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A90869	A compendious view, or Cosmographical, and geographical description of the whole world. With more plain general rules, touching the use of the globe, then bave been yet published. Wherein is shewed the situation of the several countries, and islands: their particular governments, manners, commodities, and religions. Also a chronology of the most eminent persons, and things that have been since the creation, to this present: wherein you have a brief of the gospel, or a plain, and easie table, directing readily where to find the several things, that were taught, spoke, done and suffered, by Jesus Christ, throughout the said gospel. The which is not onely pleasant, and delightful; but very useful, and profitable; for all. But cheifly for those who want, either time, to read, or money to buy, many books. / By Tho. Porter.	Porter, Thomas, fl. 1654-1668.	1659 (1659)	Wing P2998A; Thomason E1863_2; ESTC R210226	74,944	154

parallels which are called Artificial Parallels for that they shew the difference of Artificial Dayes the use of which is to shew the Climates Of Climates A Climate is a space of Earth included within two of the Artificial or lesser parallels and are declared and set forth in the Circumference of the Eastern Planisphere of the Map The use thereof is to shew the length and shortnesse of the Day in all the several parts of the World Now under the Equinoctial line and 10 Degrees on North and as many on the South-side thereof the dayes exceed not the length of 12 hours but afterwards they increase the length of half an hour in every Clime till they come to 24 hours without night and are so marked shewed or declared as you may see in the utmost Circumference of the Map which length atteined they increase no more by hours but by weeks and moneths until they come to the length of half a year so as there are two sorts of Climates that is to say 24 North and as many South from the Equator touching the names of which we will refer you to larger Volumes and discourses By which it appears that they who dwell under the same Latitude of the Poles have the same length of day and night But to them on the South of the Equator the day is shortest then with us on the North it is at the longest and our Winter is their Summer and so contrariwise their Winter is our Summer c. Of the Tropicks The Tropick of Cancer or the Crab is a Circle or rather for distinction a double Circle or Line which is distant from the Equinoctial or middle Lines towards the North about 23 degrees and a half Now when the Sun is come thither which is on the 11th of June then is the day longest with us who live on the North of the Equator and shortest to them on the South thereof This Line passeth through New Spain Arabia and India The Tropick of Capricorn is a like Circle to that of Cancer and is distant from the Equator 23 degrees and a half towards the South being just as much as Cancer is towards the North when the Sun is gone down thither which on the 12 or 13 of Decemb. then are the dayes shortest with us who dwell on the North and longest with them who dwell on the South thereof This Line passeth through Ethiopia the Lower and Peru. The Arctick or North-Polar Circle is a like Line or Circle as the Tropick of Cancer and it is distant from the North Pole 23 degrees and a half It passeth through Tartary Norway Greenland and some part of the unknown Land as you may see in the Map The Antarctick or South Polar Circle is a like Line or Circle to the North Polar Circle and is distant from the South Pole 23 degrees and about a half being just so much as the North-polar Circle is distant from the North-pole and passeth through the South unknown Land Of Zones Now the use of these four Circles of Cancer Capricorn the Arctick and Antarctick are to shew the five parts called Zones whereof there are two temperate the one North the other South two frozen or cold one of them also North and the other South and one hot or scorched The North temperate Zone is that part or space conteined between the Tropick of Cancer and the North-Polar Circle The South temperate Zone is that space contained between the Tropick of Capricorn and the South-polar Circle They are called temperate because the Air thereof is more moderate and of a better temper being neither so very hot as the scorched Zone nor so extream cold as the frozen Zones The torrid burnt or hot Zone is that space conteined between the two Tropicks of Cancer and Capricorn and is continually scorched with the Sun which doth alwayes pass over it afflicting it with a marvellous heat and down-right Rays the breadth hereof comprehendeth 47 degrees or 2820 miles every degree being 60 miles as hath been said already The North Frigid frozen or cold Zone is that space conteined within the Arctick or North-Polar Circle the breadth whereof from the very Pole it self is 23 degrees and a half which is 1410 miles The South frigid frozen or cold Zone is that space or part between the Antarctick or South Polar Circle and hath the same breadth as the North Frozen Zone hath from the north-North-Pole namely 23 degrees and a half or 1410 miles The Division of the World The World is commonly divided into the known and unknown parts the latter whereof we will pass by forasmuch as time and opportunity hath not discovered it and onely refer you to the Map by which you may see that it lyeth towards the Poles but chiefly towards the South-pole The known World is divided into these four parts EUROPE ASIA AFRICA AMERICA and each of these conteine several Countries and Islands EUROPE Contains England Ireland Scotland and their Isles Spain Portugal France Italy Germany Holland Denmark and Norway Swedland Poland Hungary Slavonia Transilvania Greece Dacia Russia and their Isles ASIA Contains Natolia Syria Palestine Arabia Caldea Assyria Mesopotamia Turcomania Media Persia Tartary Shiria India and many Islands AFRICA Comprehends Egypt Barbary Numidia Libia the land of Negroes upper and lower Ethiopia with divers Islands AMERICA Or the New World not to speak of it as some divide it into North and South for by the Map you may see how it lies the several Countries comprehended therein are Estotiland Terra Corterealis Canada New Scotland Norumbega New England New Netherland Virginia Florida New Albion New Spain Guatimalia Golden Castile Paria Guiana New Granada Peru Chile Paragnay Brasile and many Islands as Hispaniola Cuba Jamaica and divers others as you will find in their proper place Of the Winde It is a hot and dry Exhalation drawn into the air by the power of the Sun and by reason of the weight thereof being driven down is carried side-long about the Earth but this must be understood of general windes which blow over all the Earth or at the least some great Countries For there are a second sort of winds which are peculiar onely to some Countries and those not very large which are begot on this manner It is confessed that in the Globe of the Earth there are wonderful holes wherein when air aboundeth and cannot abide to be shut up findeth some little hole or as it were a mouth to breathe or break out at In or about those Countries bloweth vehemently but that force extendeth not far for it is like wind that cometh out of Bellows This winde therefore differeth from the general winds both in substance and quality for the matter of them is an exhalation and the quality such as the nature of the exhalation very airy but not indeed air There is also a third sort of wind which is a gentle and cool moving of the air coming from no certain place yet is felt

