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A33342	A new description of the world, or, A compendious treatise of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, countries, islands, cities, and towns of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America in their scituation, product, manufactures, and commodities, geographical and historical : with an account of the natures of the people in their habits, customes, warrs, religions, and policies &c. : as also of the rarities, wonders, and curiosities of fishes, beasts, birds, rivers, mountains, plants, &c., with several remarkable revolutions and delightful histories / faithfully collected from the best authors by S. Clark.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1689 (1689)	Wing C4554; ESTC R26606	137,166	242

Long Pepper Ginger Mirabolans and other Commodities So that from the Haven of Orissa 25 or 30 Ships have been laden with the Commodities of this Province in a Season and here the people differ from the foregoing as being very honest and just in their Dealings and has for its Chief City Raman where the Governour for the Mogul resides CANORA is a Kingdom of considerable strength and largeness but famed for nothing more than the Quarries of Adamant where likewise Diamonds of Considerable Value are found and that none may purloyn them a Wall is drawn about the Hill and a Guard set upon the Gates As for the chief Cities or Towns they are Lispeo Dangar and Vltabat with some other of lesser note DELLIE is accounted as the former a Kingdom the Prince or rather Governour of it living in great State and is so highly Reverenced by his Subjects that they not only kneel when he passes in a Rich Chair of State carried on Mens Shoulders but upon Notice given that he shaves his Beard or has his Hair Cut a Jubile is kept throughout his Countrey As for the Soil it is not very Fruitful as lying considerably Northward and more subject to Frosts than the rest It s Chief City is Dellie from whence the Kingdom takes its Name besides which there are of note Fremel Fultaber and Besmer and these People above other Indians addict themselves much to the study of Magick In this Tract of Intra Gangem are found the Provinces of Cochin where the Portugals hold a considerable Trade and have some Collonies Cranganor a small Kingdom mostly inhabited by such as stile themselves the Christians of St. Thomas and is very plentiful as well in Product as Manufacture Conlam is a small Dominion of about 80 Miles extent Governed by a Petty King but for want of good Havens or Sea-coast not much Traded to though it comprehends Three and twenty Walled Towns. India Extra Gangem IN this part of India are found divers Rich Countreys viz. ARACHAN an Inland Region invironed with Mountains and Woods yet exceeding Fruitful and in it are gathered from the Rough Rocks c. great quantities of Precious Stones as for the Chief City it is Arachan MACHIN a little Kingdom wherein grows the Wood Aloes much esteemed and valued and has Machin for its Chief City CAMBOIA a large Countrey full of People abounding with Elephants and Rhinocerots also with Gold Silver and Aloes and other Commodities of considerable value put to Sale in Camboia its Chief City COCHIN China a Countrey once belonging to the Chinese but now under the Mogul Governed by his Deputed King abounding with Porcelain Aloes Silks Gold Silver c. having its Chief City of the same Name BRAMA once a Kingdom of no account but now by the Conquests the Kings have made it has under its power Cal●● P●o●a Melinta M●a●da Decan Tangu Ava Machin Aracan Odia Pegu Siam and others so that it is the most powerful in this Tract and the City of Pegu is the Royal Residence of that King. SIAM once a powerful Kingdom the King thereof styling himself Mighty but now as before intimated it is Tributary to the King of Brama and is however a very Fertil Countrey having Malucca for its Chief City possessed by the Portugals and much Traded to by other Nations for Spices PEGV was formerly so powerful that the Kings thereof have brought Armies of 11 and 900000 men into the Field extending their Conquests very wide but now the good Fortune of the Bramanian holds it in subjection These are the places of chief Note upon the Continent however there are found in this large Tract the Provinces or Kingdoms of Dulsinda Pengab Agra Sanga Camboia Decan Botanter Patanaw and Jangoma many of them very spacious abounding with Fruits Cattle Minerals Precious Stones and the like This Countrey rarely failing any where to produce something worthy of Note The Principal Rivers are Ganges Indus and Hydaspes the first in such esteem with the Natives that they come many miles on Pilgrimage to it Superstitiously imagining that if they drink the Water of this River before they die they shall undoubtedly possess their Imagined Felicity in another World and in the last are found a great number of Precious Stones washed from the Rocks and Mountains by the sudden Showers and to these Streams above 40 considerable Rivers contribute fatning and enriching the Soil in every part where they flow As for Mountains of note except some