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A28561	A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names of all the counties, provinces, remarkable cities, universities, ports, towns, mountains, seas, streights, fountains, and rivers of the whole world : their distances, longitudes, and latitudes : with a short historical account of the same, and their present state : to which is added an index of the ancient and Latin names : very necesary for the right understanding of all modern histories, and especially the divers accounts of the present transactions of Europe / begun by Edmund Bohun ... ; continued, corrected, and enlarged with great additions throughout, and particularly with whatever in the geographical part of the voluminous, Morey and Le Clerks occurs observable, by Mr. Bernard ; together with all the market-towns, corporations, and rivers, in England, wanting in both the former editions.	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.; Barnard, John Augustine, b. 1660 or 61.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3454; ESTC R13938	1,110,589	500

River Rhosne between Switzerland to the North and Savoy to the South Called by those who live near it the Lake of Geneva by the Germans das Genfferzee by the Italians illago di Genevra extending from East to West about nine German Miles and about two over where it is broadest the Rhosne enters it at Noville and goes out at Geneva in the most Western end of it It is surrounded with good Towns the principal next Geneva is Lausanne on the North by the name of which this Lake is somtime called Lemburgh Luwow Leopolis a great and populous City of the Kingdom of Poland the Capital of Red Russia which was made an Archbishops See instead of Halitz or Haliotz in 1361. by Pope Vrban V. It stands amongst the Hills upon the River Peltew which with the Bug falls into the Vistula a little above Ploczko and is very strong being walled and fortified with two Castles one within the City the other without It was built by Leo Duke of Russia who flourished about 1280. In 1648 belleged by Chieilneck General of the Cossacks without any success In 1672. the Turks took it and soon lost it for in 1673. Michael King of Poland died in it This City stands fifteen Miles from Premislia to the East a little less from the Carpathian Hills to the North and about fifty from Warsaw to the South-East Lemgow Lemgovia a small City in the Circle of Westphalia in the County of Lippe which was once a Free Imperial City but now exempt and under the Count of Lippe It stands upon the River Begh five Miles from Minden to the North and Paderborne to the South and nine from Lippestad to the North-East Lemington a Market Town in the County of Southampton and the Hundred of Christ Church by the Seaside § There is another Lemington a Parish in Warwickshire in the Hundred of Knightlow remarkable for two Springs within few Foot of each other the one Fresh the other Salt yet at a great distance from the Ocean and of different Operations Lemnos an Island in the Archipelago See Staliment Lem●ta a Town and Desart in Libya now Zaara in Africa Lencicia or Lanscher Lancicia Lancicium a City of Poland the Capital of a Palatinate called by the Poles Lenczyc from this City which they call Lenczyckie It lies in the Greater Poland in a Marshy Ground upon the River Bsura not above ten Miles from the River Warte the same distance from Gnesna to the East and thirty from Warsaw to the West There belongs to it a Castle built on a Rock and in 1656. this City suffered much by Fire Divers Polish Councils have been Celebrated at it Lendrosia one of the Islands on the West of Scotland Lenham a Market Town in the County of Kent in Aylesford Lath at the Spring of the River Stewer Lenox Lenoxia Levinia a County in the North of Scotland through which the River and Lake of Lomond passeth on the East it hath the County of Menteith on the South Cunningham cut off by Dunbriton Fyrth on the West Argile and on the North Albania This County has the Honor of being a Dukedom which Title has been born by several of the Royal Line of Scotland The principal Town in it is Dunbritown Lens Lentium Lendum Lenense Castrum Nemetacum a small Town in Artois upon the River Souchets three Leagues from Arras to the North and four from Doway to the West The French besieged this small place in 1647. but by the loss of their General le Gasse slain by a shot whilst he was plucking at a Palisadoe they were forced to leave it near this place the French gave the Spaniards a great overthrow in 1648. and after possessed themselves of it to whom the Pyrenaean Treaty confirmed it in 1659. The Town has been fortified but was some years since slighted and dismantled Lentini Leontina a very ancient City in the Isle of Sicily in the Valley of Netina on the Eastern Shoar Heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Syracuse whilst Syracuse was the Metropolis of the Island under the Greek Emperors It is now pretty considerable and populous but very confusedly built A place of greater Antiquity than Syracuse and perhaps than any other City now in the Island It stands five Miles from the Sea to the West and ten from Catania to the South-West Lenza Nicia a River of Italy which springing from the Apennine runneth North and parteth the Dukedom of Parma from that of Modena then falls into the Po at Barsello eight Miles from Parma to the North. Leominster or Lemster a Market and Borough Town in Herefordshire in the Hundred of Wolphey upon the River Lug of chief Note for fine Wheat Flower and Wooll Leon Legio Germanica Sublanco a City of Spain in the Astures built in the Reign of Nerva the Emperor It is now called by the Inhabitants Leon or Leone a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Compostella so far exempted that he acknowledgeth no Metropolitan but the Pope and the Capital of the Kingdom of Leon ever since 658. It stands at the bottom of an Hill by the Fountains of the River Esla very great but not much peopled twelve Miles from the Ocean to the South and twenty one from Valedolid to the North-West It was Recovered from the Moors in 722. and is adorned with one of the most beautiful Cathedrals in Spain § There is another City in New Spain in America called Leon by the Spaniards and Nagarando by the Natives which being the Capital of Nicaragua the Province in which it stands is sometimes called Leon de Nicaragua This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Mexico by a Lake of the same name about 12 Leagues from the Shoars of the Pacifick Ocean and 18 from New Granada to the East The Kingdom of Leon and Oviedo Legionense Regnum hath on the East the County of Biscay on the North the main Cantabrian Ocean on the South Castile and on the West Gallicia It has its name from Leon and Oviedo the two chief Cities in it This is the most ancient Kingdom in Spain and began about 717. being more anciently called Asturia from the Astures an old People who possessed it It is mountainous and full of Woods divided in two by the River Duero about fifty five Leagues long from North to South and forty broad Augustus Caesar was the first Roman that conquered it The Goths after five hundred years free possession of it outed the Romans and after four hundred more the Saracens did as much for the Goths but they the Saracens did not long enjoy it this being the first Kingdom the Christians recovered from them under the Command of Pelagius a young Prince of this Nation about 717. It continued a separate Kingdom under twenty nine Princes till in 1228. Ferdin III. annexed it to Castile he being married to Berenguela second Sister of Henry King of Castile tho in prejudice of Blanch the eldest Sister married to

