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
Kexholm or Barelogorod INGRIA which is not subdivided into Provinces Notteburg or Orescu Juanogorod Caporia Jamagorod LIVONIA in part as The rest belongeth to the Crown of POLAND ESTEN or ESTONIE where are the parts of Esten Febin Vickeland Pernajo Habsel Harneland Revel Wireland Wiesenburg Tolsburg Alantack Nerva Nyslot Jervenland Wittenstein Kikeland Derpt LETTEN with its parts and places as they lie Towards the West Riga Segenwold Wenden Walmer Towards the South Koekenhaus Creutzburg Dunburg Towards the East Maryenburg SCANDINAVIA Wherein are the ESTATES of DENMARK AND SWEDEN The extent bounds c. of Scandinavia SCANDIA or SCANDINAVIA is only a Peninsula which extends it self from the 56th degree of Latitude unto or beyond the 71 which are near 400 Leagues from North to South and from the 26th degree of Longitude unto the 45th on the Baltick Sea and on the Ocean unto the 53 but this Mass of Land cannot have in its greatest breath above 150 Leagues finishing in two points towards South and North. It s scituation c. It is bounded on the North and West by the Northern Ocean and on the South and East by the Baltick Sea a continual Chain of Mountains dividing it into two almost equal parts of which one is on the Baltick Sea and the other on the Ocean this possessed by the King of Denmark the other by the King of Sweden DENMARK Its Commodities THe Estates of DENMARK contain two Kingdoms to wit DENMARK and NORWAY Denmark is between the Ocean and the Baltick Sea composed of a Peninsula contiguous to Germany and of a Coast contiguous to Sweden and of divers Isles which are between the Peninsula and Coast some likewise in the middle of the Baltick Sea and near Livonia It is scituate partly in the Northern Temperate Zone and partly within the Artick Circle extending from the 55th degree of Longitude or the middle Parallel of the 10th Clime where it joyneth to Germany as far as 71 degrees where it is bounded by the Frozen Ocean the longest day in the most Southern parts being 17 ¼ hours but in the most Northern parts they have no Night for almost three Months whereas on the other side when the Sun is in the other Tropick and most remote from them they have no Day for the like time This Country is very cold and consequently not over fertil nor affording good Fruits The Commodities that this Kingdom affords are Fish Hides Tallow Furniture for Shipping as Pitch Tar Cordage Masts c. also Firr Boards Wainscot several sorts of Armour c. VIRTUTE NON VI To the Rt. honble 〈…〉 Lord 〈…〉 〈…〉 of 〈…〉 Dâ—â—â—â—â— Earl of 〈◊〉 and L d of his Maitys most Honourable privy Councell c 1678 of 〈…〉 younger son of one of the Danish Kings that came into England with William the Conquerour This Mapp is Humbly dedicated by R B â—â—PP OF THE KINGDOME OF DENNMARKE WITH ITS SEVERALL DIOECESES OR PROVINCES DESIGNED BY MONSIEUR SANSON GEO Its Inhabitants The Inhabitants for the most part are of a good statute and complexion very healthful ingenious and of a ready wit very punctual in performing their Promises proud and high conceited of their own worth lovers of Learning as may appear by those Famous men it hath bred viz. Tycho Brahe the great Mathematician John Cluverus the renowned Philosopher and Physitian Godfrey Gottricus that stout Warriour who not only setled the Government of this Kingdom but also shook the Realm of France likewise Waldemare Christiern the Second and Fourth Canutus and Sueno which two last were the Conquerors of England They are great punishers of Offenders especially Theft and Piracy their Women are of a comly grace very fair and as fruitful in Children discreet and sober The Peninsula called JVITLAND once Cimbrica Chersonesus Juitland from the Cimbrians its ancient Inhabitants it is divided into North and South Juitland North JVITLAND is severed into the Bishopricks of Ripen Arthusen Albourg and Wibourg Diocess of Ripen RIPEN contains 30 Prefectures or Herets as they term them 7 Cities or walled Towns and 10 Castles It s chief places are 1. Ripen seated near the German Ocean the chief place of the Diocess and dignified with an Episcopal See 2. Kolding seated on a Creek of the Baltick Sea 3. Wee l 4. Warde c. Diocess of Arthusen ARTHVSEN containeth 31 Prefecture 7 Cities or walled Towns and 5 Castles It s chief places are 1. Arthusen seated on the Baltick Sea having a commodious and well frequented Port and dignified with an Episcopal See 2. Kalla a strong place seated in a large Bay reaching two Dutch miles to the high Hill of Elemanberg opposite to which lie the Isles of Hilgones Tuen