Branches of Ta●rus there are but few A Geographical and Historical Description OF AFRICA In its Kingdoms and Provinces c. AFRICA larger than Europe but less than Asia is bounded on the East with the Red Sea and Arabian Bay parted by them from Asia on the West with the Main Atlantick Ocean separating it from America on the North with the Mediterranean Sea dividing it from Europe and Anatolia and on the South with the Aethiopick Ocean separating it from the Southern Continent and joyns only to Asia by an Isthmus of 60 Miles over which Cleopatra the Queen of Aegypt when she fled with Antony from the Naval Fight at Actium purposed to draw by main force her Ships and Galleys into the Red Sea but was disswaded from it by being put in hopes of a better Fortune AFRICA is held to have taken its name from Affro or Apher descended from Abraham and is properly held to contain Six principal Regions besides other of lesser note viz. Barbary Egypt Numidia Sarra the Countrey of the Negro's and the Dominions of Prestor John and is in form like a Pyramid reversed the Basis of which from Tangier to the Straights of Gibralter to the Point where it joyneth to Asia is counted 1920 Italian Miles the Cone of it very narrow but to reckon from the Cone or Pyris to the Northern parts of the Basis it extendeth it self 4155 Miles and is scituate for the most part under the Torrid Zone being crossed by the Equator almost in the midst which made some of the Ancient Writers conceive it not habitable by reason of the excessive Heat in the middle and more southern parts in which they deceived themselves for altho in some places it is full of Sandy Desarts yet the greatest part of those Regions that lie near or under the Line are furnished with so many Fountains Rivers and little Brooks Cedars and other lofty Trees casting a large Shade as well as bearing delicate Fruits and at all times stored with Blossoms that the place is not despicable but much to be desired and especially places more Northward but leaving it in general we proceed for the better satisfaction of the Reader to particulars A Description of Egypt c. EGYPT once a Famous and Flourishing Kingdom now in the hand of the Turks is bounded on the East with Idumaea and the Arabian Bay on the West with Numidia Barbary and part of Lybia on the North with the Mediterranean Sea and on the South with

accounted to be in length from North to South about Six score Leagues running along the Sea-Coast and consequently not answerable in breadth in which it disproportions as in some places Twenty five some Thirty and in other Fifty Leagues This Kingdom especially of late years has made its self famously known throughout the World by its Discoveries and Trafficks in Navigation so that no Trading part of the Universe has escaped its Knowledge As for the Provinces attributed to Portugal they are principally Six which are as many General Governments Inter-Dueras and Minho Tralos-Montes Beyra Estremadure Aleuteio and the Kingdom of Algarue and of these Inter-Dueras and Minho are the most noted as being exceeding Fruitful and well Peopled that for Eighteen Leagues in length and Twelve in bredth it possesses One hundred and thirty Monasteries One Thousand four hundred and sixty Parishes Five Thousand Fountains or Springs of Water Two hundred Stone-Bridges and Six Sea Ports The chief City in these Parts is Porto called by the English Port à Port from its delightful Scituation and the Advantage of the Commodities of the Country there in abundance found this place contains Four thousand Houses and is much traded to by divers Nations the next to this is Braga famed for the many Councils held there Tralos Montes is a part of this Kingdom stored with Rich Mines and in it is found the City of Braganca the Capital of the Dukedom of that Title besides which there are Towns of lesser note and the Princes who are derived from this Title usually reside at Villa-Viciosa being now in Possession of the Crown and had before their coming to it a Prerogative beyond the Grandees of Spain to sit in publick under the Royal Canopie of the Spanish Kings Beyra another part of this Kingdom is exceeding fertile producing store of Millet Rye Apples Chestnuts Catle Corn c. And in it is scituate the Famous City of Coimbra noted for its University and the See of a Bishop c. Estremadure abounds in Wines Oyls Salt and Honey gathered from Citron Flowers and in it is seated Lisbon the Principal City of the Kingdom upon five little rising Hills on the Right bank of the River Tagus or Taio and Arch-Bishops See the usual Residence of the Kings of Portugal and a City of great Trade having the Advantage of the Ebing and Flowing of the Sea as being but Five Miles from it held to contain Thirty two Parishes Three hundred fifty Streets Eleven thousand Houses and One hundred sixty thousand Inhabitants the Compas computed to be near Seven Miles accounting the Subburbs and was once the greatest Emporium of Europe Santarim a place much in Request for the abundance of Olives that grow about it insomuch that the Natives boast but how truly I know not that they could make a River as big as the