Mart 1300 German Miles its breadth between the Mouth of the Red Sea and the supposed Streights of Aman is 1220 Miles now divided into five principal Parts 1 Tartary 2 China 3 India 4 Persia 5 and the Turkish Empire Asia Minor See Natolia Asine the same with Anchora Asoph Tanais called Azack or Azeck by the Inhabitants la Tana by the Italians is a City of the Precopensian Tarters at the Mouth of the River Tanais which cuts the City into two parts and then immediately falls into the Lake of Moeotis It has a large Haven and a strong Castle which stands by the River taken by the Muscovites anno 1638. which upon false Accusation cost Cyrillus Lucaris Patriarch of Constantinople his Life but it was re-taken by the Turks who are now Masters of it the Town is square and built at the foot of a Hill in 67 d. of Long. and 54. 30. of Lat. Asopus the name of 3 Rivers one in Achaia now called Arhon the second in the Morea and the third in Asia minor near Laodicea Aspe a Valley of the Canton of Bearn in Switzerland watered by the Gave de Oleron It s principal Town is Accous Asphaltites or the Dead Sea by the Arabians sometimes called Baar Lout that is the Sea of Lot in Memory of his Deliverance is a Lake of Judaea in the same place where formerly the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were consumed The Rivers Jordan Arnon and others fall into it 580 Furlongs long and 150 broad according to Josephus They say no Fish can live in it for the Bituminousness of its Water and that nothing ever grows upon its Banks Assasiniens a People formerly inhabiting about 12 Towns in Phaenicia near Tyre under a King of their own Electing Whilst they paid a Tribute to the Templers they offered to turn Christians to be discharged of the same but the Templers refused it which says William of Tyre has been the cause of the ruine of Religion in the East In 1231 Lewis of Bavaria was assassinated by these People In 1257 the Tartars came upon them and killed their Antient or King and took their Towns and we have had no further account of them ever since Assinarius a River of Sicily See Falconara Assinshire Assinus a County in the North-western part of Scotland it has Strathnavern on the North the Mountains of Marble and Alabaster on the East Rosse on the South and the Irish Sea on the West This is properly a part of the County of Rosse and therefore little is said of it Assisi Aesisium Assisium a City of Vmbria in the Patrimony of St. Peter it is a Bishops See built on a Hill 5 Miles from the River Asio L'Assumption Assumptio a small new City in the Southern America near the River of Plate in Paragua it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop de la Plata Assyria the first of all the Empires and Kingdoms in the World It subsisted for 1300 years under 37 Kings or according to the computation of others for 1484 years under 41 Kings that is from Nimrod and Ninus the first of which reigned at Babylon in the year of the World 1879 the other at Ninive down to Sardanapalus who burnt himself in 3178. 876 years before the coming of our Saviour Now it is a Province of Asia called otherwise Mosul and Arzerum between Diarbeck and Persia under the Grand Seignior See Mosul Asta a City and Roman Colony lying between Piedmont and Montferrat it is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Milan well fortified with a strong new Castle belonging to it once a Commonwealth then it became a part of the Dukedom of Milan and was under the Viscounti being disjoyned from that Dukedom in the year 1531. after various changes itfell into the hands of the Duke of Savoy who is still Master of it It is 15 Miles distant from Casal to the South § There is another City of the same name in Andalusia and another in the East-Indies in the Kingdom of Decan Astabat a City of Armenia upon the Frontiers of Persia within a League of the River Aras not great but very beautiful and enriched with excellent Wine Astaces the antient name of a River in the Kingdom of Pontus in Asia Minor Astachar Astacara a City of Persia upon the River Bendemir near the Ruins of Persepolis which was once the Capital of the Kingdom of Persia but is now decaying Astarac or Estarac Astaracensis tractus a little County 7 or 8 Leagues long in the Province of Gascoigne in France Asterabath or Sterabath Asterabatia a City and Province of Persia towards the Caspian Sea The City stands 20 Leagues from Gorgian Astetlan a Province of the new Kingdom of Mexico in America upon the Coast of the Vermiglian Ocean Astora Astura Augusta a City and Bishoprick in the Kingdom of Leon in Spain 9 Miles from Leone the Archbishops See to the South This City is also called Astorga Astracan Astracanum the Capital City of a Tartarian Kingdom in Asia near the Mouth of the River Rha or rather Wolga where it falls into the Caspian Sea it is built in an Island made by that River about 25 German Miles from the Sea-shoar and has been in the Hands of the Muscovites ever since the Year 1554. before which time it had Kings of its own The Kingdom of Astracan is a considerable part of the Czar's Dominion it lies in Tartaria Deserta from the Head of the River Rha to the Caspian Sea and extends West to the River Tanais which parts it from the Precopensian Tartars It was conquered by Johannes Basilovits Emperor of Muscovy Asturia was once a Kingdom but is now a part of the Kingdom of Leon in Spain it lieth in length from Biscay to Galaesia The eldest Son of the King of Castile is stil'd Prince of the Asturia's it being divided into two parts as the English Prince is of VVales of which this is an Imitation as also the Delphinate in France Atacama a Desart in the Province of los Charcas in the Kingdom of Peru in America along the Coast of the Pacifick Ocean Atad Caucasus a Mountain in Asia much celebrated by the antient Poets § Also a Country beyond Jordan in the Holy Land where the obsequies of the Patriarch Jacob were performed by his Children Gen. 50. 10. Atavillos a People of Peru. Atha a River of Germany in the Dukedom of Bavaria which falls in the Danube a little above Ingolstad Athamania a Country of Epirus between Acarnania Aetolia and Thessalia free and under Princes of its own till it submitted to Philip King of Macedon Athamas a River of Aetolia in Greece with a Mountain of the same name from whence it springs Aeth Athum a small but strong Town in the Province of Henalt upon the River Dender Tenera which falls into the Schelde 2 Leagues distant from the Confines of Flanders 5 East from Tournay Taken in 1667. by the French and by the Treaty of

