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A33311	A geographicall description of all the countries in the known vvorld as also of the greatest and famousest cities and fabricks which have been, or are now remaining : together with the greatest rivers, the strangest fountains, the various minerals, stones, trees ... which are to be found in every country : unto which is added, a description of the rarest beasts, fowls ... which are least known amongst us / collected out of the most approved authors ... by Sa. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Gaywood, Richard, fl. 1650-1680.	1657 (1657)	Wing C4516; ESTC R36024	224,473	240

other Officers and their servants weeping and lamenting who held up their hands to the people that looked upon them thereby teaching the young Children to do the like and to ask mercy and grace at the peoples hands There were three pretty little Children two sons and a Daughter amongst them who by reason of their tender years lacked understanding which made them poor souls insensible of their present misery and that moved the people so much the more to pitty them seeing the poor little infants that knew not the change of their hard hap so that through compassion to them they had almost let the Father pass without looking upon him yea many of the peoples hearts did so melt for pitty that the tears ran down their cheeks till they were past and gone a good way out of sight King Perseus the Father followed after his Children and their train Hee was cloathed in a black gown with a pair of slippers on his feet after his Country manner Hee shewed by his countenance his troubled mind being opprest with sorrow for his most miserable estate and condition Hee was followed with his kinsfolk his familiar friends his officers and houshold servants their faces being disfigured with blubbering shewing to the world by their lamentable tears and sorrowful eyes cast upon their unfortunate Master how much they sorrowed and bewailed his most hard and woful estate whilest they made little account of their own misery After all these there followed four hundred Princely Crowns of gold which the Cities and Towns of Greece had purposely sent by their Ambassadors unto Aemylius to honour his victory And last of all came Aemylius himself in his Triumphant Chariot which was passing sumptuously set forth and adorned This was a gallant sight to behold and yet the person himself was worth looking on without all that great pomp and magnificence for hee was cloathed in a purple gown curiously branched with gold carrying in his right hand a bough of Lawrel as all his Army did the like the which being divided by bands and companies followed the Triumphant Chariot of their Captain some of the souldiers singing songs of victory according to the usual manner of the Romans in the like cases mingleing them with merry and pleasant toyes as glorying and rejoycing in their General others of them sang songs of Triumph in the honour and praise of Aemylius his noble conquests and victorys so that hee was openly praised blessed and honoured of all and neither hated nor envied of any that were good and honest Plut. in vita ejus Rome was so populous when Paulus Aemylius was Censor that being mustered by him they were found to bee three hundred thirty seven thousand four hundred fifty and two men The manner of Pompey's third Triumph For the statelinesse and magnificence of this Triumph though Pompey had two dayes to shew it in yet were there many things which for want of time were not seen even so many as would have served to have set forth another Triumph In the first place there were Tables carryed whereon were written the names and titles of all the people and Nations which hee had conquered and for which hee triumphed as the Kingdomes of Pontus Armenia Cappadocia Paphlagonia Media Colchis Iberia Albania Syria Cilicia and Mesopotamia as also the people that dwell about Phaenicia Palaestine Judaea and Arabia and all the Pirates which hee had overcome both by Sea and Land in all parts of the world In all these Countries hee had taken a thousand Castles almost nine hundred Cities and walled Towns Of Pirates ships eight hundred Hee had replenished again with people nine and thirty desolate Towns that were left without Inhabitants In these Tables was further declared that before these conquests the revenues of the Common-wealth of Rome were but five thousand Myriads per annum but now Pompey had made them eight thousand and five hundred Myriads per annum and that hee had brought now for the Treasury in ready gold and silver Plate and Jewels the value of twenty thousand Talents besides that which hee had distributed amongst his souldiers of which hee that had least for his share had one thousand five hundred Drachma's The prisoners that were led in this Triumph besides the Captains of the Pirates were the son of Tygranes King of Armenia with his wife and daughter The wife of King Tygranes himself called Zosime Aristobulus King of Judaea Mithridates sister with her five sons and some Ladies of Scythia The hostages also of the Iberians and Albanians and of the Kings of the Commagenians beside many other things too large to recite But that which made his