so the course hath been observed to be divers according to the diversity of places It must also be observed that the Sea doth move otherwise at the full Moon then it doth when it is but half for there is more strength in a full light then in that which is almost extinguished There is also a certain place in Norway called Maelstroom within which the Sea flowing is in such sort swallowed up by a Gulf that it is never seen afterwards The like is to be seen in the Boddick Gulf. Of the deepness of the Sea It must also be understood that it is not every where equal for it is less in the Ocean then in the Mediterranean Sea The Seas which the Spaniards call Del Nort and Del Zur are in such sort covered with green Reeds that the ships seem rather to sail upon green Meadows then upon the Waters Of the fruitfulness and richness of the Sea And this is no less different according to the diversity of places then of the Earth for they who have sailed through the Sea which is between Spain and America say that they have often made above 100 Leagues without seeing one fish and contrariwise in ther places there are such abundance to be seen that it is wonderful which hath been well known by the those who have sailed towards the North Coasts of America and above all towards Newfound Land which for the abundance of fish is called De Baccalos Moreover one would think that Nature hath taken delight in counterfeiting in the Sea many things which are seen on the Earth For as touching four-footed Beasts you shall find therein the Elephant the Hog the Schel-crab the Dog the Cals the Horse the Cow and many other the like things And as for Feathered Fowels there is the Hawk the Swallow and others yea the very likeness and image of man The ancient Writers as also the late do likewise affirm That there are Meirmaids in the Sea which have at sundry times shewed themselves in divers places as Peter Launy affirmes by the testimony of many to whom I remit the doubtful Reader And finally the Sea brings forth also divers Plants as Coral Pearles Amber Sponge and many other things both delightful and necessary for mans use Of the Circles in the Map and their Vse The imaginary parts of the Earth are such as though not in the Earth yet must be supposed to be so for the understanding of this Science and are certain Circles going about the Earth answerable to them which the Astronomers attribnte to the Heavens That bigger Line which crosseth both Planispheres in the Map straight along in the midst dividing as it were the World into two halves that is to say North and South is called the Equinoctial Equator or middle Line because when the Sun is come thereto which is on the 11th of March and 12th of September the day and night is of equal length over all the World and this is the great fixed and immoveable Circle which goes round about the Earthly Globe from East to West and passeth through Bornea Upper-Ethiopia and Guinea as you may see in the Map This Line is full of black and white spots or spaces to the number of 360 which are called Degrees and a degree consists of 60 minutes and conteins 60 miles for as much as a minute is accounted a mile The use hereof is to shew the Latitude of any Countrey Place or City that is the distance of them towards the North or South from the Equator which is reckoned on the Meridian towards either Pole Those therefore have North latitude that inhabit or dwell between the middle Line and the North Pole and those South latitude who dwell between the Equinoctial and South Pole The Meridian is a great Circle compassing round the Earth from Pole to Pole and is that which you see in the Circumference of the two Planispheres of the Map But there are many Meridians according to the divers places in which a Man lives but the chief and fixed passeth through St. Michaels one of the Azores Isles The use of the Meridian is to shew the Longitude of any Countrey Place or City Now the Longitude is the distance of it East or West from the great and fixed Meridian and this distance or longitude is measured and numbred on the middle Line or Equator by 10 20 c. from the great and fixed Meridian to the numbers of 360 into which the whole Compasse of the Earth is divided An Example shall be this Look for England and you will see that it is a little East of the second Meridian then follow that Line to the Equator and look there as much Eastward as England is from the Meridian above and count or reckon the degrees thereon from the great and fixed Meridian to that place and you will see that it is about 22 and this is the longitude of England but then you must note that we mean the middle thereof All the other small Lines that go through the Map from North to South are also called Meridians We will give you an Example both of the longitude and latitude together Suppose you would know in what degree of longitude and latitude the middle of Ireland is First then look for Ireland and you will see it is North of the fifth parallel then follow that Line to the Meridian and you will see that it is about 51 Then cast your eye to the middle of Ireland and you will see that it is about 52 Then look towards the West and you will perceive that it lies somewhat East of the first Meridian Then follow it down to the Equator and so look as much East there as Ireland is above and you will see that the middle thereof is about 52 which is the longitude thereof so that the middle of Ireland is about the 52 degree of latitude and thus you may easily find any other place or City And this may serve for a Rule to know the length and breadth of any Countrey for as much as every degree is reckoned for 60 miles as was said before Those small Lines thwarting or crossing the Meridian from East to West are called parallels or equidistances being distant one from another 10 deg towards each Pole and are for the easie and ready finding out of the latitude of any place from the equator As for example look for England and count the parallels or equidistances till you come to the parallel which is nearest to it and you will find them to be 5 Then follow that line to the meridian and you will see the figure set thereat is 50 so that you will find the latitude or distance for they are both as one of England from the Equator towards the North-pole to be 50 degr and better but then this you must note is the South part of England and so in the like manner may you find any other place But there is another sort of