Samsoe Hiarneo and Hiolm c. 3. Horsens 4. Randersen 5. Ebelto and 6. Hobro Diocess of Albourg ALBOVRG which is divided into four parts viz. Thyland whose chief Town is Albourg seated on the Bay of Limford which opening into the Baltick Sea extendeth it self through the main Land almost to the German Ocean 2. Hanebert on the North-west of Limford Bay containeth 4 Prefectures and hath for its chief place Thystad 3. Morsee lying on the Ocean contains 3 Prefectures the Isle of Ageroe the Town of Nicopin and the Castle of Lunstead and 4. Vensyssel according to Mercator Vandalorum sedes or the Seat of the Vandals contains 6 Prefectures 3 Towns and 1 Castle viz. Selby Cagen and Hirring Diocess of Wibourg WIBOVRG contains 16 Prefectures the Isles of Egholm Hansholm Bodum Idgen Cisland and Ostholm also it hath 3 Castles and as many Cities or walled Towns viz. 1. Wibourg dignified with an Episcopal See and the Courts of Judicature for both the Juitlands The point of Scagen or Scean ends this Peninsula towards the North. 2. Lemwick and 3. Holcker South JVITLAND is divided into the Dukedoms of Sleswick and Holstein SLESWICK a Country for the most part level Sleswick enriched with fertil Fields both for Corn and Pasturage it is very well provided with good Bays on the Baltick which are found commodious for Merchants The chief places in this Dukedom are 1. Sleswick seated on the Slea which falls into the Baltick where it hath a commodious and well frequented Haven it is a fair Town the chief of the Dukedom and honoured with an Episcopal See 2. Hussen seated on the German Ocean 3. Sternberg the ordinary residence of the Governour for the King of Denmark 4. Hadersleben seated on a navigable In-let of the Baltick and fortified with a strong and fair Castle 5. Flensborg seated on the Baltick amongst high Mountains having a Port so commodious and deep that Ships do lade and unlade close to their Houses and 6. Gottrop where there is a strong Fort belonging to the Duke of Sleswick seated at the end of a large Bay of the Baltick of note for the Custom-house or Tole-booth there erected for Cattle sent out of these parts into Germany
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
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.
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
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
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
COSMOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY In Two Parts THE FIRST Containing the General and Absolute Part of COSMOGRAPHY and GEOGRAPHY BEING A TRANSLATION From that Eminent and much Esteemed GEOGRAPHER VARENIVS Wherein are at large handled All such Arts as are necessary to be understood for the true knowledge thereof To which is added the much wanted Schemes omitted by the Author THE SECOND PART Being a Geographical Description of all the WORLD Taken from the Notes and Works of the Famous Monsieur SANSON Late GEOGRAPHER to the French King To which are added About an Hundred Cosmographical Geographical and Hydrographical TABLES of several Kingdoms and Isles in the World with their Chief Cities Seaports Bays c. drawn from the MAPS of the said SANSON Illustrated with MAPS LONDON Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome MDCLXXXII To the Right Noble CHRISTOPHER DUKE OF ALBEMARLE Earl of Torrington Baron Monk of Potheridge Beauchamp and Teys Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter Lord Lieutenant of Devonshire and Essex Captain of His MAJESTIES Life Guards and Guards of Horse One of the Gentlemen of His Bed Chamber and One of His Most Honurable Privy-Council MY LORD WHEN I consider You are the Duke of ALBEMARLE the very Title is so Great that it puts a damp on my Quill and disables me from making any sufficient Apology for this presumptuous Dedication But on the other hand when I consider that You are Heir to Your now Glorious Fathers Vertues as well as to his Titles and Dignities and that his Goodness and Humility are entailed on You his only Son I cannot want a Motive to this Ambition My Lord This Volume is a Cosmographical and Geographical Description of the WORLD in which Your Name is great and precious and although in it self is excellent yet being Countenanced by Your Protection will admit of no Equals This being granted by Your Grace's Favour I have no more to beg but that Your Fathers Magnanimity Valour Grandure and Heroick Actions may be so deeply imprinted on You that these Kingdoms may not only love and admire You but that Your Name and Memory may be precious to future Ages which is the Prayer of