chosen being the Prima●● of that whole Kingdom § The River Gran riseth in the Carpathian Hills and passing by Liptsch Ne●●sol Konisperg and Soidig●n at Barkan over against Gran falls into the Danube Long. 41. 25. Lat. 47. 45. Grana a small River in Italy which falls into the Po against the Mouth of the Tanaro Granada Granata Granatum Illiberis and Regnum Oranatense a Kingdom and a City in Spain The Kingdom of Granada lies in the South of Spain upon the Mediterranean Sea being heretofore the Eastern part of Hispania Boetica Bounded on the East with the Kingdom of Murcia on the North and West with that of Andalusia and on the South with the Mediterranean It is full of Mountains the greatest of which is Apu●axara The Soil was once very fruitful but now desolate and consequently in many parts barren This Kingdom was one of the first the Moors possessed themselves of and of the last they lost the Spaniards not recovering it out of their Hands before 1492. Peter Son of Alphonsus King of Castile surprised one of their Kings and slew him in 1350. But Ferdinando in the first mentioned year was the Prince which God had appointed to put a final period to the Kingdom of the Moors in Spain by the expulsion of Mahomet Boabdelin the last King of Granada Son of Muley Assin As this raised Spain to that greatness our Fathers saw and feared so the expulsion of the Posterity of these Moors by Philip II. in 1571. occasioned by a Rebellion here and in Andalusia upon the score of the Inquisition began the ruin of Spain the loss of so vast a number of Subjects many of which though banished as Mahometans did profess Christianity in Africa amongst the Moors having rendered it together with the American Plantations weak and unable to defend it self or to maintain its very distant Dominions The principal Cities of this Kingdom are Granada Guadix Baza Ronda and Almeria This Kingdom is twenty five Miles in breadth twenty three in length and sixty in circumference § Granada Nova Illiberis the Capital City of the last mentioned Kingdom and from whence it had its Name is a great and most delightful City as any in Spain the Air healthful and it has plenty of excellent Springs so that the Moors were of opinion Paradise was at least in that part of the Heavens which influenced this Climate This City was built out of the Ruins of Illiberis an old Roman City in an extended form upon several Hills two of which are higher than any of the rest upon the River Del Oro Darrum the River Xenil Singilis flowing also not far from it on the South This City is divided into four parts the first is Granada in which is the Cathedral the second Alhambra beautified with the Palace of the Moorish Kings which is extreamly Magnificent and has a delightful Prospect the third Alvesia and the fourth Antiquerula which for the multitude of Inhabitants and beauty of the Buildings is not inferior to any of the other three the whole is twelve Miles in compass inhabited by many excellent Artificers especially Silk-Weavers It has also a Bishops See an University opened by Ferdinando and a Parliament or Chancellary This City was built by the Moors who were expelled out of it after they had possessed it 778 years in 1462. It has twelve Gates and a thousand and thirty Towers In it lie buried Ferdinando and Isabella Philip I. and Joanna his Queen On the East there is a Castle built on a Hill of hewen Stone This City stands thirty six Leagues from Sevil to the East nineteen from Cordova to the South-East and twelve from Ja●n to the South Long. 17. 10. Lat. 37. 30. New Granada by the Spaniards styled Nuevo Reyno de Granada a Kingdom in the South America in the large Country of Castile d' Or whereof it is sometime reckoned as a Province lying betwixt the Provinces of Popayan Paria and S. Martha a hundred and thirty Leagues in length in breadth where it is at the largest about thirty and where the least about twenty There are Mines of Gold and precious Stones to enrich it with large Forests and excellent Pasturage It lies so near the Equinoctial that the difference betwixt Winter and Summer the Day and Night is scarce observable Subject nevertheless to violent Hurricanes Thunders and Lightnings The principal Provinces of it are Bogota and Tunia The Capital City S. Fe de Bogota the other principal Cities and Places under the Spaniards Trinidad la Palma Pampl●na Merida Tunia Merequita Vittoria St. John de los Lanos c. It is watered by the great River de la Madalena and in divers parts inhabited by numbers of Salvages § There is a Town Granada in the Region of Nicaragua in the North America towards the Gulph of Nicaragua and the North Sea under the Government of Guadimala § And an Island amongst the Caribbes named so formerly by the Spaniards but now under the Dominion of the French Betwixt La Trinidad Tabago and Barbadoes Grandmont or Geerstberg G●rardi Mons a small Town in the Earldom of Flanders upon a Hill with the River Dender running by its foot three Leagues from Oudenarde and five from Dendermonde Built about the year 1065. by Baldwin V. Earl of Flanders and often taken by the French Grane Grana an Island belonging to France in the Bay of Aquitaine Granea Echedorus a River of Macedonia which falls into the Gulph of Thessalonica said to have been drunk dry by the Army of Xerxes It is now called Calico by some by others Verataser and runneth near the City of Thessalonica Grange a Seigniory in the Province of Berry in France giving its name to an honorable Family Granico Granicus a River of the Lesser Asia placed by Strabo in the Lesser Mysia it springeth from Mount Ida and bending Northward falls into the Propontis between Cyzicum to the East and Lamposcus to the West its Fountains are twenty Stadias from the Springs of Scamander now Scamandro Also at this day called Granico by some and by others Lazzara Upon the Banks of it near Cyzicum was the first Battel between Alexander the Great and Darius King of the Persians Anno Romae 420. i. e. 334 years before our Saviour in which a hundred thousand Persians were slain See Plutarch and Justin Granson Gransonium a Village in Switzerland near the Lake of Newenbourg which has a small District belonging to it subject to the Cantons of Bearn and Friburg it lies at the equal distance of 3 Miles from Newenburg to the South and Friburg to the West Near this place the Army of Charles the Hardy Duke of Burgundy consisting of 50000 Men was defeated by 5000 Swiss in 1476. and his Camp taken with all his Baggage and Cannon This unfortunate Prince had but a little before taken this Town from the Swiss and coming too late to relieve it again the Swiss upon this defeat of his Army have ever since enjoyed

