according to the title the Sum or difference is the true place of the Node which being deducted from the place of the Moon in her Orb the Remainer shall be the Augment of Latitude or Distance of the Moon from the Node or Leg A ☊ 2. With the Augment of Latitude enter the Table of the Moon 's Latitude and take thence her Simple and Latitude and Increase answering to it Then say as the whole excess of Latitude 18′ or in Decimals 30. is to the Inclination of the Monethly limit So is the increase of Latitude to the Part Proportional which being added to the simple Latitude will give you the true Latitude of the Moon 3. With the same Augment of Latitude enter the Table of Reduction and take thence the Reduction and Inclination answering thereto Then say again as 18′ 00″ or 0. 30. is to the Inclination of the Monethly limit So is the increase of Reduction to the Part Proportional which being added to the simple Reduction shall give the true to be added to or subtracted from the place of the Moon in the Ecliptick Example By the former Chapter we found the mean motion of the Node to be 95. 96094 which reduced to the Degrees and Parts of the common Circle is 345.459384 And the Suns true place to be 345.291334 Their difference is the distance ☉ à ☊ 168050 with which entring the Table Entituled Tabula AEquationis Nodorum Lunae I find the Node to need no Equation and the Inclination limitis menstrui to be deg 00. 30. The place of the ☽ in her Orbit 55.698954 The Nodes true place subtract 345.459384 The Augment of Latitude 70.239570 2. With this Augment of Latitude I enter the Table shewing the Moons simple Latitude and thereby find her simple Latitude to be Degrees 04. 70476. North And the increase 00.28234 And therefore the Moons true Latitude is deg 4.98610 3. With the same Augment of Latitude I enter the Table of Reduction and thereby find the Reduction to be 00.06955 And the increase of Reduction to be deg 00.00855 And therefore the whole Reduction to be sub 00.07810 From the ☽ place in her Orbit 55.69895 The ☽ true place in the Ecliptick 55.62085 That is in Sexagenary Numbers 8. 25. 37′ 15″ CHAP. XIX To find the Mean Conjunction and Opposition of the Sun and Moon TO this purpose we have here exhibited a Table shewing the Moons mean motion from the Sun the construction whereof is this By the Tables of the Moons mean motions her mean Longitude AEra Christi is 34.0088734567 The ☉ mean Anomaly 56.6997085185 Praecession of the AEquinox 20.4976851851 Their Sum is the ☉ mean longit AEra a Christi 77.4973937036 Which being deducted from the ☽ mean longitude the remainer is the Moons mean 56.8114797531 distance from the Sun in the beginning of the Christian AEra  In like manner the Moons mean distance from the Sun in a year or a day is thus found ☉ Anomaly for a year 99.9297857316 Praecession of the AEquinox 0038580246 Their Sum subtract 99.9336437562 From the ☽ mean Longitude 35.9400144893 Moons distance from the ☉ 36.0063707331 Moons distance from the Sun in a days time ☉ mean Anomaly 27378.02348 Praecession of the AEquinox 1.05699 Their Sum subtract 27379.08047 From the ☽ mean Longitude 03. 66010.96287 ☽ Daily motion from the ☉ 03. 38631.88240 And according to these measures are the Tables made shewing the Moons mean motion from the Sun by which the mean conjunction of the ☽ and Moon may be thus computed To the given year and Month gather the middle motions of the Moon from the Sun and take the complement thereof to a whole Circle from which subtracting continually the nearest lesser middle motions the day hour and minute enfuing thereto is the mean time of the Conjunction Example Anno Christi 1676. I would know the time of the mean Conjunction or New Moon in October Epocha 1660 32.697283 Years Compl. 15. 50.254463 Septemb. Compl. 24.465038 1. day for Leap-year 03.386318 Their Sum is the Moons motion from the ☉ 10.803102 Complement to a whole Circle 89.196898 Days 26 Subtract 88.044289 Hours 8. substract 1.152609 1.128772 Minutes 10 Subtract 0.023837 0.023516 The Remainer giveth 8″ .00321 Therefore the mean Conjunction in October 1676. was the 26 day 10 min. 8 seconds after 8 at night And to find the mean opposition To the complement of the middle motion add a semicircle and then subtract the nearest lesser middle motions as before the day hour and minute ensuing thereto shall be the mean opposition required Example Anno Christi 1676. I desire to know the mean opposition in November Epocha 1660 32.697283 Years Compl. 15 50.254463 October Compl. 