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A59140	A new systeme of geography, designed in a most plain and easy method for the better understanding of that science accommodated with new mapps of all the countreys, regions, empires, monarchis, kingdoms, principalities, dukedoms, marquesates, dominions, estates, republiques, Soveraignties, governments seignories, provinces, and countreys in the whole world with geographical tables, explaining the divisions in each mapp / John Seller ...	Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.	1685 (1685)	Wing S2477; ESTC R3904	48,442	207

towards the Gulf of Bengala is Contiguous to Pegu to which it hath been Subject at present to Siam this Kingdom hath many Ports frequented for Trade for besides its Grains Fruits Oyls and Medicinal Herbs it is Rich in Mines of Gold Silver Copper c. The Kingdom of Siam hath several Cities of Note but we shall for Brevity sake only treat of Siam as the Metropolis being a City of large Extent and of so great strength that in the Year 1567. they stoutly defended themselves against an Army of 1400000 Fighting Men which the King of Pegu brought against them for twenty Months together The Comodities of this City and Kingdom are Cotton Linnen of several sorts Benjamin Lacque of which they make Excellent hard Wax The Kingdom of Cambodia which lieth between the Gulfs of Siam and Couchin-China The Principal Cities Ravecca and Camboja The People in their manners and Customes Resemble those of Siam whose Subjects they have been The Kingdom of Couchin-China lieth to the Eastward of Camboja its Name signifies west China and was supposed formerly to belong to China whose Language Manners Customes Government Religion and other Ceremonies they yet retain All the Countrey is Fertile abounding in Rice Fruits and Herbs They have Gold Silver Silk Porcelain and many other valuable Commodities The Air Healthful and the Soil so Abundant in all things that the Inhabitants know nothing of Contagion or Famine They are Courteous Liberal kind to Strangers and Faithful in their dealings In the Peninsula of Malacca are diverse Kingdoms which are Tributary to Siam Except the City of Mallacca The whole Country is well Traded by Reason of its Archepelago which contains several Islands and of its Isthmus which facilitates the Transportation of Merchandise from one Sea to another and of its Ports which are Commodious Patane within few Years is grown Famous The Kingdome being frequented by diverse Nations perticularly the Chinois who bring thither Parcelain and divers Manufactures and Instruments of Husbandry The Soil is good producing Fruit every Month in the Year Their Hens Ducks and Geese often lay Eggs twice a Day Ihor is Situated on the utmost point of the Peninsula its Chief City was taken and ruined by the Portugals in 1603. who took from thence Fifteen-Hundred brass Cannons The Kingdom of Tanquin divides China from Couchin-China and hath about 150 Leagues of Sea Coast This Kingdom contains 7 Provinces The King of Tanquin Ordinarily entertaines a Militia of 50000 Men. The Land hath Beautiful Plaines and Watered with many great Rivers They have neither Asses nor Sheep but many Horses Elephants and Rhinocerotes whose Flesh Skins Bones Teeth Nails and Horns serve for Antidotes against Poyson The Catholique Religion was so Introduced some Years past that there was estimated to be more then 200000 Christned Souls Two-Hundred great Churches and great Quantities of Chapels and Oratories but since there hath hapened great Changes in those Kingdomes the Portugals have several Towns and Cities by which they have a great Revenue Of the Island of Sumatra THe Island of Sumatra lieth on the North of Java Major and a long the West-side of Mallacca the length thereof Extends from the North-West to the South-East about 800 miles and is 200 in breadth The Air is very hot and unwholsome by Reason of the gross Vapours drawn from the many Fens and Rivers which are found to be in it The Soil not Capable of such Grain as in other places except Rice and Millet it Affords great plenty of Wax and Honey store of Silks and Cottons Rich Mines not only of Tin Iron Copper Sulphur and other Minerals But of Gold such quantity that some conceive this Island to be Solomons Ophir for one of the Kings thereof wrote a Letter to King James wherein he hinted the Riches of his Country Abounding in Gold and that he had in his Dominions a Mountain of Gold King of which Golden Mountain he Intituled himself in his Regal Stile his Title is also King of Achem. His Covernment is Absolute and meerly Arbitrary executing what he