Duke of his Family The French first Possessed themselves of this Dukedom under Lewis XIII in 1663 It was restored to this Family again by the Pyrenean Treaty in 1659. In the Year 1674 it was again reassumed by the French Charles Leopold the late Duke of famous memory being in the mean time employed by the Emperor as his General won more Honour than he could have done if he had succeeded his Uncle in his rightful Inheritance This great Prince died on the eighteenth of April 1690 suddenly in his forty eighth year at a Convent near Lintz in his Journey to Vienna his renowned Actions and high Merits making him extremely lamented He Married Elionora Maria of Austria Dowager of Michael King of Poland and Sister to the present Emperor by whom the Title to this Dukedom continues in the Family to his eldest Son Lorca Eliocrata Ilorcis a small but ancient City of the Kingdom of Murcia in Spain it was in the times of the Goths a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toledo But this See was since removed to Cartagena Nueva It stands upon the River Guadilentin in the Confines of the Kingdom of Granada ill peopled twelve Miles from Murcia in Long 19. 15. Lat. 38. 2. Lorne Lorna a County in the North of Scotland upon the Western Ocean bounded on the North by Loquabre on the East by Menteith on the South by Argyle and Cantyr and on the West by the Vergivian Ocean the old Inhabitants of this County were the Epidii as Cambden acquaints us Loretto or Lauretto Lauretum a small and a New City in the Marcha Anconitana in the Dominions of the Church made a Bishops See by Pope Sixtus V. in 1586. and in 1591. the Bishoprick of Recanati was for ever united to this new See It stands upon a long Hill three Miles from the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea fifteen from Ancona to the South very well fortified to preserve it from the Incursions of the Turks and has a Noble Palace But that which is its greatest yea it s only Glory is the Chappel of the Virgin Mary called La Santa Casa the Holy House Pilgrims out of all parts of Europe repairing hither to perform their Devotions to the Virgin This place was anciently a desolate Grove where in the Pagan Times some think there was a Temple of Juno Cuprana The Chappel that is so much esteemed is supposed to be the very Chamber in which the Queen of Heaven was her self Educated and received the Angel's Salutation They believe it was brought hither out of Palestine by Angels All this is proved by the Testimony of Grave Men and the Memorials of an innumerable number of Miracles which are believed to have been wrought here The Reader is not to suppose it was brought from Palestine hither at once no it was deposited after the taking of Ptolomais by the Saracens first in Dalmatia in the year 1291. Thence the Thieveries of that Nation occasioned her Remove three or four years after to a Wood in this Marquisate and from thence to a Hill and here two Brothers not agreeing She at last removed to Loretto Where saith Tursellinus She hath resolved to take up her fixed and as we hope if no grievous offence of the Inhabitants or Neighbours prevent it her eternal Rest her last Remove he assures us was in 1295. And if she has been able to digest all the Italian Sins for almost four hundred years we may well presume She will remove no more at least not in our Days Lorgues Lonas Leonas Leonicae a Town in Provence in the Diocese of Frejus two Leagues from Draguignan five from Frejus and fourteen from Aix situated in a fertile Soil and adorned with a Collegiate Church of the Foundation of Pope Martin V. in 1421. together with divers Religious Houses Lorris Lauriacum a Town in the Diocese of Anger 's and the Dukedom of Anjou in France remarked for a French Synod there assembled in 843. Losere a Mountain in Languedoc in which are the Fountains of the River Tarn that separates Aquitain from Languedoc This is a Branch of the Sevennes extended towards the Lower Languedoc six Leagues from Ghave or Javoux to the North-West and eight from Vzes to the South-East mentioned by Sidonius Apollinaris in his twenty fourth Verse Losse a River of Scotland in the County of Murray called by Ptolemy Loxa it watereth the North part of that County and falls into the German Ocean beneath Elgin the Capital of that County Lot Le Olda Loda a River in Aquitain in France which ariseth from the Sevennes a Mountain in Givaudan a County of Languedoc and flowing within one Mile of Mende a City in the County and soon after augmented by the Truer and some smaller Rivers and running Westward through Rovergne and Querey which latter it divides it at last watereth Agen Cassenneil and Clerac then falls into the Garonne near Aiguillon four Leagues beneath Agen. Whereas heretofore this River was passable by Boats only as far as Ville Neuve de Agen it is of late with vast Expence made Navigable as high as Chaors to the inestimable Benefit of this Province by the present King of France in 1677. Lothaine Laudonia a County in the South of Scotland bounded on the North by the Fyrth of Edinburgh on the East by the German Ocean on the South by Marches Twedal and Cluydesdale and on the West by the County of Sterling This County is thirty four Scotch Miles in length from East to West but not above ten broad for the most part It is the principal County in that Kingdom Edinburgh standing almost in the middle of it besides which it hath Lyth Dunbar and Dalkeith Lotophagi the ancient People of the Island now called L'isle des Gerbes upon the Coast of Africa under the Spaniards They are mentioned by divers of the Ancients with applause Lotreich or Lothar-reich Lorain Loudun Juliodunum a City of France in the County of Poictou six Leagues from Salmur to the South ten from Poictiers and eighteen from Amboise to the North-West from this City the circumjacent Country is called le Laudonnois which King Henry III. erected into a Dutchy and in the Writers of the middle Age this City is called also Lausdunum Lovenstein Lovenstenum a Castle or Triangular Fort in the County of Holland in the Island of Bommel at the union of the Vahal and the Maes over against Worcum four Miles from Vtrecht to the South and a little more from Dort to the East This Fort belongs to the States of Holland and lies in the Borders of Guelderland Lough the Irish word for a Lake Loughborough a handsom pleasant Market Town in Leicestershire in the Hundred of West Goscote upon the Banks of the River Stowre over which it has a Bridge and near the Forest of Charwood amongst fertile Meadows Lough Foyle Logia a River of Ireland in the Province of Vlster which by London-Derry falls into the Deucalidonian Ocean between the County of Derry and

