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A51275	Geography rectified, or, A description of the world in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries, islands, cities, towns, seas, rivers, bayes, capes, ports : their ancient and present names, inhabitants, situations, histories, customs, governments, &c. : as also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London : illustrated with seventy six maps : the whole work performed according to the more accurate observations and discoveries of modern authors / by Robert Morden.	Morden, Robert, d. 1703.	1688 (1688)	Wing M2620; ESTC R39765	437,692	610

those common Barretors and Authors of Debate were not known among them And the ignorance of Vice did as much contribute to their welfare as the knowledge of Virtue doth to others The first grand attempt of these People of which we find any mention was when the Chazari or Chozars in the time of the Emper Iustine overspread all that vast continent between China and Boristhenes conquered part of India all Bactria Sogdiana and made the Persians Tributaries and possessed also Taurica Chersonesus called by them Cassaria or Cazaria The residence of their Prince was about the mouth of the Wolga which the Tartars called Athel a large City of great trade by Nassir Eddin called Belanjar and by him and Abulfeda placed in 46 Deg. 30 Min. N. Latitude which is within a few minutes where Olearius makes Astracan and doubtless may be that which he calls old Astracan These Chazari did continue till about Anno Chr. 900. at which time they gave place to the Comanians or Cumanians a Turkish Nation who inhabited all that Tract of Land from the Neiper unto Turquestan these were almost totally destroyed by the Tartars soon after the death of Ingiz Chan or Cingis Chawn under the conduct of Batu or Bathy Nephew to Hocata the Tartarian Emperor only the King Kuthen escaped with 40000 men into Hungary where they had a Country allotted them called to this day Campus Cumanus Bathy having destroyed the Comanians established his own Dominions and fixed his abode on the East of the River Volga and built a place and called it Serai which was a great and populous City the Ruins whereof are now called Czarofsgorod But when Tamerlan who was Vice Roy or General of those Countries comprehended between the Oxus and Iuxartes had extended his conquests towards Balch and Chorasan the Aria of the Ancients Thuotamisch then Emperor of Serai filled with jealousies of his growing greatness gathered a great Army to invade him whom Tamerlan met on the borders of his own Country and after a most bloody sight gained the Victory after which Success Tamerlan having subdued great part of India Persia Media Armenia Mesopotamia Babylonia and Syria resolved to requite the Invasion of Thuctamish whereupon with an Army of 500000 Men he marched through Media passed the Portae Caucasae now Derbent and over Volga and at last encountered with Thuctamish The Battel was long and doubtful three days without intermission at last Thuctamish was defeated and fled leaving his Country exposed to the fury of his Enemies who demolished Seraie with other Cities on the north and west of the Caspian Sea and leaving the Country a desert they returned into Persia After this devastation these Tartars by discords fell into several divisions and Tamerlan dying his great Empire was also divided amongst his Children so that Tartarie is now divided into several Hords or Tribes but the knowledge we have of them is so little the Ataxie or disagreement and confusion of Authors that write of them so great that I am not a little doubtful what to write of them that may be of any certainty for the Readers satisfaction however in this obscurity we shall follow the light of the best reputed Geographers and say that the Asiatick Tartarie is divided into five great parts The Desert Tartarie Zagathy Tarquestan Northern Tartarie and Kin Tartarie The Desert Tartarie is so call'd because most part of the Lands lie untill'd for the Tartars are a people that hate Agriculture and laugh at Christians for feeding on the Tops of Reeds for so they call our Corn The Inhabitants are divided into several Tribes or Hordes of which the more considerable are 1. the Nogajan Tartars or great Nagoy whose Country is all plain and desert 400 or 500 miles in length between Astracan and Samara and 200 miles in breadth from Astracan to Yeike or Iaick River it hath no fenced Towns or Habitations though formerly there were divers especially that of Czarofsgorod said to have been 20 miles in Circuit seated between the Rivers Volga and Actabon in a fertile and healthful Country and Astracan placed on a rising ground not far from the mouth of the Volga about 50 miles distant from the Caspian-Sea guarded with a strong Castle and encompassed with Water These Tartars are said to be more Tall and Proper than