hath a mind to without form of Law So Cantelous that without his Placard no Stranger can have Ingress into his Dominions nor is Admittance to his Presence granted to any whom he first sends not for by an Officer with a Gilded Staff He is conceived to be strong both by Sea and Land his Country Populous his Elephants many and well Trained Of the Island Borneo THe Island Borneo is Situate under the Aequator and is Adjudged to be more then 2200 miles in Circumference The People Generally more white then the rest of the Indians of good Wits and Aproved Integrity The Country is said to be provided Naturally with all things Necessary But unfurnished with Asses Oxen Herds of Cattel except only Horses and those but small of Stature the great Riches of it being Camphir Agarick and some Mines of Adamants The Island is divided between two Kings of two Religions The King of Borneo and his Subjects are all Mahumetans and those of Laus still Remaining in their Ancient Gentilisme These think the Sun and Moon to be Man and Wife and the Stars their Children Ascribing to each of them Divine Honours to the Sun especially whom they Salute at his first Rising with great Reverence Their Publique businesses are Treated of commonly in the Night The King of Borneo keeps the Greater State not to be spoken with but by the Mouth of some of his own Interpreters and in his Palace Served by no other Atendants than Maids or Women Of the Island Lucon THe Island of Lucon begineth at the thirteenth Degree and continueth up to the Ninteenth Degree of North Latitude lying South from China Manilla is its Chief City well Built after the Modern way and its Houses are of free Stone Built by the Spaniards this being one of the Philippine Islands So called from Philip King of Spain The Governour or Vice Roy of these Islands as also an Arch Bishop who hath a Spiritual Jurisdiction over all these Islands which he exercises by three Suffagan Bishops This City is very populous here commonly refiding 15000 Chinois besides Japoneses and Spaniards which drive a Trade in several good Commodities Of the Island Paragoa THe Island Paragoa stretcheth it self Southwest and North-East in length above 100 Leagues not having above Ten Fifteen or Twenty Five in breadth it begins almost at the Eighth Degree and ends not till the Eleventh Degree of North Latitude It is said that it bears Figs as thick as ones Arm. Its King is a Vassal to him of Borneo Of China CHina is bounded on the North with Altay and the Eastern Tartars from which Continued with a Chain of Hills part of those of Ar a at and where that Chain is broken off or interrupted with a great wall extended 400 Leagues in Length On the south part with Couchin China and partly with the Ocean on the East with the Oriental Ocean and on the West with part

Chancellor who is chief and 5 other Senators in time of the Sessions of Parliament there is a high Commissioner constituted by his Majesty to Act as Vice Roy under him which at present is the Illustrious Prince James Duke of York and Albany Of IRELAND I Reland is the bigest Island in Europe after Britain The West of which lyes towards Spain Containing in length above 300 Miles in breadth 150. It neither breeds nor will Harbour venomous Creatures the Soil is very good and by the late Industry of the Inhabitants now the greatest part English the whole Country begins to Grow rich and Flourishing as the Populous and fair new buildings at Dublin and other Places Demonstrate It is Divided in four Provinces viz. Leinster Vlster Munster Counaught and each of them into several Countyes as may appear in the Table of Ireland The Comodities are store of Cattel as also Tallow Butter Cheese and Wool of which they make cloth Frieses Ruggs Mantles c. Its Seas yields great plenty of Codfish Herrings Pilchers c. and in the Bowels of the Earth Mines of Tin Lead and Iron Of Spain SPain the most Western Country of Europe it separated from France or the Northeast by the Pyrenean Mountaines and on the West joyning to Portugal on all other parts washt by the Sea its whole Circuit being 1900 English Miles They are a mixt People Descended from Gothes Saracens and Jewes from the Jewes they Inherite Superstition from the Saracens Melancholy from the Gothes desire of Liberty They are much given to Women vain glorious and stately very Grave in their Carriage zealous Adherers to the Church of Rome Obedient to their Prince true to their words and of Wonderfull Patience Enduring adversity their Women sober loving to their Husbands and Gallants wonderful Delicate Curious in Painting and perfuming but by Custome forbidden to drink