts of Fish in great plenty as Thornback Ling Salmons Oysters c. The greatest of these Isles and which commonly takes the name of New-found-land is 4 or 5 Leagues circuit It is scituate betwixt the degrees of 46 and 53 of Northern Latitude and is severed from the Continent of America by an Arm of the Sea and is distant from England about 600 Leagues A Country ill-inhabited towards the East and South the Inhabitants being retired farther within Land but the English have of late settled some Colonies to maintain their Fishing-Trade Its Inhabitants The Natives are of a reasonable good Stature and well proportioned but full-ey'd broad-faced beardless and of an Oker complexion not over ingenious their Houses are very mean and their Apparel and Furniture worse The Country being for the generality reputed fertil if well cultivated and would yield good Grains is enriched by Nature with plenty of Fish Fowl and wild Beasts and is blest with a wholsom Air though the rigour of the Winter season and the excess of Heats in Summer do something detract from its due praise East of New-found-land is a great Bank a thing as remarkable as any in all Canada This Bank is much different from those which are covered with Water when the Sea is high uncovered and dry on an Ebb Saylors must shun such Banks like death This which we now speak of is like a Country overflown always covered with the Sea and having at least 20 30 or 40 Fathom water for the depth is unequal Off from this Bank on all sides the Sea is no less than 200 Fathom deep and yet this Bank is 200 Leagues long 20 25 and sometimes 50 broad It is on this Bank that the New-found-landers that is those Ships that go to fish for Cods of New-found-land do for the most part stop and make their freight About this great Bank and more towards the Main Land than the Ocean there are some others much less but of the same nature It is almost incredible how many Nations and of each how many Sail of Ships go yearly to fish for these Cods with the prodigious quantity they take a Man being able to take 100 of them in the space of an hour The manner of Fishing They fish with Hooks which are no sooner thrown into the Sea but the greedy Fish snapping the Bait is taken by the Hook and drawn on Ship-board they lay him presently on a Plank one cuts off his head another guts it and takes out its biggest bones another salts and barrels it c. Which being thus ordered is hence transported by the English and other European Nations into all parts of Europe as also into the other three parts of the World They Fish only in the day time the Cod as they say not biting in the night nor doth this Fishing last all Seasons but begins a little before Summer and ends with September In Winter the Fish retires to the bottom of the deep Sea where Storms and Tempests have no power Another kind of Fishing Near New-found-land there is another kind of fishing for the same Fish which they call dried Fish as the other green Fish The Ships retire into some Port and every Morning send forth their Shallops one two or three Leagues into the Sea which fail not to have their load by Noon or a little after They bring them to Land lay them on Tables or Planks and order it as the other but after the Fish hath been some days in salt they take it forth exposing it to the Air and Wind lay it again in heaps and return it from time to time to the open Air till it be dry That this Fish may be good it must be dried in a good and temperate Air Mists moisten it and make it rot the Sun hardens it and makes it yellow At the same time they fish for Cods green or dry the Fishers have the pleasure of taking Fowl without going forth of their Vessels They take them with a Line as they do fish baiting the Hook with the Cods Liver these Fowl being so greedy that they come by flocks and fight who shall get the Bait first which soon proves its death and one taken the Hook is no sooner thrown out again but another is catch'd in the like nature But enough of these and of Cod-fishing In the year 1623 Sir George Calvert Knight the Principal Secretary of State and afterwards Lord Baltimore obtained a Patent of part of New-found-land which was erected into the Province of Avalon where he settled a Plantation and erected a stately House and Fort at Ferry-land where he dwelt some time And after his death it fell to his Son the Right Honourable Caecilius late Lord Baltimore also Proprietor of Mary-land CANADA taken particularly is on the Right hand and towards the lower part of the great River The River Canada and its name is communicated both to the River and Neighbouring Country This River is the largest of America Septentrionalis and one of the fairest in the World It is about 200 Fathom deep and at its Mouth 30 Leagues broad It s course according to the report of those of the Country is already known for 4 or 500 Leagues and there is some likelyhood that we may in the end discover that the Lake which seems to be its head-Spring