The meaning and vse hereof is declared next after the epistle to the reader The names of the 12. signes which for want of roome could not be written at length in the out most Circle above in their proper place Aries ♈ Taurus ♉ Gemini ♊ Cancer ♋ Leo ♌ Virgo ♍ Libra ♎ Scorpio ♏ Sagitarius ♐ Capricorn ♑ Aquarius ♒ Pisces ♓ A NEW AND ACCVRAT MAP OF THE WORLD Dranne according to the truest Descriptons latest Discoueries best Obseruations that haue beene made by English or Strangers Printed and are to be sould by Rober t Walton at the Globe and Compass on the North side of St. Paules church A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OR Cosmographical and Geographical Description of the whole WORLD With more plain general Rules touching the use of the Globe then have been yet published Wherein is shewed the Situation of the several Countries and Islands their particular Governments Manners Commodities and Religions Also a Chronology of the most Eminent Persons and things that have been since the Creation to this present Wherein you have a brief of the Gospel or a plain and easie Table directing readily where to find the several things that were taught spoke done and suffered by Jesus Christ throughout the said Gospel The which is not onely pleasant and delightful but very useful and profitable for all But chiefly for those who want either time to read or money to buy many Books By THO. PORTER Are to be sold by Robert Walton at the Globe and Compass in S. Paul's Churchyard on the North-side 1659. TO THE READER THe matter herein is very pleasant and exceeding useful for resolving many questions and doubts both in reference to Persons things great part past long since but being eminent and of much note Historians have thought good to Chronicle them men of this present generation being as ingenious and for the greater part more inquiring into things then formerly I have spent much time in gathering them together But it may be some will say that I have already published a good part hereof in another manner I answer it is true but I conceive of my self and also hearing from others that many would have it in this manner for asmuch as some would have it to be their Companion in their pockets others in their closets as well as some for ornament and use of the house And I had not then room for the Chronology nor had I finished it neither did I then think of several things that are now added And whosoever will may have the four Maps of the four parts of the World put into this Book and they are very useful for that things may be more fully seen and understood And thus wishing you as much profit and satisfaction in reading as I had in Collecting I bid you fare-wel and remain Yours THO. PORTER The Description and use of the FRONTISPICE THe Frontispice consisteth of certain Circles one within another the outermost whereof is divided in 12 equal parts and each of those parts is again d●vided into 30 smaller equal parts the 12 larger parts represent the 12 Signes of the Zodiack and the ●o smaller parts contein the degrees of each Signe in each 12th part there is written the name of the Signe it representeth and the degrees are numbred by 10 20 30. Within this Circle is another Circle which is divided into 12 unequal parts representing the 12 moneths of the year and those 12 parts are divided into other smaller parts namely into so many as there are dayes conteined in each moneth and those are numbred by 10 20 c. and the name of each moneth is written in its proper place Under the name of the moneth you have the names of such Holy or Festival dayes as are fixed in that moneth together with the day of the moneth upon which they constantly fall so under the moneth of July you shall find James Apost 25 which denotes unto you that the 25 day of July is St. Jamses day and so of all the rest Now the use of these Circles are chiefely two which are these 1 The day of the moneth being given to find in what Signe and degree of the Zodiack the Sun is 2 The degree in the Sun in the Zodiack being given to find the day of the moneth First Let the day of the moneth be given and let it be required to find the place of the Sun in the Zodiack to effect which seek the day of the moneth in the Circle of moneths and right against it you shall find the signe and degree in which the Sun is in the Zodiack Example Let the day of the moneth given be the 25th of July seek the 25th of July in the Circle of moneths which you shall find to stand at the letter a then right against it in the Circle of the 12 signes you shall find about 12 degrees of Leo and in that signe and degree is the Sun upon the 25th day of July which 12 degree stands at the letter b Secondly If the signe in which the Sun is had been given and it were required to find the day of the moneth then look in the Circle of signes for the signe and degree and right against it you shall have the day of the moneth Example Let the signe in which the Sun is be 12 degrees of Leo look in the Circle of Signes for 12 degrees of Leo which will be found at the letter b and right against it you shall find 25th day of July which is the day of the moneth required The like is to be done for any Signe and degree in the Zodiack and also for any day of the moneth in the whole year this is sufficient for example sake Within these Circles in a little square you have a Table which telleth you the day of the moneth for ever and may be called a perpetual Almanack the use whereof shall be declared but before that can be well understood you must know how To find the Sunday letter for ever THe Sunday Letter is alwayes one of these seven A B C D E F or G now to know which of the letters belongs to any year this Table annexed sheweth for ever The Table following begins at 1659 and ends at 1686. Now to know the Sunday letter for any year look in the Table for the year of our Lord and right against it you shall have the Sunday Letter Example I would know the Sunday letter for the year 1661 look in the Table for the year 1661 and right against it you shall find F so is F Sunday letter for all that year In 1663 D will be the Sunday letter In 1682 A will be Sunday letter In the year 1664 C and B will be Sunday letters and because there are two letters against that year as there is every 4th Years of our Lord Sunday Letter 1659 B   60 A G 1 F   2 E   3 D   4 C B 5 A   6 G