Tagus of their Oyl Setuba an other Town in this Tract is accommodated with one of the best Havens in the Kingdom being no less than Thirty Miles long and Three broad abounding with Salt-Pits and Wine which bring a great Revenue into the Kings Coffers Alenteio extreamly abounds with Corn insomuch that it is held to be the Grainery of the Kingdom and has in it the City of Elvara the second to that of Lisbon near which the Portuguez won a considerable Victory against the Spaniards in 1663. And next this Elvas claims Place for the many Sieges it has held out against the Spaniard and the plenty of Oyls the Neighbourhoods produce c. Ourique is the place near to which was fought the Famous Battle which occasioned the proclaiming the King of Portugal of the House of Braganca Portelegar is a Bishops See. Algarve though little in extent has the Title of a Kingdom and was re-united to the Crown by the Marriage of Alphonse the Third with Beatrice of Castile abounding in Eggs Almonds Olives Wines Corn. Cattle c. And for the Chief Towns they are Tavila Faro Silves and Lagos The Natives of this Kingdom are very frugal yet live in much plenty the Earth producing every where abundance Nor did their Navigation in former days less conduce to their Support and Grandeur being held the first Europeans that publickly Trafficked into the remote parts of the World to bring it to any considerable Perfection The People are generally straight Limbed and well proportioned very soft skinned but somewhat inclined to swarthiness by reason of the heat in those parts the Air is very healthy and the Country for the most part Hilly though few of note The Roman Catholick Religion is only publickly professed There are three Arch-Bishopricks viz. at Lisbon Braga and Elvora and Ten Bishopricks They have Parliaments as occasion requires it held at Lisbon and Porto and Twenty seven places have their Generalities and the Revenues of the Kingdom is held to be about Ten Millions of Livers not accounting their Collonies in the East-Indies And although Portugal was seized on by the King of Spain after the fatal Battle of Alcazar in Affrick and the Death of King Henry who Succeeded Sabastian slain by the Moors it revolted in the year 1640. And is governed by a King of its own as a separate Kingdom from Spain and thus much for Portugal A Description of Italy In its Kingdoms and Dominions c. ITaly is a very Fruitful Country and held for its Pleasantness to be the Mistriss of all Countries as it once was Empress of the World and is incompassed with the Adriatick Jonian and Tyrrian Seas Except towards France and Germany from which it is parted by the Alps which renders it in a manner a Penjusula but more peculiarly it has on the East the lower part of the Adriatick and the Jonian Sea deviding it from Greece on the West it has the River Varus and some part of the Alps parting it from France on the North a part of the Alps divides it from Germany and on the other parts the Adriatique Sea devides it from Dalmatia being held by the Antients to be in form like an Oak-Leaf This Country branched out into sundry principalities and Provinces is scituate in a most Fruitful and temperate Air under the fifth climate of the North temperate Zone which is totally taken up so that the Longest day is 15 hours and three fifth parts of an hour Northward and Southward not much above 14 hours and the parts mentioned and is reckoned in length from Augusta Praetoria now called Aost unto Otranto the most Easternly part of Naples 1020 miles and in bredth from the River Varo which parts it from that Province to the Mouth of the River Arsa in Friuli where it is the broadest 410 miles and where the narrowest which is about Otranto exceeds not 23. so that the whole compass by Sea reckoning windings and turnings is held to be 3448 miles but reckoned in a straight line upon the coast it falls much short as not above 2550. As for the first Inhabiters of this Country they

remaine doubtful for as soon as Historians make any considerable mention of it we find it Inhabited by divers Nations held to be Greek Colonies who transported themselves at sundry times the people of the Sea Coast being said to come thither under Janus Anno Mundi 1925. After them Saturn out of Creet then Evander or Oenotrus out of Arcadia and then Aeneas with his Trojans with many others but after the Romans grew powerful they brought the whole Country into subjection and held it in spite of the frequent Invasions of Phyrus Hanibal the Gauls Cimbri and others till the time of Honorius the Emperor at what time the Goths Vandals Herulies Huns and other Barbarous Nations passing the Alps rent it from the Empire and devided it amongst themselves establishing many Kingdoms and Principalities and when these were in a manner subdued by the Valour and Conduct of Narses Bellarius and other Imperial Generals Albonius King of the Lumbards seized upon the greatest part of it calling it Longobardia vulgarly Lumbardy but they a considerable time after were brought under by Pepin King of France called in by the Bishop of Rome who reduced their Kingdom to a straight compass after which