MY LORD Your Graces most Obedient Servant RICHARD BLOME THE Preface to the Reader AMongst all those Arts or Sciences which Man ought to have a Knowledge of the Description of the Earth and Heavens which is termed COSMOGRAPHY and GEOGRAPHY for the Vtility and Dignity thence arising ought not to have the least estimate the Soul being naturally inclined to the exploration of COSMOGRAPHY and GEOGRAPHY as a necessary inherent in it which seems evident in that Men of undoubted Judgments out of a singular desire to propagate this Study and sparing no Cost or Labour have travelled over the greatest part of the Universe Vnto this we add That seeing the Earth was created by God to be the habitation of Man if by brevity of Life and Humane imbecility we cannot so well Travel with the Body yet at least-wise we would visit behold and contemplate it in our Minds for its beauty admirable elegancy and the Honour of the Creator There are many other Forceable Arguments by which it appears all Men are generally inclined to the knowledge thereof As the Commodities of every Nation are peculiar to it self so that according to Divine Providence one Nation cannot well subsist without the help of another to which end they are transported by way of Exchange and Traffick unto other Countries But to shew the use of it in all Arts and Sciences there being none but receive some light and assistance from COSMOGRAPHY and GEOGRAPHY To this the immortal Stagyrite and Divine Plato flieth as a refuge when a numberless multitude and variety of Natures secrets in Lands disjoyned and the profound Ocean sometimes nonpluseth or staggers their Capacities The Moral PHILOSOPHER is a Non-essence being unskilled herein for how can he search into or inform himself of the Genius Natures Inclinations or Studies of Men and what is most proper for every distinct Nation or People being his adequate subject without this Chart to stear by The PHYSITIAN is necessitated to have a great insight in this Noble Study both for observing the Drugs and Medicaments transported from Foreign Parts c. judging their Natures and Effects from the several Climates c. but especially for the variety of Bodies or Constitutions which are habituated according to the Climate and Soil of the Country Take this away from the MARTIALIST his Stratagems fail and his whole Knowledge is in a feeble condition The MERCHANT and NAVIGATOR are compelled unto an insight herein for the knowing the Scituation and Climate of Countries their Circumferences the Latitude and Longitude of Places the Currents of Rivers what Commodities each Region aboundeth in and what they are deficient of and the Manners Customs and Dispositions of the Inhabitants Without COSMOGRAPHY and GEOGRAPHY all History is a thing of little use the affinity of them both being such that they seem to center both in one And to come more home to the matter the History of the Scythians Indians Aethiopians and Americans are only expressed unto us by Geographers Farther Historiographers make use of Geographical Descriptions for the better and more full illustration of their History And lastly in reference unto POLICY or Management of State no Wars Societies or Leagues can be well made with a Foreign State or Kingdom except there be first a perfect knowledge of the Nature Disposition Manners Customs Strength c. of the Nation or Pâ—â—ple with which such a Combination or League c. is to be made and established Henry King of Castile though much weakned by Sickness yet neglected not to send frequent Embassadors into Asia that he might have a continual information of the Manners and Strength of those Provinces And the same was done by Moses before his setting foot into Palestine Now Nature which exhibiteth and discovereth her elegancy and force in the production of variety of things hath not only diversly distinguished the Faces and Physiognomy but also the Souls and Minds of Men The Modes Genius's Customs and Natures of Nations being vastly different unto this very end she hath variously disposed the causes themselves GEOGRAPHERS have divided the World into Climates and every Climate is distinctly subject to the Dominion of some Planet as the chief cause of this Diversity where observe that the first Climate which extendeth through the Meroë an Isle made so by the River Nilus is subject to Saturn Those under the second Climate is attributed to Jupiter and passeth through Siene a City in Aegypt Those inhabiting under the third is subject to Mars and extendeth through Alexandria Those under the fourth is appropriated to the Sun and stretcheth through Rhodes and the middle of Greece Those under the fifth which passeth through Rome and divideth Italy from Savoy is attributed to Venus Those under the sixth where Mercury is predominate passeth through France And