disburthens it self into the Sea by two or three different courses one towards us which is that of Canada another towards the West and above California the third towards the North and into the Christian Sea and that the Mouth of this may shew us the way we have so long sought to go to the East-Indies by the West People with whom the French Trade Their Colonies The People with whom the French trade here are the Canadans the Hurons the Algonquins the Attiquameques Nipisiriniens Montagnets those of Saguenay Acadia c. And to this purpose they have divers Colonies on the great River at Tadousac at Quebeck at Three-Rivers at Sillery at Richelieu at Montreal and without the Bay of Chaleur at Miscou at Port-Royal c. This Trade is only managed by Exchange they give the Skins of Bevers Otters Martles Sea-Wolfes c. for Bread Pease Beans Plumbs Kettles Cauldrons Hatchets Arrow-heads Pinchers Coverlids c. But to instruct them in Christianity many Ecclesiasticks of Religious Orders have had divers disbursements and residences likewise an Hospital and Seminary of Vrsilines The Jesuits have the chief care of these Houses North of Canada is ESTOTTILAND Estottiland or TERRADE LABRADOR near Hudsons Streight it is called sometimes the Land of Cortereal and sometimes new Britany however I esteem it a part of new France the Country is Mountainous Woody full of wild Beasts well furnished with Rivers rich in Metals of a fertil Soil in most places and would produce

the Chinois have repulsed them and have established their former estate receiving likewife Christianity with hopes of great fruits and progress but of late they have broke into China again and have committed great Spoils The Isles about China Besides the Isles already spoken of here are about the Coast of China several others as the Isle of Corey in the Gulph of Nanquin of good account and well frequented affording many of the China Commodities It is of a large extent being 100 Leagues in length and about 50 in breadth It s chief places are Tauxem seated on the Northern part of the Isle regarding the Province of Leaoton from which it is parted by a Streight or Gulph not above two Leagues broad 2. Corey seated on the Gulph of Nanquin Southernly 3. Tasoran also seated on the Sea Eastwards and on the South of this Isle are seated a Body of several Isles called the Isles of Larrons Likewise the Isles of Fuego Lequeio Grande Les Roys Mages the Isles of Pescheurs or Fishers of Pa●an or Formosa of Tabaco Miguel and Tabaco Xim● TARTARIA may be considered as it is divided into the Parts of TARTARIA DESERTA Cumbalich Glustins Jerom Risan Frutach Centaz Risan Divasi Caracus USBECK or ZAGATHAY with its Provinces or Parts of Usbeck particularly so called Jarchan Samarcand Nesaph Mogalachfu Horne Xibuar Reven Targama Teras Sachi Tanchit Tersis Sachania Sacae Sachi Istigias Busdascha● Rigul Coman Termend Escalcand Sermegan Asareft Kax Etaican Nesaph Sogdlans Bachars Pogansa Madrand●n Carassat Zahaipa Corui Chiargan Corfim Bechet Siminan Cant Chesolitis Caracol TURQUESTAN with its Kingdoms or Proviaces of Chialis Chialis Turfan Cuchia Uga. Chinchintalas Camul Aramul Cascar Emil Sark Cassia Taskent Thibet Andegen Raofa Tamafi Cotam Cotam Pinegle Cogricamri Peim Ciartiam Ciartiam Lop Sazechiam Carazan Vociam CATHAY with its Kingdoms or Provinces of Tainfu Cambalu Achbaluch Tinzu Xandu Caidu Gouza Tenduc Tenduc Zambir Ciandu Egrigaja Ciangli Tudinfu Serr● Suidio Mulon Tanguth Sachion Quiqui Hoyam Gauta Ergimul Campion Ergimul Serguth Erzina Belgian Belgian True TARTARIA with its Provinces or Hords of Mongul Mongul Molair Caracoran Tartar Tartar Bargu Catacoran Carli Taingin Naiman Naiman Cavona Cavona Colmack Colmack To the Right Worshipfull Sr Iames Shaen of Shyne in Surrey Knight and Baronet This Mapp is humbly D. D. by R. Blome A MAPP of the Kingdome of TARTARY By Monsieur Sanson TARTARY Tartary its extent TARTARY or TARTARIA is seated in the most Northern part of all Asia and extends it self from East to West from the River Volga and Oby which separates it from Europe unto the Streight of Jesso which separates it from America and from South to North from the Caspian Sea the River Gehon and the Mountains of Courasus and Vssonte c. which divides it from the more Southernly part of Asia unto the Northern Frozen or Scythian Ocean It s length and breadth It reaches in length from the 19th unto the 180th degree of Longitude which is the half of our Hemisphere and in breadth from the 35th or 40th unto the 70th or 72th degree of Latitude which is half the breadth of all Asia So that it may contain 1500 Leagues from West to East and 7 or 800 from North to South It s position is almost entirely in the Temperate Zone It s Position nevertheless it s more Southern parts being in the midst of this Temperate Zone and the rest advancing to the Cold or Frozen and its Southern parts being almost all bounded with very high Mountains which keeps off the heat of the mid-day Sun and