the seat of the Roman Empire was fixed in Germany and Italy parcell'd out amongst sundry Princes and the usual Division is into six parts viz. Lumbardy the Land of the Church Nap●ls ●ascany Genoa the Signory of Venice but more particularly into five greater and six lesser as for the first the Kingdom of Naples the Papacy the Signory of Venice the Dukedom of Florence and the Dukedom of Millain the lesser are the Dukedoms of Mantoua Vrbine Modena Parma with the States of Genoa and Luca and of these in their Order The Kingdom of Naples Described c. AS for the Kingdom of Naples it is Governed at this day by a Vice-Roy under the King of Spain and is scituate in the most pleasant part of Italy devided from the Territories of the Church by the River Axofenus being on the other parts Inviornd with the Seas making many commodious Havens and contains the Provinces of Lavaro Calabria Inferior and Superior Otranto Apulia Puglia Abruzzo In Lavaro is founded the City of Naples from whence the Kingdom takes its Name and many others of lesser note but that which is most noted is the Mountain Vesuvius lately called Somma being exceeding high and casting Flames out at the top of it in a dreadful manner though all the borders or parts of it are otherways very pleasant and fruitful abounding in Vines Flower-Gardens Olive-Yards and rich Pastures many of the Houses of the Gentry and Country Villages the City it self being seated at the foot of the Mountain and other Hills that branch from it extending from the South-West to the North-East in a manner Triangular and so Fruitful is the Country in Corn that the Importation of Bread is forbidden upon great penalties As for the Buildings they are of free Stone many of them four Stories in height and the Tops flat the Windows are generally covered with fine Linnen or Tiffany in stead of Glass which gives an equal Light and keeps out the heat of the Sun Nor consists the City of Naples of any more than three considerable broad Streets called La Vicaria La Lapuan and La Toletano the rest being inconsiderable Lanes and places of less note having 8 Gates towards the Sea and as many towards the Land strongly walled and defended with three Castles The Women here are very beautiful and through the abundance of Silks found in these parts the meanest Citizens Wives go clad in it the people are very thrifty and industruous especially about their Gardens from whence they derive a great part of their Food in Fruits Herbs Roots c. as living very spare and temperate though the Country abounds in plenty The Estates of the Kingdom of Naples as we may properly call them under the Spanish Vice-Roy are held to be 14 Princes 25 Dukes 30 Marquesses 54 Earls and 400 Barons and Gentlemen having 4 publick Houses called the Segij in which they meet to consult Affairs of Importance as also places are appointed for the meeting of Merchants in the way of Trade Calabria is another Province of the Kingdom of Naples bounded with the Jonian and Tyrrenean Seas and with the River Jano said to be 500 miles in compass divided into the higher and lower Calabria The chief Cities of the former being Consentia and Salernum the chief resort of Italian Physitians pleasantly scituated and well inhabited the Buildings agreeing with those of Naples though not in the General so sumptuous and all the Neighbouring Countries are full of Villages and very Fruitful and in the latter Calabria Cuterzary is seated as principal being a strong City well Walled and Fortified and formerly this Country was called Magna Graecia from the many Greek Collonies that seated themselves in it Otranto is on three parts bound with the Sea and on the other with Puglia having Tarentum and Brundusum for its chief places formerly boasting it self one of the best Havens in Europe but for some years past choaked up or much obstructed by shoales of Sand carry'd in by the Sea so that a Ship cannot without some difficulty enter by which means the places are much reduced Here are found likewise the Towns of Otranto and Gallipolis very plentious in Oyls Wines and Manufacturies of Silks and other matters of value there are found great store of Corn Mellions Citron Saffron c. and what is one thing observable no Partridges pass the Limits of this Country Apulia another Province of Naples extends it self from the confines of Brundusium to the River Fortore and is properly devided into two Provinces and has for its principal City that of Manfredo Scituate beneath the Hill of St. Angello accommodated with many stately Buildings and is the Seat of the Arch-Bishop of Siponto and that which adds more to its advantage is that it has a capacious Harbour capable of receiving Ships and Galleys of great burthen and is defended with a very stong Castle the Country all about it being very Fruitful Puglia is bounded with the Rivers Tronto and Fortore and has for its chief Cities Barlet which has a good Haven belonging to it and held to be one of the 4 strong holds of Italy and Cannae the Country though somewhat Hilly or Mountainous abounds with Cattle Saffron and many other Commodities incident to Italy Abruzzo is in like manner a part of the Kingdom of Naples having for its chiefest Cities or Towns Aquino giving Birth of Thomas Aquinas and Sulmo Famous for the Birth of Ovid the Poet both pleasantly seated and well inhabited The Papacy Described c. AS for the Papacy commonly called the Estate of the Pope Inherent to the See of Rome it consists of two Natures or Jurisdictions as Spiritual and Temporal principalities as touching the latter of which it has under its Jurisdiction many large Terretories lying

