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A new geography with maps to each country, and tables of longitude & latitude.
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Moore, Jonas, Sir, 1617-1679.
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1681
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A NEW GEOGRAPHY WITH MAPS to each COUNTRY AND TABLES OF Longitude Latitude LONDON Printed for Robert Scott at the Princes Arms in Little-Britain 1681. Advertisement to the Reader THE following Geographick Treatise with some other Parts of this Book had the ill fortune to be left uncompleat by our Renowned Author who was snatcht from us whilst he was with greatest application hastning the Edition thereof This deplorable accident hath been the occasion that it hath been so long detained from publick view and that now it is come abroad with much less lustre than ought to be expected from the Judicious and Learned Pen of Sir Jonas Moore As far as could be Collected from the Maps he had caused to be engraven in his Life-time and the several Tables of the Latitudes and Longitudes of the Cities of Europe written with his own hand we have endeavoured to prosecute this Design he had laid and have given you a brief and succinct Description of the several Regions of the whole Earth and have been more or less particular therein according as our knowledg of the Countries we describe is more or less perfect The Maps are taken from the newest Geographers extant and therefore 't is probable the most exact time still producing corrections and amendments in the Works of them that went before and our first Meridian is that of the Isle of Ferro the most Westerly of the Canaries which at present all the French Geographers are obliged to observe The Tables are deduced from the Maps and serve to find out any place in them without long search This Reader is what was thought necessary to advertise thee of in this place and if any mistake have escaped unseen you are desired candidly to excuse it or at least not to attribute it to our deceased Author Vale Fruere THE WORLD IN PLANISPHERE GEOGRAPHY Or a Brief DESCRIPTION Of the whole EARTH THE Earths Surface whose Description is properly termed Geography is by many and sufficient Arguments made appear to be of no other than a Sphaerical Figure and the Circumference thereof hath in this our Age been more curiously than heretofore inquired into and found by the Concordant Observations of the Gentlemen of the Royal Academy of Paris and of our worthy Countryman Mr. Norwood to be very near 25000 English Statute Miles and consequently its Diameter 7958 Miles The greater part of this vast Globe is covered with Water which we call the Sea out of which the Land rises with very slow Ascents the hight of the highest Mountains and Prominences thereof scarce amounting to the two thousandth part of its Radius and only serving to cause the Rivers to run with slow and easie Chanels The Air on all sides encompasses it and renders it habitable and the principle of Gravitation whereby all Bodies descend towards its Center is that which defends it from dissolution by not permitting the least part thereof to be separated far from it into the reason whereof Philosophers have hitherto inquired in vain This Globe by its two-fold motion enjoys the grateful Vicissitudes of Day and Night Winter and Summer the former by turning round upon one of its Diameters in the space of 24 hours and shewing all its sides successively to the Sun This Diameter is called the Axis and its extremities the Poles of the World which by the experience of many Ages are found unalterable and fixt in the Earth and the direction of this Axis by some unknown Magnetical Principle of Nature is always carried parallel to it self during the time of the revolution of the other motion whereby the Earth is carried round the Sun in the space of a year and the Axis being inclined to the plain in which the annual motion is performed causes the one Hemisphere to have more of the Suns light for the one half year and the other Hemisphere for the other These affections though necessary to be premised here you will find explicated and demonstrated more at large in the Astronomical part We come now to the Explanation of the terms which have been thought proper in the illustration of Geography We must observe that there are greater and lesser Circles and that the former divide the World into two equal parts and the latter into two parts also but unequal All these Circles severally are divided into three hundred and threescore parts which are called Degrees There are four greater Circles to wit the Equinoctial the Zodiack the Horizon and the Meridian and as many lesser to wit the Tropicks of Cancer and Capricorn and the two Polar Circles the Artick and Antartick The Equinoctial Circle is so called because when the Sun enters it the days and nights are of an equal length it is also called the Equator because it divides the World into two equal parts Seamen call it only the Line For the right understanding of this Circle we must know that the Heavens seem to move upon two points called Poles the one bearing the name of Artick and the other of Antartick in a middle distance from which Poles this Circle is imagined to be the use of it in Geography is to divide the Earth into two parts the one Northern towards the Pole Artick and the other Southern towards the other opposite Pole The Latitude of places is reckoned from the Equinoctial where it begins towards the Poles wherein it ends and this space contains ninety Degrees Latitude is either Northern towards the Pole Artick or Southern towards the Antartick The Zodiack is the Suns High way and this Circle cuts the Equinoctial into two equal parts from which its greatest distance is but twenty three Degrees and an half it only shews what places of the Earth may have the Sun perpendicular and more properly belongs to the Heavens than the Earth Horizon is as much as to say boundary because that Circle limits our sight and divides the Heavens and the Earth into two parts which are called Hemispheres the one whereof we see but cannot the other There is a right Horizon a Polar or Parallel one and an oblique one those places that lye under the Equator have a right Horizon and are in the right Sphere those that are under either of the Poles have the Parallel Sphere and all other places have an oblique Horizon and are in an oblique Sphere This Circle shews the Rising and Setting of the Stars and the four principal Quarters of the World which are East West South and North the East is on the side of the Rising Sun the West is where the Sun Sets the North is towards the Pole Artick and the South towards the Antartick These four Quarters are very necessary for distinguishing the limits of Regions as will appear throughout this whole Treatise From thence come the four principal winds all which the Horizon sheweth but it is not marked on Maps but only on the outside of Globes and Spheres Meridian signifies Mid-day Circle because when the Sun is come