the rest but ill favoured broad Faces flat little Noses small hollow Eyes and of Blackish or rather Tawny Complexion The heat of the Sun for some months of the year is most excessive and the Cold in the Winter no less extream Polygamy is much in fashion amongst them having many Wives according to their ability if one Brother die the other takes all his Wives and if all the brothers chance to die then the Wives are devolved like other Goods and Chattels unto the Eldest Brothers Son not suffering a Married woman in any wise to go out of the Kindred When they remove their Habitation which is usually against the Summer and Winter they carry their Houses in Waggons with four Wheels drawn by Camels 2. On the North of great Nagoy dwell the Kalmuke Tartars in a Country abounding with all things necessary for a comfortable subsistance Their chief Commodities are Sables Martens Black Foxes Squirrils-Skins and other Furs which they exchange with the Russes for Aquavitae Mead and Tobacco Their Chief places are Siberia the head of a Province as also is Tumen Casan and Bulgar are the chief Towns of the Zavolhenses and towards the North lie the Samoides all subject to the Russes the Kalmakes are accounted good Soldiers and their Women are little inferiour in Skill and Valor They own no religious worship except some adoration to the Sun and Moon and for their Diet Horse-flesh is a great dainty and any Carrion is good fare 3. Next to the great Nagoy towards the East is Cassachy Horda or Wild Tartars who march up and down the Country which is very desert much after the manner of the Nagoise 4. Eastward from the Kalmukes towards the South live the Yurgeacheans being a numerous and warlike People governed by a Chan or King. 5. The Caragans lie all along the Caspian-Sea between the River Yaike unto the River Iaxartes a desert and barren Country the People miserable poor very Tawny and ill Favoured having no Town except Presslannes on the south side of Iaxartes Most part of Desert Tartarie is under the jurisdiction of the Duke of Moscovie and yield him great store of rich Furs Zagathy Sacathy Usbeck or Ouzbeg contains the ancient Mergiana Bactria and Sogdiana Mergiana by Pinetus is called Tremighen by Gastald Jeselbash A Country so fruitful in Corn and Wine that Strabo reports how one bunch of Grapes presented to Alexander filled a Baket two Cubits about which encouraged him to found that City Alexandria afterwards Antiochia and Selucia since Indion In this Country some think Noah planted soon after he left the Ark and that he or some to his Memory built the City Nissa

Rhodes But upon the second of September 1686 the same day of the year when it was taken by Solyman after it had groaned under the Tyrannous yoke of the Ottoman 145 years was this great and strong City the Capital of Hungary reduced under the obedience of the Emperor Leopold the First by the Prudence Constancy and Conduct of the Couragious Duke of Lorrain the Terror of the Musselmen and the Greatest General of this Age. The Turks have formerly experienced the Valour of Huniades and Scanderbergh They have feared the Courage of the Duke of Merceur They have trembled at the Conduct and slaughter of the Valiant Count Serini but much more reason have they to dread the Martial Duke of Lorrain He it was that near Preshurg routed the Rebellious Army of Teckley He it was that defeated the Turks near Calenburgh He it was with the King of Poland that raised the Siege of Vienna He it was that vanquished the Enemy near Barkan and rescued the King of Poland when the Polish Army was in Confusion He it was that relieved the City of Gran and routed the Army of Zeitan Ibraim Basha and lastly He it was that whilest the Grand Vizier Soliman looked on with a potent Army won this Glorious Conquest Buda Not far from Buda in the year 1578 was fought a Battel of so strange a fortune between the Christians and the Turks that the Conquerors were conquered and the vanquished got the Victory Other Cities are Poson Hungaris Presburg Germanis Pesonium Pessonium the Flexum of Ptol. Ant. The City is pleasant the Castle stately where the highly-esteemed Crown of Hungary is kept the Labyrinth Fish-Ponds and Fountains are Noble it is the Capital of what the House of Austria possesses ten German miles from Vienna Since the Loss of Alba Regalis it is the place of Election and Coronation of the Kings of Hungary Cassovia Chaschaw incolis Caschow lies towards the Mountains having the fairest Arsenal in the Country Eperies Eperiae is much frequented by reason of the Fairs which are there kept where also there is a Salt-Mine about 180 Fathom deep the veins of Salt are large and there are pieces of 10000 l. weight the colour of the Salt-stone is somewhat gray but grinded to powder it becomes white nor is the Salt always of one colour but of divers there are some pieces so clear and hard that they carve