of Armenians Christians Jews Mahometa●s and some Idolaters The chief Rivers that Water this Countrey are the Tanais and Volga and the principal Mount Imaus which runs in a long Chain or Ridge branching however into divers Spurs c. A description of the Kingdom of China in its Provinces c. CHINA is a large Kingdom though not well known till the latter times to the Europeans bounded on the North with the Eastern Tartars and Altay separated from them by a continued Chain of Hills and a Wall of 400 Leagues in length furnished with Towers and so broad that a Cart may be driven on the top of it built as they give it out by Tzaintzon the 117th King of China The Southern boundards are partly Cochin-China a Province of the East India and partly the Ocean on the East with the Oriental Ocean and on the West with part of India and Cathaia and is indeed on all parts so hemmed in with Mountains Seas and Artificial Fortifications that it is no wonder Travellers missed it in their way to other Countreys This Kingdom according to the account of the Natives contains 15 Provinces viz. Canton Foqueit Olam Sisuam Tolenchia Cansay Miuchian Ochian Hionam Paguia Tuitan Quinchen Chagnian Susnam and Quinsay in which are Computed 591 Cities 1593 Walled Towns 4200 Unwalled Towns and 1154 Castles the whole Countrey being accounted 3000 Leagues in Circumference reaching from 130 to 160 Degrees of Longitude and from the Tropick of Cancer to the 53 Degree of Latitude lying under all the Climes from the Third to the Ninth so that the Air is very Temperate and Healthful by which the Natives are for the most part exempted from Sickness and live to an extream Age As for the Riches and Fertility it is very much even to admiration the people being very Industrious and the Soil as suitable so that in many places they have two and in most parts three Harvests in a Year nor do they spare to Plant and Sow the best of all kinds they can compass The chief Commodities coming from hence are Pearls Bezora Stones Wooll Cotton Olives Wine Flax Metals Fruit China Ware of sundry kinds Stuffs Carpets Embroideries Musk Amber c. The People are of a Swarthy Complexion especially those living towards the Southern parts short Nosed black Eyed with thin Beards wearing long Garments with loose Sleeves and Hair at its full growth they are much given to often eating but then they do it very sparingly not touching their Victuals with their hands but take it with a Fork made of Ebbony or Ivory from whom the Europeans learned the Fashion The Men are very Jealous of their Wives insomuch that they will not suffer them to go abroad nor sit at the Table with them if any Stranger be there unless some very near Kinsman however they permit them to go as Gay as they please about the House and one Trick has been brought into a Custom to prevent their desiring to ramble the which is by the hard binding up their Feet when Children to render them small that being accounted the greatest Ornament or Beauty so that being Cripled by that means they cannot go without pain As for their dead they bury them in Fields fifteen days after their decease They that are buried within the Walls of Cities c. being by them accounted most miserable Knowledge they have of the Deity and some marks and foot-steps of Christianity is remaining amongst them but so obscured that they live for the most part after the manner of the ancient Gentiles offering Sacrifices to the Devil thereby to appease him that he should do 'em no Mischief and will needs have the date of their Actions or the beginning of their Kingdom long before the Wor●d was made telling many strange and incredible Stories about the Creation c. In their Building and indeed in all their Actions they are very neat and the Countrey so populous though the Wars with the Tartars have somwhat lessened the number that some of their Kings have brought a Million of People into the Field and has seldom less than 1000 Ships of War though of no great Service in a readiness and 10000 lesser Vessels on several Rivers for carrying of Goods and Merchandise from place to place yet so jealous are they of Strangers prying into their Affairs that in some Cities 't is Death for any but a Native to lodge a Night within the Walls nor is he permitted in the day time to enter without giving his name to a Publique Notary which when he returns he must see crossed out or where ever he is found he suffers for it The Towns and Cities are too Numerous to be particularly recited but the principal are Quinsay 100 Miles in Circuit with a Lake of 30 Miles compass within the Walls in the middle of which is an Island where the Emperor as he stiles himself