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A03066	Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique Describing especially the two famous empires, the Persian, and the great Mogull: weaved with the history of these later times as also, many rich and spatious kingdomes in the orientall India, and other parts of Asia; together with the adjacent iles. Severally relating the religion, language, qualities, customes, habit, descent, fashions, and other observations touching them. With a revivall of the first discoverer of America. Revised and enlarged by the author.; Relation of some yeares travaile	Herbert, Thomas, Sir, 1606-1682.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 13191; ESTC S119691	376,722	394

Phorcys Neptunes sonne here lived and by the transcendent excellencie of their beauties their yellow haires curling like Snakes and deshevelling about their naked shoulders turn'd the beholders into a stupid admiration and by Perseus his report of that their faculty gave Poets some ground whereon to build their fiction Leaving those wee steered Westward and past by many parts of the New found world as some men call it Guiana Florida Virginia Nova Anglia parts of Norumbega and the gulph of Mexico where I have seated my selfe a while and will defraud the Reader of some patience by travelling to find out the first Discoverer a Question not a little controverted Madoc ap Owen Gwyneth discovered America above three hundred yeeres before COLUMBUS ALbeit I have formerly in a line or two vindicated the honour of our Country lost in the greater part by protract of malitious time and wane of well-willers to defend it I desire to speak more largely here and give you the ground of my conjecture That Madoc sonne of Owyn Gwyneth discovered the Westerne world now call'd America three hundred and odd yeares before Columbus not to detract from that mans worth but that the truth may prevaile and the memory of our Heroick Country-man revive having gaspt too long in hatefull ignorance and oblivion for if analogie of language and authority of good Authors may be credited it may peradventure be accepted of yea amongst Critticks gaine entertainment In the first place it may be asked whence Madock's resolution came I answer From an innate desire to travell and to avoid domestique broiles he put that in action which some old prophetique sayings gave him light and encouraged him in 'T is very like he had read Plato for what part of the world has ever more affected learning than the Britians who in his Dialogue 'twixt Tymeus and Cricius discourses of a great vast I le West from the Atlantique Ocean and named ATLAS as bigg as Asia and Africa put together Some Humination hee had also out of Aristotle and Theophrastus their Books of Rarities writ two thousand yeares agoe relating how some Merchants passing thorow the Straits of Gibralter were by tempest driven whither wind and Sea compelled them so farre West that they finally discried land but un inhabited It may be 't was some of the Azores but what ere it was it proved a Magnet of encouragement to illure future Ages to discover Westward and doubtlesse was a prime cause of finding out the Westerne Continent Hanno also is supposed to have landed there Questionlessed he adventured farre far in regard they had no Compasse to returne by into the Atlantique Seas but which way he sail'd is disputable West some say some say Southward Pomponius Mele and Lampridus affirme the land was South from Carthage hee discovered if South then no part of the West-Indies the Canary Iles perhaps the Atlantiades the Gorgades Ascention or Saint Helens who though they carry not the Epithite of Great yet the Novelty considered and the Distance the word great may be affected Some but I beleeve them not carry him to Madagascar if that hee discovered a great I le indeed But then sure he would have found out the Red Sea not comparable to the dangers he had past in doubling Cape Tormentoso and made his journey home lesse dangerous Virgil the best of Latine Poets from some varicinating Notion seemes to point at it in the 6. lib. Aenead where hee prophesies vast extent of Caesar's Dominions Iacet extra sydera Tellus Extra Anni Solisque vias ubi coeliser Atlas Axem humero torquet Stellis ardentibus aptum A Land beyond the Stars dothly And the Sunnes way Atlas that beares the Sky The fire fit Star-fraught Pole doth wheel therby Which though Servius understand of the Sunne-burnt Aethiops others otherwise interpret it inconsiderat Laudinus is one of them who cannot be perswaded that any part of Aethiopia exceeds the Tropicks an idle conceit and which in fol. 15. I have refuted but see his reason for it the word extra he moderates to pene extra a witty comment But Donatus parodically takes Solem pro Die