renders it more cold towards the North We may say that Tartary in general hath its temperature much more cold than temperate Its Neighbours are the Moscovites on the West the Persians Its Neighbours the Indians or the Mogolls and the Chinois on the South the rest is washed by that Sea of which we have little knowledge some place towards the East the Streight of Anian which should separate it from America others the Streight of Jesso which divides it from the Land or Isle of Jesso which is between Asia and America as we shall declare after Japan Some esteeming the Northern Ocean in one manner and some in another It s Name why so called The name of Tartaria is apparently taken from the River Quarter or Hord of Tartar from whence these People being issued have over-run and made themselves known in all parts of Asia Others take it from the word Tatar or Totar which in the Syriack signifies Remnant or Forsaken because they esteem them the Remnant of the Jews of which Ten Tribes were transported into Media by Salmanzer They must then add that these Ten Tribes passed from Media into Scythia which is not observed by the Ancients However it be the Persians yet call this Country Tartar and its People Tatarons the Chinois Tagun The People which possess this Country differ something from one another Its Inhabitants as well in Personage as in Religion and Manners but of the most part they are of an indifferent Stature ugly countenances thick Lips hollow Eyed flat Noses broad Fated very strong stout valiant and good Warriers very active vigilant and exceeding quick of Foot patient in all Afflictions they are very rude barbarous and revengeful not sparing their Enemies whom in revenge they eat first letting out their Blood which they keep using it as Win● at their Feasts Their Habit is very mean which is for the most part made of course stuff Their Habit● which reaches but to their Knees yet are they very proud despising all other Nations and thinking their Cham to be the greatest Prince in the World whom they greatly fear and reverence being no better than his Slaves They are very nasty and sluttish much given to drink of a treacherous and thievish nature Religion In matters of Religion they are generally Pagans and Mahumetans which about the year 1246. crept in amongst them which since hath spread it self over their Country and intermixing with Paganism yet hath it not so much prevailed as to extinguish Christianity which was first planted amongst the Scythians which were the Ancient people of Tartary by the preaching of two of the Apostles St. Philip and St. Andrew which of latter years hath much lost it self and not only by the prevailing of the Nestorian Sect but chiefly for want of instructing the People in the true Orthodoxal points of Christian Religion Dyet Their Food is mean and very sluttishly drest yet use they entertainments and refuse nothing but Swines flesh and eat all without Salt They are much given to Hawking and other Sports but not much to Arts or Literature The Women are much of the nature with the Men. Their from of Government The Government as Heylin observeth is Tyrannical their great Cham or King being Lord of all in whose breast lieth their Laws taking the Estates and Lives away of whom he pleaseth

whom they so much reverence that they call him the shadow of Spirits and Son of the Immortal God and esteem him the Monarch of the whole World In their execution of Justice they are very severe punishing every small offence with sudden death His Revenue without doubt must be very great The Revenue of the Cham. for besides the sole trade of Pearl-fishing which upon pain of death none dares to fish for besides those employed by him also all the Gold and Silver that is either found in or brought into the Kingdom he doth assume to himself as also the Tenth of all things that the Country doth produce and also what else he thinketh fit as being as I said before Lord over them all Here the Men have the liberty of 2 or 3 Wives which they never choose but out of their own Tribe and every Tribe hath a Chief who is one of the Nobility of the Country and carries for his Banner a Horses-Tail fastned to a Half-Pike and died of the colour belonging to his Tribe Their Forces As concerning the Forces that the Great Cham is able to raise they may be supposed to be very great by that which may appear by Tamerlanes Army which consisted of a 1200000 Horse and Foot besides if we consider what a disturber he hath been and how he hath enlarged his Territories of his Neighbours as the Chinois the Moscovites c. we may judge him powerful but as his power is great on Land it is as weak by Sea scarce being Master of any Ships and as little doth he regard them though other Princes esteem them as a great security to their Kingdom Tartary divided into parts I shall divide Tartary into five principal Parts which are Tartaria the Desart Vsbeck or Zagathay Turquestan Cathay and the True Tartaria the first and