Empire of the Sophy of Persia and is bounded on the West by the Turkish Empire on the East by that of the great Mogol on the North by the Tartars from whom it is divided by the River Oxus now Abiamus and on the South by the Gulf of Persia and the Indian Sea In a word it Reaches from Tygris to Indus and from the Caspian to the Persian Sea containing several Provinces Persia Sustana Parthia Media Affyria Hircania Paropamisa Margiana Carmania and Gedrosia all which have lost both their Names and Limits The Metropolis of these States is Hispahan or Isfaham a great and fair City containing many stately Palaces where the Sophy keeps his Court and usually resides It lies in Parthia now a days called Hierak The other Towns of that Province are Cassan Argistan Jex Saba and Targazin In the Province of Persia now called Farsy is the Town of Siras which is taken for the Ancient Persepolis burnt by Alexander Susiana which is called Cusistan hath for its Chief City Sus formerly Susa the Imperial Seat of Ahassuerus Media now a days Servan hath the City of Tauris which is the Ecbatana of the Ancients Assyria whereof the Turk possesses part hath Mosul for its Capital which is the Ancient Ninive the Metropolis of the Assyrians Hircania is called Diargument its principal Towns are Mazandaron and Strava Paropamisal at present Sablestan hath Candahar for its chief Town which gives also a name to all the Province Margiana or Elsabar hath Mexed for its principle Town where the Kings of Persia are Interred Carmania hath Chirman from which it takes its modern name Gedrosia or Circan hath the Town of Calamate The most Remarkable Isles of Persia are in the Gulf of that Name that of Ormus is near the Sreights and hath a Town of the same name Ruined at present The Isle of Baharem is famous by reason that about it they fish for and take the lovliest Oriental Pearls The Sophy of Persia is Mahumetan but follows the Doctrine of Aly Mahcmets Son in Law whom the Turks reckon a Heretick The Persians are of their Prince his Sect and civilized and polished and much of the humour of the French The Christian Religion is suffered there and in Hispahan it self there are Convents of several Orders as bare-footed Carmelites Capuchins Minims and many others CHAP. IV. The Empire of the great MOGOL GUINEA NIGRITA RVM REGIO EAST INDIA PORTUGALL THE Ancients divided the East-Indies into India on this side and India on t'other side of Ganges In the first called now Indostan which lies between that and another River named Indus is the Empire of the great Mogol It hath to the North Turquestan to the West the States of Persia to the South the Territories of several Princes which we shall hereafter mention and to the East the Kingdom of Bengala It is divided into several Kingdoms which carry generally the Names of their Capital Cities as Agra Lahor Delli Kabul Caximir but the Kingdom of Sinda hath Tatah for Metropolis The usual place of Residence of that Monarch is Lahor his Palace is Magnificent and he is the Richest Prince in the World in precious Stones He is Mahumetan and most of his Subjects follow the same Religion but there are many Christians and Idolaters amongst them and a Sect of Pythagoreans who hold it a deadly Sin to eat any thing that ever had life who are there called Bannians CHAP. V. The other States of the EAST-INDIES and what the PORTUGUESE and other Nations Possess there BEfore we proceed further we must take a view of the other Kingdoms of the East-Indies and of what the King of Portugal Possesses there that we may not be obliged to come back to the same parts again These Indies have two Peninsules which are divided by the Bay of Bengala That which is on the West side contains the Kingdoms of Decan Onar Barcelor Canara and some others with the Coast of Malabar in which are the Kingdoms of Calicut Cochin Coulan and others all bearing the Names of their Capital Towns They are Scituated on the Western part of this Peninsule Towards the Eastern is the Coast of Coromandel where are Negapatan Maliapor or St. Thomas and the Kingdom of Bisnagar Narsingue Golconde and Orixa which bear the Names of their chief Cities The two Coasts of this Peninsule are divided by Mount Gate which ends at Cape Comorin The Countrey scituated on this Mountain is called Balagate At the Entry of the other Peninsule which is to the East we meet with the Kingdoms and Cities of Pegu Siam Camboia and Tunquin and in the Penninsule is the Kingdom of Malacca with its City of the same Name which is the Southermost Extremity thereof In the Entry of the other Peninsule which is to the West is the Kingdom of Cambaya with a City of the same Name and another called Surrat which is very large and a place of great Trade and the Residence of our English President of India Thu Kingdam of Bengala is near the mouth of Ganges between the States of the Mogol and Pegu. The King of Portugal possesses the Isle of Diu near the Kingdom of Cambaya which has a Town of the same Name near the Kingdome of Decan the City of Goa one of the greatest Towns of the Indies and the Residence of the Archbishop and Vice-Roy some places on the Coast of Malabar and on the other side he had heretofore Maliapur a considerable Town where it is beleeved the Body of St. Thomas is In the other Peninsule formerly he held Malacca which the Dutch have since taken from him Besides these he hath several Islands and some places in others which belong not wholly to himself CHAP. VI. The Kingdom of CHINA SOme Authors make this Kingdom as big as all Europe so vast is its Extent It hath the Ocean to the East Cochinchina to the South and to the West the Indies and part of Tartary which it hath likewise in the North and from which it is seperated by that Famous Wall of Four hundred Leagues in Length It is divided into Fifteen Provinces the Names of which it is not very material to know There are above Two thousand Cities reckoned to be in this great Kingdom and of them Peking is the Chief and the Imperial Seat of their Kings That Throne was overturned by the Tartars who ruined this Empire and possest the greatest part thereof but the Natives have lately recovered their Liberty again and expulsed the Conquerers Nanquin Xanton and Amus are the most considerable CHINA TARTARIA Cities and the least is as big if not bigger than London There are in this Kingdom many Fair Navigable Rivers the chief of which are the Yellow and the Blew called in the Chinese Language Caramoran and Jansuguiam and Chincheo that passes by the Stately City of Amus The Chineses are Idolaters and Worship the Heavens and Stars with many Idols that they place in their Temples The Jesuites have