and Annum pro Nocte the Sun for Day the Yeare for Night which granted Virgil has neither prophecie nor wonder The truth is as Lod. de la Cerda notes the Poet meanes thus Augustus Caesar should conquer beyond Mount Atlas a famous part of Afrique Morocco now of old Mauritania not included within the burning Zone out of which Apollo never wanders Extra sydera nimirum Zodiaci whence we gather that Virgil meant not of America But in a more perfect way Seneca Nero's Master fore-tells the discovery he conceales the place in his Medaean Tragedy The Time will one day be Guided by providence whom you shall see The liquid Ocean to enlarge her bounds And pay the Earth a tribute of more grounds In a inplest measure for the Sea gods then Shall shew new worlds and rarities to men Yea by his leave who all great acts commands See Thule lesse North by farre than other lands Venient Annis Secula seris quibus Oceanus Vinculd rerum laxet ingens Pateat Tellus Typhisque novos Detegrat orbes nec sit terris Vltima Thulè Madoc from these lights discerned it And least any may thinck the man to whon we erect a Trophy of so great honour an obscure or illiterate man not worth a memory let 's in a line or two speak his discent and quality and then the particulars of his vovage He was brother to Prince David sonnes of that famous Owen Gwynedd Prince of Wales who for above thirty yeeres governed wisely with great courage and good fortune his Father was Gruffith ap Conan that did homage for some lands in England to William the Conquerour at S. Davids and descended lineally from King Rodri Mawr or Roderic the great glorious in many conflicts and victories against the savage Saxon in those foure great battells especially at Berthem Bangelu Monegid and Anglesea in the yeere from Adam 4820 from the nativity of our Blessed Saviour 846. such time as Burchred King of Mercia Athelwolfe King of the West-Saysses Meiric and other valiant Princes by sad tryall found him fortunate which suffice to illustrate Madock's quality every way exceeding honourable It followes why they put to Sea upon discovery The Annalls of those times to this day happily preserved tell us That so soone as Owen Gwynedd or Venedotia was dead the custome of Gavelkind which has confounded Wales became a Subject of implacable hate amongst his sonnes Iorwerth or Edward sirnamed Dwryndwn from his broken nose Howel and David whose peculiar ambition banisht all generall kinds of love due amongst friends and brethren Iorwerth albeit he was eldest was held incapable of the Crowne in respect of his lamenesse and other deformities Howel also was thought unworthy by reason his Mother was an Irish Lady with which Nation they had then some difference David had least right

that the Hypodrome the body of the great Mydan was an old famous place for view of horses if that content not I must ingeniously confesse I think this City was never named Hecatompylon such a one I know there was famoused in many Authors but by observing the position 37 degrees 50 minutes in Ptolomy I take Coom or Cazbyn to bee the relict of it the rather in that Ptolomy Pliny and Strabo in their Geography place Aspa in Parthia in 36 deg a name from whence Aspahawn may credibly have been deduced besides the lat is more agreeable or peradventure from Aspadana which they place in 33 deg Spawhawns latitude First speak we what she has been for grandeur in older times and with that we will couple our present observation If I exceed excuse it prestat de Carthagine tacere quam pauca dicere A. D. 645. of the Heg 25 by command of Omar then Calyph of Mecca Siet-ben-Abivakez with a few troops of victorious Sarazens attempts to pluck violently from Yezdgirds head the then tottering Diadem of Persia at the third pull having twice overthrowne him effected it the glorious command of that Monarchy then eclipsing which done this Ben Abivakez sacks his two best Townes Elmedin in Chaldea built Anno Domini 520 by Kozrao sonne to Kobödes and yet the Alcoran sayes it sprung out of hell and Spahawn in Parthia Also we may memorise her from Tangrolipix a Turqueman and Lord of the Zelzuccian Family of whom the Ottomans who in the yeere 1030. of the Hegira 410. Edward the Confessor ruling England Gruffyth ap Llewellyn Wales was intreated by Mahomet then Prince of Persia to ayd him against Pysastris an incroaching Babylonian which Tangrolipix did and prospered in After that he helped him against the invading Indyan and in recompence of his good services the Turque desires leave to passe Araxis to visit his countrimen betwixt the two seas the Hyrcan and Euxine and by jealous Mahomet denyed and so enraged that lurking awhile in the Carmanian Desert the Persian gulph was at his pleasure But vexing to be so confin'd marches against the King and at Shyraz beats his