last are the most Northern barbarous and unknown The others more Southerly are better civilized and known having abundance of fair Cities and driving a good Trade TARTARIA the Desart answers to the ancient Scythia intra Imaum Vsbeck or Zagathay to the ancient Bactriana and Sogdiana both the one and the other new Name retaining in my opinion something of the ancient Sogdiana of Zagathay and Bactriana of Vsbeck Turquestan to the ancient Scythia extra Imdum Cathay is the Serico Regia As for the True Tartary it is unknown unto the Ancients or at least it holds the most Northern part of the one and the other Scythia Tartaria Deserta its bounds Tartaria Deserta is bounded on the West with the Rivers Volga and Oby which divides it from Moscovy on the East by Mount Imaus which separates it from the True Tartaria and from Turquestan on the North by the Septentrional Ocean on the South by the Caspian or Tabarestan Sea by the River Chesell and by certain Mountains which joyn themselves with Imaus and divide it from Vsbeck or Zagathay All the Country is inhabited by Peoples or Tribes which are Troops or Bands which they call Hordes having very few Walled places whither they only retire themselves when forced for they have no settled stay or abode It s People and the manner of their abode but wandring perpetually carrying and driving with them their Tents Chariots Families and all they possess stopping only there were they find the best food for their Cattel to which as also in Hunting and War they most addict themselves They Till not the Earth though it be good and fertil and hence it is that this is called Tartary the Defart The chief places in this part are 1. Cumbalich seated on a Lake 2. Gerstina seated between the two other Lakes which are conjoyned together by a River 3. Jerom on a branch of the River Oby 4. Risan seated on the River Jaick 5. Frutach 6. Centan 7. Caracus 8. Organci and 9. Davasi The People that inhabit in this part have their rise from three several Originals which are disposed of into many several parts as 1. The Circassians which are for the most part Christians and border upon the Euxine Sea 2. The Samoyeds who are altogether Idolaters inhabiting towards the Northern Ocean and 3. Tartars which are Mahometans and seated betwixt both the other And those again are subdivided into divers Tribes or Hordes the chiefest of which are 1. The Nagajan Tartars The Nagajan Tartars c. which are held to be more fierce and cruel and better Warriers than the other Tartars but void of all Arts despising Mony or the use of Corn accounting Mares-milk and House-flesh their best dyet which they are not over-curious in dressing it sufficing if it is only heated though with the Sun and this Horde paies yet some Tribute to the great Duke of Moscovy to whom likewise part of this Tartaria Desert a belongs 2. The Thumenenses who are also a warlike People and much addicted to Divinations and Sorceries 3. The Zavolhenses are very powerful The Kirgessi are also very strong and warlike they are partly Gentiles and partly Mahometans They care not to bury their Dead because of their so after removing thinking never to see them more and so leaving them hanging upon Trees The Country is very fertil if tilled being fit to produce several good Commodities and is also very fit for Traffick having commodious Havens and if they would addict themselves to it would soon gain a good Trade with several other Nations VSBECK or ZAGATHAT Usbeck id bounds extends it self from the Caspian Sea unto Turquestan and from Persia and India unto Tartaria Deserta possessing all that is upon the Rivers of Chesel and of Gehan or Albiamu It s People are the most civil and ingenious of all the Western Tartars It s people fierce in War being strong and active patient in labour not much addicted to vices Thest they punish severely they have a great trade with the Persians Their trade to whom they have sometimes been Subjects sometimes Enemies and sometimes in good Intelligence and with the Indians where they have likewise something to do and with Cathay where they utter their much prized Manna bringing back Silk which they make into Manufactures and sell in Moscovy This part of Tartary did contain several Provinces 1. Zagathay especially so called 2. Sacoe 3. Sogdiana with some other of less note in all which are not many considerable Cities the most famous of which are S●narcand which was both the Cradle and Grave to Tamberlan the Great from whom the Great Mogolls boast themselves to be lineally descended who enriched it with the fairest Spoils of Asia and adorned it with an Academy yet in some repute among the Mahometans Also Bachara and Budaschan and also Balick according to some but which I esteem in Chorasan which hath divers times been in the hands of the Chams of Vsbeck Badaschian is likewise on the Frontiers of Chorasan Bochara or Bachara where lived Avicenna one of the most famous Philosophers and Physicians of all the East