them into divers Figures Sabaria of Plin. Ptol. Amm. Stain am Angern Germ. Szombatel Hung. teste Lazio but by Cluver it is Sarwar Hung. Rothenturn Ger. of Old the Metropolis of Pannonia Superior the Birth-place of St. Martin Some Report and others believe that Ovid was Buried there in his Return towards Italy Nittria Hung. Neytracht Ger. a Bishops See. Freistat or Calgotz Hung. a fair large Town but Burned by the Turks Schemnitz the greatest of the Mine-Towns in Hungary and where great quantity of Silver Ore is every day digged It hath three fair Churches and three Castles and several Mines those of Windschacht and Trinity are the chief the last 70 Fathom deep the one is much esteemed and of a black colour covered with a white Earth There is also often found a Red Substance which grows to the Ore called Cinnaber of Silver which being grinded with Oyl maketh a Vermilion as good as the Cinnaber made by Sublimation There are also found in these Mines Crystals Amethysts and Amethystine mixtures as also Vitriol Naturally Crystalliz'd in the Earth And as there is great variety in the Silver Ore as to its mixtures with Earth Stones Marchasite Cinnaber Vitriol c. so also in its Richness some holding a great Proportion of Silver in respect of others A hundred pound-weight of Ore sometimes yields but half an Ounce or an Ounce of Silver sometimes two Ounces 3 4 5 and so to 20 Ounces what is Richer is very rare Most of the Schemnitz Ore holds some Gold which they separate by melting the Silver then granulating it and after by dissolving it in Aqua-fortis made out of a peculiar Vitriol prepared at Chremnitz whereby the Gold is left at the bottom and is afterwards melted and the Aqua-fortis is Distilled from the Silver and serveth again for Use Chremnitz Carpates of old is the Oldest Mine-Town and the Richest in Gold of all the rest 965 years they have Worked there the Mine is about 10 English miles in length and there is one Cuniculus or Horizontal Passage 800 Fathoms long and the depth is about 170 Fathoms and the Leopold Pit is 150 Fathoms deep Of the Gold Ore some is white some black some red some yellow that with black spots within white is esteemed the best There is also a Vitriol Mine at Chremnitz about 80 Fathom deep the Ore whereof is reddish and sometimes greenish This Ore is infused in water and after three days the water is poured off and boiled seven days in a Leaden Vessel till it comes to a thick granualated whitish Substance which is afterwards reduced to a Calx in an Oven and serveth in the making of Aqua-fortis or the separating water used at Schremnitz Newsol or Bistricia has the greatest Copper-works in Hungary the Copper being very strongly united to its stone-bed or Ore the Separation is effected with great labour and difficulty it being burned and melted 14 times before it becomes fit for Use At a little Village called Smalnik there is a Rivulet which changes particles of Iron into Copper The leaves of Oaks that are by the bank-side falling into the water are insensibly eaten through and the most gross particles of this water getting therein it is turned into a leaf of Copper which being exposed to the Sun or only to the Air hardens and always retains its former figure of an Oaken leaf At Glas-Hitten seven English miles from Schemnitz there was once a rich Gold Mine but since the over-running of the Country by Bethlem Gabor it is lost 'T is much frequented by reason of its natural hot Baths Eisenbach four miles English from Glas-Hitten and five or six from Schemnitz is also noted for its Hot Baths the sediment of which is red and turneth into Stone and it turneth Wood into Stone At Hern-Grundt an Hungarian mile from Newsol in that Mine were two Springs of a Vitriolate water which turn Iron into Copper The seven chief Mine-Towns are Schemnitz Chremnitz Newsol Koningsberg Bochantz Libeten Tiln The strongest places belonging to the House of Austria were Javarin Comara and Leopolstat the Bulwarks of Christendom Javarin Gallis Raab stands in the Plain out of sight environed by the Danow and Raab Germanis Gewer Hungaris Giavarin Italis Rab. Incolis Yanick Turcis It was the Arabo of Ant. the Narabo of Ptol. Is Fortified with seven large Bastions covered with Brick and four Cavilliers or Ravelins between It was Besieged by Sinan Bassa in the time of Sultan Murat the Third who at one Assault lost 1200 Men but by the Treachery of Count Herdeck