honour the greatest and whereunto never any of the Roman Consuls attained was that in his three Triumphs hee triumphed over the three parts of the world In his first over Africk in his second over Europe and now in this third over Asia which was almost all the then known world and all this before hee was forty years old Plut. In vita ejus A Description of the City of Venice with her Rarities which was begun to bee built Anno Christi 421. upon the 25th of March and upon seventy and two Islands This Wonder of Cities is seated in the bosome or betwixt the Armes of the Adriatick Sea It is built upon four thousand Islands and is as it were chained together by four thousand Bridges The occasion which made these watry Isles a mansion for men was when that Northern Deluge of Goths Vandals Huns and Longobards did overflow all Italy the people of all sorts fled to these lakes to avoid the land torrent that was like to swallow them up and finding the Air to bee gentle and fit for habitation and propagation they pitched their Tents upon these Isles and associated them by conjoyning Bridges There are seventy two Isles that support Venice and the nearest part of the Continent is five miles distant There are banks and ditches cast up to preserve her from the impetuousnesse of the waves of the Sea extending in length above six miles Shee is above eight miles in circuit Through the banks in seven places there are passages broken for boats but not for bigger vessels Besides there be above twenty thousand Gondolaes or Boats which ply up and down perpetually in each of which are two rowers at least so that upon occasion shee can suddenly make an Army of above fifty thousand Gondoliers Shee hath for her Motto Nec fluctu nec flatu movetur Nor winds nor waves can stir her Her Fabriques publick and private are extraordinary specious and sumptuous and her streets so neat and evenly paved that in the depth of winter a man may walk up and down in a pair of Sattin Pan-tables and Crimson Silk stockings and not bee dirtied There are above two hundred Palaces fit to receive any Prince with his ordinary retinue Her situation is so rare every street almost having an arm of the Sea running thorow it

Bridges and each of them have their several Churches Venerable Bede lies under a marble Tomb in the Cathedral Church of this City The City of Carlile in the County of Cumberland Described The City of Carlile is passing commodiously and pleasantly seated between severall rivers being guarded on the North side with the Channel of Eden on the East with Petteril on the West with Caud Besides which natural fences it is fortified with strong walls of stone with a Castel and a Citadel In form it is somewhat long running out from West to East On the West side stands the Castle fair and large Almost in the middest of the City riseth on high the Cathedral Church the upper and newer part of it being very artificially and curiously wrought On the West side stands the Citadel built by King Henry the eight very strongly and with bulworks VVales Described VVales is bounded with the Seas on all sides but the East where it is separated from England by the River Dee and a line drawn to the River VVie or rather by that huge ditch cast up by King Offa which begins where Wie falls into Severn and reacheth unto Chester even fourscore and four miles in length The Country is very Mountainous and barren yet by the industry of the Inhabitants is made fruitful their chiefest commodities are woollen Flannels Cottons Bays c. brought weekly to Oswestre the farthest Town in Shropshire and thence dispersed into other Countries It is divided into North-Wales and South-Wales in both which are twelve shires having in them one Chase thirteen Forrests thirty and six Parks ninety and nine bridges The chiefest Rivers are Dee VVie Conwy Tivy and Chedhidy The Welsh Language is least mixed with forreign words of any used in Europe but having many Consonants in it is lesse pleasing The People are cholerick and hasty but very loving each to other In VVales are one thousand and sixteen Parishes of which fifty and six are market Towns besides the Cities which are four viz. St. Davids in Pembrookshire Bangor in Carnarvonshire Asaph in Flintshire and Landaff in Glamorganshire In Cardiganshire were found some silver Mines by the industry of Mr. Thomas Middleton that yeilded some good quantity of Silver The twelve shires of VVales are Pembrookshire Caermardenshire Glamorganshire Brecknockshire Radnorshire Cardiganshire Moungomeryshire Mertonethshire Denbighshire Flintshire Caernarvonshire and the Isle of Anglesey which is separated from the main Land by the River Moenay wherein are Beu-marish and Holi-head common passages to Ireland Scotland described Scotland is separated from England by the Rivers Tweed and Solway and the Cheviot-Hills reaching from one river to the other It s in length four hundred and eighty miles In breadth much lesse no place being threescore miles from the Sea It s divided into High-land and Low-land The people of the High-land living on the VVestern parts of Scotland have some civility but those in the out Isles are very barbarous The Low-landers are in dispositions and language almost like the English