Fowl called the Soland-Geese which in many places are taken in very great plenty and are sound very profitable to the Inhabitants not only for their Flesh to eat but for their Feathers and Oil. Their chief Commodities are Course Cloths Freezes Lead-Oar Feathers Sea-Coal Alum Iron Salt Salt-Peter Linnen-Cloth Train-Oil Hops Wood Alablaster some Hides and Tallow c. To the R t Noble Iames Duke of Monmouth Buckleuch Earle of Doncaster Dalkeith Baron of Kendale Miâ—ekeâ—â— Ashdale Kt. of the Garter one of his Majs most honble prvy Councell This Mapp is most humbly dedicatâ—â— by Ric Blome A MAPP of the Kingdome of SCOTLAND By Ric Blome by His Majys comand Its Inhabitants The Inhabitants especially those Southernly are of a good feature strong of body very hardy couragious and fit for Martial affairs and their Nobility and Gentry which are of several degrees as Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Barons Knights Esquires and Gentlemen are generally very ingenuous and accomplished men in all civil knowledge Nobility and Gentry of Scotland Their Sessions of Parliament This Kingdom like unto England consisteth of a King Nobility Gentry and Commons and these with the Lords Spiritual assemble together in Parliament as often as they are called together by Writ from the King And by reason of his Majesties residence in England so that he is not here at their Sessions of Parliament he constituteth and sendeth one to act as his Vice-Roy who is commonly called Lord Commissioner and such at present is the Right Noble John Duke of Lotherdale c. Things worthy of note Amongst the things worthy of note in this Kingdom for Antiquity famous was that Fortification drawn from Abercorne upon Edenborough Frith unto Alcluyd now called Dunbritton opening upon the West Sea where as Speed noteth Julius Agricola set the limits of the Roman Empire past which according to Tacitus there were no other bounds of Britain to be sought for And here the second Legion of Augusta and the twentieth of Victrix built a part of the Wall as also an ancient coped Monument of an high and round compass which according to the opinions of some was a Temple consecrated to the God Terminus but others there be that will have it to be a Trophy raised by Carausius who fortified this Wall with seven Castles Caledonian Wood. Here began that Wood Caledonia which name Tacitus attributeth to all that Tract of ground which lieth Northward beyond Grahames Dike or the Wall of Antonius Pius which Ptolomy divideth into several Nations as the Caledonii Vacomagi Epidii c. who are all known to the Romans by the general name of the Picts from their painting themselves This Wood or Forrest was very spacious and over-shadowed with Thickets and tall over-spreading Trees which rendred it impassable and was divided by Grampe-Hill now calâ—ed Grantzbain that is the crooked bending Mountain Solinus is of opinion that Vlysses was in Caledonia and to confirm his belief therein he saith there was a Votive Altar with an Inscription in Greek Letters Plutarch â—aith that Bears were brought out of Britain to Rome but for more truth 〈◊〉 may be said that here were bred the wild white Bulls a Beast of nature â—erce and cruel whose thick and curled manes resembled the Lions In the â—ays of Severus Argetecox a petty Prince reigned over this Tract of Ground â—hose Wife being reproachfully called by Julia the Empress an Adulteress â—oldly made this Answer We British Dames have to do with the best of men Cámbden p. 32. â—â—t you Roman Ladies secretly commit the same with every base and lewd Companion Two famous Loughs In this Kingdom are two famous Loughs Nessa and Lomund the former never Friezeth though in the extreamest cold weather and the waters of the â—atter most raging in the calmest and fairest weather and herein is an Island that the Wind forceth or moveth to and fro In the Rivers Dee and Done besides the great abundance of Salmons is taken a Shell-fish called the Horse-muskle wherein Pearls are engendred which are very good in many Physical Medicines and some of them not much inferiour to the Oriental Pearl Courts of Judicature Court of Parliament As to their Courts of Judicature they are peculiar to themselves and are several The chief amongst which is the High Court of Parliament consisting of Lords and Commons hath the same Authority as that of England and is also summoned by Writ from his Majesty at his pleasure as occasion requireth Colledge of Justice The second Court is the Sessions or Colledge of Justice consisting of a President 14 Senators 7 of the Clergy and as many of the Laity unto whom was afterwards adjoyned the Chancellor who is the chief and 5 other Senators besides 3 principal Scribes or Clerks and as many Advocates as the Senators see convenient And this was thus constituted by King James the Fifth in Anno 1532 after the form of the Parliament at Paris These sit and administer Justice with equity and reason and not according to the rigour of the Law every day except Sundays and Mondays from the first of Novemb. to the 15 of March and from Trinity Sunday to the first Calends of August and all the time between as being either Seed-time or Harvest is vacation They give judgment according to the Parliament Statutes and Municipal Laws and where they are defective they have recourse to the Imperial Civil Law Other Courts There are likewise in every Shire or County inferiour Civil Judicatories or Courts kept wherein the Sheriff of the Shire or his Deputy decideth the Controversies and Law-suits of the Inhabitants from which there are oft-times Appeals to the Sessions or Colledge of Justice And these Sheriffs are for the most part Hereditary Besides these Courts there are other Judicatories which they call Commissariots the highest whereof is kept at Edenburgh and these have to do with Ecclesiastical affairs as Wills and Testaments Divorcements Tithes c. In criminal Causes the Kings Chief Justice holdeth his Court at Edenburgh Likewise the Sheriffs in their Territories and the Magistrates in some Boroughs may sit in Judgment of Manslaughter in case the Manslayer be taken within 24 hours after the fact committed and being found guilty by a Jury may be put to death but if the said limited time is past the matter is referred and put over to the Kings Justice or his Deputies There are also Civil Courts in every Regality holden by their Bailiffs Ecclesiastical Government This Kingdom as to Ecclesiastical Government is divided into two Archbishopricks viz. of St. Andrews the Primate of Scotland and of Glasco and under these are several Suffragan-Bishops viz. under him of St. Andrews those of Dunkeld Aberdon Murray Dunblan Berohiu Ross Cathanes and Orkney And under him of Glasco those of Galloway Argile or Lismore and the Isles Ancient Inhabitants of Scotland The ancient People of this Kingdom were 1.
Provision very plentiful There grows neither Rice nor Wheat yet are Provisions better cheap than in the rest of the Indies They have Rice from the Continent and gather at home Millet in abundance and the Grain of Bunbi like to Millet but black They have much Fruit Citrons Pomegranates Oranges Bananes and above all so great abundance of that Nut of India called Cocos that no Country in the World hath so much All the Levant is furnished hence lading every year several Ships They have many Animals little Beef or Mutton no Dogs for they abhor them Quantity of Fish Shells pass instead of Money They have many little Shells which pass in many places for Money and they lade yearly 30 or 40 Ships with these Shells for Bengala only besides what they lade for other parts Their Tortoise Shells are much esteemed at Cambaya because they are smooth black and well figured with which they make Combs Cases of Looking-glasses c. Their Tavarcarre or Cocos particularly of the Maldives is very Medicinal and of greater value then their Amber-greece and their black Coral The King alone is to have this Tavarcarre and Ambergreece not permitting his Subjects to trade in it There is brought to the Maldives in exchange of their Commodities Rice Cloth Silk Cotton Oyl Areca Iron Steel Spices Porcelain Gold and Silver which come not thence again Its Inhabitants make use of all sorts of Arms yet their King is neither rich nor powerful except in his Isles and in regard of his own Subjects The Coco-Nuâ— and Tree of great use for several things Amongst the rarities of this Isle their Candou and their Coco's are observable They make Planks of the Wood of Candou with which they draw out of the Sea all sorts of weights though of 10000 pound Their Tree is as great as our Walnut-Tree leaved like the Aspin and as white but very soft It bears no Fruit they make Fisher-boats of it and with rubbing two pieces of this wood together kindle fire as we do with a Flint and Steel yet it neither burns nor consumes As for the Coco's or Walnut of India it furnishes them with all things necessary for mans life they extract from it Wine Honey Sugar Milk Oyl and Butter It s Kernels they eat instead of Bread with all sorts of Meat the Leaf being green serves for Paper to write being dry they fold it in little Bands and make Panniers Dossers Vmbrello's Hats Coverlids and Carpets the Sprig which is the middle of the Leaf being dry hardneth and of it they make Cabinets Chests and other Moveables of the Shell which incloses the Fruit they make Ladles Spoons Plates Cups c. They may build a whole House out of these Trees the Trunk may serve for Beams and Joynts the Branches cut in two or three for Pails to pail in Gardens or Houses and for Laths to cover them and the Leaves sewed together and disposed in ranks upon those Laths cast off the Water as well as our Tiles They build likewise many Ships only out of the Coco-Tree the Keel Sides Planks Pins Hatches Masts and Yards Cordage Anchors Sails and even all the Utensils of a Ship are taken from this Tree and sometimes their Lading whether for Provision or Moveables or to furnish Rigging for other Ships is likewise taken out of this Tree alone And so much for the Eastern Isles and all Asia AFRICA as it is divided into AFRICA or LIBYA Exteriour or Outward and comprehendeth BARBARY which containeth the Kingdoms of Morocco Morocco Fez Fez Sala Telensin Telensin Algier Algier Bugia Tunis Tunis Tripoli Tripolis Barca Barca Desart of Barca Ammon BILIDULGERID which containeth several Kingdoms and Provinces the chief of which are Sus or Tesset Tesset Darha Darha Segellomessa Segellomessa Tafilet Tafilet Tegorarin Tegorarin Zeb Nesta Bilidulgerid Fezzen Gademes EGYPT which is divided in Sayd or Bechria Cairo Errif Alexandria Rosetta Coast of the Red Sea Sues Grodol Interiour or Inwards and comprehendeth ZAARA or SAARA where are the Kingdoms and Cities of Zanhaga Tegassa Zuenziga Zuenziga Targa Targa Lempta Lempta Berdoa Berdoa Gaoga Goaga Borno Borno The Land of NEGROES where are the Kingdoms People or Countries On this side the Niger as of Gualate Gandia Genehoa Genehoa Tombut Tombotu Agades Agades Canun Cano. Cassena Cassena Gangara Gangara Between the branches of the Niger as of The Jaloses People Solul The Biatares People Biatares The Sousâ—s People Beria Beyond the the Niger as of Melli Melli. Mandinga Mandinga Gago Gago Guber Guber Zegzeg Zegzeg Zanfara Zanfara GUINEE with its Kingdoms Parts and chief Places of Melegutte Bugos Particular Guinee or the Ivory Coast St. George de la Minâ— Cape of Palmeâ— Benin Benin AETHIOPIA Higher or under Egypt and comprehendeth NUBIA where are the Kingdoms Countries and Cities of Bugia Bugia Jalac Jalac Nuabia Nuabia Dancala Dancala Cusa Cusa Gorham Gorham Damocla Damocla Somna Somna The Empire of the ABISSINES where are several Kingdoms Countries and Cities the chief of which are Tigremahon Chaxumo Barnagasso Barva Angota Angotina Dancala Degibeldara Amara Amara Bagamedri Beza Ambian Amasen Damute Damute Agag Agag Cafates Cafates Narea Zeb Ambiam Ambiam BARBARY or ZANGUEBAR which is divided into Zanguebar with its Kingdoms and Cities of Mozambique Quiloa Quilmanca The Coast of AJAN with its Kingdoms and Cities of Adea Adel Magadoxo The Coast of ABEX with its chief Places and Isles of Arquico Suaquen Lower or Interiour and comprehendeth CONGO with its several Kingdoms or Provinces the chief of which are Loango Loango Pemba Pemba Angola Engaze Bamba Bamba Songo Sonho The Coast and Country of CAFRES with its several Estates Kingdoms Capes Ports and Isles the chief of which are the Cape of Good Hope Cape of St. Nicholas Port of Carascalis Isles of St. Christophers Isles of St. Lucia MONOMOTAPA with its Kingdoms and chief Places of Monomotapa Monomotapa Butua Butua Monoemugi Agag Zesala Zesala In divers ISLES In the Mediterranean Sea Malta Valetta In the Western Ocean as the Canary Isles Canaria The Isles of Cape Verd St. Jago The Isles of St. Thomas Pavoasaâ— In the Eastern Ocean as Madagascar Vingagora Zocotora Zocotora A New MAPP of AFRICA Designed by Mounsi r Sanson Geograph r to the French King Rendered into English and Ilustrated with Figurs By Richard Blome By the Kings Especiall Command VOLO VALEO To The Right Honi ble Charles Howard Earle of Carlisle Viscount Morpeth Baron Dacres of Gisland Lord Leivtenant of Cumberland Westmoreland Vice Admirall of the Caost of Northumberland Cumberland Westmoreland Bishopricke of Durham Towne and County of Newcastle and Maritin parts adjacent 〈◊〉 of the Lords of his Maities most honble privy Councell This Mapp is most humbly D. D. by R. B. AFRICA AFRICA is a Peninsula so great that it makes the Third and most Meridional part of our Continent It approaches so near to Spain that only the Streight of Gibraltar divides them and touches so