and use painting to keep themselves in favour with their Husbands for if once they grow wrinckled they are put to all the drudgery of the House Both Sexes for the most part apply themselves in their habits to the State under which they live Such as live under the Venetians to theirs and those under the Turks to theirs The Christian Religion doubtless was once planted here by St. Paul as appeares Act. 16. 12. but now they are much swarved from it many of them being trained up from their Infancy in the Mahometan Rites or rather Fopperies The Soil is very fruitful and yields good profit to the Husbandmen if they would take pains to till it but they knowing nothing certainly to be their own being all at the mercy of the Grand Signeur and his Souldiers neglect the manuring thereof Their Commodities are Turkish Grograins Damask Velvets Wine Oyl Vitriol divers Colours Copper some Gold and Silver Of the Isles in the Mediterranean Sea near and sometimes belonging to Greece 1. Candia is mountainous yet yields good store of corn and grass and divers Fruits as Olives Orenges Lemmons Figs Citrons Wax Honey Saffron Gum Vines and Malmsey is said to be made only here And as Pliny relates whatsoever grows here is better then any of the same kind that groweth elsewhere It is also reported that here are neither Serpents Foxes Woolfs nor any harmful Creature except Spiders 2. Corfu the Air is temperate and gentle so that there are whole VVoods of Citron-Trees Orenges Apples Olives Grapes and all kind of Fruit but no good Corn by reason of the Southern wind which dries it before it be ripe 3. Zant hath a wholsom Air and fruitful soil and yields good store of Oil Raisins Wine and Corn. There are divers other small Isles which we must passe by DACIA is bounded on the East with the Euxine or Black-sea on the West with Hungary and Sclavonia on the South with Greece and on the North with Poland It is very fruitful in Grasse Wood Wine and Corn but not so good for Tillage as Pasture It also affords great plenty of Beeves and Muttons with which they supply not only the great City of Constantinople but part of Poland also In matters of Religion they allow the Dictates of the Greek Church and obey the Patriarch of Constantinople They are a rough-lived people hard to be civilized not fully weaned from the superstitions of the Gentiles swearing by Jupiter and the like They marry and unmarry at their pleasures are much given to Magical Charms and bury with their dead both Cloaths and Victuals for their relief in that long Journey to the other World RUSSIA or MOSCOVIA is a good part in Asia and is bounded on the East with Tartaria on the West with Sweden on the South with the Euxine or Black-sea and on the North with the Petzork North or Frozen Sea a vast Countrey and as wild a Government The people are reported to be crafty perfidious and deceitful in their bargains making no reckoning of their Promises studying wayes to evade their Agreements and both Parents and Children unnatural endeavouring to domineer over one another giving much to drinking strong of body thick and short broad-bearded gray-eyed and very swift in running The common people live in great subjection to the Nobles and they are in as much slavery to the Duke or Emperour And it is the fashion of their Women to love those Husbands best who beat them most and think themselves not loved or regarded unless they be soundly swadled The Countrey is not so populous as spacious but is very much filled with Woods amongst which are the greatest and tallest Trees in the World some whereof are reported beyond belief which is a good help against the coldness of the Air that the greatest part of the Countrey is subject unto Nature also hath stored them with rich Furs Sables White Fox Martines Honey Wax Pitch Tar Rozen Whales Grease Hides of Oxen Elks Hemp and Flax as also Cattle Corn and Fruit. In Profession they are Christians and follow the Greek Church having a Patriarch two Metropolitans and 18 Bishops and though they use Mass yet do they much differ from the Romish and Reformed Churches for they deny Purgatory and the proceeding of the Holy Ghost They also dissolve Marriage upon sleight occasions and divers other things The whole Region is subject to the Emperour of Russia Of the Islands belonging to Russia 1. Sir Hugh Willoughby's Land because he first found it out in the year 1553. and was thereabout found frozen to death the year following 2. New Zemia which is but little discovered and is said to have neither green boughs nor grass yet to harbour many Bears and the men hereof are very little As for knowledge of the most famous Cities and Rivers that are in this part I will refer you to the Map of Europe by which you will finde their situations also A View of ASIA or as we may call it the old World for that it was first inhabited as is by all allowed ASIA is separated from Europe by the Rivers Tanais and Duina and from Africa by that small and narrow part of Aegypt which lyeth between the Mediterranean and Red seas and is much bigger then Europe or Africa and excels them in Riches as Pearls of great price precious Stones and hot Spices which by Experience are found to be both good and wholsom This part hath been renowned by the first and second Monarchs of the World The length hereof is about 5200 miles and the breadth 4550. Herein man was not only created placed in Paradise or the Garden of Eden and seduced by Satan but also here was wrought the great work of man's Salvation by our Saviour Jesus Christ and here were done most of the Acts and Histories mentioned in the Old Testament and great part of those in the New The condition of those who profess the Christian Religion is sad and deplorable for it is both discountenanced and oppressed but not extinguished though all the chief Rulers be either Pagans or Mahometans for it is at present governed by these six great Monarchs 1. The great Cham of Tartary 2. The King of China 3. The King of Barma who governs most part of India beyond the River Ganges 4. The great Mogol whose Empire extendeth over all India on this side the River Ganges 5. The King of Persia And 6. The Turk But for the better understanding of the Babylonian Assyrian and Persian Monarchs which are often mentioned in Scripture we shall consider it as it is divided into its Regions 1. Natolia or Asia the lesse is bounded on the East with the River Euphrates by which it is almost parted from the Greater Asia but all the rest is encompassed with the Sea The Air is good and the soil is said to be furnished with very good Pasture which afford a special Race of Horses And as it hath formerly so it would still