any VVine at least till they are Marryed This Country yields Sacks Sugars Oyl Metals Liquorish Rice Silk VVool Corke Rosin Steel Oranges and Lemmons and Raisins c. But is defective in Corn and are glad to be supplyed therewith from Italy France or Sicilia nor are their Cattle large or many their fare being most upon Sallats and Fruits every Gentleman limitted what flesh he shall buy for himself and Family they have Universities such as they are their Courts are kept at Madrid Of Portugal POrtugal is a Distinct Kingdome by it self though anciently a province of Spain It s Chief City is Lisbon their Customes and Religion much like the Spaniards Of France THe Kingdom of France is for one intire thing one of the most rich and absolute Monarchies of the World being almost a square each side containing about 600 Miles it is bounded on the North with Lower Germany on the North-West washt with the British Ocean on the west with the Aquitain Sea on the South the Pyrenean Mountains fence it from Spain on the East it extends to the Medeteranean and the Alps which Divide it from Italy It abounds with all manner of good Fruits besides great store of Fish and Fowl but it s Chiefest Commodities are Wine Salt Linnen Cloth and Corn the less Maternall are Wood for dying Paper Nutts Almonds Laces to the New Modes The People are general Complemental inconstant and Rash both their Gentlemen and Citizens live more sparingly then the English they feed most on Boyl'd or Liquid Meats and are very curious in sawces In Matters of Warr there is an old Comparison that Resembles the French to a Flea quickly Skiping into a Country and assoon leaping out of it of which late Transactions afford several instances their Language is Amorous and they leave out manny Consonants in Pronuntiation Occasioning this Proverb A Frenchman writes not as he pronounces Sings not as he Pricks nor Speakes as he thinks The Nationall Religion is Popery yet there are many Protestants amongst them whom they in derision call Hugonots who of late have bin and are under great Persecution for their Religion and loss of their Priviledges not occasioned in the least by their disloyalty or any disturbance of the Government but only and alone from the Malice of the Popish Clergy The Air in the Northern parts of France is Pu●er then that of England and being not so much Covered with Clouds drawn out of the Sea becomes more cold in Winter and more hot in Summer and less Annoved with mists and Rain The Kingdom is divided into twelve General Governments to which may be added four new Governments being the late Conquests of the French King Four towards the North on this side the Loir four in the middle of France on each side the Loir four on the South beyond the Loir and the other four to the Eastward towards Germany Of several Countrys bordering upon France LA Franche Comte or the free County called also the County of Burgundy is invironed with Champaigne Lorrain Bressy and the Dutchy of Burgundy being in length 90 Miles and breadth 60. One of the most fertile Provinces in the World the chief City is Besanson the next Dole famous for the Colledg of Jesuies there It was under the Spanish Crown but a few years agoe sudenly surprized by the French 2. Lorrain a Principality adjoyning to that last mentioned about four days Journey in length and three in breadth it abounds with Corn and Wine good Horses plenty of Mines and Store of Salt and Fish the Dukes Revenue was formerly computed at 700000 Crowns per Annum and they were wont to give for their Device An armed Arm coming as it were from Heaven and Grasping a naked Sword to shew that they were absolute Princes holding theire estate by no other tenure then from God and the Sword but the French have likewise not long since violently over-run this Countrey and the present Duke Commands the Emperours forces having Married the Queen Dowager of Poland 3. Savoy a Dukedome compassed with Dauphine Switzerland and Piedmont which latter it for the most part under its Government lying on the Italian side of the Alps and being exceeding pleasant and Fruitfull The rest of Savoy is Mountanous Barren Adjoyning hereunto on the Lake Lemane stands the City of Geneva a Common wealth not extending eight Leagues in Circuit But of indifferent good Trade and well Fortified 4. Switzerland is likewise a Republick Consisting of 13. Shires or Cantons of which five are all Papists six all Protestants and two mixt 'T is thought to be the highest Countrey in Europe and sends forth four of the Greatest Rivers viz. The Danubias through Germany and Turkie East the Rhine through Germany North the Rhosne through France West and so through Italy South the Soil is but mean being so Hilly but the Men great Warriours and famous for their Mercinary Valour This Country is in length about 240 miles and 188 in breadth very Mountanous affording Deers VVild-Goats and Bears The Valleys affords rich Pasture for Cattle wherein consists their greatest