degree of Latitude which is 72 degrees of Latitude and makes about 1800 of our Leagues In this length and breadth we do not comprehend the Islands which belong to Asia which are as great as rich and possibly as numerous as all the rest of the Universe It s Scituation It s Scituation for the most part is between the Circular Tropick of Cancer and the Circle of the Artick Pole scarce extending it self beyond this but surpassing the other in divers of its Isles which it expands under the Equator so that almost all Asia is scituate in the Temperate Zone what it hath under the Torrid being either Peninsula's or Isles which the Waters and Sea may easily refresh Asia the richest of all the four Parts ASIA being the greatest the best and most temperate part of our Continent it must by consequence be the richest which not only appears in the goodness and excellencies of its Grains Vines Fruits Herbs c. but likewise in its great quantities of Gold Silver Precious Stones Spices Drugs and other Commodities and Rarities which it sends forth and communicates to other parts and particularly to Europe A Generall MAPP of ASIA Designed by MOUNSIE R SANSON Geographer to the FRENCH KING Rendred into English Ilustrated by RIC BLOME By his MAJtis Especial Command LONDON Printed for Ric Blome 1669 To The Rt. Noble Christopher Duke of Albemarle Earle of Torington Baron Monk of Potheridge Beauchamp and Teys Kt. of ye. most noble order of the Garter Lord Leivtenant of Devon-shire Ess ex Captaine of his Matys Guards of Horse one of the Gentlemen of his Bed-Chamber c one of the Lords of his most honble Privy Councell This Mapp is most humbly D.D. by R. B It s Name The Name of ASIA is derived diversly by sundry Authors but whether it took its name from a Virgin-Woman or a Philosopher whether from some City Country or Marish or from whatever it were most certain it is that that Name was first known to the Greeks on that Coast opposite to them towards the East afterwards it was given to that Region which extends to the Euphrates and which is called Asia Minor and was communicated to all the most Oriental Regions of our Continent Its Bounds Its Bounds are towards the North with the Northern frozen or Scythian Ocean to wit that which washes Tartary on the East and South with the Oriental or Indian Ocean the Parts of which are the Seas of China India and Arabia Towards the West Asia is separated from Africa by the Red-Sea from the Streight of Babel-Mandel unto the Isthmus of Suez and from Europe by the Archipelago by the Sea of Marmora and by the Black-Sea drawing a Line cross all these Seas and passing by the Streight of Galipoli or the Dardanelles by the Streight of Constantinople or Chanel of the Black-Sea by the Streight of Caffa or Vospero the Line continuing by the Sea of Zabaque and by the Rivers of Don or Tana of Volga and of Oby where they are joyned the nearest one to another It s division Asia may be divided into firm Land and Islands the firm Land comprehends the Kingdoms of Turkey in Asia Arahia Persia India China and Tartary We will follow this order and then end with the Isles TURKY in ASIA or that which the Grand Signior doth possess in whole or in part in ASIA wherein are several Regions Countries Isies c. may be considered as they lie Westernly and towards EUROPE as ANATOLIA or ASIA MINOR wherein are comprised several Provinces all which are at present by the Grand Signior included under four Beglerbeglies that is Lord Lieutenants to wit those of Anatolia particularly so called Smyrna Ephesus Pergama Troya Burfia Comana Chaloedoine Scutari Sinopi Castele Angouri Sardis Philadelphia Caramania Archalich Side Nigdia Tarsus Satalia Antiochia Tocat Amasia Tocat Trebisonde Caisaria Caraisar Marast Arsingan Sukas Aladuli Vardar Adana Maaraz Manbeg South-westernly as Divers ISLES as they lie in the ARCHIPELAGO MEDITERRANEAN and AEGEAN Seas the chief of which are Cyprus Nicosia Paphos Salamis Amathus Arsinoe Famagusta Rhodes Rhodes Metelin of old Lesbos Metelino Medina Samos Samo Tenedos Tenedos Scarpante Scarpante Lero Lero Negropont Colchis Coos Coos Lero Lero Pathmos Pathmos Scio or Chios Scio Icaria of old Icarus Nicaria Southernly and regarding Arabia and the Mediterranean Sea as SOURIA or SYRIA with its parts of Syria Propria Aleppo Aman Zeugma Antioch Samosat Hemz or Emsa Hierapolis Alexandretetts Phoenicia Tripoli Sayd or Sidon Tyre or Sor Damascus Acre Palestine formerly Judea Canaan or the Holy-Land Jerusalem Samaria Naplouse Gaza Joppa or Jussa Southernly and towards Arabia Deserta as ASSYRIA now DIARBECK with its parts of Chaldea or Babylonia now Yerack Bagded or Babylon Balsera Cousa Orchoe Sipparum Mesopotamia or the particular Diarbeck Orpha Caraemid Merdin Asanchif Carra Sumiscasack Virta Assyria now Arzerum Mosul of old Ninive Schiarazur Easternly and regarding Persia as TURCOMANIA with its parts of Turoomans Erzerum Cars Curdes Schildir Bitlis Georgiens Derbent Tiflis North-Easternly and towards the Caspian Sea as GEORGIA with its parts of Avogasia St. Sophia Mingrelie Phazza Savatopoli Gurgistaâ— Cori Bassachiuch Quiria Zitrach Stranu Chipicha Northernly and towards Moscovy as COMANIA Asof Maurolaco Serent â—VERSâ—â— SECVNDIS To the R t honble Heanage Earle of Winchelseâ— Vis t Maidstone Baron Fitz Herbert of Eastwell Lord of the Royall Mannour of Wye and Lord Leiutenant of Kent and 〈◊〉 This Mapp is humbly D. D by R. B A MAPP of THE ESTATES of the TURKISH EMPIRE in ASIA and EUROPE Designed by Mon sr Sanson Geographer to the French King Turky in Asia UNDER the name of TVRKY in ASIA we understand not all which the Great Turk possesses but only certain Regions which he alone possesses or if there be any Estates intermixed they are inconsiderable And in this Turky we shall find Anatolia which the Ancients called Asia Minor the greater Souria which the Ancients called Syria the Great Turcomania by the Ancients called Armenia the Great then Diarbeck which answers to Mesopotamia and to divers parts of Assyria and the Chaldea or Babylonia of the Ancients ANATOLIA is that great Peninsula which is washed on the North by the Black-Sea Mare Major or Euxine Sea and on the South by that part of the Mediterranean which we call the Levant Sea which extends Westward to the Archipelago or Aegean Sea and thence to the Euphrates which bounds it on the East The Parts of Asia Minor or Anatolia The Ancients divided this Great Asia Minor into many lesser Regions of which the principal are viz. Pontus Bithynia Little Asia Minor into Lycia Galatia Pamphilia Cappadocia Cilicia Caria Ionia Aeolis Lydia Phrygia Major and Minor Paphlagonia Lycaonia Pysidia Armenia Minor Mysia the Isle of Rhodes c. But at present the Turks do in general call this Great Asia Minor Anatolia which signifies Orient That part of Anatolia which is
Buildings have neither Morter nor Plaister here they build not without both They despise all Precious Stones and esteem more their Vessels of Earth which serve to keep their Drink which we make little esteem of but much value Precious Stones They drink nothing but what is hot those most delicate with us is cool Their Physick is sweet and odoriferous ours bitter and unpleasant They never let their sick Blood which with us is very common upon the least occasion These with several other customs contrary to ours do they observe amongst them which are too long to set down Nor want they fine Reasons to sustain their Customs better then ours they say we must conserve our Blood as one of the principal sustainers of our Life that we must not give a sick person that which is displeasant troublesom and sometimes affrights him to see much more to drink or eat that hot water augments the natural heat opens the conduits and quenches thirst that cold closes the Pores begets the Cough weakens the Stomach and quenches natural heat that their Vessels of which they make such esteem are necessary for many things in a Family which Precious Stones are not that their buildings may be easily taken down carried other where and erected in another manner when they will which ours cannot c. Amongst their Manners there are some very good they hate Games of Hazard they are very patient in bad fortune they maintain themselves honestly in their Poverty suffer hot themselves to be transported with Passion speak not ill of the absent know not what it is to swear lye or steal suffer easily all incommodities of heat cold famine or thirst yet all this rather to get the honor of being esteemed constant and vertuous then being so truly for they are subject to Vices as well as their Neighbors But lot us leave their Manners and speak a word of their Government which of late hath encountred a diversity and deserves to be known The general Estate of all these Isles was not long since divided into 66 Kingdoms of which the Isle of Japan alone had 47 which with some little Neighbouring Isles was made up 53 that of Ximo or Saycok had 9 according to its name and Chicock the other four The Estate of these Isles At present the order is much changed the whole Estates are fallen into the hands of one alone as it hath been formerly and is divided into 7 Provinces or principal parts and those 7 parts subdivided into many others which ought to pass under the name of Lordships some of which yet retain the name of Kingdoms others of Dutchies Principalities c. Those which command in the lesser parts are called generally Tones Caron ranges them in six different degree and calls them Kings Dukes Princes Knight-Barons Barons and Lords which according to our degrees of honour are distinguished by Kings Princes Dukes Marquisses Earls and Barons Caron makes 21 Kings some of which possess 1 or 2 and some 3 and in all 30 and odd of the 66 ancient Kingdoms After the Kings he puts 4 Dukes 6 Princes 17 Knight-Barons 50 Barons and 41 Lords giving each a Revenue of at least 100000 Livers per annum and so augmenting to the greatest to whom he gives 10 Millions and more and makes account that the Cube or Cesar of Japan spends at least 100 Millions of Crowns yearly as well in the expence of his house as in his Militia and what he disburses to the Tones The parts of Japan