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A12830	A geographicall and anthologicall description of all the empires and kingdomes, both of continent and ilands in this terrestriall globe Relating their scituations, manners, customes, prouinces, and gouernements.	Stafford, Robert, 1588-1618.	1607 (1607)	STC 23135; ESTC S117770	38,734	82

in Riuers They will neuer also come into the roomes where they dine or eate any thing with their shooes on their feete but keepe the places as they tearme it hallowed This Iland hath very much golde in it insomuch that Paule Venetus doth affirme that in his time the Kings Palace was couered with gold 12 The Moluccoe Ilands are famous for the great Moluccoes plenty of spices which are in them There is also in these Isles a Bird called Monicodiata which hath no feete continually flying without intermission The female of this Bird doth lay her egges when shee breedes in a hole which is in the backe of the Male like vnto a nest these are neuer taken before they dye and fall vpon the earth The inhabitants of these Ilands go naked and are great Idolaters 13 The Philippian Ilands lye North of the Moluccoes Philippians the ayre being very temperate bringeth forth all kind of Spices CHAP. IX De America siue India Orientali HAuing discourst of three parts of the world Europe Africa and Asia I will now venter on the last greatest part which is America 1 America is inuironed on the East with the maine Ocean on the South Limits with the Straights of Magelane on the West with Mare Del Zur or Pacificum and on the north with the vnknowne Land 2 This part of the world was first discried by Christopher Columbus in the yeare 1492. and then after that made better knowne by Americus Vesputius of whome it is called vnto this day America 3 The fruitfulnesse of this soyle is to be admired for Qualitie in it are wonderfull store of Spices Birdes and Fishes There is also gold in such plenty that the Spaniards haue reported they haue digged in some places more Golde then earth The chiefest want in this part are Horses of which they haue few or none and which was the occasion that when the Spaniards brought Horses in the battell against them they fell down astonished thinking that when the horses neighed they had spoken vnto them 4 The inhabitants of this mighty Territory are most Inhabitants barbarous being in some places men eaters they are altogether ignorant and vnlearned which was the cheiefe cause that they conceited themselues when any one of the Spaniards did read a letter the Diuel told him the cōtents They are ignorant of the vse of yron and estimate glasse aboue gold To conclude they are excellent runners and swimmers 5 This fourth part of the world is chiefly vnder the Gouernment King of Spaine and is diuided first into two parts Mexicana and Peruana afterwards subdiuided as followeth DE MEXICANA 1 MExicana is limited on the east with Mare Del Norte Limits on the West with Mare Del Zur on the South with an Istmus betwixt Peruana and it and on the North with the vnknowne land 2 In this part of America are many Prouinces the Prouinces chief of which are Quiuira Mexicana Nicaragua Iucatan Florida Virginia Norumbega Noua Francia Terra Cortealis and Estotiland 3 The Prouince of Quiuira extendeth it selfe vnto Sinus Quiuira Califormia being a most dry and barren ground 4 The Prouince of Mexicana was first found out by Mexicana Ferdinando Cortesius in the yeare 1518. There are in this place many Riuers in which breede great store of Crocadiles whose bodies the inhabitants doe eate There are also many mines of golde And there is a mountaine called Popochampeche which doth continually vomit forth flames of fire The chiefe and Metropolitane citie of this Prouince or of whole America is Mexico in which the Prorex for Spaine doth lie and in which there is both money coyned and bookes printed 5 The next is Nicaragua wherin is a great lake which Nicaragua hath no entercourse with the Sea and yet doth ebbe flow as the Sea doth The people in this place are more manlike then others both in behauiour and shape 6 In Iucatan Chersonesus the chiefe citie is Guatimala Iucatan where another Vice-Roy for Spaine doth lye The inhabitants of this Countrey did adore the Crosse before Cortez comming 7 Terra Florida so called of the French who first Terra Florida founded it hath in it many Prouinces whereof Panuca is one in which the people are very warlike but butcherously minded killing all the captiues they take and eating them Furthermore they neuer marry vntil they be 40. yeares of age and liue most vpon Serpents worms There is another place in this Prouince called Alberdosia wherin the women let their children sucke vntil they be 12. yeares of age 8 Virginia so nominated of our late Queene was first Virginia found out by Sir Walter Rawleigh who gaue it that name Of this Countrey what may be spoken more at large see the discourse of Master Harriot and Master Hackant 9 Norumbega so called of certaine fishes