though others pretend Bacchus to be the Founder of it and that from hence Nimrod and his Followers departed into the Vale Shyna● which lies between the Rivers of Iaxartes now Chesel and Oxus a Country of different soil and indifferent fertile but much augmented by the Industry of the Inhabitants who are the most ingenious of the Western Tartars lovers of Art and well skill'd in Manufactures and Trade The City of Sarmarchand the Marcanda of Ptol. Paracanda Strab. was both the Cradle and Grave to Tamerlan the Great who adorned it with an Academy as is also Bochar Bactria of old Bactra before that Zoroastes and Zoroaspa probably from Zoroaster their first King slain by Ninus A Town of great Trade where lived Avicen one of the most famous Philosophers and Physicians of the East there are also Balch and Badaschian on the Frontiers of Chorozan Sogdiana was a province subject to the Persians Here Cyrus built the old Cyroscata or Cyropolis which held out a long time and was almost fatal to the great Macedonian Conqueror but by him destroyed in revenge of so great a danger Not far from which that Infamous Regicide Bessus after his perfidious dealing with his Prince was apprehended and brought bound to Alexander who abhorring his sight ordered he should be delivered to Oxates the brother of Darius to be disposed of as he should think fit Here also was Alexandria Oxiana and Alexandria Ultima Tarquestan lies east from Usbeck and is subdivided into several Kingdoms of which the best known are Cascar or Hiachan Chialis or Turphan Chiartiam Cotam Thebet or Tenduc and Camul That of Cascar is the richest and is well stored with Rhubarbe That of Ciarthtam is the least and sandy but hath many Jaspers and other Stones Those of Cotam and Chialis have Corn Wine Flax and Hemp. Thebet or Tanguth is stored with Musk and Cinamon whose Kings were formerly called Un-Chan or Prester John a Title now erroneously conferred on the Abassine or Ethiopian Emperor in Africa for Presbyter John was chief of the Kingdom of Tanchut or Tanguth which the Tartars call Barantola the Sarazins Boratai and the Natives Lassa which is by the consent of all knowing persons seated in Asia next to the confines of the great Mogul amongst the Mountains of Caucasus and Imaus It was in the year 1248 when King Lewis was in the Island of Cyprus at Nicosia that Ambassadors from one of the Tartarian Princes whose Name was Ercalthay informed the King that the Great Cham of Tartary had about three years before been baptized having been converted by the Empress his Mother and Daughter of a King of the Indians She having always been a Christan and that their Master Prince Ercalthay who had also for a long time been a Christian was sent by the Great Cham with a potent Army against the Calife of Baldac an Enemy of the Christians The Name of Presbyter John denoteth some Christian Prince whose Dominions are placed by the consent of most knowing Persons not among the Ethiopians nor in any part of Africa as most suppose but in the Continent of Asia but in what part formerly 't was is not exactly known Some Authors say they were Kings of Cathay which is doubtful because 't is now discouered by modern Relations and Travels into those parts that all Cathy is but the Northern part of China But it is more than probable that besides that portion of Land there is another large part of the World conterminate on the north and west unto the Empire of China which in former Ages had the Name of Cathay and is the same with that of Thebet by some called Begargar c. as aforesaid which clearly appeareth by a Voyage of two Fathers from China to the Mogor who tell us that at We●ala a Castle at the end of Barentola the Great Lama or Priest did then reside and gave an account of their Christian Religion And to me it seems further confirmed by a Journy made into the Western Tartary Anno 1683. By the Emperor of China we have this account of those People In all the Western Tartary there is nothing to be found but Mountains Rocks and Vallies there are neither Cities Towns or Villages nor Houses The Inhabitants lodge under Tents in the open Fields which they remove from one Valley to another according as they find pasture They pass their Life either in Hunting or doing nothing As they neither Plow nor Sow so they make no Harvest They live upon Milk Cheese and Flesh and have a sort of Wine not much unlike our Aqua-Vitae with which they are often drunk In short they care for nothing from morning to night but to drink and eat like the Beasts and D●oves which they feed They are not without their Priests which they call Lamas for whom they have a singular veneration in which they differ from the Oriental Tartars the most part of whom have no Religion nor do they believe any God. This part of Tartary lies without the prodigious Wall of China for more than 300 Miles of which Wall saith our Author I can say without Hyperbolizing that the Seven Wonders of the World put together are not comparable to this Work. And all that Fame has spread concerning it among the Europeans is far short of what I myself have 〈◊〉 He also tells us that divers of the Petty Kings of the Western Tartary came from all sides for 300 Miles and some for 500 Miles together with their Wives and Children to salute the Emperor That this Country is divided into 48 Provinces and now tributary