like feigned Names and Placeâ— EUROPE with its Kingdoms Isles c. may be considered in three times three parts and then The three most Southern parts are SPAIN with its Kingdoms or Principalities viz. Castile Madrid Leon Leon Navarr Pampelona Bisâ—ay Bilboa Asturie Oviedo Gallicia St. Jago de Compoâ—â— Portugal Lisbon Algarve Pharo Andaloufia Sevill Granada Granada Muâ—cia Murcia Aâ—â—agon Caragosa Valencia Valencia Catalonia Barcelona the Isles of Baleares Majorca ITALY with Its several Estates and Principalities the Chief of which are Piedmont Turin Millain Millain Genoua Genoua Parma Parma Mantua and Modena Mantua Venice Venice Toscany Florence Estare of the Church Rome Naples Naples Isle of Sicily Messina Isle of Sardiny Calari Isle of Corsica Bastia TURKEY in EUROPE with its several Estates the Chief of which are those of Bosnie Jaycza Servie Belgrad Bulgarie Sophia Romania Constantinople Macedonia Salonichi Thessalie Armicho Epire Perveza Achaia Selines Pelopornesus Petras Dalmacie Rhagusa Sclavonia Posega Illyris Zatha Croatia Sisseg Together with several Isles as they lie in the Aegean or Grecian Seas as Negroponte Creâ—e the Isles of Cyclades c. Ionian Seas as Zant Zeffalonia Corfu c. Aâ—riatick Seas as Zara Lesina Curzola Lissa c. The three Innermost parts and within the Continent are FRANCE with its twelve Governments or General Estates viz. Picardy Amiens Normandy Roen or Roven Isle of France Paris Champâ—gne Troys Brelagne Nantes Orlenois c. Orleans Bourgogne Dijon Lyonnois c. Lyon Guyenne and Gascogne Bourdeaux Languedoc Toulouse Provence Marseille Dauphin Grenoble The several Estates which lie between France the Catholick Low Countrey Anvers Lorrain Metz the French County Besansons Savoy Cambery Germany the Low Countreys or the United Provinces Amsterdam Rotterdam the Swisses Basle the Grisons Coire GERMANY with its several Estates and Principalities the chief of which are On this side the Rhine Strasbourg Beyond the Rhine Cologne Westphalia Munster Franconia Noremberg Sovabe Ansbourg Bavaria Munchen Austria Vienna Bohemia Prague Higher Saxony Dresden Brandenbourg Berlin Pomerania Stetin Lower Saxony Hamburgh POLAND with its several Estates the chief of which are Polonia Cracow Prussie Dantzick Mazovie Warzaw Lithuania Wilna Volhynia Kyovia Podolia Kamieniec Russia Nigra Loewenberg And some Estates or Principalities towards the Danube and Black-Sea as Hungaria Buda Transylvania Hermenstat Valaquie Targovisko Moldavia Soczowa Little Tartaria Nigropoli The three most Northern parts Kingdoms and Isles are SCANDINAVIA where are the Kingdoms and Estates of Danemark Danemark Capenhagven Norway Trondhem Sweden Gothland Calmar Sweden Stockholm Finland Abo Livonie Riga MOSCOVIA with its several Kingdoms Dutches and Provinces the chief of which are Moscovy Mosco Wolomodire Wolodomer Dwine St. Michael Archaâ— Cazan Kingdom Cazan Astracan Kingdom Astracan The ISLES of GREAT BRITAIN where are the Kingdoms of England London Scotland Edinburgh Ireland Dublin To the high and Mighty Prince James Duke of Yorke Albury Marquesse of Ormond Earle of Ross of Arismanoch L d High Admirall of England Kt of the most noble order of the Garter sole Brother Privi Councellor to his most Sacrid Ma.ty K Charlas the 2d this Mapp is humbly Dedicated by Rich Blome A MAPP of EUROPE Designed by Mounsieur Sanson Geographer to the French King and Rendred into English and Illustrated by Ric Blome By his Majets Espesiall Command London Printed for Rich Blome it EUROPE EVROPE is one of the three parts of our Continent of which Asia makes the most Eastern Africa the most Southern and Europe in regard of them is between North and West Its Bounds It is for the most part bounded by the Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea that which we call the Septentrional or Frozen Ocean on the North and the Occidental or Atlantick Ocean on the West The Mediterranean Sea which is but an Arm of the Ocean lies on its South and separates it from Africa but from Asia it is separated towards the East by divers Seas which fall into the Mediterranean by several Streights between these Seas to wit the Archipelago the Sea of Marmara the Black Sea and the Sea of Zabaque Between the Archipelago and the Marmara is the Streight of Gallipoli or the Dardanelles of old Hellespontus between the Marmara and the Black Sea is the Streight of Constantinople or the Channel of