which are Norumbega in it of that name The chiefe Citie of it is Norumbega 10 Noua Frauncia lyeth neere vnto that great Sinus of Noua Francia Saint Laurence It was discouered and taken first of the French men vnder Frauncis the first of France The inhabitants of this Prouince haue little boats made of leather which they vse to fish in when they haue done to take them vp at their backe and carry them away 11 Terra Cortealis is little famous vnlesse it be for a riuer Terra Cortealis there which is called the three brothers 12 Estotiland was first found out by Anthony Zenus a Estotiland Venetian neere vnto which lyeth Fretum Dauis where they haue sought oftentimes for a passage vnto the Moluccoes China but it could not be effected Not far from this lyeth Newfound-land frō whence commeth most of our fish And in the North part lyeth a land called by Sir Frauncis Drake Noua Albion of which nothing can bee certainely spoken 13 Thus farre of the Prouinces of Mexicana now followeth the description of Peruana De Peruana PEruana is in euery place inuironed with the Sea vnlesse Limits it be towards the North where it is ioyned vnto Mexicana by a little Istmus 2 This part of America doth chiefly flourish with gold Qualitie pretious stones Spices Suger strange hearbs among which is that hearbe Tobaco which is so much and idely vsed amongst vs. 3 The inhabitants of this place are generally cruell Inuentions rude barbarous and men eaters not vnlike vnto those of Mexicana They go naked and if they take any man captiue they slice his body out into collops and broile it vpon the coales making mery so long as that indures them They are towards the South part mighty great men being all Idolaters worshipping the Diuell or some monstrous mishapen Idole 4 The chiefe Riuer of this Southerne part of America Riuers are three the Riuer Amazon Maragon and the golden Riuer Rio or de la Plate in which there is found much gold and

A GEOGRAPHICALL AND ANthologicall description of all the Empires and Kingdomes both of Continent and Ilands in this terrestriall Globe Relating their scituations manners Customes Prouinces and Gouernements Arsiam naturam superat nam pendere Terra Quam facit haec facit hic pictor habere pedes LONDON Printed by T. C. for Simon VVaterson dwelling at the Signe of the Crowne in Paules Church-yard 1607. In insequeus Geographium opus Decastichon QVid perigrinandi prodest tot adire labores Dum quod vbique petis possis habere domi Quae mare quae tellus quae tanta pericula monstrant Haec vno obtatu parvula charta docet Non hîc Scylla vorax aut formidanda Caribdis Temperat has placidas mitior auster aquas Hic tu cum cern●●●●ernas polyphemon in antro Non aper hic fertat dente vel vnque Leo. Ergo quid vlterius satagis Habet omnia habentem Qui mundum mundus quod tenet ille tenet Io Prideaux FLevit Alexander cum plures audijt orbes Tu potius plures non Iore flere potes Ille dolens vnum quod non superaverit omnes Armis desperat viuere posse suis Tam bene tu veterem cum iam descripseris orbem Nunc cupias alium posse videre novum Ne doleas nam si non primus sufficit orbis Quo tua se saturet Musa secundus erit Interea Safforte tuum quo pinxeris orbem Stabit forte vetus dum cadet orbis opus Casparus Tomannus NOn capiunt muscas nec sepe minutis Ingentes animi rebus adesse solent Audaces fortuna invat timor arguit autem Degeneres animos hoc tua caepta sonant Cui genus antiqnum iuvenis quem terra nec vndae Nee vasti spatium terruit oceani Quae tu tam dextre pinxisti cuncta referre Et genus proaves vt videare tuos Ergo age iam notus si nox tibi sufficit orbis Ignotos adeas inipiger Antipodes Iohannes Glanuillae TO THE RIGHT Honourable admired of men and myrrour of women the Lady Elizabeth Russel Dowager my worthy Lady and Mistresse RIght Honourable It may seeme strange to your learned censure to finde him the Author of a booke which so lately was your vnworthy Page But the seedes then sowne were such and their manuring sithens of that qualitie that the ground had been too barren if no fruit had followed Little God knowes it is and that very vntimely vnable to endure the least blast of our moderne Critickes were it not fauourably sheltered by your Honorable Patronage whose rare learning vertues the world rather honoureth then imitateth my selfe am fitter to admire then expresse The very conceit whereof heartened mee to circuit the whole earth in it to finde something to present your Honour a Si natura nigat facit indignatio versū Sat. 1. Meere chafing made Iuuenall a Poet and me a Geographer an ardent contention to acknowledge my dutie which sufficiently to performe I esteeme my selfe too vnworthy and the whole world too little The thing herein I aime at is your benigne acceptance in confidēce whereof I haue presumed so farre which seconding in this your manifold former fauours my hopes are attained and my selfe bound Your Honours in all seruice and dutie to be commaunded Rob. Stafforde To the Reader COurteous Reader for so I suppose