to the Emperor of China 〈…〉 which all Authors con●ound with a nonsuch Cathay 〈◊〉 divided into several parts of which I am able to say nothing in the way of Chorography nor much in History only I find that the King of Niulhan or Niuche called Xunchi conquered China at twelve years of Age with the Faithful assistance of his two Uncles a young Conqueror not only famous for his Success but also for the Moderation which he used to his newly subdued People And 't is certain that these Tartars know of no Cities or Towns beyond the wall of China therefore Cathay can be no other than the Northern part of China and Cambalu is Pekin and Quinzey answers to Hancheu The Northen Tartarie which is called the true ancient Tartarie is the coldest most untilled most barbarous and most unknown of all Some amongst them have their Kings others live by Hords or Commonalities As for their Names 't is easie to give what names Men please in parts wholly unknown But in the year 1682 the Emperor of China made a Voyage into the Eastern Tartary In this Journy saith the Father Verbiest who was the publisher of it we always went towards the North East from Pekin in all 1100 miles to the Province of Leao-tum the way being about 300 miles the Capital City whereof is Xin-Yam in the Latitude of 41 Degrees 56 Minutes a

under no Law nor Religion as their name imports Herbert tells us That during the time he staid amongst them he saw no signs of any knowledge of God no spark of Devotion no symptom of Heaven or Hell no place set apart for Worship no Sabboth for Rest Many of them will steal with their Feet while they stare ye in the Face They sell their Cattel to the Seamen that come into those parts But they are forc'd to tie the Oxen to Trees and to put the Sheep in Pens before they pay them for else upon a peculiar whistle the Cattle will run after them and leave the Purchaser in the lurch In Complexion they are like our Chimney Sweepers Besides they have great Heads flat Noses whither it be that they are press'd in their Infancy or because that their Mothers carry them at their backs against which they may be subject to knock them Their Hair is frizl'd their Lips extraordinary big their Back Bone very sharp their Hips large so that there can be nothing seen more ugly The Cape of good Hope which lies in the most Southern part of this Country is the most famous the longest and the most dangerous Cape in the World. It was so call d because that being once past that the Seamen had some hopes to arrive quickly at the East Indies Formerly it was call'd the Cape of Whirle-winds or Tempests which much annoy'd those Seas Some call it the Lyon of the Sea others the Head of Africa There are certain signs to know when you are near it For within fifty or sixty Leagues the Sea is full of the bodies of thick Reeds that float upon the Water and the white Birds with black Spots make their appearance The Mouth of the Bay to the East of the Cape is five Leagues broad encompassed with sharp Rocks The Air is temperate and the neighbouring Valleys are full of Herbs and Flowers Their Rivers abound in Fish their Woods in Venison and Bees The Natives that cloath themselves with the Skins of these Beasts are very swift but brutes in their eating and when they speak they gobble like Turkie Cocks The Hollanders have built a Fort there a League from which they have a fair and handsome Town all sorts of Grain there out of Asia or Europe thrive better than in other parts The Cafres are black because they rub themselves with a Grease or Ointment composed of several sorts of Drugs to preserve themselves from being Hydropical they have great knowledge of Simples and have cured several of the Dutch of Ulcers and old Wounds which were past the skill of their own Chyrurgeons Monomotopa is almost environ'd by Cafreria It bears the name of the King. It is very fertile abounding in Ivory and so rich in Gold that the King is call'd the Golden Emperor The Inhabitants who are very superstitious have no other Arms than Pikes Bows and Arrows But they are so swift that they will run as fast as a Horse The common People wear nothing above their Wastes and for the Maids they go stark naked so that a Man may choose his Wife according to the Custom of the Vtopian Common-wealth A Relation made in the year 1651 Reports that the King of Monomotopa was baptiz'd with all his Court by the Jesuits The King himself is generally trick'd with Bracelets and Pretious Stones like a Bridegroom nor will he ever wear any Foreign Stuffs for fear they should be poison'd Unless it be the T'wist the Coller and his Buskins of which he has liberty to change the Fashion he is obliged in other things to follow the Fashion of his Predecessors by the Laws of his Kingdom 'T is reported that for his usual Guard he has a Regiment of Women and another of Dogs and that those Women in War do as much service as