The names of the 7 principal parts into which the Estate of Japan is divided are Saycock Xicoco Jamasoit Jetsengo Jetsegen Quanto and Ochio Saycock with the Isles which belong to it is the nearest to China Chicock is on the East of Saycock the other five parts are in the great Island and extend themselves advancing from East to West Jamosoit being the most Western part of all and answering to the 12 Kingdoms which the King of Nangato or Amanguci hath formerly possessed Jetsenco and Jetsegen together make the middle of the great Island and apparently that which passed under the name of Tenza and contained 20 others Quanto and Ochio advance themselves from the East unto the streight of Sangaar which divides Japan from the Land of Jesso of which more anon Quanto comprehended 8 Kingdoms and Ochio the rest and in these parts there are abundance of Cities and Towns which I have observed in my Geographical Tables But because the diversity of names of Dayri or Emperor of Cube or Cesar of Tones or Kings Princes Dukes c. may breed some confusion to give a more particular knowledge we will say succinctly that before the year 1500 there was in all Japan only one Soveraign which they called Voo or Dayri that is Emperour The Isle or Land of JESSO The Isle of Jesso AFter the Isles of Japan let us speak a word of the Isle or Land of Jesso Yedzo or Jesso for divers Authors write its name differently some calling it the Isle some the Land abovesaid and to the East of Japan in the manner that the English Portugals and Hollanders deseribe it this Land must extend from Asia to America They say that from Tessoy which is the most Western point of it opposite to Coray and near Tartary advancing towards the East it is 60 days journey to the Province of Matzumay and that from Matzumay unto the most Easterly point and neerest America it is likewise 90 days journey so that it is 150 days journey from one end to the other which after only 8 Leagues a day will be 1200 of our Leagues It s breadth is not spoke of The streight of Tessoy The Streight of TESSOY which separates this Isle from Tartary hath great currents caused by the discharging of several Rivers which come rom the Northern parts and from Tartary and Jesso The other streight which separates it from America may in all likely-hood be that Anian and those two streights limit the two extremities of Jesso towards the midst must be the Province of Matzumay and apparently beyond the Streight which separates the Isle of Japan from the Land of Jesso and this streight may be called the streight of Sangaar which is the utmost East-Land of Japan The traverse or traject of this streight is not above 10 or 12 Leagues others say not above so many miles others there are affirm it no streight but an Isthmus which fixes Japan to Jesso and that both the one and the other together are but one Isle so difficult it is to find the truth of a thing so far distant This Isle or Land of JESSO is so great and vast that the Inhabitants cannot but have different manners those which are nearest Japan resembling the Japanois those which are near Tartary the Tartars and those near America their neighbouring Americans and in all likelihood they are more barbarous then all their neighbours Its Inhabitants They are all Idolaters
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
de Ugogne Domo d'Osula Lake of Como Como Novarese Novare Vigevanase Vigevan Lodesan Lodi Pavese Pavia Laumelline Valenca Alexandrin Alexandria de la Paille Tortonese Tortona Cremonese Cremona GENES or GENOA a Signieury and Republick which is divided into Eastern River Genoa or Genes Sarzana Western River Vintimiglia Arbengue Savona The Dutchy of MONFERRAT as it belongs To the Duke of Mantoua Alba Aqui. To the Duke of Savoy Trin Casan In Piedmont appertaineth To the French Pignerol To its peculiar Prince Masseran In the Estate of Millain appertaineth To the Swisses Lugan Locarne Bellinzone To the Grisons Churcoire Chiavenna Sondrio Bormio In the Estate of Genes or Genoa appertaineth To his peculiar Prince Monaco or Mourgues To the Duke of Savoy Oneglia To the Catholick King Finale Pontremoli Between Piedmont Monferrat c. To the Pope or Church Montaldo c. Lower and comprehendeth the Estates of The Signleury and Republick of VENICE where are Bergamese Bergame Cremase Crema Bressan Bressia Veronois or Veronese Verona Vicentin or Vicentinois Vicenza Padouan Padoua Polesine de Rovigo Rovigo Dogado or Duchy Venice or Venetia Chiogia Caorla Torcello Muran Coast of Trevisane Trevigi Feltrin Feltri Bellunâ—is Cuidad de Bellune Cadorin Pie di Cadore Friouli Cuidad de Austria Aquileja Cuidad de Friouli Concordia Palma la Nova Istria Cabo d'Istria Ciâ—ta Nuova Parenzo and Pola MANTOUA to his Dukedom that of Mantoua Mantoua Viadana Goito MODENE and REGGE c. to their Dukedoms Dukedom of Modene Modene Dukedom of Regge Regio or Regge Principality of Carpi Carpi Signieury of Carfagnan Castelnove de Carfagnan PARMA and PLACENZA to their Dukedoms Dukedom of Parma Parma Dukedom of Placenza Placenza TRENTE to his Bishoprick where are Trent Bolzan In the Signieury of Venice appertaineth To the Pope or Church Ceneda To the House of Austria Gorice Trieste Pedena In the Estate of Mantoua are to their Lords The Dukedoms of Guastalle Sabionete The Counties of Bozolo or St. Martin Castillon della Stivere Between the Estates of Mantoua and Modene are The Dutchy of Mirandola The County of Novelcare In the Estate of Modene and to the Duke of Modene are The Signieuries of Correge Sassuol In the Estates of Parma to their particular Princes are The Estates of Palavicin Bourg St. Domino The Estate of Landâ— Bourg val di Taro. The Signieury or Republick of VENICE called the ESTATE of FIRM LAND which is possessed in ITALY to wit Bergamose Bergamo Martinengo Chuson Cremase Crema Bressan Bressia Salo Azola Orsi Nuovi Veronoise Verona Peschiera Legnago Vicentin or Vicentenoiâ— Vicenza Lonigo Padouan Padoua Este Moutagnana Castel Baldo Monselice Campo St. Petro Citadella Pieve di Sacco Polesine de Rovigo Rovigo Adria Dogado Venice or Venetia Chioggit Caorla Torcello Grado Murano Marano Maestre Coast of Trevisane Trevigi Serravalle Feltrin Feltri Bellunoise Cuidad de Bellune Cadorin Pieve di Cadore Friouli Cuidad de Austria Aquileja â—alma la Nova Cuidad de Friouli Concordia and Chiusa ESTATE of or in the SEA which is possessed On the Coasâ—â— of Istria Capo d'Istria Citta Nuova Parenzo Pola St. Juan de Duino Dalmatia or Esclavonia Nona Zara Novigrad Tina Sebenico St. Nicolo Traw Spalato Salona Almissa Starigrad Vesicchio Cataro Budua Dolcigno Epire Torre de Butrinto Perga And the Isles In the Gulph of Venice Chergo Cherso Ossero Ossero Veggia Veggia Arba Arba. Pago Pago Solta Solta Brazza Neresi Lesina Lesina Torta Torta Issa Meo Curzo Curzo Of the Levant Corfu Corfu Cape St. Angusto Zephalonia Zephalonia Zante Zante Cerigo Capsâ—li Crete or Candia now the Grand Seigniors Candia Retimo Canea Sittia Suda Spinalonga Belvidere Verapolo Castel Theodoro Grabuso Turluru Teno Teno Micone Micone And between the Estates of the VENETIANS are To the Pope or Church on the Coast of Trevisane Ceneda To the House of Austria in Friouli and Istria Gradisca Trieste Pedena To the Signieury of Ragusa on the Coast of Dalmatia Ragusa To the Turk on the Coast of Albania c. Castal Nuova la Valona The Estates of the CHURCH or POPE comprehendeth Twelve Provinces in ITALY of which Seven are between the TIRRHENE and the APENNIN to wit the Campagne de Rome where are Roma or Rome Ostia Erascati Tivoli Palestrina Veletri Segni Anagni Ferentino Alatri Velori Terracina Patrimony of St. Peter Veij Citta Castellana Sutri Porto Civita vechia Corâ—eto Monte Flascone Orvietin Orviero Aquapendente Terre Sabine Narni Terni Ombrie or the Dutchy of Spoleto Spoleto Fuligue Nocera Norcia Rieti Amelia Todi Assisio Perusin Perugia Fratti County of Citta di Castello Five are between the APENNIN and the GULPH of VENICE to wit the Region or Quarter of Ancone Ancona Jesi Osmo Recanati St. Maria Lauretane Fermo Ripa Trâ—nsone Ascoli Maceratâ— Tolentino St. Severâ—no Camerino and Fabriano Dutchy of Urbin Urbin Eugubbio Cagli Sinigaglâ—a Fossombâ—one Fano Pesaro St. Leo Durance Romague or Romandioa Ravenna Rimini Sarsina Cesena Cervia Bertinoro Forli â—aenza Imoâ—a Ferrarese Perrara Comachâ—o Mesola Bolognoâ—s Bologna Bolognese Also In the Kingdom of Naples The Dutchy and City of Benevenâ—o In the Estate of Venice The City of Ceneda Between Piedmont Divers places among which are Montaldo St. Stepâ—ano c. Monserrat and Genes are Divers places among which are Montaldo St. Stepâ—ano c. In FRANCE and Between Dauphin Languedoc and Provence the County of Avignon and of Venaiscin where are Avignon Carpentâ—as Cavaillon Vaison Venasque Lisle Vaureas Pont de Sorgues Chaun neuf du Pape Malausaâ—e Brantes Rostored freed or quitted from the Jorisdiction or Supâ—emacy of the Church or Pope divers Estatea 〈◊〉 among which are the Kingdoms of Naples Naples Sicily Messina Sardaigne Cagliari Arragon Syracuse Jerusalem Jerusalem Hungary Bude England London Ireland Dublin Dukedoms of Parâ—a Câ—sâ—ro Braâ—ciano County of Ronciglione Principalities or Selgnories of Radicosani Masseran Republick of St. Marino A Mapp of ITALY Those cheife Estates Isles are the Dukedome of Toscania The Republique Venice the Estates of the Church The kiâ—â—â—â—â— of Naples The Illes of Sicile Sardane Corsica c. In which said parts â—re Included seuerall other Estates provinces of less note PIE TE the R t honble Robert Pierreponte Earle of Kingston upon Hull viscount-Newark Lord Pierreponte Maunvey Heâ—â—â—â— This Mapp is Humbly D. D by R.B. ITALY ITALY lies in the midst of the three most Southern parts of Europe It is formed like a Boot and washed on all sides by the Sea viz. by the Adriatick or Gulph of Venice behind by the Iyrrhenian before and by the Ionian at the foot only the top of the Boot is contiguous to France and Germany from which it is parted by the Alpes Extent of the Roman Empire The extent of the Roman Empire before Constantine Ruled and the division thereof was accounted to be about 3000 Miles in length to wit from the River Euphrates Eastward to the Irish Ocean Westward and in breadth from Mount Atlas Southward to
