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A61047	An epitome of Mr. John Speed's theatre of the empire of Great Britain And of his prospect of the most famous parts of the world. In this new edition are added, the despciptions of His Majesties dominions abroad, viz. New England, New York, 226 Carolina, Florida, 251 Virginia, Maryland, 212 Jamaica, 232 Barbados, 239 as also the empire of the great Mogol, with the rest of the East-Indies, 255 the empire of Russia, 266 with their respective descriptions.	Speed, John, 1552?-1629.	1676 (1676)	Wing S4879; ESTC R221688	361,302	665

the Romans in Citeriorem which lay nearest to their Territories and Vlteriorem which was all the extent beyond the River Iberus ad fretum usque Herculeum The second was by them too in Baeticum the whole tract beyond the River Ana South-ward 2 Lusitanium Northward toward the Cantabrick Ocean and 3 Terraconensem Eastward joyning upon France When the Moors enjoyed it they rent it into twelve parcels a multitude of petty royalties Arragon Catalonia Valentia Castile Toledo Biscay Leon Gallicea Murcia Navarre Corduba and Portugal And these yet retain the name of Kingdoms but their government was long ago recovered into the hands of five which bare the titles of Castile Arragon Granada Navarre and Portugal It was of latter times contracted into the three Kingdoms of Arragon Castile and Portugal but is in the power of one King called the Catholick King of Spain We stand to this last division as most proper for our times and best befitting my brief Discourse Give me leave to add the Islands which lie near to each Kingdom 11 The present state of Arragon comprehends three of those Kingdomes as it was scattered by the Moors and Sarazens 1 Arragon it self which lieth on the South of Navarre on the East of Castile on the North of Valentia and the West of Catalonia The ancient Inhabitants were the Iaccetani Lutenses and Celtiberi her chief City Caesar Augusta 2 Catalonia It lieth betwixt Arragon and the Pyren●an hills It is supposed a mixt name from Gothi and Alani people which heretofore possest it after the Vandals had lost their hold The Region is but barren yet it hath in it many Cities the chief Terra cona which gave name to the whole Province called by the Romans Terraconenses 3 Valentia which on the East is touched with the Mediterraneum on the North with Castile on the South with the Kingdom of Murcia It is reported for the most pleasant and fruitful Region in all Spain it hath her name from her chief City and as Maginus relates admits as yet of 22 thousand Families of Moors In this is the University where S. Dominick Father of the Dominicans studied and the old Saguntum besieged by Hannibal now Morvedre 12 The state of Castile as now it stands comprehends all the rest of those scattered Governments as were possest by the Moors Portugal only excepted And first Castile it self both the old which joyns with Arragon on the East of Portugal and the west of Navarre and the new which toucheth her upon the South The first abounds not much with fruits but yet it breeds many Cattel The Metropolis is Burgos and the other chief are Salamanca an University and Valadolit once the seat of the Kings of Spain Now Castile abounds more with Corn is watered with the River Tagus and Ana And in this stands the Kings chief Cities Madrid and Toledo which was heretofore a propriatory of it self The rest that belong to Castile are 2. Toledo however now but a City of new Castile yet in the division her Territories spread themselves over a large compass The City is in the midst of Spain It was the seat of the Gothish Kings and successively of the Moorish Princes now of the Arch-Bishops who exceed in Revenues any other Prelate in the world except the Pope Here hath sate eighteen National Councils in the time of the Gothish Kings 3. 13 Biscay heretofore Cantabria on the North of old Castile toward the Ocean it was the last people which yielded to the Romans and after to the Moors A Mountainous Countrey but affords excellent Timber for ships and good Iron Her Cities are S. Sebastian Fonterabia and Bilbao which stands but two miles from the Sea and is noted for excellent Blades some have been tried by the English upon their own Crests 4. 