Scotland is far more barren than England The chief commodities are course cloathes Freeses Fish Hides Lead-oare c. The principal Rivers are Forth Clada and Tay all navigable In Scotland there are four Universities St. Andrews Glasco Aberdeen and Edenburgh The Nobility and Gentry are great affecters of Learning and therefore do not only frequent their own Universities but travel into forraign parts for improvement of the same The whole Country is divided into two parts by the great River Tay the Southern part is more populous and fruitful every where bestrewed with Cities and Towns as England is the Northerly more barren and rude retaining the customes of the wilde Irish from whence they came The Southren part hath in it these Counties Tividale Merch Laudien Liddesdale Eskedale Annandale Niddesdale Galloway Carrick Kyle Cunningham Arran Cluidesdale Lenox Sterling Fife Strathern Menteith Argile Cantire and Lorn The Northern counties are Loquabrea Braidalbin Perth Athol Anguse Mer●s Mar Buguhan Murrey Ross Sutherland Cathnes and Strathnavern And these again are divided into Sheriffdoms Stewardships and Bailiwicks The chief Cities in Scotland described Edenburgh is the Regal City of Scotland seated in Lothien where is the Royal Palace and the chief Courts of Justice It consists principally of one street about a mile long into which runne many petty lanes so that the whole compasse may be about three miles It s strengthened by a Castle that commands the Town Glasco in Cluidsdale where an University was founded by Bishop Turnbull Anno Christi 1554. St. Andrews in Fife Sterling or Striveling seated in Striveling hundred Aberdeen in Mar. Dondee in Anguis Perth or St. Johns Town Scotland was once inhabited by two populous Nations the Scots and Picts the former inhabited the Western parts of the land the latter the Eastern These two Nations at length falling out there were great and large warres betwixt them till at last the Scots prevailing they extinguished not the Kingdome only but the very name of the Picts Most memorable was that fortification drawn from Abercorn upon the Frith of Edenburgh unto Dunbritton opening upon the West Sea where Julius Agricola set the limits of the Romane Empire At this place began the great wood Caledonia famous for the wilde white Bulls bread therein with Manes like Lyons thick and curled of nature fierce and cruell so hatefull to mankind that they abhorred whatsoever was by them handled or breathed upon The Cattle in Scotland are but small yet many Fish so plentifull that in some places men on horseback hunt Salmons with Spears The Islands belonging to it are the Western the Orknayes and the Shetlands in number above three hundred Amongst the Western the Hebrides Skie Mula Ila and Arran are the chief all abounding with Corn Wood Salmons Herrings and some with Conies Deer Horses and Sheep The Orknay Islands upon the North lie in a raging Sea about three and thirty in number whereof thirteen are inhabited the other replenished with Cattel In them are no venemous Serpents nor other ugly vermine the aire sharp and healthful apt to bear Oats and Barley but have no wood Of these Pomonia is the greatest that hath six Minerals of Lead and Tin and twelve Parishes in it Ireland described Ireland is divided into four Provinces Mounster Leinster Connaught and Ulster In Mounster are the Counties of Limmerick Kery Cork Waterford Dismond and Holy Cross in Typperary In Leinster are East-Meath West-Meath Kilkenny Caterlough Queens County Kings County Kildare VVeshford and Dublin In Connaught are Clare ●r Towmund Gallaway Maio Slego Letrim and Roscoman In Ulster are Dungal or Tyr-connel Tyrone-upper Tyrone-nether Farmanagh Cavan Monaghan Colrane Antrim Down Armagh and Lough Ireland hath on the East that tempestuous Sea that divides it from England On the West the Western Ocean On the North the Deucalidonian Sea and on the South the Vergivian Sea It contains in length four hundred and in breadth two hundred miles The air is

other are above four yards Its mouth and teeth resemble a Portcullis it hath a long small tail and it is rather to be wondred at than to be eaten In Le Maires voyage about the world a certain fish or Sea monster with an horn struck against the ship with such violence that shook it whereupon the Master looking overboard saw the sea all bloody but knew not what should be the cause till coming into Port Desire where they cleansed and trimmed their ship they found seven foot under water a Horn sticking in the ship for bignesse and fashion like an Elephants tooth yet not hollow but all solid of hard bone which had pierced through three double planks and was entred into a rib of the ship it stuck about half a foot deep in the ship and by great force was broken off which caused that great monster to bleed so much as discoloured the water Pur. Pil. v. 1. p. 90. The Mannaty is a strange fish resembling a Cow Her face is like a Buffalo's her eyes small and round having hard gums instead of teeth they feed much on the shore which makes them taste like flesh of veal their intrails differ little from a Cows their bodies are commonly three yards long and one broad they swim slowly wanting fins in the place wherof they have two things