of Sicily being 11 in number the chief of which is Lipara from whence the rest take their names being about 10 miles in circuit then Stromboli and Vulcania send forth a constant Smoak Isles of Naples The Isles of NAPLES are 18 in number the chief of which are Ischia Capreae the retirement of Tyberius and Aenaria Ligurian Isles The chief of the LIGVRIAN Isles is Elba famous for its two Potts Porto Ferraro and Porto Longone It s chief places are 1. Cosmopolis built by Cosmo di Medices 2. Gallinaria 3. Giglio and 4. Monte Christo which is but a Rock Other Estates There are yet in Lombardy many little Estates as of Mirandola Guastella Sabionetta c. about Mantoua of Pallaviano and Landa c. amongst the Estates of Parma and Placenza of Manaco on the Coast of Genoa of Masseran in Piedmont The Count of Pitiglian and the Marquess of Malispine in Toscany all which Princes though holding from under the protection of others have Sovereign Rights Italy with its Isles extends it self from about the 36th degree of Latitude unto the 46th which are 250 Leagues from South to North and from the 36th degree of Longitude to near the 48th which are as much or little more from West to East but its form scarce fills the third part of what is contained in these degrees In Italy I make little Account of other Rivers than that of the Arno Tiber and Po the two first descend from the Appennine the last from the Alpes TURKEY in EUROPE or that which the Grand Signior possesseth in whole or in part in EUROPE may be comprehended under ESCLAVONIA which is possessed by the Turk Hungarians and Venetians and may be divided into HUNGARIA with its chief Cities belonging to the Grand Signior as Buda Gyula Canissa Alba Regalis Quinque Ecclesiae Belonging to the Emperour or Hungarians Presbourg Strigonium Zegith Newhausel ESCLAVONIA with its Parts and chief Places as they belong to the Turks and Venetians Croatia Turks Wihitz Venetians Sisseg Esclavia Turks Posega Venetians Copranitz Dalmatia Turkish Narenza Mostar Venetians Ragusa Spalato Sebenico Zara. DACIA now belonging to the Turks with its Provinces of Transilvania Waradin Hermenstad Bosnia Saraih Bagnialuch Jaycza Servia Belgrad Bulgaria Sophia Moldavia Zuccania Lazy Bessarabia Khermen Walachia Targovisko GREECE as it is possessed by or under the subjection of the Grand Signior which may be divided into the Provinces or Parts of ROMANIA or ROMELI of old THRACE Constantinople Andrinopoli Gallipoli Caridia Abdera Pera and Galata MACEDONIA with its parts of Jamboli Heraclea Camenolitaria Pidna Pella Migdonia Salonichi Stagira ALBANIA Durazzo Valona Croja and Sintari THESSALY now by the Turks called JANNA Anniro Larissa EPIRE now by the Turks called CANINA Preveza Larta ACHAIA and ETOLIA now called LIVADIA Athens now Sitines Thebes now Stives Lepanto PELOPONNESUS now called the MOREA Corinte Misistra Modon Petras and Coron Together with divers ISLES which for the most part are in the possession of the Turks except some few which the Venetians yet keep which as they lye in the AEGEAN SEA are Negroponte Negroponte Caristo Stalimene of Old Lemnos Lemnos The Isles called the SPORADES and CYCLADES which are the Isles of Milo Tira Tiresio Nio Stapalia Morgo Nicfia Levita Zinara Raclia Siphano Micone Teno Helena Engia Fermenia Zea Andri Coos Delos Samothracia Samos Tasso Tasso Pelagmisi Pelagmisi Sciro Sciro Creba or Candia Candia Canea Suda IONIAN SEA are the Isles of Zante Zante Zefalonia Zefalonia Augustali Corfu Corfu Cerigo Cerigo Santa Maura Santa Maura Strivalis Strivalis Val de Campara Val de Campara ADRIATICK SEA or GULPH of VENICE are the Isles of if any are so called Zara Vegea Lesina Cherso Curzolo and Grissa The Empire of the GRAND SIGNIOR or GREAT TURK holdeth In EUROPE and Towards the higher ESCLAVONIA Hungaria in part Buda Gyula Esclavonia in part Pesega Croatia in part Wihitz Dalmatia in part Narenca Mostar Towards the lower ESCLAVONIA Bosnia Jaycza Bagnialuch Servia Belgrade Bulgaria Sophia On the BLACK SEA Podolia in part Oezacoâ— towards Moscovia Azac or Azoff In GREECE which by the Turks is called ROMELI the Parts or Provinces of Romania Constantinople Adrinopoli Gallipoli Macedonia Salonichi Heracleâ— Albania Scutari Durazzo Vilona Thessaly Armiro Epiro Preveza Larta Achala and Etolia Athens or Setines Thebes or Stives Lepanto Peloponnesus or the Morea Corinte Misistra or Lacedemone Petras And divers Isles the chief of which are Negroponte Stalimene Sancta Maure c. In ASIA ANATOLIA wherein are divers Cities among which are Smyrna Ephesus Bursa Chioutaige Angoura Cogni Trebisonde c. Divers Isles the chief among which are Rhodes Rhodes Cypre or Cyprus Nicosin Eamogousta Metelin Metelin Scio Scio. Samos Samos Patmosa or Patmos Patmos SOURIA which is divided in Sourie or Syrie Aleppo Tripoli Phenicie Sayd or Sidon Damascus Judea or the Holy Land Jerusalem Naplouse Gaza ASSYRIA which is divided in Mesopotamia or Diarbeck Caramit Asanchif Chaldea Bagdad Balsora Assyria in part Mosul Chiahnezul TURCOMANIA and Georgia in part Stranu Cori. Turcomania Teflis Derbent ARABIA in part to wit in the Stony Arach Desart Ana. Happie Zibid Aden In AFRICA The Kingdom of ALGIER where are four Parts or Kingdoms to wit Telensin Telensin Algier Sargel Tenes Algier Bugia Bugia Steffa Constantina Constantina Bonna and Tebessa The Kingdom of TUNIS with its eight Government to wit Four Maritime Biserta Gouleita Sousa Media or Africa Four Inland Tunis Cairoan Begge and Urbs. The Kingdom of TRIPOLI with its parts of Tripoli Tripoli Lepeda Desart of Barca Corena Alberton EGYPT with its three Parts to wit Errif Alexandria Roserta Damierta Bechrio or Demesor Cairo Sayd Sayd or Thebes Nigh unto EGYPT Coast of Abex in part Suaquen Arquico or Ercocco Between Egypt and Arabia Sues In EUROPE restored from this Empire The Signieury and Republick of Raguse The Vayvodes or Princes of Tranfilvania Hermanstat Valaquia Tergovis Moldavia Saczou And the Cham of the Petit Tartaria Caffa 〈◊〉 SECVNDIS To the R t honble Heneage Earle of Winchelsea Vis t Maidstone Baron Fitz Herbert of Eastwell Lord of the Royall 〈◊〉 of â—â—e and Lord Leiâ—â—â—â—â—â— of Kent and 〈…〉 Mary is humble D. D by R.B. A MAPP of THE ESTATES of the TURKISH EMPIRE in ASIA and EUROPE signed by Mon sr Sanson Geographer to the French King Turkey in Europe THE Estate or Empire of the Sultan or the Ottomans whom we call the Grand SIGNIOR or Great TVRK is part in Europe part in Asia and part in Africa the greatest part is in Asia and the least in Europe and yet this is not the least considerable since the Grand Signior makes here his residence and hath from hence his best Forces That which he holds in Europe extends it self from the 35th degree of Latitude to the 45th and sometimes near the 47th which are 250 or 300 French Leagues and from the 40th of Longitude unto or beyond the 56th which are likewise 300 Leagues
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
Parliament men is of great great strength as well by nature as art The Town is not large but is well inhabited and frequented by those that have relation to Sea-Affairs and the rather by reason of its safe and commodious Haven harbour for Ships and Vessels to Anchor in it being oft-times the station of the Navy Royal which and for being the ready passage to Holland where the Packet-boats are kept for that purpose doth occasion it to enjoy a good Trade yet its Market on Tuesdays is not very considerable About 4 miles Northwards from Harwich is Horsey Isle and about 2 miles further is the Ness a Promontory well known to Sea-men Maldon Maldon a Town of great antiquity and repute in the time of the Romans as Cambden noteth and was the Seat of Cunobelin King of the Trinobantes It is well seated on an Arm of the Sea about 6 or 7 miles from the Main before which lie small Isles called Northey and Osey the Town is large having one Street about a mile in length is well inhabited enjoyeth a good trade occasioned by reason of the commodiousness of its Haven amongst its Immunities electeth Parliament men is governed by 2 Bailiffs 6 Aldermen 18 Brethren a Recorder High-Steward c. and hath a very considerable Market on Saturdays for Flesh Fish Fowl and other Provisions Walden Walden or Saffron-Walden seated on an Ascent amongst pleasant Fields of Saffron a large fair well inhabited and frequented Town Corporate enjoying several Immunities is governed by a Treasurer 2 Chamberlains and the Commonalty and hath a very considerable Market on Saturdays for Corn and all forts of Provisions Near unto this Town is that stately House Audley-end Audley-end built by the Right Honourable Tho. Howard Earl of Suffolk then Lord High Treasurer of England which said House now belongeth to his Majesty Chelmesford Chelmesford seated in the Road and between two Rivers over which are Bridges for conveniency of passage It is a fair large and well frequented Town where the Assizes are usually kept and hath a very great Market for Corn Provisions c. on Fridays Raleigh Raleigh a place of great antiquity though not of largeness and its Market which is on Saturdays is but small Not far from this Town are the Isles of Wallop and Fowlness that is the Promontory of Fowls which hath a Church in it Also Canvey Isle of a rich Soil and feedeth good store of Sheep Brentwood Brentwood seated on a Hill and on the high Road a place of good Antiquity is well inhabited and its Market on Thursdays is well served with Provisions Rumford Rumford a large thoroughfare well frequented and inhabited Town seated in the Liberty of Haverill which enjoyeth large Immunities being an ancient retiring place of the Kings This Town of Rumford is of note for its great Market on Tuesdays for living Cattle but for Corn and Provisions which it is plentifully served with it hath a Market on Wednesdays Waltham Waltham or Waltham-Abby seated on the River Leg where it formeth several Eights or small Isles and in a large Forest so called well stored with Deer and other Game It is a Town of some note and hath a Market on Tuesdays Gloucestershire described GLOVCESTERSHIRE a County of a healthful Air and fertil Soil both for Corn and Pasturage yielding plenty of Corn and feeding abundance of Cattle and great flocks of Sheep especially about Coteswold whose Wool is much esteemed for its fineness The part lying Eastwards called Coteswold riseth up with Hills and is for grazing the middle part which is watered with the Severne lieth low and maketh a most fertil Plain and the Western part beyond the Severne is overspread with Wood and called Dean Forest which affordeth excellent Timber Trees for the building of Ships and great store of Coal and Iron-Mines where there are divers Furnaces and Forges for working the same This Forest is of a large extent being about 20 miles in length and 10 in breadth within which tract of ground are numbred 3 Hundreds 23 Parish Churches 1 Castle 1 Abby 3 Market Towns and 1 Major Town and the Common thereof besides the Purlieus and Abby-woods is said to contain 32000 Acres of Ground The chief Commodities that this County produceth are Corn Wool Cloth Iron Steel Wool and Timber also Fruits here had in such great plenty that the Highways and Lanes are beset with Apple Pear and Plumb-trees which grow naturally without ingrafting It is well watered with Rivers amongst which are the Isis Strowd Churne Avon Wye and Severne which for broadness of Channel swiftness of Stream and plenty of Salmon and other excellent Fish comes little short of any River in England The ancient Inhabitants were the Dobuni and in the time of the Saxons it became part of the Kingdom of the Mercians This County is divided into 30 Hundreds in which are numbred 280 Parish Churches and is traded unto by 25 Market-Towns Bristol Bristol seated between the Avon and the Froom which after a small course fall into the Severne the Avon dividing it into two parts as the Thames doth London and Southwark and are so joyned by a fair Stone-bridge on which are also stately Houses The greatest part of this City is in this County and the least in Somersetshire but it will owe subjection to neither being an entire County incorporate of it self enjoying large Immunities sendeth Burgesses to Parliament is governed by its peculiar Magistrates as a Major Court of Aldermen 2 Sheriffs and other sub-Officers and is dignified with the See of a Bishop and the title of an Earldom now invested in the person of the Right Honourable George Digby Earl of Bristol c. It is a City of a sweet and delightful scituation and of far more beauty than antiquity being adorned with many fair and well built Edifices and its Streets so neatly ordered by reason of the Avon that runneth through it together with the common Sinks and Sewers under ground that no filth is to be seen to annoy its Inhabitants It is a City of a large extent numbring 18 Parish Churches besides its Cathedral a fair structure It is begirt with a Wall and further defended with Fortifications its Port is good and commodious for Ships of a considerable burthen which doth occasion it to be a place of a very considerable Trade and to be well inhabited and frequented by Merchants and Tradesmen insomuch that next after London it may justly claim priority of all others in England and for the accommodation of its Inhabitants besides its Shambles its Markets on Wednesdays and Saturdays are plentifully served with all sorts of Provisions It is of note for its Bristol-Stones taken out of St. Vincents-Rock near adjoyning Gloucester Gloucester a City of good antiquity and pleasantly seated on an easie Ascent and on the banks of the Severne over which it hath a fair Stone-bridge 'T is a City not