the Black Sea and between the Black Sea and the Sea of Zabaque is the Streight of Caffa or Vospero Then the Rivers of Don Wolga and Oby compleat the division of Europe from Asia by drawing a line from the one to the other Scituation The scituation of Europe is between the 35 and 72 degrees of Latitude and between the 10 and 100 of Longitude though it fill not all this space and it is almost all in the Temperate Zone no part in the Torrid but some under or near the Frozen Zone But the Ocean together with the divers Seas which encompass and divide the parts of Europe have given so great an advantage to its People that they are long since become the most expert in the World in Navigation all Arts and Sciences and in Arms and Military Discipline It s Division We will consider Europe in Nine or three times three principal parts And of these the first three shall be Spain Italy and the Estates of Turkey in Europe and these possess the Southern part of Europe the second three parts shall be France Germany and Poland and these take up the middle part of Europe and the third shall be Scandinavia where are the Estates of Denmark and Sweden Russia Alba or Muscovia and the Isles of Great Britain and Ireland and these are most Northward As to the several small Isles I shall comprehend them under one and the other of these 3 parts and that according to their scituation or vicinity unto them Besides these 9 parts there will remain some Estates and Lands between France Germany and Italy likewise between Germany Poland Turkey and Moscovia and some in Turkey which shall be described as occasion presents The Languages or Speeches But before we proceed to the Parts let us consider that there are 3 principal Tongues and as many principal Religions in Europe viz. the Latin which extends it self into Italy France and Spain though in divers Idioms the Teutonick into Germany the British Isles and Scandinavia the Sclavenian into Poland Moscovy in good part of Turkey Bohemia c. though still in several Idioms and Dialects The other Tongues are much less general as the Greek Albanian Hungarian and the Tartaresque in the Eastern parts and lastly the Basque Welsh Irish and Laplandish in the most Western and Northern parts Religions The Religions are the Protestant which hath spread it self where the Teutonick Tongue is spoken the Roman Catholick is almost every where with the Latin Schism alone and every where amongst the People speaking Sclavonian and Greek the Mahumetan Religion is among the Natural Turks of Europe But to proceed to its Parts SPAIN
part where are The Dutchies of And the Charollois in part Charolles Brabant Leuvain Brusselles Limbourg Limbourg Luxembourg Luxembourg Thionville Guelderland in part Ruremonde The Counties of Flanders Gand or Gaunt Lille Artois Arras St. Omer Hainault Mons Valenciennes Namur Namur The Marquisate of the Empire where is Anvers or Antwerp The Signieury of Malines Malines And near the LOW COUNTRY The Archbishoprick and Signieury of Cambray Cambray The County of Linghen Lighen To the R t Hon John Egerton Earle of Bridgewater Visc Berckley Bar t of Elsmere L d Leiutenant Buckingham Shire one of L d of his Matys most Hon. Privi Councell c. This Mapp is Humbly Dedicated by R B A GENERALL MAPP OF THE EMPIRE OF GERMANY with its severall Estates Designed by Monsieur Sanson Geographer to the French King c. GERMANY AND BELGIUM Or THE Low Countries Its Bounds Latitude and Longitude GERMANY is in the midst of those three parts which we have placed in the middle of Europe and extends it self from 45 ½ unto 54 ½ degrees of Latitude and from the 28th unto the 41 of Longitude This position shews that it lies in the middle of the Temperate Zone This Germany may be considered in three great parts of which each may be subdivided into three others We will call the great parts Germany about the Rhine Germany about the Danube and Germany about the Elbe and the Oder all which with its lesser parts are taken notice of in the Geographical Tables of Germany according to which method we will proceed and then the first will be the Franche County or BVRGVNDY which is bounded with Bress Switzerland Lorraine and Champaine It s ancient Inhabitants were the Hedui who first called Julius Caesar into France and its People are at present esteemed warlike marching under the Colours of divers Princes and are known by the name of Walloons It is a Country so fertil that it hath been called the Flower of France within whose bounds some do esteem it It hath for its chief places 1. Besanson the Metropolis of Burgundy seated on the banks of the Doux a