has a Magnificent Pallace and is thought to contain Two millions of People Pequin or Pekin not much inferiour to the former in bigness but nothing in Trade and all the Countrey is so free from Hills or Mountains that the Chinese ride in Charriots made of Reeds or Canes which by the help of Sails is driven by the Wind as if drawn by Horses or floating upon the Water As for the Rivers they are but few and those proceed from great Lakes as wanting hills to give them Springs the principal are Aspthara Senus Ambactu and Cotiaris all Navigable and have over them a great Number of Bridges the Arches of some of them rising so high that a Ship under Sail may pass with as much ease as a Boat And as for the Customs arising by Trade they are so great that no Prince whatsoever receives so much upon the like occasion East India described in its Kingdoms and Provinces c. INDIA the largest Tract in the World going under one entire name or denomination except Tartary and China is bounded on the East with the Oriental Sea and a part of China on the West with the Dominions of the Persian Sophy and on the North with Branches of Mount Taurus that divide it from Tartary and on the South with the Indian Ocean The whole Countrey as most considerate persons affirm taking its name from the River Indus the most famous and noted in that part of Asia tho some will have it to be so called from the end or furthest extent of Asia and is extended from 106 to 159 degrees of Longitude and from the Equinoctial or Equator to 44 degrees of North Latitude as to the main Continent tho some Islands reckoned within the compass of India extend to 9 degrees South Latitude This Countrey to give it its due is in most parts exceeding pleasant and flourishing enjoying healthful and Temperate Air unless at some Seasons when the heat is excessive in the Southern parts the Summer continuing there much longer than with us so that they have in a manner Two Summers giving a

as many as they can few having less than Ten and here the Men and Women go naked till they are Married and then have only a Covering from the Waste downward Superstitiously raising the Skin with three slashes of a Knife from the Navel to the Privy Parts as a mark of their hopes of Salvation NVBIA a considerable Countrey stretching from Gaoga to Nilus has Dangula for its chief Town and some other of lesser note and affords amongst other Drugs the mortalest of Poysons insomuch that the tenth part of a Grain will dispatch a Man in a quarter of an hour and affords moreover Civit Sugar Sanders Ivory c. The Kingdom taking its Name from the Nubiaea a certain people that inhabit it and is well refreshed with Rivers and Lakes and the people were generally Christians a strong and potent Nation well Skill'd in War in so much that Cyriacus one of their Kings hearing the Christians were oppressed in Egypt raised an Army of 100000 Horse to succour them but being about to enter that Kingdom to the great Terrour of the Turks and Sarazens he was met by the Patriarch of Alexandria at whose Supplication and Entrcaty he returned without enterprizing any thing Memorable nor has it been long since they for want of Spiritual Guides to strengthen and confirm them have faln off from the Christian Faith and embraced the Superstitions of Mahomet Aethiopia Superior described in its Kingdoms and Provinces AETHIOPIA SVPERIOR has on the East Sinus Barbaricus and the Red Sea on the West Lybia Interior and the Kingdom of Nubia and part of Congo in the other Aethiopia on the North Egypt and Lybia Marmarica on the South the Mountains of the Moon parting it from Aethiopia Inferiour and had its present name from the Grecians and is scituate on both sides the Equinoctial extending from the South Parrallel of 7 Degrees to the North end of the Isle Meroe scituate under the Fifth Parallel on the North of that Circle being accounted in length about 1500 Miles and in breadth about half as much in Circumference 4300 Miles containing the whole Countrey of Aethiopia as before limited the greatest part of it being the Abyssine Empire or Dominion of Prestor John the rest comprehending the Kingdoms of Adel and Adea the Provinces Quiola and Melindi though the last are reckoned parts of Aethiopia Inferior the Island of Meroe in the North possessed by Mahometans Enemies to Prestor John all on the South of Nubia and the West of Nilus is Inhabited by the Anzichi a Cannibal and Idolatrous People who have a King of their own and all the Coast of the Red Sea as well within the Coast of Babel-mandel the Port of Erocco only excepted is in the Possession of Moors and Arabians who pay Homage to the Kings of Adel and Adea As for the People of Aethiopia properly so called they were formerly held to be great Astrologers the first Ordainers of Sacred Ceremonies from whom the Egyptians had their Instructions always counted good Archers yet Treacherously shooting with Poisoned Arrows they go ill Cloathed and as bad Housed for the most part extreamly inclined to Barbarisin and unless they Swear by the Life of their Emperor not to be credited in matters of Weight their Colour is an Olive Tawny inclining