in all Persia whose Walls are in Circumference a reasonable Days Journey containing not less then 75000 Houses The Inhabitants do all their affairs on Horse-back as well Publique as Private in the buying and vending their Comodities But the Slaves never Ride which makes the difference between them The Native Comodities of Persia are Gold and Silver Raw-Silk in such great Quantities that they furnish most part of the East The heats in these parts in the Summer season are so great especially towards the South part of the Mountains that the Inhabitants are forced to forsake the Cities and retire into the Mountains for coolness The Persians are of low Stature yet have great limbs and strong they are of an Olive Colour hawk'd Nosed and Black Hair'd which they shave every Eight Days they paint their Hands and Nails of a Reddish Colour In their Habits they follow much of the Turks their Clothes have no proportion to their Bodies hanging loose and large much in the Fashion of the Women their Garments they Gird about their Waists with a Scarf Their Turbants are Red. The Women in their streets go with white Vailes over their Faces down to their knees they are very Neat and Rich in their Clothes and Houses The Persians are very Strict Superstitious and Ceremonious in their Religion as the Turk is They Bury their Dead three hours after they are departed Except they Dye in the night They wash or bathe the Bodies of their Dead before they are interred in a great Cistern which they have for the same purpose near the Mosque to which place they are Carried on a Bier in their Clothes and after they are stript and washt they put them in clean Linnen Anoint them and so bear them to the Grave being accompanied with his Friends Relations Servants c. The King of Persia Governs by an absolute Power disposing of the Lives and Estates of his Subjects as best pleaseth him making his Will his Law not daring to Murmur though his Actions are never so unjust The Administration of Justice is decided by the King but first tryed by the Secular Judges who Examine the same and deliver up their Opinion to the King They have several Severe and strict Punishments which they inflict upon the Offenders according to the Hainousness of the Crimes for some Offences they cut off their Ears and Nose sometimes their Foot and Hands for others to be Beheaded for some again they are tyed between two boards and so sawed asunder with several other cruell Deaths too tedious to name In their Military affairs they are well Experienced their Army consisting only of Horse who have for their Armour Darts and Javelins yet have they some in the Nature of our Dragoones They have great quantity of all Sorts of Cattle Grain and Fruits amongst their Fruit Trees they have great quantities of black and white Mulberry-Trees which grow not above five or six Foot high which serves for Food for their Silk Worms which makes them great store of Silk Of the Empire of the Great Mogul THe Great Mogul is one of the greatest and most Powerful Princes of Asia whose vast Empire Comprehends the Greatest part of the Continent of India In which large Territories there are several Indian Kingdomes Tributary to him He is esteemed the Richest Prince of the World Sha Johan who Raigned 40 Years lest him behind him five Millions of Livers And the Throne that he made cost one hundred and Sixty Millions and Five-Hundred-Thousand Livers besides six other Thrones set all over with Diamonds Rubyes Emeralds and Pearles He is able to bring into the Field One-Hundred-Thousand Horse and Two-Hundred-Thousand Foot and two or three thousand Elephants The Great Moguls Ordinary Guard Consists of about twelve-Thousand Men besides Six-Hundred of his Life Guard he never stirs abroad to Hunt take the Air or the like without the Atendance of Ten-Thousand Men of all Degrees besides to make his State the Greater there are one Hundred Elephants Richly trapt and covered with Scarlet Velvet or the like on each of these Elephants there are seated two Men the one to guide him and the other Supports a large Banner of Silk richly Embroidered with Gold and Silver after these Hundred Elephants comes the Mogul either mounted on an Excellent Horse or else in a Coach or Sedan attended by his Nobles and other Courtiers