are so many Kingdoms and Provinces The River of Niger spoken of before is found to have its Rise from a great Lake some two degrees from the Equinoctial or Line of the Sun whence running forward for a good space he hideth himself under ground for about 60 miles together then rising up again maketh a Lake called Borneo as you may see in the Map and then bendeth his course directly towards the West taking in many lesser Channels or Rivers and at last falleth into the Sea Of a much like length and of the same wonderful nature as the River Nilus for from the 15 of June it over-flowes all the adjoyning fields for the space of 40 days and in so many more recollecteth his Waters into their proper Channels The whole Countrey is indebted to these inundations for its fruitfulness which otherwise would be but little for the dryness of the Soil can afford no Exhalations whereby Clouds may be generated and the Earth refreshed with moistures or enlivened and revived with Dews The chief Commodities are Sanders Civet Ivory Sugar Mines of Gold and other Mettals Aethiopia-Superior or The Higher otherwise called Abissines is bounded on the East with the Red Sea and the Sea called Barbar●●● on the West with the River Nilus which parts it from the Land of Negroes on the South with the Mountains of the Moon and on the North with some part of Egypt It is situated on both sides the Equator and is governed by one of the greatest Emperors in the World who is by us called Prester John His Court remains not long in one place for some say it consists of 6000 Tents only which encompass 12 or 13 miles He is said by some to have 70 Kings under him who have their several Laws and Customs But Historians do much differ herein so as I am not satisfied The chief Kingdoms are 1 Dangali 2 Dobas 3 Adel 4 Tigremnon 5 Barnagasso 6 Guagere 7 Bagamedrum 8 Damut 9 Amara 10 Angote 11 Goiamy 12 Adea 13 Fatigar 14 Xoa And 15 Barus There are many others in the Imperial style but of little note and therefore we shall forbear to name them The Title which the chief Ruler or Emperour claims and takes to himself because both strange and arrogant I will here set down N. N. Supream of his Kingdoms and the Beloved of God the Pillar of Faith sprung from the Stock of Judah the son of David the son of Solomon the son of the Columne of Sion the son of the Seed of Jacob the sonne of the Hand of Mary the sonne of Nahu after the Flesh the son of St. Peter and St. Paul after the Spirit Emperour of the Higher and Lower Ethiopia of the most mighty Kingdoms Dominions and Countries of Xoa Goa Caffares Adea Vangne Balignazo c. and Lord of all the Regions to the Confines of Egypt The Air of this Countrey is very hot and the ground so parcht that the people are said to roast their meat in the Sun And therefore 〈◊〉 populous except in the Northern part and Sea-Coasts they have not much Wheat but plenty of Rice Barley Pease Sugar Orenges Lemmons Citrons Honey Minerals of all sorts and many Heards of Cattle as Oxen Sheep and Goats It is a good Countrey for increase were not the Inhabitants idle for they have plenty of Vines but make little Wine Flax but make no Cloth and Woods full of Venison which they trouble not themselves to catch being destitute of Learning and very base in Religion for though there be some Christians which are said to be first planted by St. Philip who baptized the Eunuch of Queen Candace yet now they much differ from their antient purity They circumcise both Sexes and after baptize them and keep the Saturday for Jewish Sabbath equal with the Lords Day They baptize themselves every Epiphany Day in Lakes and Ponds because they say that Christ was that day baptized of John in Jordan Aethiopia Inferior or Lower is on all sides begirt on the Sea except towards the North and there it is separated from the Abissines or Aethiopia Superior by the Mountains of the Moon It is so called because o● its lower situation and is governed by five chief Rulers or Kings each having a several Province belonging to him As first Monomotapa whose Air is temperate and Soil good and though it be full of Forrests yet are they well watered with Rivers that carry Gold in their Sands It hath also good store of Corn and Pasture wherein are many Heards of very large Cattle and such plenty of Elephants that they are said to kill 5000 yearly for their Teeth and herein are reported to be 3000 Mines of Gold The people are black of Complexion couragious strong active and so extream swift of foot that some say they will out-run Horses They may have as many Wives as they please but the first is chief and her Children only are Heirs In punishing offendors they use no Prisons but execute them as soon as apprehended and they use most severity to Witchcraft Theft and Adutery 2 Manicongo the Air is so temperate in Winter that they neither change their Garments nor make more fire than at other times The Day and Night for the greatest part of the year little differ The Soil is very fruitful and doth not only produce Fruits Plants and Hearbs but hath good Pasture also in which are bred many Herds of Cattle large Flocks of Sheep Stags Goats Conies Hares and Elephants so large that their Teeth weigh 200 pounds and Serpents of that bigness that they eat a whole Deer at once Here are Fowl also in great plenty both Tame and Wild. The people are said to have Shambles of mans flesh as we have for meat and they kill their Children in the birth to avoid the trouble of breeding them preserving their Nation with stollen brats from the adjacent Countries 4 Zanguebar is low and Fenny and much overflown with unruly Rivers and so full of Forrests and Woods that for want of Air it is very pestilent The people are black of Complexion very much given to South-saying indeed Witchcraft 4 Cafraia so much of it as is discovered is said to be plentifully stored with Heards of Cattle Flocks of Sheep great store of Foxes Deers Pheasants Partridges Geese Ducks and other Beasts and Fowl Also the Hills are as it were mingled with grassie Vallies stored with Forrests and Woods and in brief all things necessary for the use of man were it better stored with Corn. And pitty it is that the people of so good a Countrey should be so base and brutish that men can hardly say whether the people generally may be thought to be men in the Skins of Beasts or Beasts in the shapeand likeness of men In this Countrey stands the Cape of Good-Hope about which the Sea is alwayes dangerous it hath been so especially to the Spaniard in omuch that one was angry with God that he suffered the English