more to Swarthiness except their Emperor who as a mark of the true Prince and are held to be Converted to the Christian Faith by the Eunuch of Queen Candace Converted by St. Philip the Evangelist which Flourishes amongst them to this day and comes very near in all the Material Points to the Orthodox Religion of the Reformed European Church c. and are under a Patriarch The Country of the Aethiops is like all other Countries in this Tract Fruitful in some Places and Barren in others yet it generally abounds in Rice Barley Beans Pease Sugars Minerals of all kinds Cattle viz. Goats Oxen Sheep Horses and have great store of Flax and Vines yet make neither Cloth nor Wine unless peculiarly for the Emperor Patriarch or great Men being much given to Sloth nor do they indeed know how to bring their Minerals to Perfection nor will they trouble themselves to Fish or Hunt tho' the Woods and Rivers are infinitely stored with Fish and Venison As for the Provinces comprehended at this time within the bounds or limits of Aethiopia they are Guagere Tigremaon Angote Damut Amma Bagamedrum Goijami Adel Adea Barnagassum Danculi D●bas Fatigar Xoa and Barus though not all as I intimated within the Circuit of the Abassine Empire and of Note amongst these are viz. BARNAGOSVM Scituate upon the Red Sea extending from Suachen almost to the Mou●● of the Streights and hath for its Sea Port Frooco the only Port of the Empire held Tributary from the Turks who sometimes since took it from the Aethiopians with the Town of Suachen for which they pay yearly 1000 ounces of Gold. TIGRAMAON lying between Nilus Marabo and Angote is a pleasant Kingdom though of no great extent and has for its chief City Cazunia supposed to be the Regal Seat of Queen Candace whose Enuch St. Philip Baptized ANGOTE is a Province considerably Barren lying between Tigramaon and Amare insomuch that being deficient of Gold or Silver or any other valuable Commodities Iron Plate or Rings and hard Loaves of Salt made to sundry degrees of bigness pass as Current XOA is more Fertile than the former as having many green Pastures where a great Number of Cattle Feed as likewise abounding with Fruits and is almost in all parts Grateful to the Husbandman FATIGAR is noted for having in it a Lake of that Name 12 Miles in compass being on the Top of a high Mountain from whence divers Rivers well stored with Fish descend to water the Country GOIJAMI is famed for the Mines of Gold found as also for the Unicorn who makes his abode in the Hills of the Moon large Mountains so called because the Moon upon her rising appears first from behind them to that Country and although the Beasts are rarely taken by reason of their Swiftness yet their Horns so famous for expelling Poison are found which at a certain Period of Time they shed GVGERA otherways Meroe is an Island of which we intend to speak hereafter and in this Country is found the Hill Amara which is a Days Journey to ascend and 30 Miles in compass in Form round and on the top of it are sundry pleasant Plains and Pallaces the Air being much cooler than that beneath and here the Princes of the Blood dwell As for the Emperors Stile by reason of the strangeness of it we think fit to insert it viz. P. I. 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 Column of Sion the Son of the Seed of Jacob and the Son of the Hand-maid of Mary the Son of Nahu after the Flesh the

liberally bestowed in Marriage on sundry of the Natives And near this place is the mighty Water-fall or Cataract of the River Arenoque whose horrid noise makes the Mountains tremble which may well fit the Words of the Poet viz. Cuncta tremunt undis multo murmure Montis Spumeus invictis albescit Fluctibus amnis The Noise the Mountains shakes who roar for spite To see th' Unvanquish'd Waves clad all in White In an other part of this Province they have a strange custom with their Dead for when the Flesh is worn off the Bones by Putrefaction they hang up the Skeleton in the Chamber or House where the party died decking the Skull with Feathers of divers Colours and hanging Jewels and Plates of Gold about the Arm and Thigh Bones As for the Towns of note in this Tract they are Mano called by the Spaniards El'Dorado from the abundance of Gold and Silver Coin Armour and Utensils found there held to be the largest of all the Country though some question the Truth of this place Caripo Gomeribo Tanparanume Morequuto St. Thome and St. Joseph with some others of lesser note which they are obliged to build upon Hills Rocks or the like advantageous Places forasmuch as the Rivers yearly overflow a great part of the Country obliging the Natives to live in Trees with their Families building them Hutts in the Branches like Birds Nests PARIA another considerable Province lies on the West of Guiana divided into the lesser Countries of Cumana Venezuela St. Margaita Cubagna and some Islands and here the Nature of the Soil and People are different though in general the Country is very Pleasant being watered with the Rivers of Rio-de-Cacioas Rio-de-Neveri Cumana de Bardones and others of lesser note and has for its chief Towns Maracapana once