themselves in the Sea which serveth for its Eastern bounds It is interlaced with Hills and Forests and garnished with divers Forts and Castles It s chief places are Dundee Dundee seated on the Mouth of the River Tay a noted and well resorted Town for Trade by reason of its commodious Port for Ships Brechin Brechin scituate on the River South-Eske near its fall into the Sea and dignified by King David the First with an Episcopal See Nigh unto this Town is Red-head a place not unknown to Seamen Montross Montross of old Celurca of some account for being honoured with the Title of an Earldom Arbroth seated near the Sea a Town endowed with large Revenues Arbroth and by King William dedicated to a Religious use in honour of Thomas of Canterbury MERNIS Very fertil or MERNIA a small but plain and fertil Champaâ—â—â— Country which shooteth it self forth on the German Ocean It s chief placâ— are Dunnotyr Dunnotyr defended by a strong Castle seated on an high and inaccessibâ—â— Rock near the Sea Fordon Fordon seated also not far from the Sea BVQVIHAN washed with the Sea whose Waves did here cast up mighty Mass of Amber of an inestimable value it hath good Pastures most to feed Sheep whose Wool is excellent and its Rivers breed store of Salmon which are had at such easie rates that it is scarce worth the trouble of takiâ— them It s chief places are Rotheniay and Stanes Adjoyning to this Country lieth Boena and Bamff a small Sheriffdom alâ— Ajuza a little Territory of no great note MARR Marr. a long and narrow County somewhat inclined to Mountains bâ— well watered with the Done or Dee well stored with Salmons and other Fisâ— Its chief places are Aberdene Aberdene feated on the Sea-shoar at the Mouth of the Done dignified wiâ—â— an Episcopal See hath an Hospital also a Free-Grammar-School and is of no for taking of Salmons Kildrumy and Kildrumy MVRRAY Murray a pleasant and fertil County and the rather as watered wiâ—â— the Spey Findorne and the River and Lake Nessa which reacheth aboâ—â—â— 23 miles in length the water whereof is observed to be so warm that it nevâ— is sound to freez and this Lake is its Northern limits as the Spey is its Easterr all which empty themselves in the Sea where it formeth a Bay Its chiâ—â— places are Innernes Innernes Bean-Castle which Ptolomy thinks to be Banatia and here Anno 1460. a Marble-Vessel artificially engraven full of Roman Coins wâ— found Narden Narden or Narne an hereditary Sheriffdom and here stood within a bâ— land a strong Fortress of a great height which was kept by the Danes agaiâ— the Scots Innernes Innerlothea and Innerlothea in former times two eminent Fortifications Alâ— Elgin and Rothes Elgin Rothes places honoured with the Titles of Earldoms LOQVABREA a County well stored with Rivers and Lakes whicâ— empty themselves into the Sea it hath also good Pastures yet is it very Mouâ—â—tainous and well clothed with Wood and in the bowels of the Earth are Minâ— of Iron Iron-Mines It s chief place is Innerlothey Innerlothey once of good account being well frequented and traded unto but through the Pyracies and Wars of the Danes and Norwegians who razâ— it it hath now scarce any Remain left ROSS It s sertility a large Mountainous and Woody County which reacheth froâ— one Sea to the other hath great plenty of Stags Deer Wild-fowl and Fisâ— Its chief places are Cromarty Cromarty or the Haven of Safety as having so secure and capacious an Haâ—â— bour for Ships Ness-mouth Lovet Ness-mouth and Lovet In this County is the Territory of Ardmanoch Ardmanoch very Mountainous froâ— which the second Sons of the Kings of Scotland bear their Title SVTHERLAND regarding the Sea is well watered with Rivers bâ— sides the large Lough or Lake Shyn almost in the midst of the Country Weâ—â—â— wards of which are great store of Hills from which is dug excellent whiâ—â— Marble very good for curious Works It is a Country more fit for breediâ— of Cattle Dunrobin Dorne than for Tillage and hath for its chief places Dunrobin anâ— Dorno Very cold and barren STRATHNAVERNE a County far engaged Northwards whicâ— with Cathanes have the utmost Northern Coast of all Britain which must oâ— casion it to be of a very cold temperature it is very much inclined to sterility Strabubaster Tounge is Mountainous and but ill inhabited It s chief places are Strabubaster anâ— Tounge A MAPP of the Kingdome of IRELAND by Ric Blome by his Matys Com To the R t honble Ric Boyle Earle of Burlington â—â—ron Cliford of Lansborro in England Earle of Corke Viscount Dungaruen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord High Treasurer of Ireland c. And to the Rt. honble Roger Boyle Earle of Orrery Baron 〈◊〉 Broghill in Ireland and of his Ma js most honble privy Councell c This Mapp is humbly Dediâ—â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 the R t honble Sr. Rob Kilrâ—â—ray of Terry Bâ—â—on in England Kt. Bart 〈◊〉 of Londonderry Baron of Crallon 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 County in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. his estate in Ireland being called Medinshill This Mapp 〈…〉 of 〈…〉 is DD by Ric Bloâ—◠〈◊〉 the R t honble Earle of Arran Viscâ—â—llough Baron Butler of Clougrenan 〈◊〉 of his Maie s most honble privy Councell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Mapp of the Province of 〈◊〉 is humble DD by Ric Blom◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 honble 〈◊〉 Baron of 〈…〉 Mai s Army of 〈…〉 his 〈◊〉 most honble 〈…〉 This Mapp of the Provence of 〈…〉 Humbly DD by Ric Blome CATHANES a County washed with the Eastern Ocean where it formeth several Creeks and is well watered with Rivers which afford good store of Fish from which and by the grasing and feeding of Cattle the Inhabitants get the greatest part of their livelyhood It s chief places are Dornock a mean place yet the See of a Bishop Dornock Catnes a Maritim Town dignified with an Earldom Catnes Nigh unto this Town Southwards is Ness-head and Northwards Dunesbe-head both Maritim places and Girnego Girnego Three Mountains In this Tract are three Promontories to wit Vrdehead of old Berubium Dunsby or Dunscanby of old Virvedrum and Howbum of old Orcas There are several Isles dispersed about this Kingdom of Scotland as the Orcades Shetland and Hebrides which may properly be said to belong thereunto but as to the description thereof they shall be treated of amongst the other small Isles belonging in general to great Britain after we have treated of the Kingdom of Ireland IRELAND It s scituation IRELAND environed on all sides by the Sea and next to Great Britain may claim priority of all others in Europe It is a Country generally of a fertil Soil and plentifully stored with Cattle Fowl and Fish Fertility but is Mountainous Woody Waterish and full of unprofitable Loughs or
landed his Army there and obtained the Regal Dominion thereof which being passed over unto him by their Nobles and Commonalty their Charter so signed was transmitted to Rome and was confirmed by a Patent of Pope Hadrian by a Ring delivered unto him in token of his investure and was farther confirmed by the Authority of certain Provincial Synods and ever since that time it hath remained in the possessions of the Kings of England The Temporal Government of Ireland The Temporal Government since the English became Masters thereof hath most commonly been by one Supream Officer sent over by the Kings of England and called Lord Deputy or Lord Lieutenant who for Majesty State and Power is not inferiour to any Vice-Roy in Christendom living in great grandure and having ample and Royal Power and Authority granted unto him and as Assistant unto him in so weighty a concern he hath his Privy Council being a select number of honourable and prudent persons chosen out of the Nobility Clergy and Capital Officers of State for their Degrees of Honour and Offices of State they are the same with those of England already treated of The present Lord Lieutenant is the Right Noble his Excellency Arthur Capell Earl of Essex Viscount Maldon Baron Capell of Hadham c. Its Laws and Courts of Judicature The Laws of this Kingdom have correspondency with those of England and have likewise there several Courts of Judicature as the Chancery Common-Pleas Kings-Bench Exchequer c. but above all the High Court of Parliament There are likewise in each County Justices of the Peace for the quiet governing and well ordering the Inhabitants as in England The Archbishops and Bishops As to the Ecclesiastical Government of this Kingdom it is committed to the care of four Archbishops under whom are divers Suffragan Bishops whose names are as followeth Under the Archbishop of Armagh who is Primate of Ireland are the Bishops of Meath or Elnamirand Conuer Rathluc Dune or Dundalethglas Ardachad Derry Dal-Liquir Chlocor or Lugundum and Rathbot Under the Archbishop of Dublin those of Ferne Lechlin Glendalach Ossery and Kildare Under the Archbishop of Cassile those of Limrick Waterford Corke Laonie or Kendalnan Gellumabrath Lismore Ardefret the Isle of Gathay Clon De Rosalither Melite or Emilech and Ross or Roscree And under the Archbishop of Tuam those of Elphin Gonany Clonfred Enachdun Achad Duac or Killmacduoc Mage Killmundâ—ach Cellaiar Roscomon and Lade or Killaleth According to the Temporal Government of this Kingdom it is severed into four Provinces to wit Leimster Vlster Connaugh and Mounster which are again subdivided into several Counties which comprehend several Baronies in which are seated several Towns And of these Provinces in order LEIMSTER It s fertility THis Part of Ireland for the generality is of a fertil Soil affording great plenty of Corn Cattle Fowl and Fish enjoyeth a wholsom and temperate Air is well watered with Rivers the chief amongst which are the Shour Neor and Barraeo It s Bivers which have their rise out of that great Mountain called by Giraldus Bladinae Montes It is very well inhabited as well by the Gentry as the Commonalty and the rather by reason of Dublin the Metropolitan City of this Kingdom therein seated It s form may be said to be triangular for from South-east to the West-point is above 80 miles from thence to the North-west about 70 and her East-Coast about 18 the circumference making about 270 miles And for its bounds it hath on the West the Province of Connough on the North that of Leimster and on the East and South the Sea which regards England from which that is from Holy-head in the Isle of Anglesey it is distant about 50 miles a Sea very dangerous for Saylers by reason of the Flats and Shallows that lie over against Holy-point which are called the Grounds And as to its division it is severed into ten Counties to wit Dublin East-Meath West-Meath Longford Kildare Kings County Queens County Caterlough Weixford and Kilkenny all which are again subdivided into several Baronies and of these Counties in order County of Dublin described DVBLIN or Divelin a fertil County for Corn and Cattle but ill provided with Wood which defect is supplied by Peat or Turff dug up in the clammy places as also by Sea-Coal brought from England It is severed into seven Baronies viz. New-Castle Vpper-Cross Rath-down Castle-knock Coolock Balrudery and Nether-Cross and by reason of its City Dublin the Metropolis of Ireland is very well furnished with Towns and inhabited by Gentry It s chief places are Dublin Dublin the capital City in the Island by Ptolomy called Eblana by the Latinists Dublinium and Dublinia by the West Britains Dinas Dulin and by the Irish Balacleigh that is the Town upon Hurdles by reason that when it began to be first built the ground being wet and moorish the Foundation of its Houses were laid upon Hurdles It is a City of great Antiquity and said to be built by Harold the first King of Norway who brought most of the Kingdom under his obedience though not