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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33311	A geographicall description of all the countries in the known vvorld as also of the greatest and famousest cities and fabricks which have been, or are now remaining : together with the greatest rivers, the strangest fountains, the various minerals, stones, trees ... which are to be found in every country : unto which is added, a description of the rarest beasts, fowls ... which are least known amongst us / collected out of the most approved authors ... by Sa. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Gaywood, Richard, fl. 1650-1680.	1657 (1657)	Wing C4516; ESTC R36024	224,473	240

bee found in the World and our Marriners and Souldiers are not to bee equalled In King Edward the third his time two hundred of our ships neer Scluse overcame four hundred of the French of which they sunk two hundred sail and slew thirty thousand Souldiers In eighty eight a few of our Queens ships overthrew the Spanish Invincible Armado consisting of one hundred thirty and four great Gallions Sir Francis Drake with four ships took from the Spaniard one million and one hundred eighty nine thousand and two hundred Duckats in his voyage Anno Christi 1587. And again with five and twenty ships hee awed the Ocean sacked St. Jago Domingo and Carthagena bringing away with him besides much treasure two hundred and forty peeces of Ordnance Our Country men Drake and Cavendish have sailed round about the World I omit the voyage to Cales mentioned before Sir Richard Creenvil in one of the Queens ships called the Revenge wherein were but one hundred and fourscore Souldiers and of them ninety so sick as not able to fight yet maintained hee a Sea-fight for four and twenty hours against above fifty of the Spanish Gallions and though when his powder was spent to the last barrel hee yeilded on honorable tearms yet before he had killed one thousand of the Spaniards and sunk four of their greatest vessels And what victories wee have had of late over all the Navies of the Lowcountries I omit to speak of because they are fresh in every ones memory In land service our souldiers are able to endure and resolute to undertake the hardest enterprises witnesse our warres and conquests in Spain France Ireland and Scotland and the Netherlands assisted by us England is a most fertile and a most potent Island as well for situation as for men and ships and the Inhabitants are good souldiers both by sea and land in valour and courage not inferior to any one Nation whatsoever and are more apt to offend by temerity and overmuch forwardnesse than by cowardize It excells all other nations in Mastiffs Cocks of the Game and Women who are incomparably beautiful and therefore have great influence upon the men yea the Queens have commanded here more absolutely and have been much better obeyed and respected than the Kings The division of England is into forty shires and nine thousand seven hundred and twenty five Parishes beside Chappels In these are five hundred fourscore and five Market Towns besides Cities the chief are Shrewsbury Northampton South-hampton Lecester Warwick c. Our Universities are two Cambridge and Oxford which for number and beauty of Colledges multitudes of Students and largeness of revenues are not to bee equalled in the Christian world I will not determine which is of greater antiquity this question having been agitated by so many In several places of England there is excellent white salt made I shall describe the manner of the making of it at Nantwich only There is one salt spring which they call the Brine-pit standing close by the River Weever from whence the Brine is conveyed into the severall Wich-houses and when the Bell rings they begin to make fire under the Leads wherein they boil the said salt-water and as it seeths the Wallers which are commonly women do with a woodden Rake gather the Salt from the bottome which they put into long wicker baskets and so the water voideth and the Salt remains In some other places they boil it in Iron pans with coals but they say the salt is not so white The Cities in England Described The City of London Described No Records set down the Original of this ancient City A City it was when Caesar first entred Brittain and by the Testimony of Tacitus Ptolemy and Antonine was called Londinium and by Ammianus Marcellinus for her successive prosperity Augusta the greatest title that can bee given to any In regard of both elements it is most happy as being situate in a most rich and fertile soil abounding with plenty and store of all things and on the gentle ascent and rising of a hill hard by the Thames