Men. He gratifies the Princes which are his Tributaries with a present of Fire every year as a mark of his acknowledgment Mono Emugi is a potent Kingdom to the North of Monomotopa The Giaques otherwise call'd Galles and Chava's are neighbours to one another and are famous for their Valor and for the Victories they have got over the Abassins in the Upper Ethiopia The COAST OF Zanguebar and Aien by Robt. Morden ZANGVEBAR call'd by the Antients Barbary is a large Coast in the Eastern part of Africa which extends it self all along the Indian Sea on this side and beyond the Equator The Natives are Idolaters under divers Sovereigns They give their minds to Trade as well as the Arabians and Mahumetans that are among them The Southern part chiefly bears the name of Zanguebar which contains the small Kingdoms of Mozambique Quil●a Mombaza and Melinda The Northern part is call'd Ayen and sometimes New Arabia It comprehends the Dominions of Brava Magadoxo Adea and Adel. In Mozambique lies the best place that the Portugals have in all those quarters For they possess a very strong Castle in the Island of that Name about half a League long where their Ships stay for seasonable weather to carry them to the East Indies The Port is upon the Northside of the City and you must leave two Islands upon the left hand as you enter into it It would be better inhabited but the Air is very unwholesome Quiloa lies in the same Peninsula The King thereof was the first in Zanguebar that became Tributary to the Portugals In Quiloa are a most excellent sort of Hens though their Flesh their Feathers and their very Bones be black Mombaze lies in an Island and upon a Rock under 3d 50 m. South was subdued to the Crown of Portugal by Almeyda in the year 1505. Sometimes the Portugals Winter there for Provisions are very plentiful and cheap The entrance into the Port is so narrow and so rocky that in some places there is not room for above one Ship to enter The Estates of Lamon and Pate are under the Government of Melinda The Coast of Ajan contains the Republick of Brava is a small Common-wealth with a City built according to the Fashion of the Moors It has usually paid a small Tribute to the Portugals Magadoxo is under a King of their own and the Natives are Mahumetans To Adea belongs a very good Port call'd Barraboa Adel whose chief City is Arat obeys a King who is an enemy to the Abissines Barbora and Zeila are places of great Trade by reason of the conveniency of their Ports towards the entry into the Red Sea. Zeila was the Aralites of Plin. Ptol. and Steph. the Emporium of the Trogloditicae teste Mol. Zocotora Isle well known to former Ages to some by the name of Dioscorida thought to be the Topazo of Pliny by the Turks Catuchomer by the Persians Cabar by the Spaniards Acebar Ramusio Curia Muria aliis Alba Curia incolis Abbadal Curia is situated at the Mouth of the Red-Sea sixty Miles long and twenty four broad which though defective in most necessaries for life yet it hath plenty

with Springs and Rivers of fresh Water Cattle and Fowl are in great plenty and other Lakes and Rivers afford store of Fish Thascala or Los Angelos is a Country very plentiful both of Corn and Cattle full of rich Pastures well watered with Rivers and wonderfully stored with Maize which they make their Bread of Places of most note are first Thascala Situate on an easie ascent betwixt two Rivers encompassed with a large pleasant and fruitful plain said to be so populous before the arrival of the Spaniards that it could number above three hundred thousand Inhabitants Second Angelos a fair City distant from Mexico twenty two Leagues and thirty from Latera Cruz Thirdly La Vera Cruz built by the Cortez a place of great encourse situate near the Gulph from whence there is a through-fair to Mexico from whence it is distant about fifty two Leagues In May 83. about nine hundred or a thousand Privateers at Night landed and through the negligence of the Spanish Centinels surprised the Town and two Forts the one of twelve the other of eight Guns They plundered the Town for three days where they got a great deal of Plate Jewels c. and might also have taken the Castle which is seated about three quarters of a Miles into the Sea and hath thirty Guns mounted Saint John de Vlloa at Vlhua the most noted Port of this Province fenced with a Peer against the fury of the Winds and Sea defended naturally by Rocks and Quick-sands and by two Bulworks well fortified on both sides of his entrance Famous for that it was the first beginning of that great Conquest of the Valiant Cortez Here he first sunk the Ships that brought the Spaniards from Cuba to the intent they might think of nothing but Conquest and here five hundred Spaniards ventured against millions of Enemies and began the Conquest of the fourth part of the World. Xalappa de la Vera Cruz made a Bishops See in the year 1634 said