thee to be vntil I find thee contrary thou art little beholding to me for this Geographical discourse as containing little in it worth thy perusing and that which it is thou hast against my will Hardly I thinke I shall satisfie thee who neuer in this kinde could satisfie my selfe yet thus farre importunity hath forced mee and whatsoeuer thou findest is more then my selfe intended or thou couldest of me expect A poore Suruey here thou hast not of my trauels but reading If sometime therefore erroneous I patronize it not but relate it So far thou mayest beleeue me that what my selfe beleeue not I inuented not but tooke out of others The Methode I had from my Tutor and so far forth the rest that I account it but the gleanings of his plentifull Haruest The rather to be allowed as I take it because it admitteth without maime the cancelling of a fiction and the interserting of any notable thing omitted If thy profit by it counteruaile my paines thou hast somewhat if otherwise the briefnesse of it cannot loose thee much time They which haue no leisure to seeke farther may take this for an insight others may fetch a great deale more from thē of whom I had this to whose riper iudgements I trust my youth may excuse mee when the worke cannot As for the Punies of mine owne ranke Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua Martial Shall serue for a counterblast And so I commend this description of the world to the world and thy selfe and it to the Creator of both Not determining to trouble thee any more for ought I know and therefore rest Thine as thou vsest me R. Staff To the Author WHen Caesar sitting in Imperiall Robe was Soueraign Lord of th' earth cōmanding Rome He sent to measure this terrestriall Globe To see how much was left to ouercome Belike his Kingdomes Vice-Royes were too slacke In due performance of this weighty taske Or he some good Geographers did lacke That might in briefe resolue what he did aske Whilst he intended all the world to gaine He in the Senate house was stabd to death A little Vrne his ashes did containe Whose mind was not content with halfe the earth Hadst thou deare friend liu'd in this Monarkes dayes And rendred vp this booke vnto his hands He would haue crown'd thee with tryumphall Bayes Or made thee ruler of some forreine lands For this small booke yet great in worth doth show All that which mighty Caesar crau'd to know In idem opus Carmen Encomiasticon VT Microcosmus Homo est simulachrum Regis Olympi Sic Maiore minor pulchrior orbe foret Factus erat Magnus Mundi ratione Minoris Scire licet patulo quicquid in orbe latet O Tu qui externas ignarus tendis ad Oras Hunc discas librum mira legenao loqui Hic mores hominum graphicè depingit Vrbes Et quicquia magnum sub lone Caesar habet Hîc campos stuutos montes Capitolia turres Structaque Mygdonio marmore tecta legas Hîc fractos Regum tumulos stratosque Colossos Ruptaque Montiuagae Templa Sacrata Deae Hîc vbi Troia fuit magnae Carthaginis arces Quaeque erat armipotens Roma vetusta scias Terra Arabum foelix vbi Phaenix nascitur vnus Plus foelix multos terra Britanna tulit Haec multos parit ingento Gentoque potentes Parua sed eximij Insula culta viris Inter quos semper meus est memoranous amicus Qui dulce nobis vtile texit opus Tho. Rogers A GEOGRAPHICALL AND ANTHOLOgicall description of the whole World CHAP. I. DE

Riuers of these Prouinces are three the first of which is Rhene mentioned before in Riuers Germanie the next it Schald which washeth the bancks of Antwerpe the last is Meuse vpon whose shore is scituated Luicke 20 This Country famous for wars is in part gouerned Gouernmēt by manie whom they call States of the lowe Countries But the Arche-duke of Austria wageth warre continuallie with them to bring it vnder his Dominion claiming and laying Title vnto it OF DENMARKE DEnmarke is enuironed round with the maine Ocean Limites vnlesse it be on the South where it is ioyned vnto Germanie 2 This Kingdome doth abound in goodly Horses Qualitie and in such store of cattell that there are yearely carried into Germanie 50000. Oxen. There is also such infinite abundance of herring neare vnto the I le Scania that the ships are scarce able by maine strength of Owers to rowe out of the Harbour the fish lying so thicke that their quantitie is supposed to surpasse the water it selfe Ortel Inhabitāts 3 The Inhabitāts of this country are very valiāt both at land and Sea in their Religion they are all Lutherans 4 The Prouinces of this Kingdome are almost all Prouinces Ilands amōg which the chiefe are first Sealand in which is Coppenhagen the chiefe seate of the King and an Vniuersitie in it is also Roschilt where the Kings are still intoombed The second is Loilant in which there growe so many Hazell-nuts that shippes are loaded there with them The third is Fimera in which Ticho Brahe built a Castle by Arte to the wonder of euery body that hath euer seene it In the Continent are containd two other Prouinces Iugtland and Holsten in which is