like paps which are their stilts when they creep on shore to graze where they sleep long sucking in the cool air they cannot keep under water above half an hour The stone generated in their head is most esteemed being soveraign against choller adust the stone collick and dissenteryes if beaten small infused in wine and drunk fasting Herb. Trav. p. 26. See more afterwards The Carvel comes of the foam of the sea every where floating upon the surface of the Ocean of a round form throwing abroad her strings like so many lines which shee can spread at pleasure therewith angling for small fishes which shee catches at leisure you may call her a sea Spider for when shee sees her webb too weak she can blow an infectious breath foming death or such a sting as if she had borrowed it from a Scorpion Idem In the East-Indies is a trade wind which they call a Briese or Monson which blows West all April May June July August and part of September and East the rest of the year Only on the East of Sumatra it blows five months East and five months West and the other two variable This is well known to our East-Indy Merchants The Torpedo is a Fish like a Bream but somewhat thicker some Marriners having one of them in a net went to take it forth but one of them presently cryed out that hee had lost the use of his hands and armes another that was bare legged putting his foot to it lost the sence of his leg but after a while their feeling returned again whereupon calling their Cook they bade him to take and dresse it who laying both his hands thereon made grievous moan that hee felt not his hands but when its dead it produceth no such effect but is good meat Pur. Pil. p. 1568. About Jamica in the West-Indies is a Fish called a Manati which is of a strange shape and nature It brings forth her young ones alive and nourisheth them with Milk from her teates feeding upon grass in the fields but lives for the most part in the water the hinder parts of it are like unto a Cow and it eats like veal Idem v. 3. p. 930. In Brasile are Oxe-fishes which are very good meat For head hair skin cheeks and tongue they are like Oxen their eyes small with lids to open and shut which no other fish hath It breatheth and therefore cannot bee long under water Instead of fore-feet it hath two arms of a cubit long with two round hands and on them five fingers close together with nails like a mans Under these arms the female hath paps wherewith she nourisheth her young she brings forth but one at once It hath no fins but the tail which is also round and close their bones are all massie and white like Ivory of this Fish they make great store of sweet Oil they feed most upon the land Idem v. 4. p. 1313. In Sir Francis Drakes voyage about the world when they came to the Island of Celebes which is wholly overgrown with wood amongst the Trees night by night they saw infinite swarms of fiery wormes flying in the air their bodies no bigger than of our English Flyes which made such a shew and gave such a light as if every twig or tree had been a burning candle In which place also were great store of Bats as big as large Hens Pur. Pil. v. 1. p. 56. In Captain Saris his voyage to Bantam about midnight they fell into the strangest and fearfullest water that ever any of them had seen the water giving such a glaring light about the ship that they could discern letters in a book thereby whereas a little before it was so dark that they could discern nothing This made them fear that it had been the breach of sunken ground But finding that they had failed half an hour in it and saw no alteration they perceived at length that it was a multitude of Cuttle-fish that made this fearful shew Pur. Pil. p. 352. CHAP. V. The wonderful works of God in the Creatures Of strange Fowls and Birds IN one of the Scottish Islands there is a rare kinde of Fowl unknown to other Countrys called Colca little lesse than a Goose They come thither every year in the spring hatch and nourish their young ones About which time they cast all their feathers and become stark naked all their bodies over and then they get themselves to the Sea and are no more seen till the next spring Their feathers have no quill as other feathers have but are all like unto Down wherein is no hardness Descr. of Scot. In the North Seas of Scotland are great loggs of Timber found in which are ingendred after a marvellous manner a sort of Geese called Claik-geese and they do hang by the beak till they are grown to perfection and then they receive life and fall off they are many times found and kept in admiration for their rare manner of Generation They are very fat and delicious to bee eaten Idem Some question the truth hereof Storks are so careful of their parents that when they grow old and so are unable to help themselves the young ones feed them and when in passing the Sea their wings fail them the young ones will take them on their backs and carry them over And this is remarkable about them The Town of Delph in the Low-Countries is so seated for the breeding and feeding of these Birds that it is hard to see an house wherein they do not build In this Town upon the third of May Anno Christi 1536. a great fire happened when the young Storks were grown pretty big