14 Leon heretofore Austria on the East hath Biscay on the West Gallicia on the North the Cantabrick Ocean and on the South old Castile The Region is reported to yield plenty of Gold Vermilion red Lead and other Colours else she is barren her inhabitants not many and those live most upon Hunting and Fishing It is the title of the eldest Son of Castile as Wales is to our Prince of England Her chief City is Oveido which bears part with her in the name of a Kingdom and indeed was the Title of the first Christian King after the Moors Conquest 15 Gallicia on the East joyns upon Leon on the West it is bounded with the Atlantick Ocean on the North with the Cantabrick and on the South with the River Mingo It breeds Iennets in abundance insomuch that they have been Poetically feigned to be conceived by the wind Niger writes that here hath been an incredible plenty of Gold Lead and Silver that the Rivers are full of a mixt earth and that the Plough could scarce wag for clods of Golden Ore There appears now no such matter The principal Cities are Saint Iago where S. Iames the Apostle lieth buried his Reliques kept worshipped and visited by Pilgrims And the other of note especially with us is Corugna an excellent Port for Ships and mentioned oft in our wars with the Spaniards by the name of the Groyne Here likewise is the Promontory Nerius called by our Mariners Capo de finis terrae 16 Murcia on the North hath new Castile on the South and East the Spanish Seas It is not much peopled but yet is famous for several commodities especially for pure earthen Vessels and fine Silk Heretofore it enriched the Romans with a daily supply of 25000 Drachmae of silver Her chief places are Alicante whence our Alicant Wines come and new Carthage oft commended by our Travellers for her large and safe Haven and lastly Murcia a Town which gives name to the whole Region 17 Navarre lieth close to the Pirenaean Hills and as Maginus gives it is enclosed with Mountains and so it is North and East on the West it hath the River Ebro and on the South Arragon The Vascones are said to have lived here who afterward placed themselves in France and kept there their name to this day of Vascones corruptly Gascoigns The chief Towns are Bampelme the Metropolis and Viana the title of the Navarran Prince Maginus sets the Revenue annual of this Kingdom at 100000 Duckets 18 Corduba now a City only heretofore a Kingdom and included Andaluzia Granada and Estremadura Equalized almost the whole Province which the Romans in their second division called Baetica Andaluzia hath lost but one Letter of her name since she was possest by the Vandales From them she was first called Vandalicia since Andalicia corruptly Andaluzia It lieth on the west of Granada and is a very fertile Countrey In this Region is the chief City Corduba whence we receive our Cordavan Leather The second of note is Sevil the Metropolitan of Andaluzia and the fortunate Islands esteemed the goodliest City in all Spain and though as Corduba it was not honoured with the Title of a Kingdom

●●ve and abound much with all sorts of Spices In these is said to be the Bird of Paradise that flieth continually having no ●eet to rest upon The Hen layeth her eggs if you will believe it in a hole of the Cocks back 10 Last'y the Phillippian ●sles that lie North of the Molucc●●s are 1100. as Maginus numbers them They were discover●d in the time of Philip the ●econd of Spain and from him took their name 1564. They abound with Spices and part of the Inhabitants have entertained Christianity 16 And thus I have made a brief dispatch both of the Continent and Islands of either Asia and have given my Reader a hint at least of their stories which he may find at large in their several Authors AFRICA Petrus Kaerius caelavit The Description of AFRICA AFrica as it lay nearest the seat of the first people so questionless it was next inhabited and therefore requires the second place in our Division It is generally agreed upon that the North parts were possest by the sons of Cham not long after the confu●ion And so indeed that Kingly Prophet in the 78 Psalm useth the tents of Cham for the Land of Egypt which is that part of Africa which joyns upon the South west of Asia and is divided from the Holy Land but by a small Isthmus Give the people their own asking and they will have the glory of the first Inhabitants of the world and prove it too both from the temperature of their air and fertility of their soil which breeds and nourisheth not only Plants and fruits but sends forth of its own vertue living creatures in such sort as amazeth the beholder We have a report if you will belive it that in a ground neer the River Nilus there have been found Mice half made up and Nature taken in the very nick when she had already wrought life in the fore-parts head and breast the hinder joynts yet remaining in the form of earth Thus I suppose they would have man at