to be worth ten thousand Duckets a year La Rinconada is a House or Inn which the Spaniards call Venla seated in a low Valley the hottest Place in all the Road to Mexico plentiful in Provisions and the sweetness and coolness of the Water is a great refreshment but the swarms of Gnats in the Night are most intolerable Segura de la Frontera was built by Cortez in his Wars with the Culhuacans and Tepeacaes Tlaxcallan a Common-wealth The Inhabitants whereof in one Battel against Cortez had 150000 fighting Men afterwards joyned with Cortez and were the chief Instruments of his unparallel'd Conquest being mortal Enemies to Monte●uma the Mexican Emperor and therefore are free from Tribute by the Kings of Spain Nixapa is a Town of eight hundred Inhabitants Spaniards and Indians where is a rich Cloister of Dominican Friers and one of the richest places in the County of Braxuca Tecoantepeque is a small and unfortified Harbor on Mar del Zur Aquatulco and Capa●ita are great Towns in a plain Country Taponapeque is a sweet and pleasant Town well stored with Flesh and Fish and Fowl. In this Province are said to be two hundred Towns one thousand Villages twenty five thousand Indians which are priviledged and exempted from all extraordinary Charge and Imposition because of their assisting Cortez in his Conquest of Mexico In the Valley of St. Paul was a Country Man possessed of forty thousand Sheep which were the product of two only which were brought him out of Spain Guaxaca is a Province of a healthful and a sweet Air of a fertile Soil not only in Corn but also in Fruit Cochineil Silk Cassia the Earth well stored with Mines of Gold Silver and other Metals and most of the Rivers stream down Sand-Gold It s chief places are Antequera a Bishoprick adorned with stately buildings and a Magnificent Cathedral Church Aquatul●o is a noted and convenient Port on Mar del Zur from whence is transported the Merchandise of Mexico to Peru plundered both by Drake and Cavendish in their Voyages about the World. Gage tells us that Guaxaca is a City and Bishops Seat fair and beautiful sixty Leagues from Mexico and consists of two thousand Inhabitants n t far from the Head of the great River Alvarado upon which are Zapote●as and St. Idlfonso That from thence they went to Antequera a great Town Tavasco or Tabasco is a Coast of one hundred Leagues between Gu●xaca and Jucatan of an excellent Soil abundant in Maiz and Cacao There are Vines Fig-trees Oranges and Citrons great quantity of Cattle and Fowl besides wild Beasts Apes and Squirrels The Spaniards have but one Colony here which is called Newstra a Signiora de la Victoria so called from the Victory Cortez gained 15 9. The first City in America that defended it self and suffered the Spaniards sword Jucatan is a Peninsula of about four hundred Leagues in compass Situate between the Gulph of Mexico and Honduras whose Cape Catoche is opposite to Cape Saint Anthony in the Island Cuba and distant from it forty odd Leagues In the middle of the Land are to be seen Scales and Shells of Sea Fish its chief Cities are Merida distant from the Sea on either side twelve Leagues the Seat of the Bishop and Governor adorned with great and antient Edifices of Stone with many Figures of Men cut in the Stones resembling those at Merida in Spain 2. Valladolid beautified with a fair Monastery of Franciscans 3. Campeach Situate on the Shore of the Gulph a fair City of about three thousand Houses which in Anno 1596 was surprised and pillaged by the English under the Command of Captain Parker who carried away the Governor and the riches of the City The Audience of Gaudalajara or Kingdom of New Galicia makes the most occident part of New Spain and contains the Provinces of Gaudalajara Xalisco Los Zacatecas Chiamettlan Culiacan and New Biscany The Air of Gaudalajara is temperate and serene except in Summer which is most troubled with Rain The Land rather mountainous than plain very fruitful well furnished with Mines of Silver Copper Lead and Margasites the Pastures are rich feeding abundance of Cattle they have Cittrons Oranges Figs Apples Pears Peaches Olive-trees whose Fruit is often destroyed by Ants as their Corn Maize and Pulse is by the Pies which though no bigger than Sparrows are so numerous that they destroy whole Crops Its Cities are Guadelajara the Residence of the Kings Treasurer dignified with the Courts of Judicature the See of a Bishop beautified with a fair Cathedral Church watered with many Fountains and little Torrents not far from the River Beranja In the Province of Xalisco the chief City is Compostella built by Guzman 1551. Situate in a Barren Country and bad Air. In the Province of Chiametlan is Saint Sebastian nigh to which are many rich Silver Mines The Province of Culiacan hath Saint Michael and that of Chinaloa Saint John where are rich Mines of Silver In Los Zicatecas are several famous