side which by his safe and deep channel is able to entertain the greatest ships which daily bring in such store of rich Merchandise from all parts of the VVorld that it striveth at this day with the Mart towns in Christendome for the second place and affordeth a most sure and beautiful rode for shipping This City doth shew her self as the Cedar amongst shrubs It was the seat of the British Kings and is the model of the Land and Mart of the World For thither are brought the Silks of Asia the Spices of Africa the Balms from Grecia and the Riches from both the Indies No City hath been so long famous nor in civil Government can bee compared with her Her walls were first built by Constantine the great at the request of his mother Helena reared with rough stone and british brick three English miles in compass through which are seven fair Gates besides posterns A long the Thames this wall at first ranged with gates the one Douregate now Dowgate the other Billingsgate a receptacle for ships In the middest of the City was set a mile mark as the like was in Rome also from whence they measured their stations which stands till this day and is commonly known by the name of London stone St. Peters in Cornhill is thought to have been the Cathedral of Restitutus a Christian Bishop in Constantine the great 's time which was afterwards removed to St. Pauls whose greatness exceeds all others and spires had so high that twice they were consumed by lightning from heaven It hath in it besides this Church one hundred twenty and one Churches more viz. ninety and six within the walls and sixteen without but within the liberties and nine more in her suburbs It s divided into six and twenty Wards governed by so many Aldermen a Lord Maior and two Sheriffs the yearly choice whereof was granted them by Patent from King John In whose time also a Bridge of stone was built over the Thames upon twenty Arches built of excellent freestone and each Arch being sixty foot high and full twenty in distance from one another so that for length breadth beauty and building the like is not again to be found in the world King John gave certain void places in London to the City to build upon and the profits thereof were to go toward the charges of building and repairing the same bridg and the Mason who was the chief wo●kman in building it erected a large chappel upon it at his own charges and largely endowed it which is since turned to a dwelling house It was finished Anno Christi 1209. having been thirty and three years in building Afterwards sundry beautiful houses were built upon it that it seems a street rather than a bridge and many charitable men have given lands houses and summes of money towards the maintenance of it At the East end of this City

more upon the back than upon the belly They are very ambitious and good Souldiers knowing as well how to use a victory as to gain it and are more exactly observant of Discipline than any other Nation in the world The Kingdome is hereditary and for want of an heir male it falls to the distaff Granada which is bounded with Murcia on the East Andaluzia on the West Castile on the North and the Mediterranean Sea on the South The chief Cities are 1. Granata a neat and stately Town the houses being all built of freestone with curious workmanship It hath many wholsome Springs about it and is fenced about with a strong wall in which are twelve Gates and one hundred and thirty Turrets 2. Alamia famous for her Baths 3. Malaga whence comes our Malaga sacks 4. Almeria a great Port-Town 5. Osuna 1. Estremedura watered with the River Batis the chief Cities are 1. Merida 2. Guadalo●nal famous for her Mines of Gold and Silver 4. Gallicia a very mountainous Country In it the chief Cities are 1. Compostella in which is an University 2. Baiona at the mouth of Minius 3. Coronna called the Groine a place often spoken of in our wars with Spain in Queen Elizabeths time 5. Biscaie having Navarre on the East Old Castile on the South Leon on the West and the Cantabrian Ocean on the North. The chief Cities are 1. Tholosa 2. St. Sebastian 3. Fontaraby 4. Bilbo It abounds with good Wines store of cattel and the best sword-blades It s mountainous and woody out of the hills arise one hundred and fifty Rivers of which Iberus and Duerus are the chief It yeelds plenty of Iron and good Timber for ships They admit no Bishops amongst them and the women at all meetings drink first 6. Toledo the chief City is of the same name standing upon the River Tagus beautified with many Palaces of rare and admirable architecture and fortified with good walls on which stand one hundred and fifty Towers it s seated almost in the midst of Spain and is well