without great Spoils and after the Conquest of the English was Peopled by a Colony of Bristol-men It is no less pleasantly than commodiously seated on the River Liffie which after a small course emptieth it self into a capacious Bay of the Sea where it hath a good Haven and a fair prospect and on the South it hath delightful Hills which with the several Parks here adjacent afford great Recreation to the Gentry It is a City dignified and enriched with the residence of the Lord Lieutenant as also with the See of an Archbishop with an Vniversity and the Courts of Judicature by reason of which it is a place of good Traffick being well inhabited and frequented by Nobility and Gentry as also by abundance of wealthy Merchants and Shop-keepers It is beautified with many fair Buildings both publik and private the principal amongst which are the Lord Lieutenants Palace a stately Structure built by order of King Henry the Second in the East-Suburbs then the Cathedral Church dedicated to St. Patrick consisting of a Dean Chanter Chancellor Treasurer two Arch-Deacons and twenty Prebendaries Nigh unto which is the Archbishops Palace both which are without the City in the Suburbs called St. Patricks Then the Collegiate Church consecrated to the Holy Trinity commonly called Christ-Church seated in the midst of the City which Queen Elizabeth dignified with the Priviledges of an Vniversity and not far from this is the Town-Hall called Toles-tale a fair Stone-building of a quadrangular form and here the Lord Major Sheriffs Aldermen and other the Magistrates of the City assemble together for the management and consulting on the publick Concerns of the City as to hear Causes hold Sessions c. Then a beautiful Colledge with several other fair Edifices It is at present a City of a large Extent to what it formerly was and doth daily increase in
was soon after with above 8000 of his Men flain not far distant Carlingford Carlingford another good and well frequented Port-Town Lough Lough a fair Town conveniently seated on the River Warren Ardeth Ardeth a good Inland dry Town County of Armagh described ARMAGH a County of an exceeding fertil Soil and not inferiour to any in the Kingdom It is severâ—l into five Baronies viz. Fowes Orrior Tawrane Onelan and Armagh And hath for its chief places Armagh Armagh scated on or near the River Kaisin an ancient but ruinated City yet dignified with the See of an Archbishop who is Primate of all Ireland which name it is said to receive from Queen Armacha and is supposed to be the same which Ptolomy calleth Dearmach And here according to St. Bernard St. Patrick the Apostle of the Irish ruled during his life and when he departed this World was here Interr'd in honour of whom it was a place greatly reverenced Not far from Armagh is Owen Maugh the ancient Seat of the Kings of Vlster Owen-Maugh and on the River Blackwater are two Forts one which beareth the same name and the other called Fort Charles Mount Norris Dornous Mount Norris another Fort And Dornous County of Monoghan described MONOGHAN a County very hilly and well clothed with Wood is severed into four Baronies viz. Monoghan Trough Bartrey and Cremorne And hath for its chief places Clogher seated on the River Blackwater Clogher Monoghan a large Fort Churchland and Lishanahan Monoghan County of Cavan described CAVAN a small County and of less account yet is divided into seven Baronies viz. Clonehy Tulloghgarvy Casterahan Clonmoghan Tullahagh Tullabonobo and Loughtee And hath for its chief places Cavan and Kilmore Cavan and Kilmore the one seated on the Lake Cane the other on the Lake Nivity both which are joyned to the Lake Earne by the River Blackwater County of Fermanagh described FERMANAGH a County well clothed with Wood and very boggy in the midst having several Lakes or Loughs the chief amongst which is that of Earne which is the largest and most famous in all the Kingdom having therein seated divers small Isles and in this Lough are such great store of Salmons Trouts and other Fish that they are oft-times found troublesom to the Fishermen by breaking their Nets This County is severed into three Baronies viz. Magherestrephana Maghereboy and Clanawly And hath for its chief places Bal-Tarbet Bal-tarbet seated on the same Lake Inis Killing Inis Killing the principal Fort in this Tract which in Anno 1593. was defended by the Rebels but taken from them by the valiant Captain Dowdall and near unto this place is a great downfal of water called the Salmon-leap CONNAUGH Full of Bogs and Woods THis Province called by the Irish Conaughty is full of Woods and Bogs yet not unfertil nor wanting in Provisions In this Province at Knocktoe that is the Hill of Axes the greatest rabble of Rebels that ever were seen together in the Kingdom were gathered together and commanded by William Burk O-Brien O-Carrol and Mac-nemare grand Rebels in that time but were discomfited by the noble Valour of Girald Fitz-Girald Earl of Kildare and his party And about the Year 1316. upon the occasion of two Princes or Lords falling at odds there were said to be slain on both sides about 4000 Men and so great misery came amongst them through Famine being forced to eat one another and other calamities that of about 10000 there were left alive not above 300. Its Bounds This Province hath for its Eastern Bounds Leimster for its Southern Monster for its Northern Vster and for its Western the Sea where it hath many commodious Bays Creeks and Navigable Rivers It s Extent It s Extent from Tromer in the East to Burrag-Bay in the West being the breadth is about 80 miles and from the River Shennon in the South to Eniskelling in the North being the length is about 120 and in circumference about 400 miles and for its division is parted into sir Counties viz. Mayo Slego Galloway Clare or Twomond and Letrym all which are subdivided into several Baronies as hereafter shall be named And of these in order County of Mayo described MAYO apleasant and fertil County stored with Cattle Deer Hawks and Hony and well watered with the two large Loughs of Meske and Garogh in which are several Isles which with the Rivers that fall into the Sea where are seated several Isles the Inhabitants are plentifully supplied with Fish and Fowl It is severed into nine Baronies viz. Tirrawly Eris Gallin Coragh Burishoole Muriske Kilmaine Clonmoris and Castello And hath for its chief places Killaloy Killaloy dignified with an Episcopal See which formerly was at Mayo where according to Bede there was a Monastery for 30 English men built by an Irish Bishop and was in a flourishing condition in the Reign of King John Refraint Stackby Refraine and Stackby both seated on the Sea-shoar SLEGO a County full of rich Pastures which breed and fatten store of Cattle County of Slego described and is well watered with the Sea and the Lough Earne already treated of It is divided into six Baronies viz. Carbury Corran Leny Tirrarill Tirreragh and Coolavin And hath for its chief places Slego Slego seated on a Bay of the Sea so called where it hath a commodious Road for Ships and is defended by a Castle Dundroes Dunbroyle Dundroes and Dunbroyle both Maritim-Towns GALLOWAY a large and fertil County both for Tillage and Pasturage whose Western part is washed with the Sea County of Galloway described which thrusteth forth several Arms and hath lying on its Shoars divers Isles of which the three largest which bear the name of Aran are Great-Island Ifor-Island Small-Island all seated in the Mouth of Galloway-Bay It is separated into fifteen Baronies viz. Moycullin Ballinananen Clare Downamore Bealamo Killehane Kilconel Clanemactonene Longford Tiaquin Athenry Dunkillin Kilcartan Lough-Reagh and Letrim And hath for its chief places Galloway Galloway a fair large and strong City dignified with an Episcopal See and is commodiously seated for Traffick on a spacious Bay of the Sea so called by reason whereof it is well inhabited frequented and enjoyeth a good Trade Nigh unto this City is the Lough Carble or Carbles about 20 miles in length and 3 or 4 in breadth in which are abundance of small Isles Inis-Ceath Inis-Ceath a place in times past well known for its Monastery Inis-Bovind Inis-Bovind which Bede calleth White-Castle-Isle Aterith Clan-Ricard Kilmaculo and Clonfert Aterith or Athenry once a place of good strength Clan-Ricard Kilmaculo and Clonfert County of Clare described CLARE or TWOMOND a County shooting it self far into the Sea towards the West with a tapred Promontory which with the River Shannon and the Lough Derg both full of small Isles doth almost encompass it
It is a Country well provided of all things necessary for the sustenance of Man is severed into nine Baronies viz. Burrins Corcomroe Ibrickam Inchiquin Islands Clanderlagh Moyfertagh Bounraty and Tullogh And hath for its chief places Clare Clare seated on a Creek which floweth out of the Shannon Kylaloe Kylaloe seated on the Shannon near the Lough Derg dignified with an Episcopal See Kilsennerag Bunraty Kilsennerag and Bounraty not far from the Shannon a Town of some account County of Roscomon described ROSCOMON a long but narrow County of a very fertil Soil and breedeth store of Cattle but Northwards where the Curlew Mountains are it is inclined to sterility It is divided into seven Baronies viz. Roscomon Boyle Bealanioo East and West Ballintuber Athlone and Moycarne And hath for its chief places Roscomon Roscomon seated near the Lough Ree once a place of good account and strength Elphen Elphen honoured with the See of a Bishop Athlone Athlone scituate on the Lough Ree defended by a Castle and beautified with a fair Stone-Bridge And under the Curlew-Hills in former time was a famous Abby together with the Abby of Beatitude Country of Letrim described LETRIM a hilly County yet very fit for grasing of Cattle which are here in great abundance It is severed into five Baronies viz. Letrim Drumaheire Rosdogher Carrigallin and Moyhill And hath for its principal place Letrim Meukerk Letrim seated in a fertil Soil near the Lough Alyne and Meukerk MUNSTER Its Commoditles THis Province in Irish called Mown and in Latin Momonia is Mountainous Woody and of a different Soil but for the generality very fertil and abounding in Corn Cattle Fowl and Fish and the rather as being so well watered with Rivers and Bays which lose themselves in the Sea which almost encompasseth it except towards the East and North where it butteth upon the Provinces of Leimster and Connaugh which said Bays afford good Harbours for Shipping the chief amongst which being those of Bautre Mare Dingle and Sennon And along the Shoar are seated abundance of small Isles It is of a large extent Extent being from Waterford-Haven in the East to Feriter-Haven in the West about 100 miles and from Baltimore-Bay in the South to Galloway-Bay in the North about 90 and in circumference tracing its many Promontories and Indents above 500 miles And as to its Temporal Government it is at present severed into six Counties Counties Division viz. Limerick Tipperary or Holy-Cross Kerry Cork Desmond and Waterford all which are subdivided into several Baronies as shall be treated of as they come in order and first with Limerick County of Limerick described LIMERICK a fertil and well inhabited County is severed into eleven Baronies viz. Abbey-Outheney-boy Limerick-Liberty Clan-Williams Small-County Coshma Coshlea Killmalock Poblebria Kenry Cuonagh and Connelloe And hath for its chief places Limerick in Irish Loumeagh the chief City in the Province Limerick seated in an Isle so made by the River Shennon which after 60 miles course loseth it self in the Sea and by reason of its commodious scituation the River being Navigable to the very City makes it to be a place well inhabited and frequented is graced with good built Houses beautified with a Cathedral Church and a fair Stone-Bridge is honoured with the See of a Bishop and is strongly fortified