North America in the Province of Acadia was taken by the English and restored to the French by the Treaty of Breda in 1667. It stands at the bottom of the Bay of France and has a safe and large Harbour Port Royal a Port in Florida near Virginia Port Royal a celebrated Nunnery near Cheureuse in France six Leagues from Paris Port Royal a Port on the South of Jamaica in the Hands of the English by whom the Town was built Which before the late dreadful Earthquake 1692 ruined the greatest part of it had in it above one thousand and five hundred Houses and extended twelve Miles in length extremely populous it being the Scale of Trade in that Island It is seated at the end of a long point of Land which makes the Harbor and runs into the Main about twelve Miles having the Sea on the South and the Harbor on the North. The Harbor is about three Leagues broad and in most places so deep that a Ship of one thousand Tun may lay her sides to the Shoar of the Point Lead and Unload at pleasure and it affords good Anchorage all over For the security of it there is built a very strong Castle always well Garrisoned with Soldiers and has sixty pieces of Cannon mounted Yet this Town stands upon a loose Sand which affords neither Grass Stone fresh Water Trees nor any other thing that could encourage the building of a Town besides the goodness and convenience of the Harbor Porto Sabione Edron a Port on the Gulph of Venice near Chiosa Fossa Clodia a City in that State twenty five Miles from Venice Porto di Salo Salorius a Port in Catalonia four Miles from Tarragona towards Barcinone Porto Santo Cerne one of the Azore Islands discovered by the Portuguese in 1428 and by them called Ilha de Puerto Santo Not far from the Madera about eight Leagues in Circuit Porto Seguro a City Port and Prefecture in Brasil in South America upon the Sea Coast under the Portuguese The Prefecture lyes betwixt that called los Isleos and the other of Spiritu Santo Port Uendres Portus Veneris a large Port in the County of Russilion upon the Mediterranean Sea in the Borders of Catalonia Seventeen Miles from Perpignan to the North-East It has this name from a Temple dedicated to Venus in the times of Paganism which stood near it Porto Uenere Portus Venerii Portus Veneris a Town in the States of Genoua which has a Haven and a Castle built by the Genouese in 1113 seated over against the Isle of Palmaria Sixty Miles from Genoua and three from the Gulph del Spezza to the East Porto Uiejo a Town and Port in Peru in South America upon the Pacifick Ocean in the Province and not far from the City Quito Porto Zora Pisidon a City of Africa Propria mentioned by Ptolemy now called Zora by the Europeans and Zuarat by the Moors It is a strong Place which has a large Harbor belonging to it in the Kingdom of Tunis one hundred and twenty Miles from Tripoli to the West taken and plundered by the Knights of Malta not long since Portsmouth Portus Magnus a Town in Hampshire in the Hundred of Ports down of great Antiquity called by Ptolemy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Great Haven the Old Town then stood higher up The New Town is built upon an Island called Portsey which is about fourteen Miles in Circuit and at a full Tide floats in Salt Water by a Bridge on the North joined to the Continent The Town is fortified with a Timber Wall covered with Earth on the North-East near the Gate it has a Fort and two Block-Houses at the entry of the Haven built of hewen Stone by Edward IV. and Henry VII To which Qu. Elizabeth added other Works and a Garrison to watch and defend the Place The latter Princes have built Store-houses for all sorts of Naval Provisions and Docks for the building of Ships In Mr. Cambdens time it was more resorted to on the account of War than Commerce and had little other Trade than what arose from the boiling of Salt But since its Trade is much encreased It is grown populous a good Nursery for Sea-men and a Corporation represented by two Burgesses in the Lower House of Parliament Giving also the Title of Dutchess to the Lady Louisa de Querouaille Created by K. Charles II. 1673. Baroness of Petersfield Countess of Farnham and Dutchess of Portsmouth Portugal Lusitania Portugallia a Kingdom on the West of Spain bounded on the West by the Atlantick Ocean on the South by Algarve which is annexed to this Kingdom on the East by Andalusia Extremadura and Leon and on the North by Gallicia It lies on the Sea Coast from North to South four hundred Miles not above one hundred where broadest and eighty in the narrower places eight hundred and seventy nine in Compass Divided into five Provinces to wit Entre Douero è Minho Tra los Montes Beira Estremadura and Alentejo or Entre Tejo è Guadiana whereunto was added Algarve under Alphonsus III. with the Title of a Kingdom The principal Rivers are those four expressed in the Names of the Provinces Douero Minho Tajo and Guadiana which furnish the Kingdom with very convenient Ports It was anciently called Lusitania from the the Lusitani its first Inhabitants and took the present Name about the fifth Century from Poriocale a celebrated Mart. The Air is generally healthful the Earth Hilly and Barren especially as to Corn which is much of it imported from France But it yields Wine Fruits Fish Game Salt Horses and Mines And is so very populous about Spain especially towards the Sea that they reckon more than four hundred Cities or great privileged Towns three Archbishopricks ten Bishopricks and above four thousand Parishes This Kingdom is said to be founded by one Henry Earl of Lorain about 1099. For this Prince having shewn much Gallantry in the Wars against the Moors was by Alphonsus VI. King of Castile rewarded with the Marriage of Teresia a Natural Daughter of his and a part of this Kingdom with the Title of an Earl The Son of this Henry Alphonsus I. having in 1139. in the Battel of Obrique defeated five Moorish Kings assumed the Title of King This Prince assembled the Estates of his Kingdom at Lamego in the Province of Beira who there passed a Law called the Law or Statute of Lamego for the exclusion of Strangers from the Crown which remains in full force to this day His Posterity enjoyed this Kingdom and very much inlarged it by Victories against the Moors at home and by the Discovery of several unknown Countries abroad for seventeen Descents Amongst which John I. styled the Father of his Country succeeded in 1385. tho only the Natural Son of Peter I. the King save one immediately preceding his ascension But Sebastian a young Prince who succeeded King John III. in 1557. perishing in a Battel in Africa in 1580. and Henry dying soon after who was a