Hereticks as he called them to passe it so easily and not to give them the like speed 5 Ainan which affords plenty of Honey Wax Fish Ivory Gold Iron and very large Sheep In Religion they are Heathens in all the aforesaid Kingdoms onely some Mahometans on the Sea-coasts Of the Islands belonging to Africa 1 Zocotora at the mouth of the Red-Sea lyeth open to the sharp Winds and is therefore extream dry and barren yet affords some good Pasture for the breed of Cattle as also Dates and some kind of Fruits liberally furnished with Medicinal Drugs and the best Aloes c. The people are rude and barbarous and though their Hair be long yet their Cloathing is hardly enough to cover their nakedness The Women govern all the Affairs within and without their Bread for the most part is made of Dates the rest of their Food is milk and butter The people are accounted Christians and Jacobites in Sect adoring the Cross most superstitiously and give themselves much to Enchantments 2 Madagascar or St. Laurence is rich and plentifully stored with almost all Commodities that man can use as Rice Sugar Honey Goats Deer Elephants and other Creatures both Tame and Wild in great plenty Also Beeves and Muttons both large and good are here in such abundance that they sell them for very trifles Here is also Wax Cotton Ginger Saffron Cloves Amber some Mines of Gold Silver Copper and Iron And here grows ● Tree which beares that Fruit called Caeos a kind of Date as big as a Cabbage wherein is a pint of Liquor which tasts like Wine and Sugar and the Kernel is sufficient to satisfie two men It affords not only meat but cloathing furniture for their Houses Tackling for Ships Timber for Building and Fuel for the Fire The people for the most part are black ignorant and treacherous Idolaters in the midland parts and Mahometans upon the Sea-coasts 3 Mohelia the people are black large strong and couragious they pink their Arms and Faces in several shapes and use no other Apparel but their Natural Garments except some Plantain Leaves to hide their shame They are Mahometans 4 Mauritius or De Cirne is well stored with Beeves Goats Hogs most sorts of Fish dainty Fruits and plenty of Ebony of all colours yet not inhabited 5 St. Hellen is very high and hilly stored with Hogs Goats Hens Orenges Lemmons Figs and the like 6 St. Thomas is situated directly under the Equator inhabited by the Negroes and Portugals The Air agrees so well with the former that they generally live to 100 years of Age but few of the Portugals to 50. It is destitute of Wheat but abounds with Sugar In the midst hereof stands a Woody Mountain over-shadowed continually with Clouds which moysten the Trees that grow here in good plenty from whence falls a great quantity of water which doth refresh their Fields and Sugar-canes notwithstanding the extream heat of the Air. Their Religion is the Christian 7 Princes Island so called because the Revenues thereof belonged to the Prince of Portugal 8 The Isles of Gorgades or Cape Verde the chief now inhabited are 1 St. Jago though it be mountainous and rocky yet is full of pleasant Vallies and well inhabited 2 Demay hath a Lake whose Water is medicinable 3 Del Fuego so called from the Flakes of Fire which it usually sends forth The rest we forbear to name 9 The Hesperides which are often mentioned by the ancient Poets in the Fable of Atlas his Daughters It was supposed to be the Seat of their blessed which they called the Elisian Fields and indeed it is a happy Soil the Weather alwayes fair the Season also temperate and the Air never extream 10 The Canaries and they are 7. 1. Canary is plentiful in Barley Sugar-canes Honey Wax Kine Camels Goats Woad for Dyers and Canary Wine which at first was accounted good for cold stomachs but is now brought in such abundance to supply Luxury that as it is reported there are 3000 Tuns vended yearly into England and Holland 2 Teneriffa hath a Mountain in it which as some affirm may be seen 80 Leagues or more at Sea in a clear day This Island is as fruitful as Canary but hath no Water but from a Cloud which at Noon dissolves and is conveyed into several parts 3 Gomera though formerly most barbarous yet is now as well manured as the rest 4 Ferra hath no fresh water but what they preserve in showers both for themselves and Beasts but a happiness it is if they have them oft 5 Palma is well stored with Cattle Cheese Sugar and Wine and is the place where our Ships touch to refresh themselves in their Voyage towards America 6 Forte Ventura which is of the same nature with the rest 7 Lancerote whose Inhabitants were the first that were made subject to the Spaniards and were then so rude and ignorant that they did account it the greatest work that could be put upon them to kill a Beast and did therefore impose it on condemned persons and prisoners But now they are most Christians of the Church of Rome and their Seat of Justice is in that Isle called Canary There are some others but of little account and therefore I omit them And as for the knowledge of the Cities of most note that are within this part we shall refer you to the Map of Africa A View of AMERICA or as we may call it The New World for that it was last discovered AMERICA or The New World so called because it was last discovered and from its bigness Christopher Columbus was the first that opened a gap into it Next to him Americus Vesputius who gave it that name Ferdinando Magellanicus first attempted and found out the compass of the South-Sea Limits which beareth his Name Our own Heroicks Sir Francis Drake and Noble Candish followed and added to what was done by them Davis and Forbisher two English-men went fair for a Passage round and have left their Names behind them in the North part thereof as is expressed in the Map This New World or America hath many Mines in some whereof as it is reported they hardly find so much Earth as Gold which they exchange for Axes Hammers Knives and such like Tools for want of which they formerly made their Boats or Canoes with the force of fire There are such multitudes of Bulls and Kine that the Spaniards kill thousands yearly onely for their Tallow and Hides It is also very plentiful in Spices and Fruits and divers strange Beasts and Birds which other parts are ignorant of as Deer without Horns a kind of Hare resembling a Cat in its Tayl a Wont in its feet and under his Chin is a little bag which Nature hath taught him to make a Store-house for having filled his belly he reserveth the rest therein And here is a Bird so big that it will seize on a Calf or Sheep and devour it Here is another also as little called Tomineo

People are without any setled Government though they acknowledge some Superiority in the chief parts The Richest who have two or three Wives a piece and the poorer who have but one are alike jealous and if they take them in Adultery they beat out their brains without more ado Their Wives but especially the eldest they use as servants and solemnize their Funerals with a strange Feast for the men drink and sing and the Women houl Their Accounts and Reckonings they keep by a bundle of sticks which they either increase or diminish as they have occasion The Countrey is divided into these three parts 1. Guiana specially so called is so fruitful that on the shrubs grow plenty of Cotton Sugar-canes without planting and Tobacco to nine handfuls long Their Fields are well stored with Beasts which they call Moyres in use and shape resembling Kine but without horns their Woods with Venison and their Rivers with Fish They make their Bread and Drink of a Plant called Cassavi and a great part of their Food is Fish which they intoxicate with a strong-scented Wood and so take them up while they are floating on the top of the Water 2. Oronoque is