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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	earth_n	great_a	world_n	2,396	4	4.4621	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50819	A new cosmography, or, Survey of the whole world in six ingenious and comprehensive discourses, with a previous discourse, being a new project for bringing up young men to learning / humbly dedicated to the Honourable Henry Lyttelton, Esq. by Guy Miege, Gent.	Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?	1682 (1682)	Wing M2015; ESTC R10178	68,375	155

extending from the Borders of Austria to the Black Sea and so dividing Hungary Transilvania and Moldavia from Poland 5. Mount Haemus reaching from the Gulf of Venice as far as the Black Sea and so parting Greece from Servia and Bulgaria 6. The Dofrine Hills a vast and continual Ridge of Mountains which divide Norway from Sweden In the other Parts of the World you have first in Asia Taurus of which Caucasus is a part and Imaus greater than any in Europe That running a vast way from West to East and This from North to South In Africk Atlas extending from the Atlantick Ocean a prodigious way Eastward besides the Mountains of the Moon in the South parts In the Northern America the Mountains of New Mexico which run also North of Florida And in the Southern America the Andes reaching from the North parts of Peru to the Streights of Magellan above three thousand Miles Those are Philalethes the greatest and most noted Mountains in the World All of them generally of a Rocky Substance and in most places overspread with Forests None of them free from Snow even in the heat of Summer In short they are all troublesom and very dangerous to travel over by reason of their steep and tedious Ascents narrow ways and craggy Rocks deep and dreadful Precipices fierce Whirl-winds and huge Balls of Snow which sometimes tumble down from the top with great noise and violence And yet which is Remarkable amongst some of these dreadful Hills as the Alps there are Valleys incredibly fruitful and temperate with Towns and Villages in them Generally these Hills are Impassable except in a few Places which therefore were by the Romans called Portae or from the Greek Pylae or Thermopylae And as from Lakes so from these Mountains spring many of the greatest Rivers Some produce Metals as Gold Silver Iron c. and others produce none at all Now the lesser sort of Hills are commonly Sandy Chalky or Clammy And some of these as Mount Aetna in Sicily Vesuvius in the Kingdom of Naples and Hecla in Iseland are famous for those dreadful Fires which sometimes do break out of them Phil. Pray what 's the cause of those frequent Eruptions of Fire and Vomiting of Flames Sophr. The great Abundance of Sulphureous Matter contained in the bosom of those Hills the Wind which gets in at the chinks blowing the Fire and the Water on the other side adding to the force of it Phil. Then 't is to be supposed that when the Combustible Matter shall be wasted the Conflagration shall cease Sophr. Sure enough And therefore in Tercera and St. Michael two of the Azores Islands there are now no such Fires to be seen as there has been formerly but only now and then a Smoak And 't is observable that in the Ascension Island and St. Helena the Soil is so like Ashes that it may be credibly supposed there have been formerly some Fires of this kind Phil. But do you think Sophronius the Hills are of as old standing as the World Sophr. For my part I am inclined to believe the greatest Hills were created at first as they are Not that I think as some do that God having first made the Earth perfectly Round without any hollowness or one part higher than another and then contrived hollow places in the Earth to contain the Waters the Hills came of that Earth which made room for the Waters For certainly as many more Mountains as there are in the World could not fill up all those Concavities And yet I am apt to think that some Hills have been raised accidentally as those Sandy Hills near the Sea in the Low Countreys wherein are found many shells For 't is very probable those Shells were carried thither with the Sand by some violent Winds and afterwards compacted together by succeeding Rains and so hardened in process of time Phil. I confess 't is not unlikely Now I would sain know Sophronius whether or no there be Concavity's or hollow places Windings and Turnings Precipices and the like in the Bowels of the Earth Sophr. There 's no doubt of it if you consider the nature of Earth-quakes and those Rivers that having run a good way under ground come up again Phil. What have you now to say as to Forrests and Desarts Soph. In Europe the Forest of most note was the Hercynian Forest which over-run not only a great part of Germany but following the course of the Danube spread it self over Hungary and Transilvania and from thence on the left hand over Poland and Moscovy A Wood so formidable to the Romans that when they had gone 60. days Journey through it they came back and durst not venture to search the end of it But in Germany the greatest part thereof is long since consumed and no place there so much overspread with it as Bohemia In Poland and Moscovy this Forrest is the most visible and in the last especially Which is so over-run with it that when I was there an Attendant on the Right Honourable the Earl of Carlisle his Majesties Embassador to the Court of Moscovy we travelled 15 hundred miles through that Countrey and all within that Forrest Next to which for Fame was the Forrest called Ardennes in the Lower Germany Which in the time of Caesar extended from the Rhine one way as far as Tournay in Flanders and was in Compass at least 500. miles An inconsiderable Length you will say in comparison to that of Hercynia But now 't is not above 30. Leagues in length reaching but from Thionville in Luxemburg to Liege And yet not all that Woodland neither though within the Verge of that Forrest there being in that Tract of Ground many Villages and a great deal of Arable Land In short I shall observe to you that most of our European Forrests are of Fruitless Tree as Oak Beech Pine Juniper Alder and Maple-tree of Elm Ash and Poplar-tree but above all of Firr Though there are some indeed of Olive Orange and Myrtle-trees But in Asia there are whole Forrests of Cedar Cinamon Nutmeg and Clove-trees In Africk of Limon Orange Palme and Tamarind-trees And lastly America is famous for its Cedars but particularly for that red and exceeding hard Wood called Brasil from the name of a Country there which has whole Forrests thereof As to Desarts or Wildernesses properly so called they are either Sandy Stony or Moorish In Europe we are little troubled with them But in Asia there 's enough of 'em and especially in that part of Arabia which from hence is called Arabia Deserta A Countrey say's Melchior who had travelled in it where are sound neither Men nor Beasts no not so much as Birds or Trees Grass or Pasture but only Stony High and Craggy Mountains In short 't is a wild Place and full of vast Desarts so wast and desolate that such as travel there must carry their Provisions with them and guide themselves in their Journey by the course of the Stars 'T is