with a Castle and begirt with a Wall Kill-Mallo a well inhabited Town which is also begirt with a Wall Killmallo Adare seated on the Shennon once a Town of good account And Clan-William Adare County of Tipperary or Holy-Cross described TIPPERARY or HOLY-CROSS more fertil in its Southern parts than elsewhere is divided into twelve Baronies viz. Slevardagh and Compsey Kilnemana Ikerin Iffa and Offa Iliogurty Middle-third Owney and Arra Clan-Williams Ileagh Kilnelougurty Vpper-Ormond and Lower-Ormond and hath for its principal places Cassile seated on the Showr and dignified with an Archiepiscopal See Cassile by Eugenius the Third Bishop of Rome Holy-Cross seated on the River Showr or Swire Holy-Cross once a place of good account and note for its famous Abby which was well frequented by Pilgrims and other devout persons who came to see and worship a piece as was generally supposed of the Holy-Cross from whence the Country adjoyning is generally called County of the Holy-Cross of Tipperary Emeley dignified with the See of a Bishop once a place of good account Emeley and well inhabited and frequented Clomel seated on the River Showr a well frequented Town Clomel Carick-Mac-Griffin Thurles and Tipperary Carick-Mac-Griffin scituate on a Rock Thurles and Tipperary The North part of this County which is very hilly and not over fertil beareth the name of Ormond and is honoured in giving Title to his Grace James Butler Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormond Earl of Brecknock and Ossery Viscount Thurles Baron of Arklow and Lanthony Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold Knight of the Garter and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. County of Kerry described KERRY a County watered with the Sea where it thrusteth forth a largâ— Bay called Dingley-Bay and hath on its Shoar divers small Isles It is verâ— Mountainous and Woody but interlaced with fertil Valleys 'T is divided intâ— eight Baronies viz. Glaneroughty Iveragh Dunkerone Moygunnyhy Trughanackme Corkaguiny Iraghticonnor and Clanmorris And hath for its chieâ— place Dingle Dingle which hath a commodious Port on the other side of which is Smerwick-Sound a good Road for Ships Ardart Traley Ardart a place of mean account although the See of a Bishop and Traleâ— County of Desmond described DESMOND a Mountainous County and well washed with the Seâ— which thrusteth forth its Arms a good way into the Land and forms threâ— Promontories viz. first that of Eraugh lying between Baltimore and Banâ—râ— a Bay sufficiently well known for the great store of Herrings here taken Secondly that of Beare being enclosed between the Bays of Maire and Dinglâ— It hath for its chief places Donekyran Ardes Downbay Donekyran defended by a Castle Ardes and Downbay CORKE a large County lying on the Sea where it hath good Roads an Ports for Ships County of Corke described It is severed into fifteen Baronies viz. Duhallo Condonâ— aâ— Clangibon Orrery and Killmore Fermoy Imokillire Barrimore Corke Chursey Kinsale Barriroe Ibawne Beare and Bantry Musbery Carbury and Barets And hath for its chief places Corke Corke the chief City in the Province dignified with the See of a Biskoâ— commodiously seated on a Bay of the Sea where it hath a good Haven bâ— reason of which it is a place well inhabited and frequented by Merchants anâ— Tradesmen who drive a good Trade and is a place of some strength beinâ— begirted with a Wall besides a River over which it hath a Bridge Kinsale Kinsale seated at the
by Richard Blome By his Majesties Especiall Command London Printed for Richard Blome To the Rt. honble Anthony Earle of Shaftesbury Baron Ashby of Wimbourne St. Giles and Lord Cooper of Paulet This Mapp is most humbly D.D. by R.B. AMERICA AMERICA is a Continent different from that wherein we inhabit or which we call Ours for the surface of the Globe being described into two Hemispheres divided by the first Meridian America is in that Hemisphere which is opposite to ours The Voyages of Columbus Cabral and Visputius into America In 1942 and some succeeding years Christopher Columbus a Genouese for and in the name of Ferdinand King of Arragon and Isabella Queen of Castile made divers Voyages into the Islands which are before this Continent and discovered part of the Coasts of the Continent In 1501 Alvares Cabral for and in the name of Emanuel King of Portugal Navigating along the Coast of Africa on a Voyage to the East-Indies some Eastern Winds carried him so far to the West that he discovered the Coast of a main Land which was afterwards called Brazil where a little after Americus Vesputius a Florentine was expresly sent with a particular charge to discover this Country In which he was so happy that his name was given to that part of the Coast which he discovered and in fine to the whole Continent From these Voyages of Columbus Cabral and Americus Vesputius the Spaniards pretend to be the first who discovered or caused to be discovered and gave knowledge of this Continent America known by the Ancients The Greeks and Latins have given fair testimonies that the Ancients have had some knowledge of America Plato in his Timaeus and in his Critias calls in the Atlantick Isle and esteems it as great or greater than Asia and Africa together It seems that Plato or Solon or the Priest of Egypt c. had knowledge of the greatness scituation and form of the two parts of America so well they agree to Asia and Africa the Northern America with Asia the Southern with Africa America bounded AMERICA is almost divided into two parts of which one is between the Equator and the North the other in regard of us is towards the South and part under the Equator After Plato Theopompus either in his Treatise of Wonders or in his History makes mention of another Continent besides ours and touches divers particulars Among others that its greatness is so vast that it was not wholly known that its Men were greater stronger and lived longer than we that they had Gold and Silver in so great quantity that they made less account of it than we do of Iron That they had a great number of Cities and among others two very great ones and of Customs much different the principal aim of the one being to War and the other to Religion which I esteem agreeing with Cusco and Mexico which we have so found when first known to us Mexico more inclined to War and Cusco to the adoration of its Divinities AMERICA having been known to the Ancients under divers names and all these names preserved till now there remains to know from whence the People of this America should descend whether from Europe Asia or Africa It is to be believed that the first of our Continent which were carried into America were so either by chance or by force the Eastern Winds having driven them from the Coast of Africa or Libya where they sailed and carried them so far into the West that they have found these Lands And it is likewise to be believed that of those which have been so carried some have been unfurnished of Victuals for so long and impremeditated a Voyage and so have been constrained to eat some among them to preserve the rest as others since have done And thus America may have been peopled by divers Nations How America became first peopled by those of our Continent and at divers times and according to the Parts from whence they were according to the hunger and necessity they suffered upon the Sea they became more or less barbarous And that some have been carried by chance or force from our Continent to the other we may judge both by Ancient and Modern Histories Diodorus Siculus makes mention of certain Phoenicians Aristotle had said almost the same before of the Carthaginians who sayling along the Coast of Africa or Libya were carried far into the Occidental Ocean where they found a very great Isle distant from our Main Land many days sail and the Country as beautiful as that of Toscany so that some of Carthage would here have settled but that the Republick prohibited any more to pass fearing lest it should weaken their Estate commanding those which were passed to retire and abolishing as much as they could the knowledge of their Country yet with design to retire thither if they should become so unfortunate as to fall under the Romans subjection Those particulars which Authors apply to this Isle agree better with America Meridionalis which is almost an Isle than with the Isles on this side it Besides these Authorities of the Ancients the accident which arrived to Alonzo Zanches de Guelva in Adalousie or whatever other Pilot he was who landing at the Madera where was Christopher Columbus who told him how he had been carried by force into the West which he had discovered and how he had returned And the like accident which happened to Cabral in 1501 as we have already said makes it sufficiently appear how the same thing may have hapned to other Saylors and particularly to those Nations on this side which lie upon the Ocean as the Moors Spaniards Celtes and Bretons c. And those who traded on the Ocean as the Phoenicians Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians and this is the more easily because between the two Tropicks the Eastern Brises or Winds do for the most part blow and easily carry nay sometimes force Ships from East to West It is true that it is hard to turn from East to West by the same course And possibly from these two so different things the Poet took occasion to say Facilis descensus Averni Sed revocare gradum superasque revertere ad auras Hoc opus hic labor est Understanding it easy to descend from our Continent into the other which we esteem the Lower Hemisphere but hard to return from that to ours which we esteem the Higher the means to return with least difficulty not being found out but with time and after having and that at divers times essayed all courses which is by disingaging themselves from between the Tropicks which some attribute to Pedrarias de Avila who about the year 1514 began to give Rules for the time of parting and the course was to be held to go from our Continent to the other and likewise the time and course to return from the others to ours Since some have passed from this world of our Continent and by