first grown out of their soil without the immediate hand of God in his Creation And it hath been the opinion of some vain Philosophers that for this cause have made the Eihiopians to be the first people for that there the Sun by his propinquity wrought soonest upon the moisture of the ground and made it fit for mortality to sprout in 2 But to leave these without doubt Africa is of great antiquity and so is allowed by all Historians of credit In the year 1566 the people were increased to an exceeding multitude and therefore were enforced to enlarge their bounds upon their neighbouring Countries For as it was of a most rare fertility so it lay not any long way and had free access to it by land from the garden of our first Parents 3 In the time of Abraham we have better assurance from the Word of God that it was then a place of ●ame and the Inhabitants of some growth for they were able to supply the wants of the Countries adjoyning by their store and thither went Abraham out of the Land of Canaan to avoid the great famine Gen. 12. She had then her Princes Pharaoh and his mighty men that feared not to resist God and were afterward made the instruments of his punishments upon the children of Israel for they kept them in bondage four hundred years as was foretold to Abraham in the 15 of Genesis 4 But this proof of Ancientry concerns not the whole Country only those Regions which lie under the temperate Zone The rest for a long time after were unknown to our Geographers held not habitable indeed beyond mount Atlas by reason of the extream heat The reports which pass of it before Ptolomy's time were but at random and by guess of such as had never ●ailed it round or scarce come within sight of it but at a great distance and by this means either out of their own errour or else a desire of glory more than they had deserved or perhaps a Travellers trick to cheat the ignorant world that could not confute their reports they spread many idle fables of monstro●s people without heads with their eyes and mouths in their breasts maintained to this day by some Authors of good esteem But for my part I hold it most reasonable to credit Saint Augustine who was born and died in Africa That he in his eighth Book De Civitate Dei acknowledgeth no such creatures or if they be they be not men or if men not born of Adam And our later Discoveries joyn in with him that report not upon their own experience of any other people than such as our selves are and yet I suppose they have seen more of the Country than ever any heretofore did For they pass not now to sail it round once a year by the Cape of good hope to the East-side of the very Ist●inus toward the Red-Sea 5 This course by the South was discovered by one Vasco de Gama in the year 1497. and a way found to the East Indies by which the Princes of Portugal receive an infinite gain both in Spices and other Merchandise The hope of which first set them upon the Adventure And in this one thing we owe much to our own Countrey otherwise a detestable plague that the in●atiate desire of wanton commodi●ies hath opened to us a large part of the world befo●● not known and which we hope may hereafter increase the light of the Gospel and the number of the Elect. 6 If we compare her to the two other portions of the same Hemisphere she is situated wholly South and in part West-ward It is divided on the North from Europe by the Mediterran●um Sea On the South where it runs into a kind of point at the C●pe of good Hope it is bound with the vast Ocean which in that part hath the name of the Athiopick Sea on the East with the Red Sea and on the West with the Atlantick Ocean called there in our common Maps Mare del North. So that in breif we reckon both her Longitude and Latitude in the largest parts to be near upon 4200. English miles 7 Not withstanding this vast extent of ground yet we of Europe still keep our own and by authority of the most and best Geographers exceed as much for number as either this or Asia do for room Cause enough there is why Africa indeed should come short of bo●h for in most parts she hath scarce plenty sufficient to maintain Inhabitants and where there is we shall meet with multitudes of ravening Beasts or other horrible Monsters enough to devour both it and us In a word there is no Region of the world so great an enemy to mans commerce there is such scarcity of water that no creature almost could live had not nature provided thereafter that the grea●er part of them endures not drink in the very midst of Summer So Pliny reports And if as sometimes they be inforced by such as take