Champagne sixteen from Reims North and four from Marle South often mentioned on the account of a Peace here made between Henry IV. of France and Philip II. of Spain May 2. 1598. Uer●lam Verolamium an ancient Roman City and Colony mentioned by Tacitus and Ptolemy in Hartfondshire the Royal City of Cassibellanus a British Prince contemporary with Julius Caesar by whom this City was taken fifty two years before the Birth of our Saviour in his second Expedition into Britain In the year of Christ 66. it was taken and intirely ruined by Boadicia Queen of the Iceni and all the Romans put to the Sword yet it recovered again and flourished as long as the Romans continued in Britain and under Dioclesian had one famous Martyr called Albanus In 429 there was a British Synod held here by S. German Bishop of Auxerre in France against the Pelagians Soon after it fell into the Hands of the Saxons I suppose about 465. Retaken by Vthe Pendragon who began his Reign in 498. and Reigned eighteen years Again retaken by the Saxons and intirely ruined In 975. Offa King of the Mercians built on the other side the little River Ver which washed the Walls of it a goodly Monastery in Honour of S. Alban which after became a great Town K. James I. revived the Memory of this place when he made Sir Francis Bacon then Lord Chancellour of England Lord Verulam in 1620 who dying without Issue the Title failed but he yet honors the place by lying buried in a little Church near it Veruli or Veroli Verulum a City in Campania di Roma under the Dominion of the Pope which is a Bishops See and now in a tolerable condition upon the River Cosa forty eight Miles from Rome to the South and from Capua to the North sixty from Pescara West Vesere See Weser Vesle Vidula a River of Champagne which ariseth three Leagues from Chaalons to the East and watering Reims falls into the Aisne Vesoul Vesulum a small but neat City in the Franche Comté nine Leagues from Besanzon and thirteen from Beaucaire West Now in the Possession of the French Vesprin Vesprinum Vesprimium a City of the Lower Hungary called by the Inhabitants Vesprim by the Germans Weisbrun It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Gran. The Capital of a County of the same name strong and populous and defended by a Castle Seated on the River Sarwize eleven German Miles from Gran South and five from Alba Regalis West This has been in the hands of the Emperour ever since 1565. Vesulus one of the Cottian Alpes betwixt Dauphine to the West and Piedmont to the East Now called Mont viso The River Po derives its head from it Vesuvius a Vulcanoe in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples eight Miles from the City Naples near the Castle of Somma from which last place the Italians give it the name of il Monte di Somma The particular times of its overflowing with stormes of fire are all recorded in History since our Saviour and the Reign of Augustus viz. in the years 81. 243. 421. 985. 973. 983. 1036. 1038. 1138. 1139. 1430. 1500. 1631 1660. 1682. Where the Intervals sometimes continue two or three hundred years at others not above one two and ten In its last rupture in 1682. Aug. 14. it covered the whole Dukedom of Massa adjacent with ashes of a nauseous odour and set on fire the wood of Otajano The twentieth it caused an Earthquake of three hours continuance which reached to Naples The twenty second it cast forth floods of smoak ashes coals attended with a roaring noise Flames Earthquake and Thunder the Flames ran from it unextinguished in the midst of vast storms of Rain filling Naples with Ashes And on the 24th it ended in a cloud of white ashes Before the Reign of Augustus we read of its ruptures five times The Elder Pliny was suffocated as he searched the causes thereof upon the place Veteravie See Weteraw Veuxin Vexin Velocasses a Territory in Normandy betwixt the Rivers Apte and Ardelle the Capital of which was Roan but now Gisors § There is another in the Isle of France of the same name between the Oyse and the Apte the Capital of which is Pontoise This for distinction is called Vexin Francois and the other Vexin Normand § There is a City of the same name in Gothland in the Kingdom of Sweden Vezelay Veseliacum Vizeliacum a City in the Dukedom of Burgundy in Auxerre upon the River Curez in the Borders of Nivernois ten Leagues from Auxerre to the South eighteen from Nevers to the South-East and five from Corbie in Picardy to which Province this City is now added P. Eugenius III. celebrated a Council here in 1145. for the recovery of the Holy Land Vgenti Vgento Vxentum a small City in the Province of Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples twenty Miles from Otranto to the North-West and eleven from Gallipoli to the East Long. 42. 28. Lat. 39. 56. Vgogh Vgoza a County in the Vpper Hungary towards the Tibiscus and the Borders of Transylvania The Capital of it is a Castle of the same name Two German Miles from Zatmar to the East and a little more from the Tibiscus W. Viana a City in Navarre upon the River Ebro thirteen Leagues from Pampelune and seven from Calahorra in Castile to the South-West Built by Sancius King of Navarre in 1219. In 1423. made a Principality by Charles III. and ever after given to the Prince of Navarre as his Title Viatka a City River and Province in Muscovy one hundred and twenty Miles from Cazan to the North. Viburg Viburgum a City in Sweden the Capital of Carelia and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Riga one hundred and sixty Miles from Narva to the North upon the Bay of Finland on which it has a Haven and a strong Castle The Muscovites have several times in vain assaulted it Vicenza or Vincenza Vicentia Vicetia Vincentia a City in the States of Venice in Lombardy which is a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileja a great strong City under the Republick of Venice upon the River Bachiglione Eighteen Miles from Padoua thirty from Verona East and from Feltria South Taken by Maximilian in 1509. Long. 33. 40. Lat. 44. 50. It was inhabited anciently by the Euganei The Gauls were Benefactors to it The Romans and the Lombards possessed it each in the times of their Power It fell to the Venetians not till after great revolutions and divers Wars The pleasantness of its situation gives it the Title of the Garden of Venice It is the Capital of the Territory of the Vincentine In 1583. and 1623. Synods were assembled here Vich Vicus Aquae Voconiae Ausa Nova Corbio a small City in Catalonia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona Seated upon the River Tera twelve Leagues from Barcellone to the North and nine from Girone to the West In 1627. a Synod was

Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Walshcroft Billom a Town in the Province of Auvergne in France 5 or 6 Leagues from Clermont It is a very trading Place in a fruitful Soil Bimini a small Island East of Florida in America It is one of the Luccaye's to the South of the Island of Bahama Binche Bink or Bins Binchium a Town in Hainault near the River Haisne 3 Leagues from Mons to the Eastward and 4 from Maubeuge to the North is now decaying it was taken by the French in 1667. and restored back to the Spaniards in 1678. by the Treaty of Nimeguen Mary Queen of Hungary Sister to the Emperor Charles V. built herself a Noble Palace here to enjoy the good Air of the Place which is still called Marimont Bingen a fine Town belonging to the Elector of Mayence upon the River Rhine where it entertains the River Nar which here is covered with a stone Bridge once a Free Imperial City but now exempted from the Empire The antient Geographers and Historians make mention of it It has a Castle seated on a Hill and stands 4 German Miles from Mayence towards the West and 2 from Greitznack to the North near it in an Island in the Rhine is a Castle called Mauszthurn wherein the Report goes that Hatto the second Archbishop of Mayence was eaten alive by Rats it is now almost wholly ruin'd Bingham a Market-Town in the County of Nottingham the Capital of its Hundred Bendimir Bagrada a River of Persia which riseth in the Desarts of Carmania about 20 German Miles South of Hispahan and watering the Province of Fars it washeth Astachar after which having received another small River from the West it falls into the Persian Gulph 25 German Miles West of Ormus Biolizero a Fortress built in a Lake where the Duke of Muscovy keeps his Treasures See Biela Osero Biorneburg a small City belonging to the Swedes in North Finland where the River Cumus Rauto● ' falls into the Bay of Botner in almost 62 deg of Lat. It is a poor place and consists of a few Houses Biobio a River of South America in the Kingdom of Chili which springeth from the Andes and running Westward falls into the Pacifick Ocean near S. Conception a City of Chili and the Island of Aviquirina Bi r Birtha a small but Antient City of Arabia Deserta upon the Euphrates 130 Miles East of Aleppo in the Consines of Mesopotamia 10 German Miles West of Vrpha The usual place of Embarking upon the Euphrates for Bagdet This City is under the Turks and formerly was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Edessa Some write it Biro Ptolemy mentions it Birka or Birkopin Birca the Capital Town of the Province of Ostregothia in Sweden heretofore considerable but almost ruined now Birkenfield a Town in the Palatinate of the Rhine in Germany Honoured with the Title of a Principality It stands near the River Nab 5 or 6 Leagues from Treves Birmingham a Market-Town in warwickshire in the Hundred of Hemlingford Biron a Town in the Province of Perigord in France and one of the most antient Baronies of the same Erected into a Dukedom by King Henry IV. It at present bears the Title of a Marquisate Birs and Biersick are 2 small Rivers in the Canton of Basil Bisaccia a small City in the Principate in the Kingdom of Naples near the Apennine 2 Leagues from Cedogna and 7 from Monte-Verde It consisteth of a very small number of Inhabitants yet a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Conza and illustrated with the Title of a Dukedom Bisagno See Besagno Biscay Cantabria called by the Spaniards Vizcaja by the French Biscay hath on the North-West the Cantabrian Ocean or the Bay of Biscay on the East the Kingdom of Navarre on the South the Kingdom of Castile and on the West Asturia It enjoys the Title of a Principality because heretosore it had Princes of its own of the Family de Haro the last of which dying in the Siege of Algezira this Principality fell to King John of Castile and from thenceforward became a part of that Kingdom It is about 26 Spanish Leagues from East to West but not so broad Bilbao is its principal City it is a fruitful and a populous Country and full of Sea Ports Reduced heretofore under the Roman Yoak with great difficulty § The same name is also given to a part of New Spain in America They call it New Biscay It is bounded on the North with the Kingdom of Mexico the Province of Panuco to the East Zacatecas to the South and Culiacan to the West there are 2 Mines of Silver in it § The French Biscay see Basques Bisegli Vigiliae a City in the Province of Bari in the Kingdom of Naples with an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Trani upon the Adriatick Ocean between Trani Molfetta and Bari Biserta Vtica a City of Africa Immortally honored by giving a Sirmane to Cato Vticensis It stands in the Kingdom of Tunis upon the Mediterranean Sea between Carthage and Tabarqua and is now become a Retreat of ●yrates Bishops Castle a Market-Town in the County of Salop in the Hundred of Purslow not far from the River Chun It Elects 2 Members of Parliament Bisignano Besidia a little City in the hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Rossano but exempted from his Jurisdiction also honored with the Title of a Principality which belongeth to the Family of San Severini seated on a Hill and has a strong Castle upon the River Cotilum Cochilo which a little farther falls into the River Crate It is a fine City of about 2 Miles compass surrounded with high Hills called Vrbs Brutiorum by Livy Bisnagar the Kingdom that bears this Name is a considerable Country in the East-Indies bounded on the North with the Kingdoms of Decan and Cuncam on the East with the Gulph of Bengale on the West with the Indian Sea and on the South with the Kingdom of Malabar and Singa it is sometimes also call'd the Kingdom of Narsinga This Kingdom is subject to a Prince of its own but then it is also divided into several petty Kingdoms which have Princes that are Tributary Homagers to the King of Narsinga The City that gives Name to it lies almost exactly in 15 d. of Northern Lat. and 107 of Long. on the Eastern side of a long chain of Mountains that divide this vast Promontory from North to South It lies 45 Leagues West from the Shoars of the Bay of Bengale and 35 from Narsinga to the West Bisneghe Hesperium Cornu commonly call'd Capo-verde is a Promontory in Nigritia in Africa upon the Western Shoar in 14 deg of Northern Lat. Bisnow the Name of a Sect amongst the Banjans in the East-Indies In this different from the Sect of Zamarath That the Women live Widows after their Husbands death and do not burn themselves in the same funeral Pile with them Bitche a County in