of the said Company Jamaica described JAMAICA is an Isle of a large extent being from East to West 170 miles in length and from North to South where it is broadest about 70 being of an Oval form and waxing narrower and narrower at both extream ends It is seated betwixt the Tropicks in the 17 and 18 degrees of Northern Latitude It s scituation Extent and beareth from off the Isle of Hispaniola Eastwards about 35 Leagues In the midst of the Isle from East to West runs a continued ridge of lofty Mountains which are well stored with fresh Springs whence flow the many Rivers that so plentifully water the Island Well watered to the great benefit of the Inhabitants The Air is observed to be more temperate than any of the Caribe Isles and of as mild a temperature as any place betwixt the Tropicks being alwaies refreshed with cool breezes frequent showers and great dews in the nights that it may be deemed Temperate and by its continual verdure exceeding delightful The Weather The weather is less certain than in the Caribe Isles the most observable wet seasons are in November and May there being no seemable Winter but by a little more rain and thunder in the Winter months nor is there scarce any sensible lengthning or shortning of the Days or Nights Hurricanes are here never known It s fertility and commodities This Isle in most parts especially the North is of a Fertil and rich soil and liberally answers the Cultivators cost and pains for what is planted The chief Commodities that it produceth are Sugars which are so good that they out sell those of the Barbados 5 s. per cent Cocao the richest Commodity of the Island Indico Cotton Tobacco but indifferent Hides Copper great variety of Woods for Dyers also Cedar Brasilletto Lignum vitae Ebony c. Tortoises in exceeding great plenty whose flesh is excellent good and nourishing but those that are troubled with the French man it is dangerous to eat Salt Salt-Peter Ginger Cod-pepper Piemente being an excellent Aromatick spice of a curious gusto having the mixt tast of divers Spices Cocheneil divers excellent Druggs Gumms and Balsoms many of which are not yet known by their names Here are greater abundance of Cattle than in most of the English Plantations as Horses Cows Hoggs Sheep Goats Asnegroes Mules Great plenty of Cattle which came from the breed of those put into the Woods by the Spaniards when they were first Masters of the Island which for want of Masters became wild but since the English have had to do here they are much wasted to what they were The Bays Rivers Roads and Creeks Fish Fowl are well stored with excellent Fish of sundry sorts appropriate to the Indies Likewise great store of Fowl both tame and wild the chief of which are Ducks Teal Wigeon Geese Turkyes Pigeons Hens Plovers c. Here are great plenty of excellent Fruits as Oranges Fruits Cocarnuts Pomegranates Limes Guavers Mammes Alumee-Supotas Avocatas Cashues Prickle-Apples Prickle Pears Grapes Sower sops Custard-Apples Dildoes Plantains Pines c. And Herbs Roots Herbs and Roots and Flowers common to England grow here very well Here are very noxious Beasts or Insects found those most dangerous are the Alegators Hurtful things some of which are fifteen and twenty foot long here is also Manchonele which is a kind of Crab likewise Snakes and Guianas but not poysonous as also Muskettoes and Merrywings a sort of stinging Flies found very troublesome to the Inhabitants The Diseases that Strangers are most incident unto are Dropsies occasioned by ill Dyet Drunkenness Diseases and Sloathfulness Calentures too frequently the product of Surfeits also Fevers and Agues but it is experimentally sound that if a good Dyet and moderate Exercises are used without excess of Drinking they may enjoy a competent measure of health and the reason of the great mortality of the Army at their arrival was the want of Provisions together with an unwillingness to labouror exercise joyned with discontent This Island is divided into Fourteen Precincts Divisions or Parishes It s division in to Precincts or Parishes many of which are well Inhabited especially the Southern part so far as the ridge of Mountains which runneth in the midst nor are its Southern parts especially near the Sea without Plantations though not so thick as about St. Jago and of late years the Island is much increased in its Inhabitants and Plantations being likely to prove the Potentest Colony the English are Masters of in America being able to bring into the Field upon occasion about eight or ten thousand men This Isle abounds with goods Bays Roads and Harbours the chief amongst which are Port Royal formerly Cagway It s chief places Port Royal. seated on the extream end of that long point of Land which makes the Harbour which is exceeding commodious for Shipping and secured by a strong Castle and land lock't by a point of land that runs twelve miles South-East from the main of the Island having the great River that runs by los Angelos and St. Jago falling into it where Ships do commonly water and conveniently wood The Harbour is two or three Leagues broad in most places with good Anchorage and so deep that a Ship of one thousand Tun may lay her sides to the Shoar of the point and load and unload with Planks afloat which commodiousness doth make it much resorted unto and as well Inhabited by the Merchants Store-house-keepers and other Inhabitants this being the only noted place in the Isle for Traffick and resort being said to contain about 12 or 1500 well built houses which are as dear rented as if they stood in well traded streets in London yet its scituation is very unpleasant and uncommodious having neither Earth Wood or fresh water but only made up of a hot loose sand which renders it more unhealthful than up in the Country and Provisions are very dear about 12 miles up in the Land from this Town is St. Jago St. Jago or St. Jago de la vega which when the Spaniards were Masters of it was large containing about 2000 houses which were destroyed and reduced to about 500 when the English first seized the Isle and here the Governour resideth and where the chief Courts of Judicature are held which makes it to be well resorted and inhabited where they live in great pleasure recreating themselves in their Coaches and on Horseback in the evenings in the Savana near adjoyning as the Gentry do here in Hide-Park The present Governour is his Excellency Charles Earl of Carslile Viscount Howard of Acorpeth Lord Dacres of Gilsland one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council a person for prudence and noble qualifications every way beâ—itting such a place Six miles Southward of this Town is seated Passage at the mouth of the River Passage which at six miles course falleth into the Harbour of
Figgs Melons Capers and excellent Grapes c. The manners habit and tongue of the Islanders retain much of the Moors yet they are all Catholicks like to Malta and under the Vice-Roy of Sicily In the midst of the Island and in a Cave is a Pitt which exhales continually an obscure vapour which spreading it self on all sides on the Rock dissolves into water and distills with such abundance that it furnisheth all the Inhabitants have need of not only for their drink and other uses but for their Beasts nor is there any other fresh water in the Isle the Land being dry reddish and so hot that a naked foot can scarce suffer it For the rest the Knights of Malta are alwaies in Arms against the Moors Mahometans and all the Pyrates of the Mediterranean Sea Knights alwaies in Wars and by their expeditions with those few Gallies they have delivered out of their hands a great number of Christian Captives reduced many Mahometans to the Christian Faith maintain their Arms in good reputation and on all occasions which present themselves whether of their own or with other Princes of Christendom they freely employ and venture both their lives and goods in favour of Christians in general and particular But it is time to finish Africa and to say that if we would have believed certain Authors among the Antients this Africa had been represented to us with unsupportable heats unsufferable droughs fierce and cruel Beasts perfidious Men horrible and afrightful Monsters whereas time which daily discovers things unknown to the Antients hath made us see that the greatest heats of Africa have some refreshments that the driest sands have some wells some waters that the vastest solitudes have some green fields some Fruits that the Beasts are not so dangerous but that Men may desend themselves from their fury nor the Men so faithless but that they have Commerce and Society among themselves as also with Strangers that their Dragons Serpents Griffons c. are for the most part imaginary And moreover the generosity of its Lyons the docility of its Camels the Feathers of its Estriches the odour of its Civets the swistness of its Barbes the agility of its wild Asses the greatness of its Elephants the strength of its Eagles the diversity of its Parroquets and the wantonness of its little Monkeys c. recompence the mischief which other Beasts may do And though there are as yet some people fierce and Man-eaters the most part of the others are very ingenious and tractable The Egyptians have long since sufficiently made known their cunning in Sciences Arts and Arms so have the Carthaginians c. and the Antients esteemed the Aethiopians the most innocent and justest men in the world believing the Gods sometimes banqueted with them Besides there are many particulars worthy of observation in Africa what City was ever fairer or more magnificent than THEBES in the higher Egypt Than MEMPHIS in the middle Or A LEXANDRIA in the lower Out of Egypt what City was ever richer more powerful or more proud than CARTHAGE except Rome And at present PEZ is so splendid that there is no City in Europe to be compared with it though many believe it not to compare to CAIRO in Egypt Among the Seven Wonders of the World some place three in Egypt alone the Statue of MEMNON at Thebes the PYRAMIDES near Memphis and the PHARVS of Alexandria Commodities of Africa Not only these beautiful Works and fair Cities not only the infinite quantity of Gold and other Metals Precious stones Grains Fruits Spices Druggs Wines Oyls Sugars Honey Wax Cordovants Amber Ambergreece Elephants-teeth Estriches-feathers Saffron Coral Civet Musk Incense Coffee Capers Olives Ivory Silk Cotton Flax c. of which they make Velvets Silks Damasks c. a thousand several Manufactures which are found there ought to make us account Africa very considerable but its extent which is little less than Asia twice as great as Europe It s position is in the Southern part of our Continent the South is esteemed after the East before either North or West It was the portion of Cham second Son to Noah which may make us judge it the second in greatness and goodness Its first Monarchies have been known before those of Europe some will say before those of Asia Arts Sciences Letters and Laws have been in great reputation here before they passed into Greece or the rest of Europe AMERICA as it is divided into SEPTENTRIONAL which may be divided into CANADIANE where there shall be The ARCTICK LANDS as Island Bellested Groenland Beareford North Wales Sea hor c-p inâ— South Wales Hudsons Bay CANADA or NEW FRANCE whose chief parts and people are those of Estoriland Hope advanced Saguanay Quebec Canada Mont Real Acadie Martengo New England Boston Mary Land Marys town Virginia James town Carolina Charles town The Hurons St. Peter Isle of Bermuda's Southampton Florida St. Hellens MEXICANE with it Audiences Provinces c. of MEXICO with its Provinces and chief places of Mexico Mexico Panuco Panuco Mechoachan Mechoacan Thascala Thascala Guaxaca Antequera Tabasco No. â—en de la victoria Jucatan Merida GUADALAJARA with its Provinces of Gudalajara Guadalajara Xalisco Compostella Chiâ—â—etlan St. Sebastian Culiacan St. Michael Cinaloa St. John Los Zacatecas Zacatecas New Biscay St. John Quivira St. Fee Anian Anian Cibola Cibola California Port de Montere GUATEMALA with its Provinces c. of Guatemala St. Jago de guatemala Vera Pax Vera Pax. Soconusco Gueyet lan Chiapa Cui dad Real Honduras Valladolid Nicaragua Leon. Costarica Cartago Veragua la Conception St. DOMINGO with its Isles the chief of which are Cuba St. Jago Jamaica Sevilla Hispaniola St. Domingo Soana St. Germaine MERIDIONAL which may be divided into PERUVIANE where three shall be TERRA FIRMA with its Provinces c. of Panama Panama Carthagena Carthagena St. Martha St. Martha Rio de la Hacha Rio de la Hacha Venezula Venezula New Andalousia Comana Paria Macureguaâ—a Caribes Taupuramuneâ— Guiana Macurewaray Popayan St. Fee de Antiochia Granada St. Fee de Bogata PERU with its Audiences of Peru Quito De los Quixos Baesa Pasamores Loyola Lima Lima. De la Plata de la Plata Chili Copiopo Magellanick Land St. Phillip BRAZILIENE where there shall be BRAZILE with its Capitaines or Governments of St. Vincent Sanctos Rio Janieto Schastian Spiritu Sancto Spiritu Sancto Porto Seguro Porto Seguto los Isleos Los Isleos Baya de los Sanctos St. Salvador Seregippe Seregippe del Rey. Fernambuco Olinda Tamaraca Tamaraca Parayba Parayba Rio Granda De los tres Reys Siara Siara Maranhan Junipara Para Para. PARAGUAY or RIO de la PLATA with its Provinces c. of Paraguay Paraguay Chaco Chaco De la Plata Aslumption Tucoman St. Jago del Estera Urvaig la Conception Parana St. Ignatious Guayr Ouidad Real A New Mapp of AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALE Designed by MouÌ„sieur Sanson Geographer to the French King and Rendred into English and Illustrated