very rich and pleasant consisting of large Plains adorned with unknown Plants and Flowers and sometimes Hills intermingled which are reported to be furnished with Mines of Silver and Gold the Forests with Beasts and Fowl and the Rivers with Fish so that no Countrey in all America can compare with this for abundance of Riches 3. Rio de las Amazones or the River of Amazons though in some places it be dry and barren yet in others very fruitful and full of large Woods wherein are most sorts of Trees which are found in America Amongst the rest here is one peculiar to this place which they call Too-ock of a very large Bulk and the Fruit as big as a mans head so that when it is ripe the people dare not go into the Woods without some strong shelter for fear it should beat out their brains New-Granada is bounded on the East with Guiana on the West with Mare Del Zur on the South the Countries not yet discovered and on the North with Castella Del Oro. It is generally full of Woods and hath good Pasture in some parts wherein are many Cattle some Corn Mines of Gold and other Mettals but not so good And here groweth the Wood Guatican good for the French Pox. The Air hereof is much alike both in Winter and Summer the People tall and strong of body and given much to dancing and singing Peru is bounded on the East with a great ridge of Mountains called Andes on the West with Mare Del Zur on the South with Chile and on the North with some part of New-Granada It affords very little Maize or Wheat so that the Inhabitants live most on Roots yet they have store of a kind of sheep which they call Pacos as big as a small breed of Horses but in taste as pleasant as our English Mutton and not inferiour for nourishment nor are they onely of good use for their fleece and flesh but also to carry burthens and so well they know their own strength that if they are overladen no blows will make them go till their burthen be lightned Herein are also a multitude of Beasls like wild Goats And though the great Riches of this Countrey be in the never-fading Mines of Gold and Silver yet Tobacco is no small profit to the Spaniard The people are ignorant of Letters but well skild in such Weapons as they had been used to Of good courage in Warre and fearless of death prompt thereto by an old conceit that in the other World they shall eat drink and love Women And therefore divers times at the Burials of great persons who were attended on in this life they use to kill and bury one or more of his servants with him to wait upon him in the other World This Countrey is of a vast length but the breadth not answerable Chile is bounded on the East with some unknown Countries on the West with the Pacifick Sea or Mare del Zur on the South with the Straights of Magellanica and on the North with that part of Peru called the Desart of Alacama It lyeth almost wholly between the Straights of Magellanica and the Tropick of Capricorn and therefore in the South temperate-Zone and yet as some say extream cold insomuch that some are frozen to death and hardned like Marble And though the Midland be mountainous and barren yet towards the Sea it is very fruitful in Maize and Wheat and hath very good Pasture stored with Cattle plenty of Gold Silver and Honey The people are of a large stature and white complexion The Straights of Magellan were so called from Magellanus who first discovered them Their breadth is very unequal for in some places it is 5 or 10 miles broad in some 2 or 3 in the narrowest but one There are in all 3 several Straights which heretofore they were clear of The first of which is most dangerous because it ebbeth and floweth with violent swiftness The second is bad enough though least dangerous The third is said to be of that nature that let a man steer his course which way he will the Wind will be still against him And therefore it is no marvel that Magellanus when he had past them and got into the main Ocean called it the Pacifick or Peaceable Sea Paraguay is bounded on the East with some part of the main Atlantick on the West with some unknown Countries between it and Chile on the South with part of Chile the main Atlantick Ocean on the North with some part of Brasile So far as it is discovered it is said to be very fruitful in Wheat and European Fruits and the Cattle which are brought from Spain increase much there It hath some veins of Gold and Silver Mines of Brass Iron Monkies Stags in abundance I need not say that here are good store of Tigers Lions and such like Creatures a few of them being too many Brasile is bounded on the East with the Main Atlantick on the West with some unknown Countries on the South with Paraguay and on the North with some part of Guiana the Atlantick Ocean It is very fruitful in most places were it not for the abundance of rain which doth often fall yet Sugar-canes grow here in great plenty and a kind of Wheat which is alwayes growing and continually ripe for when some is ripe others blossom And here is a certain Plant called Copiba the vertue of which is known to the very Beasts for if they are bit by any venomous Creature they resort to it for cure The people are the Monsters of Nature being malicious and barbarous for when they get the body of a fat man they gather a company together and rost him making a jovial Banquet therewith They are said to worship no God at all

setlement of this Common-Wealth upon such a foundation as may assert establish and secure the property and liberty of the people in reference unto all both as Men and as Christians and that without a single Person Kingship or house of Peers A petition of divers Citizens of London was presented to the Parl. to have the Militia of the said City setled in such persons as are of known integrity The house ordered certain members or any five of them to be a Committee to consider of the imprisonment of such persons who being committed to continue for conscience sake and how and what manner they are and stand committed together with the whole cause and how they may be discharged The stile and title in all Legal proceedings and process were declared to be The Keepers of the liberty of England by authority of Parliament and no other A petition of many persons in and about the City of London was presented to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England desiring 1 That the Militia of the several Cities and Countries may be setled in such hands as have approved themselves faithful thereto 2 That such persons as have been ejected out of place of trust may be restored 3 That care may be taken that persons entrusted with the Legislative power may not be perpetuated 4 That all persons may be tendred so that neither their persons may not be imp●isoed nor their goods touched without the breach of some known law and due prosecution accordingly 5 That all moneys that are or shall be levied upon the people for the service of the Commonwealth