a Spanish Garrison Venezuela New Cadiz and some others and in this Tract the Pearl Fishery is used those valuable Commodities being gotten by Diving and they bring up a Fish much like an Oyster out of the Shells of which they take the Pearls supposed to be Ingendred there by the falling of Dews when the Fish opens to receive the Air upon the Shoar and though the People in the Province of Cumana have Plenty of Fruits and Cattle with other things whereby to subsist even to Riot yet they rather chuse to feed upon Insects and Vermin as Batts Spiders Horse-leaches Worms c. each Man being allowed as many Wives as he can maintain though they never have the Maidenheads of any prostituting them the first Night to their Piacos or Priests or their appointment who for small matters turn over that Drudgery to Strangers nor do they at any time think their Guests welcome unless they will do the Office of Men to their Wives Sisters c. blackning their Teeth and Painting their Bodies of diverse Colours in this Tract are found diverse Mines of Gold some of Silver and other Minerals and here the Spaniards met with many disasters as well the Ecclesiasticks as Military being frequently expulsed or cut off by the Salvages who are in general a Stout and Warlike People and here are found the Capa a Beast the Soles of whose Feet are like a Shooe and a Hog of monstrous size with Horns like a Goat living altogether upon Ants Pismires Parrots and Batts and could I have added to this Bill of Fair Booksellers and Printers the World might have taken this Monster for a meer Robin Hog c. Cattle this Country affords in great Quantities insomuch that Instructed by the Europeans they make Butter and Cheese of their Milk in sundry places which the Natives take as the Prince of Rarities And thus much Reader may suffice for the Empires Kingdoms Provinces and States of the Universe relating to the Continent of Europe Asia Africa and America from which we proceed for the greater Satisfaction of the Curious to the Description of the Islands scattered in the several Seas attributed to the four Parts of the World and of these in their Order A Description of the Islands of Europe and their various Scituations in their sundry Seas c. Great Britain Described GREAT BRITAIN being in a manner known to most that Inhabit it may occasion some to reflect upon this brief Description as superfluous however having undertaken to omit nothing material in this great Undertaking which indeed wanted nothing but the permission of a larger Scope to render it more Illustrious we will not be wanting to give a modest Account of the Princess of Islands or Epitome of the Universe being properly and not without just Reason stiled the World Minature and in this case we must divide it into two Parts viz. England Wales c. and Scotland comprehending the Ocean Islands England described c. ENGLAND has for its Eastern boundard the German Ocean on the West the Irish Sea on the South the British Ocean and on the North parting it from Scotland the River Tweed and Solway Invironed as to the whole Island with the main Sea guarded in most parts by such Rocks as render it Inaccessible from Forreign Invaders if the Shoars be but indifferently Defended though its Walls consists in its many more Powerful and Impregnable Defendants than those of Stone which notwithstanding it had not always to defend it as appears by its becoming a Prey to the Romans its being harassed by the Picts Scots and wild Irish and the Subjection it was brought under by the Saxons Danes and Normans but at this day the often Languishing Island lifts up her head as high as the tallest of the Daughters of the Nations upon Earth As for the Soil improved by industrious hands it is in most parts exceeding Fruitful as well in Grain as Herbage Fruit Trees Rich Pastures c. as all other things necessary and conducing to the support of Life with Mines of Iron Tin ●ead c. but exceeds other Nations in the Woollen Manufacture nor is making of Stuffs Silks and other Curious Arts wanting in a great measure but more especially the Traffick abroad where for our Native Commodities we command the most valuable things in the Universe ENGLAND in particular holds from 50 to 54 degrees of North Latitude the Air Pleasant and Temperate by vicissitude of Heat and Cold as also the varying of Night and Day but more for the wholesome Laws good Constitution of the Established Government and Nature of the People whose Generosity and Valour has famed them in all parts of the known World and the whole divided into 39 Shires or Divisions viz. Middlesex Essex Kent Sussex Hampshire or the County of Southampton Surry Buckinghamshire Bedfordshire Cambridgshire Cheshire Cornwal Cumberland Darbyshire Dorsetshire Durham Glocestershire Huntingtonshire Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Northamptonshire Notinghamshire Rutlandshire Shropshire Somersetshire Wiltshire Warwickshire Westmorland Yorkshire Norfolk Northumberland Oxfordshire Staffordshire Barkshire Devonshire Hartfordshire Suffolk and Worcestershiye Herefordshire all of them extreamly replenished with Woods Parks Rivers Cities and Towns