After whom comes about Five-Hundred Elephants Camels and Waggons which are to Carry the Baggage For he Commonly Encamps in the Field to have the Benefit of the Coolness of the Air The Mogul Celebrates with great Pomp and State the first Day of the Year The Emperour himself is a Turkish Mahometan although the most part of his Vassals are Pagans For as there are several sorts of People so there are divers sorts of Religions amongst them The Country is very Fertile yielding great store of Corn and Rice and all Sorts of Provisions are very Cheap and the Inhabitants very Sober and Temperate It is conceived to be the largest Country of any one name in the World Except China and Tartaria The whole Countrey is Divided into two Peninsula's one Peninsula is accounted on this side the River Ganges called India Intra-Gangem and the other Peninsula beyond the Ganges called India-Extra-Gangem of each we shall take a Brief Survey Of India on this side the Ganges called India-Intra-Gangem INdia-Intra-Gangem is bounded on the East with the River Ganges till the fall thereof into the Sea And after that with that large and spacious Bay called the Gulf of Bengala On the West with the Territories of the Persian Empire and part of the Arabian Seas On the North where it is broadest with Mount Taurus On the South with the Indian Ocean ending in a sharp point or Promontory as you may see in the Map We Divide this Peninsula into ten parts or Divisions being under several Kings Governments and Religions In the Kingdom of Cuncan are Goa Visapore Dabul and Rejapore Carapatan and Mongrelia Goa is a City as fair Rich and of as great Traffick as any in the East Indies being Situated on an Island of the same name taken by the Portugals in the Year 1510 and have since that Established themselves so Powerfully there that their Vice-Roy Bishop and their Council for the East Indies have their Residence there Their streets are large their Houses fair especially their Palaces and Publick Buildings which are very Magnificent their Churches are Stately and Richly Adorned The City is 15 Miles in Compass The Portugals live here in all manner of Delight and Pleasure Here on this Coast is also Situated Surrat and Bombay two great Factoryes of the English Merchants The whole Countrey is under the Government of the S●vagee who is a Tributary to the great Mogul The People bloudy and treacherous addicted much to the Art of Poysonning and do Fight commonly with Poysoned Arrows A notable Instance of their Treachery I shall give you Which was in the Year

1683. There was three of their Ships and four Grabs man'd with 1500 of their Men which the Suvagee afterwards by way of Excuse pretended to be Arabians and took the Ship to be a Portuguese and as a token of their Resentment Imprisoned the Chief of them They set upon one of our East India Ships call'd the President Captain Jonathan Hide Commander whom they Attaqued very desperately and was as Briskly received by the English and as bravely Repulsed with a great Slaughter of the Indians And Recovered their Ship to the great Comendations of all that were there in Which brave Souls had not the Happiness to Enjoy the Honour of that Action in their own Countrey The Ship being unfortunately cast away in February following and all their Men lost but two as they were coming into the Chanel to the great grief and sorrow of the Merchants and Owners as well as their Particular Friends and Relations Malabar extends its self from the River Gangeraco to Cape Comarine 300 miles in length but is not above 50 in breadth and ending towards the Cape in a Point The Countrey is more Populous for the bigness then any in India enjoying a very Temperate Air and a Fruitful Soil well Watered and indented with many Creeks The Ground unfit for Corn but Plentiful in Rice and all manner of Spices as Ginger Cinnamon Cassia Pepper and most Excellent Fruits The People on this part of India are of a blacker Complexion then the rest of the Indians well Limbed wearing their Hair long and Curled About their Heads they wear a Hankerchief wrought with Gold and Silver and about their middle a Cloth which hangeth down to conceal their Nakedness The Natives on the whole Coast of India are of Nature Treacherous and Bloudy more properly to be termed Desperate than Stout and Valiant in their Wars they use Poysoned Arrows as they do in their Pyrating and Thieving both by Sea and Land The Kingdom of Bisnagar seated in the Bay of Bengala between twelve and fifteen Degrees of North Latitude in which Kingdom is the great Factory of our East India Company called Fort St. George almost all the