Meldrope the inhabitants of which are so riche that they couer their houses with copper Magin 5 In this Countrie is also a straight Sea passing betweene some of the Ilands called the Sound which by Sound reason of the Imposts and Customs of the Ships which passe that way yeeldeth great gaine and profite vnto the King 6 The Gouernment of this Kingdome is vnder one Gouernmēt sole Prince who is called the King of Denmarke OF ITALIE ITalie called by Merula a Terrestriall Paradice The Boundes Phoenix of this Massie round the earths riche Ornament the Garden of the Muses is garded on the East with the Adriaticke Seas on the South with Mare Mediterraneum on the West with the Terrhene or Ocean and on the North with the Alpes which separateth it from Germanie it is like vnto a mans legge reaching in length from Augusta Pretoria vnto Otranto which is 1010. miles and is in breadth in the brodest place 420. miles 2 To set downe the fruitfulnes of this riche Region it may be as well declared in a line as in a leafe for there Qualitie is of all things such plentie as there is not of any thing any scarcitie 3 The people of this Nation are verie graue frugall wittie excelling both in vertue and vices which are in Inhabitants lust monstrous in hate implacable in their conuersation most deceitfull which had rather bestowe any thing vpon others then vpon themselues do more oftener blaspheme then sweare And will rather kill a man then giue him a disgracefull tearme or word 4 This Kingdome is diuided into many Prouinces whereof the chiefe and most famous are fiue Prouinces 5 The first is the Kingdome of Naples which is greater then any of the rest full of Nobilitie and abounding Naples with all things necessary for mans vse The chiefe citie of it is Naples lying vpon the Terrhenean Sea 6 The second is the Romane Territorie a Prouince richly furnished with all prouisions in which is scituated Roma the Cittie of Rome once called the Empresse of the world as well for the beautie and Magnificence of the Citie as for the Learning and fortitude of the Citizens but now it is much ruinated true Religion and vertue cleane decayed The Gouernour of it beeing the Pope that proud prelate persecutor of all true pietie and zealous professours 7 The third Prouince is Lumbardie comprehending Lumbardie vnder it is the Dukedom of Millaine which doth excell for beautie all the rest hauing in it many faire Riuers pleasant Lakes the chiefe Citie of which is Millaine whose buildings are to be admired for their extraordinarie sumptuousnes In this Prouince is also the great Lake de Como which is 60. miles in lēgth vpon whose bankes stands the citie Como in fashion like vnto a Crab whose two feete couet the water In this Citie the two Plinies had their beginning whose Fame by reason of their great learning shall neuer haue ending Ortelius 8 The fourth Prouince is Tuscanie little inferior vnto Tuscanie the rest in any thing the chiefe Citie of which is Florence whose inhabitants since the time of Macheuill which was their Recorder are most politicke and subtill amounting vnto the number of 80. thousand persons 9 The fift and last is the Signorie of Venice a free Venice State and the most famous of any in Christendome gouerned by a Prince of great Maiestie yet both hee and his authorite subiected vnto the Lawes This Citie with the Apendices vnto it is the richest best prouided with munition of any Citie in Italie as is confest in this particular cēsure of each Prouince before spoken that Naples excells for Nobilite Rome for Clergie Millaine for beautie Florence for policie but Venice for riches 10 There is is another prouince somewhat famous called Verona in which is the mountaine Baldo where all professors of Phisicke doe resort to gather diuerse sortes of pretious Hearbes And in which there is a citie called Negarino wherin is a stone in forme like vnto a womans dugge which doth continually distill a water whose vertuous operation causeth a womans Milke to returne into her brests when she hath lost it 11 The chiefest riuers of these prouinces are first Padus neer vnto which stands Patauine that noble Vniuersitie Riuers the next is Athesis adioyning vnto which is Trent where a Councell was helde vnder Paul the third in the yeare 1546. the next is Tiber that runneth through the Citie of Rome which when it doth ouerflowe the banks doth betoken some ill fortune which shall befall the Citie the last is the riuer Poe neere vnto which stands Cremona a Citie of great note 12 In this Italie which was in time past one intier Gouernement Gouernment are nowe many absolute States and Princedomes by the great Pollicie of the Pope who thought it the best way to make himselfe great by weakening the Empire OF ILLIRIA ILliria is limited on the West with the Adriaticke Sea on the North with the riuer Sauus on the East with Limits the riuer Drinus No certaine limits can be giuen of this countrie For all Geographers that write doe disagree about it 2 The people of this land as