Lewis VIII King of France which was afterward in 1267. set right by a Treaty when Lewis IX in consideration of a Marriage surrendered all his Right and Title as Son of the said Blanch to Alphonsus V. King of Leon and Castile Peter de la Marca Archbishop of Paris in his History of Bearn saith this Kingdom did not begin so early as the Spaniards pretend and endeavours to prove it But this is no place for Controversies Leon Leondoul Leona a City in Britagne in France on the North Shoar of that Province thirty three Leagues from Rennes to the West ten from Treguier and eleven from Brest to the North. This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toures one S. Paul being its most ancient Bishop about the year 600 the City is often called S. Paul de Leon from him it is the Capital of the Territory of Leonnois well fortified and has also a Castle and a safe Harbour upon the British Sea Heretofore the Seat of the Dukes of Britagne and the Country of the ancient Osismi or Osismii mentioned by Caesar whence its Latin Name besides Leona and Leonum is Civitas Osismorum § There is mention made of another Leon in Cappadocia in the Lesser Asia otherwise called Vatiza and thought to be the Polemenium of the Ancients S. Leonard a Town in Limosin in France and another in Nivergne Lepanto Naupactus Aetolia a Sea-Port in Achaia now Livadia called by the Turks Enebchti is seated in that part of Greece which the Ancients called Aetolia twelve Miles from Patras the Italians gave it the name of Lepanto it is seated not far from the entrance of the Western Bay of Corinth heretofore so called but now from this place the Gulph of Lepanto The City is built on the South side of a towering Mountain formed like a Cone on the top of which is a strong Castle surrounded with four strong Walls set at some distance one above another between which the Inhabitants have their Houses The Port is very handsom and beautiful and may be secured by a Chain the Mouth of it is so streight it will hold but a few Ships and those cannot go out and in at any time for want of Water It is seated in a pleasant Country filled with delightful Gardens yielding some of the best Wine in Greece and has on the East side a a fine River which serves their Mills then their Gardens and afterward all the City and Seamen The Turks have six or seven Mosques in it the Greeks two Churches and the Jews three Synagogues In 1408. it was under the Emperor of Greece but being too remote as things then stood for him to secure it Emanuel the Emperor assigned it to the Venetians who took care to fortifie it as it is now In 1475. Mahomet the Great the same that took Constantinople having gained Corinth besieged it with an Army of thirty thousand Men and after four Months spent before it was forced to retire with with shame and loss The Turks having found by this costly experiment the strength of this important place in 1499. made use of another method besides a victorious Army and a potent Fleet to terrifie them he imployed Bribes corrupted Hi●ronimo Tropo the Venetian Governour and by a Treachery altogether unworthy of Bajazet II. who was here in person possessed himself of it In 1571. Octob. 7. in the Gulph of Lepanto from five a Clock in the morning till night was fought the most bloody Sea Battel betwixt the Christian and the Ottoman Fleets that ever besel the Turks since the beginning of their Empire There in the same Gulph where the Emperor Augustus overthrew Marc Anthony The Christians lost eight thousand Men. Of the Turks five thousand were taken prisoners and about thirty thousand slain with Hali Bassaw their Admiral Of the Turkish Gallies one hundred and thirty were taken and above ninety others sunk burnt and destroyed The Generalissimo on the Christians side was Don John of Austria a Natural Brother to Philip II. King of Spain accompanied with the Flower of the Italian Nobility At the same time nigh twenty thousand Christian Slaves recovered their Liberty In 1687. the Venetians having in the three preceding years almost beat the Turks out of the rest of the Morea and resolved to begin this Campagne with the Siege of Patras their General Morosini Landed in the Morea near Patras on July 22. notwithstanding all the opposition of the Serasquier the 24. he fought and defeated the Serasquier and having thereupon taken in Patras and the Dardanell Castle on that side so called in imitation of those of the Hellespont he crossed to the other to Lepanto and found the Turks making all the haste they could to empty the Place for him whereupon he entred and took Possession of it for that Republick without striking one blow Thus was this important Place lost as basely as it was gained and the Cowardize of this Age has revenged the Treachery of the former It had in it one hundred and twenty Brass Canon And it is an Archiepiscopal City tho the Archbishop has used to reside at Larta The Gulph of Lepanto is formed by the shooting forth of two Promontories into the Ionian Sea from the Morea and Achaia called Capo Antirio and Capo Rione The first of which has the Castle of Patras the other the Castle of Romelia for its defence Leprus Pariedrus a huge Mountain of a vast height out of which Araxes and Euphrates spring Lera Igmanus Sigmanus a River of Aquitain in France more commonly called La Leyre which falls into the small Bay of Buch eight Miles from Bourdeaux to the South-West and the same distance from the Mouth of the Guaronne to the South Leresse See the Nieper Lergue Larga a River in Gallia Narbonensis Hoffman Lericee a small Town upon the Coasts of the Republick of Genoua in Italy at the Foot of the Rocks looking to the Sea It is taken to be the Portus Erycis of Ptolemy and Antoninus A frequented place for Embarkations four or five Miles from Sarzana and East of Sestri de Levante There is a Gulph by it separated by a Neck of Land from the Gulph of Spezza or Speccia Lerida Ilerda a City of Catalonia in Spain which in the Roman times was the Capital of that part of Spain they called Tarraconensis It is now called Leyda by the Inhabitants and Lerida by the Spaniards a strong place built upon a rising ground but declining to the River Segre Taken from the Moors in 1143. and made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona In 1300. here was an University opened at which Pope Calixtus III. took his Degree of Doctor of the Laws yet it never acquired any great Fame or Repute of later times it has suffered much from the French who have made many Attempts upon it But in 1646. in one of their Attacks they were beaten off and lost all their Cannon here This City lies twenty four Spanish