People are Idolaters some Mahumetans and a sew Catholiques Amongst the Customes of those Heathens they have the Inhumane Custome for the Women to Burn themselves with the Corps of their deceased Husbands in this manner the Husband being Dead the Wife prepares her self for her Funeral Habite in Transparent Lawn Her Nose Ears and Fingers she Adorns with Precious Stones in one hand She holds a Ball and in the other a Nosegay of Flowers both as Emblems of Par●dise And being thus Habited She is Accompanied to the place by her Relations Friends and Acquaintance and all the way Going the Priest denotes the Joys She is to Possess together with the Assurance of Enjoying her Husband which does Excite her to Valour so that when She cometh to the Place seeth the Flame and the Carcass of her Dead Husband whom She longeth to be with and being as it were Transported with Joy She takes leave of her Friends and Relations and Jumps into the Flame in which the Corps of her Husband was first put both which is soon Reduced to Ashes during which time they have several sorts of Musick to Drown the Cryes of the poor Wretch casting in store of sweet Wood and Oil into the Fire to take away the Unsavory smell Of the Island Ceylon THe Island Ceylon lyeth to the Eastward of Cape Comarine of an Oval form divided from the Main by a shallow Chanel The Havens Refreshing it with their Dews The Air with Fragrant freshness The Land stored with whole Woods of Cinamon besides Fruits Lemons and Oranges c. Of Fowls and Beasts great Plenty both Wild and Tame It so abounding with all Contentments that the Indians hold it to be a Paradise In this Island is a mighty high Hill called Adam's Pico reputed to be seven Leagues high The People for the most part Tall and Strait of Body in matters of Religion they are generally Idolaters very Active and well Skilled in Jugling This Island is Divided into several Kingdoms as of Cand●e c. And a City of that Name the Seat of the King This Island is memorable for the 20 Years Captivity of Captain Knox and of his Miraculous Escape which when he Returned to England he wrote a large Treatise of the Nature of this Island and the Manners and Customes of the Inhabitants to which I refer you Of the Maldive Islands NEar unto the Coast of Malabar lieth a great Number of Islands called Maldive from Mal the City of those Islands and Dive which signifies an Island They are Divided into 13 divisions divided by certain Channels From hence the King of Maldives terms himself King of 13 Provinces in which are Contained Eleven-Thousand Islands as is Reported by some that have been there here they take Multitudes of little shells called Couries which pass in many places for Money The King Resides in the Isle of Mal which is one of the greatest but not above a League and a half In Circumference but it is a most Fruitful place strangers frequent it because of the Court There Grows on these Islands neither Rice nor Wheat yet all sorts of Provisions are Cheaper here then in other parts of India There are here abundance of Cocoe Nuts they have little Beef or Mutton no Dogs for they Abhor them they have great store of Fish The Inhabitants are very Industrious and Sober People Of India beyond the Ganges called India-Extra Gangem INdia Extra-Gangem is that part of the great Continent of India which lieth on the East-side of the River Ganges In this Peninsula are a great Number of Kingdomes but I shall only discourse of the Principal ones that are Contained in the Table which are Arracan Pegu Martaban Siam Cambodia Couchin China Malacca and Tanquin The Kingdom of Arracan is Situated on the East-side of the Bay of Bengala extending it self from the Tropick of Cancer to the sixteenth Degree of North Latitude it being a brave and Fruitful Country The Kingdom of Pegu when in its Splendor was so Rich and Powerful that some would equal it to China They have in many places Mines of Gold Silver and Precious Stones Besides Grains Fruits Herbs Fowl and Beasts which are here found Excellent And without doubt it is the Richest Country of all the Indies and for the same Reason one of the best Peopled and most Powerful The Chief City of this Kingdom is Pegu the Metropolis The Houses well Built The Palace-Royal is Seated in the midst of the City having its partitular Wall-Moat and other Fortifications The Habit of the Natives is but mean contenting themselves for the most part with a piece of Linnen to Cover their Nakedness They all black their Teeth because they say Dogs Teeth are white They are Generally all Pagans Those that Marry Buy their Wives of their Parents The Kingdom of Martaban