inhabited by Noble men for pleasure by Merchants for profit and by souldiers it being garrisoned The Arch-Bishop hereof is the chief Prelate of Spain President usually of the Inquisition whose revenues amount to three hundred thousand Crowns per annum It hath in it an University 2. The next City is Calatrava on the River Ana. 3. Talbora on the River Tagus a very neat City 7. Murcia The chief Cities whereof are 1. Alicante whence comes our true Ali●ant Wine made of the juice of Mulberries growing here in great plenty Murcia on the River Segourg 3. Cartagena a brave haven upon the Mediterranean Sea 8. Castile bounded on the East with Navarre Arragon and Toledo on the West with Portugal on the North with Asturias and on the South with Andaluzia and Granada It s now divided into the new and old the Old is on the North side wherein the chief Cities are 1. Soria 2. Segovia famous for Wooll and cloathing 3. Validolid a neat Town and an University 4. Avila 5. Burgos 6. Salamanca the chiefest University in Spain New-Castile is on the South of the old The chief Cities are 1. Madrid the Kings seat and the most populous City in all Spain though it bee seated in a barren Country 2. Alcara de Henares formerly Complutum an University 3. Alcantara 4. Signeuca a small Academy 5. Cuenca nigh to which is the Escurial or Monastery of St. Lawrence built by King Philip the second A building of that magnificence that no building either in times past or present is comparable to it The Front towards the VVest is adorned with three stately Gates the middlemost whereof leadeth into a very sumptuous Temple and into a Monastery wherein are one hundred and fifty Monks of the order of St. Jerom and a Colledge That on the right hand openeth into divers offices belonging to the Monastery That on the left into Schools and out-houses belonging to the Colledge At the four corners are four Turrets of excellent workmanship and for height Majestical towards the North is the Kings Palace On the South part are diverse beautiful and sumptuous Galleries And on the East side sundry Gardens and walks very pleasing and delightful It contains in all eleven several Quadrangles every one Cloistered about Portugal described 9. Portugal hath on the North the River Minius On the South the River Ana On the VVest the Ocean and on the East Castile formerly it was called Lusitania The air is very healthful the Country for the most part is hilly and bare of Corn But it abounds with Hony VVine Oil Allom Fruits Fish white-Marble Salt c. It s in compasse eight hundred seventy and nine miles the length three hundred and twenty the breadth threescore the most firtile part is about Conimbria The people are excellent Mariners and happy in forreign discoveries The Rivers great and small are near two hundred the greatest is Minius full of red Lead and its navigable one hundred miles The chiefest Cities are 1. Lisbon upon Tagus famous for traffick It s seven miles in compasse containing above twenty thousand houses of neat and elegant building It s walled about wherein towards the Sea are two and twenty Gates and towards the land sixteen on the walls stand threescore and seven Turrets 2. Miranda 3. Braga 4. Conimbra a famous University 5. Porto At the Southern part of Portugal is the Cape of St. Vincent After the overthrow of King Sebastian in the battel in Africk where three Kings fell in one day there were divers pretenders to the Crown of Portugal and amongst the rest Philip the second King of Spain was one who made a shew that their titles should bee lawfully debated yet in the mean time hee sent an Army under the Duke de Alva seized on it by force and so kept it till within these few years the Portugals drave out the Spaniards as was aforesaid on a sudden and made the Duke of Bragance one of the family of the former pretenders King who keeps it till this day The King of Spain by the losse of it hath lost one of the fairest Diamonds in this Crown having therewith lost the East Indies and Brasile in the West 10. Valentia The chiefest City is of the same name situated near the mouth of the River Guadalander In it is an University c. there is nothing of note in this Country 11. Catalonia which hath Iberus on the South Arragon on the West the Sea on the East and the Pyrenian mountains on the North the chief Cities are 1. Gironne 2. Barcelona on the Sea a Town of good strength 3. Perpignan 12. Arragon is bounded with Catalonia on the East Castile on the West Navarre on the North and Valentia on the South the River Iberus runs through the midst of this Country The chief Cities are 1. Lerida an University on the River Cinga c. there is nothing else of note The Pyrenean Hills