may not be diverted to any other purpose and that the great sums of money proportions of land and places of advantage conferred on any since the 20 of April 1653 may be taken into consideration and that the chargable Offices and Officers of the Exchequer may be regulated 6 That provision may be made that such as may live peaceably in godliness and honesty though of different perswasions in matters of faith and worship may be equally protected and incouraged 7 That a Committee may be appointed to receive propositions from any person or persons as may conduce unto the frame or constitution of a good and equal Common-wealth or free state 8 That all such sums of money that since the 20 of April 1653 have been received or borrowed out of the Exchequer by privy Counsellors or others be repaid into the treasure of this Common-wealth 12 day the petition and address of the Officers of the Army with several proposals was presented to the Parliament The Parliament made an Act wherein they declare what the great Seale shall be The Parl. resolved that White-hal and Somerset-house with all and every the a purtenances be forthwith exposed to sale and emproved to the best advantage of the Common-wealth for and towards the satisfaction of the great arrears and pay due unto the Army A petition of the Bayliffs and Commonalty in the Maritime Town and Corporation of South-wold otherwise of Soulbay in the County of Suffolk and a certification from the Justices certifying that on the 25 of Aprill 1659 228 dwelling houses were wasted and consumed to the damage of 40000 l. and upward and letters patents ordered to passe under the great Seal for a charitable contribution throughout England and Wales for 12 moneths A petition from divers in the town of Warmister in the County of Wilts The house did take the petition and addresse of the Army into consideration and made these resolves First that the liberties of the estates of all the free people of these Nations shall be maintained preserved and kept inviolable according to Law under the government of a free State or Common-wealth without a single person kingship or house of Peers 2 That there shall be such a just and due regulation of the Law and Courts of Justice and equity as that they shall be a protection and not vexatious or oppressive to the people of this Nation 3 That all persons who profess faith in God the Father and in Jesus Ghrist his only Son the true God and in the Holy Spirit God coequal with the Father and the Son one God blessed for ever and doe aknowledge the Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments to be the revealed or written word or will of God shall not be restrained from their profession but have due encouragement and equal protection in the profession of their faith and exercise of their religion whilest they abuse not this liberty to the civil injury of others or disturbance of others in their way of worship so as this liberty be not extended to Popery or Prelacy nor to such as shall practise or hold forth licentiousnesse under the profession of Religion and that all Laws Statutes Ordinances Clauses in any Laws Statutes or Ordinances to the contrary may be declared null and void Richard Cromwel eldest Son of the late L. Gen. did signifie that though he could not be active in making a change in the governement of these Nations yet he doth freely acquiesce in it being made and that he doth hold himselfe obliged as with other men he expects protection from the present government so as to demean himself with all peaceableness under it and to procure to the utmost of his power that all in whom he hath any interest doe the same Several other petitions were presented to the Parliament to the like purpose of the former which we cannot stay to mention 27 day was a day of humiliation and seeking the Lord by the Members of the house in the house An old Parson of a Parish called Lesbury in Northumberland whose eyes teeth and hair as is affirmed renued after he was 112 years old died at the latter end of the Moneth of May being 114 years old A Catalogue of some pleasant and useful Maps and Pictures that are cut in Copper being very neat ornaments for houses Gentlemens studies and Closets and useful for divers callings as Painters Embroyderers c. which are printed coloured and to be sold by Robert Walton at the Globe and Compasse in St. Paul's Church-yard between the 2 North dores Maps of the World with or without descriptions The 4 parts of the World with or without description A map of England and Ireland in a royal sheet The P●a●mans map of England Ireland and Scotland with a description and chronology of all the memorable and considerable passages and actions that have been therein ever since William the Conqueror or without descriptions A map of London and Westminster with a large description of the places and things of note As also a briefe but particular description of the several Companies and Corporations that are therein or without de●cription The arms crests and supporters of all the Cities in England and all the several Companies of the famous City of London The Philosophers head or an excellent compendious abridgement comprehending the chiefe grounds and principles of Philosophy and the very marrow of humane learning A Laurel of Metaphysick An Artificial description of Logick The tree of mans life or an Emblem declaring the like and unlike or various condition of all men in their state of creation birth life death burial resurrection and last judgement c. An Almanack in a large sheet for 50 years The manner of the Savoy's Massacre are presented in several pictures A new Book of Maps being a ready guide to any who is to Travel in any part of England Scotland and Ireland A view of the creation being a Book of birds beasts flowers fruits flies worms and fish conteining 28 leaves Another called Orpheus conteining 9 leaves A Book of the pictures of all the Kings and Queens of England ever since William the Conqueror The 5 Senses and 7 liberal Sciences of Mr. Cleins doing and also his rare book of Foldigde A Copy Book called an ease for the writing Schoolmaster and the yougmans tutor and all other Copy Books that are commonly used in England And he hath many other both sheets and half sheets and is doing more and had not the Graver been backwards more had been made known to the World before this time FINIS ERRATA Pag. 4 lin 11 for 18 15 read 1 8 15. pag. 4 last line but 2 for the letter gives read the letter A gives pag. 34 l. 12 for leight read light p. 34 l. 18 for rests read rents P. 76 last line but one for the cities of read the cities and rivers of p. 94 l. 8 for Arphaxad read Arphadax born p. 106 l. 10 for disabedient Law read disobedient to the Law pa. 108 l. 13 for Cizen read Ciren pa. 108 l. 15 for marriage killed read marriage day he killed And if there be any smal faults the Reader is desired to correct them