City of good strength and beauty and made an Vniversity by the commands of Charles the Fifth and Pope Julio the Third 2. Dole in the Balliage of Dole a Town of great strength riches and beauty famous for its Colledge of Jesuites 3. Gray in the Balliage of Amont and 4. Salius in the Balliage of Aval of some account for its rich Salt Fountain Besides these places in Burgundy are numbred 20 walled Towns and about 160 Lordships Province of Lorrain LORRAINE bordering on Burgundy famous for having had for its Duke Godfrey Sirnamed Bulloigne the Recoverer of the Holy Land from the Turks its Dukes now enjoy little else save the Title the Country being seized by the French It is of a fertil Soil affording plenty of Corn and Wine and hath store of Salt It s chief places are 1. Nancy in the Balliage of Francois once dignified with the Seat of the Duke 2. Vandrevange 3. Mirecourt 4. Vancoleur the Birth-place of Joan de Pucelle 5. Pont-a-Mason so named by reason of its Bridge over the Mosa 6. Metz and 7. Toul Country of Barrois Between this Province and Champaine lieth the Country of BARROIS and belongeth to Lorrain whence the eldest Sons of these Dukes were styled Princes of Barri It s chief places are Bar-le-Duc and St. Michael The several parts of the Catholick Low Countries The Catholick LOW COVNTRIES may be contained under the Dukedoms of Brabant Limbourg and Luxembourg the Earldoms of Flanders Artois Haynaut and Namur the Marquisate of the Empire the Signiory of Malines c. The whole Country is exceeding fertil yet found not very advantagious to the Spaniards who are Masters of it Dukedom of Brabant BRABANT for the most part of an ungrateful Soil yet well inhabited and stored with walled Towns and Villages the chief amongst which are 1. Lovaine a fair and large City being about four miles in circuit within its Walls and six without wherein are many delightful Gardens and Meadows and is of note for its Vniversity where there is a Seminary for English Jesuits 2. Brussels a City for its fairness and elegancy of its Buildings its extent being as large as Lovaine giveth place to few in the Netherlands It is at present the residence of the Spanish Governour for the Low Countries and 3. Breda once the Seat of the Prince of Orange till taken by the Spaniards City of Antwerp To the Dukedom of Brabant doth belong the Marquisate of the EMPIRE whose chief place is Anvers or Antwerp seated on the Schelde out of which it hath eight Channels cut the biggest of which are capable to receive about 100 great Ships which doth much facilitate its Trade it is a fair and large City being about seven or eight miles in circuit within its Walls which are strong high and broad enough for Coaches to pass on which the Nobility and Gentry commonly use to recreate themselves In this City are abundance of Painters and Gravers whose work is well received abroad To this Dukedom doth also belong the Signiory of Malines whose chief place bears the same name likewise the Archbishoprick and Imperial City of Cambria of good account and the Bishoprick and Imperial City of Liege seated on the Meuse a Town of good beauty being so filled with fair Abbies and Monasteries that it is called the Paradice of the Priests Dutchy of Limbourg LIMBOVRG hath many good Towns the chief of which are 1. Limbourg seated on the Banks of the Weser and giveth name to the Dutchy 2. Mastrich a place of great strength being held almost impregnable yet was gained lately by the French but through the assistance of the English under the command of his Grace James Duke of Monmouth 3. Dalen fortified with a Castle c. Dukedom of Luxembourg LVXEMBOVRG Northwards of Lorrain said to contain about 1000 Villages and 23 walled Towns the chief of which are 1. Luxembourg seated on the Elze 2. Thionville which with the other places suffered much in the time of the Wars betwixt France and Spain Forrest of Ardenna The Spaw In this Province is the famous Forrest of Ardenna once about 500 miles in compass now scarce 90 and in it or on its edges is the no less famous Waters of the Spaw so much frequented by the Europeans in and about the Month of July being found exceeding good for several Diseases in the body Man FLANDERS Earldom of Flanders described FLANDERS should be the most famous of all these Countries since it communicates its name to them all it is divided into Tutone Wallone and Imperiale The chief Cities and places in this Earldom are 1. Ghent whose Walls are seven miles in compass and was once of great beauty but now through the Seditiousness of its Inhabitants it is much ruinated a good part of it being