twenty thousand darstardly soldiers and after that opposes 60000 then also victorious whereby Mahomet fled with two much haste to get into Spahawn fell from 's horse and broke his neck the Turks then subjecting Parthya Rached-bila also sonne of Almoster-sha was slaine by Mazud Anno 1130. of the Heg 510 and buried in Spahawn which few for many shall speak her antiquity in the name she is now triumphant in Speak we now of the magnificence wee have told you how the story of ben-Abivakez a thousand yeeres ago cals her a great City but gives us no better description Ben-Ionas who sayes he saw it foure hundred seventy six yeeres ago affoords her twelve miles compasse rich and populous Mandevel A.D. 1300 which is above 300 yeeres since saies that in his time she was a noble City A. D. 1474 Ioseph Barbarus was here Vsan Cassan reigning and hee describes Spahawn to bee a great and famous City peopled with 1500000 soules the Towne and Suburbs ten miles in compasse Rabbi Benjamin and Contarenus the Venetian Ambass 80 yeere ago relate that then shee had 20 Italian miles in circuit and Lemius the Portuguise sent by Albuquerq to Sha-Ismael An. Dom. 1513. reports her glorious I shall now more largely and truly acquaint you with her present standing Spawhawn Metropolis of the Persian Monarchy is seated in the Parthian Territory now cal'd Ayrack as Umbelic to that spacious bodie at this day awed by the Persian Scepter from the Persian gulph removed a hundred seventie nine farsangs of English miles five hundred thirtie seven from the Caspian sea a hundred and twenty farsangs three hundred and sixty miles from Shyraz two hundred twenty two miles from Babylon foure hundred and fifty from Candahor eight hundred and seventie from Cazbyn 270. In compasse at this day nine English miles Circuit including seventy thousand houses and of soules above two hundred thousand compos'd besides Natives of English Duch Portuguiz ' Pole Muscovit Indian Arabian Armenian Georgian Turk Jew and others drawne thither by the magnetick power of gaine and novelty many things here are memorable which for order sake I will present you thus divided The Mydan Mosques Hummums Gates Pallaces Gardens Monuments and Ielphey the City adjoyning Let me lead you into the Mydan into the which ere I can bring you River we passe over a well-built Bridge of stone supported by five and thirty pillars through which the Syndery or Zindaren from the Acroceraunian Mountaines streames gently spreading in rainie seasons here welnigh so broad as the Thames at London but nothing so navigable in Summer her Channells being discovered The Mydan or great Market is without doubt the most spacious Mydan pleasant and Aromatick Market in the Vniverse a thousand paces from North to South the other way above two hundred resembling our Exchange or the place Royall in Paris but six times larger the building is of Brick well made and in delightfull manner fabricated the whole Mydan joyntly continued the inside is full of shops each shop full of ware archt above and in a Cupolo atop tarraswise framed and with plaister like that of Paris cemented This Mydan being the noblest part is so placed in the heart of this triumphant City The Kings Pallace or Chonna-Potshaugh conjoynes the West side of the Mydan possessing a large quantity backwards but juts not to the street further than the other buildings nor to the street side gives any magnifick front or state her best bravery being in the trimme pargetted and painted with blew and gold in mosaick or antick sort interlac't with posies of Arabick either savoring of ostentation they deifie their Kings or for instruction from the Alcoran within the roomes are archt enlighten'd by curious trellizes the roofe imbost above with red white blew and gold the sides with sports and painted Images the ground spread with rich and curious carpets of silke and gold without other furniture Tarrassed above garnisht with a Pharoe over-topping many Mosques and excellent for view and breathing The wildernesse behinde is fild with ayery Citizens priviledg'd from hurt or affrights and for which they returne their thankfull notes in a more swift melodious consort than if they were in the exactest vollyere in the Vniverse The North I le in the Medan shews eight or nine spacious archt rooms hung with Lamps and latten Candlesticks which being lighted gives a curious splendor Thither the Potshaw and others go to see pastimes of tumbling dancing girls and painted Catamites that damned sinne being tolerated by the Alcoran The furthest end North is appropriate for Mynts the first day silver gold the second next day brasse Not farre thence are victualling shops wherein to feed the helpfull belly after the busie eye and painfull feet are satiated Afore the Kings doore and within the