29.440922 1 day for Leap-year 03.386318 The ☽ mean motion from the ☉ 15.778986 Complement to a whole Circle 84.221014 To which add a Semicircle 50. The Sum is 34.221014 Day 10 subtract 33.863188 Hours 2. .357826 .282193 Minutes 32. .075633 .075251 The Remainer giveth 9 seconds .000382 Therefore the Full Moon or mean Opposition of the Sun and Moon was November the 10th Hours 2 32′ 09″ The like may be done for any other And here I should proceed to shew the manner of finding the true Conjunction or Opposition of the Sun and Moon but there being no decimal Canon yet extant suitable to the Tables of middle motions here exhibited I chuse rather to refer my Reader to Mr. Street's Astronomia Carolina for instructions in that particular and what else shall be found wanting in this Subject AN INTRODUCTION TO Geography OR The Fourth Part of COSMOGRAPHY CHAP. I. Of the Nature and Division of Geography GEOGRAPHY is a Science concerning the measure and distinction of the Earthly Globe as it is a Spherical Body composed of Earth and Water for that both these do together make but one Globe 2. And hence the parts of Geography are two the one concerns the Earthy part and the other the Water 3. The Earthy part of this Globe is commonly divided into Continents and Islands 4. A Continent is a great quantity of Land not separated by any Sea from the rest of the World as the whole Continent of Europe Asia and Africa or the Continents of France Spain and Germany 5. An Island is a part of Earth environed round about with some Sea or other as the Isle of Britain with the Ocean the Isle of Sicily with the Mediterranean and therefore in Latine it is called Insula because it is scituate in Salo in the Sea 6. Both these are subdivided into Peninsula Isthmus Promontorium 7. Peninsula quasi pene insula is a tract of land which being almost encompassed round by water is joyned to the main land by some little part of Earth 8. Isthmus is that narrow neck of Land which joyneth the Peninsula to the Continent 9. Promontorium is a high mountain which shooteth it self into the Sea the outmost end whereof is called a Cape or Foreland as the Cape of Good Hope in Africk 10. The
Mediterraneum And it takes it name first either from the adjacent Shore as Mare Adriaticum from the City of Adria or secondly from the first discoverer as Mare Magellanicum from Magellanus who first found it or thirdly from some remarkable accident as Mare Icarium from the drowning of Icarus the Son of Daedalus 21. Fretum a Strait is a part of the Ocean penned within some narrow Bounds and opening a way into some Sea or out of some Sea into the Ocean as the Strait of Hellespont Gibralter c. 22. Lacus a Lake is a great body or collection of Water which hath no visible Intercourse with the Sea or influx into it as the Lake of Thrasymene in Italy and Lacus Asphaltites or the dead Sea in the Land of Câ—naan 23. Flumen or Fluvius is a water-course continually running whereby it differs frum Stagnum a standing Pool issuing from some Spring or Lake and emptying it self into some part of the Sea or some other great River the mouth or outlet of which is called Ostium And thus we have gon over those particulars both of Earth and Water which appertain to this Science of Geography in the general We will now proceed to a more particular Consideration of the several parts into which the Terrestial Globe is commonly divided CHAP. III. Of Europe THe Terrestial Globe is divided into two parts known or unknown 2. The unknown or the parts of the World not fully discovered are distinguished into North and South the unknown parts of the World towards the North are those which lie between the North part of Europe or America and the North Pole and the unknown parts of the World toward the South are those which ly between the South part of America and the South Pole 3. The known parts of the World were antiently these three Europe Asia and Africk to which in latter ages a fourth hath been added which is called America 4. Europe is bounded on the North with the Northern Ocean and on the South with the Mediterranean Sea on the East with the River Tanais and on the West with the Western Ocean and is contained between the Tropick of Cancer and the Pole Arctick or 44 degrees as most do say taking its beginning Southward from Sicily where the Pole is elevated 36 degrees and is thence continued to 80 degrees of North Latitude and so the whole Latitude of Europe is in English miles 2640 but some allow to Europe 45 degrees of Latitude that is in English miles 2700. 5. The Longitude of Europe is reckoned from the furthest part of Spain and the Atlantick Ocean to the River Tanais which some reckon to be 60 Degrees to one of which Degrees passing through the middle of Europe they allow fifteen German miles almost or sixty English and so the Longitude in German miles is 900 in English 3600. 6. Europe though the least of all the four Quarters of the World is yet of most renown amongst us First because of the temperature of the Air and fertility of the Soil Secondly from the study of Arts both ingenuous and mechanical Thirdly of the Roman and Greek Monarchies Fourthly from the purity and sincerity of the Christian Faith Fifthly because we dwell in it and so give it the first place 7. Europe may be considered as it stands divided into the Continent and the Islands the Continent lying all together containeth these Countries 1. Spain 2. France 3. Germany 4. Italy and the Alpes 5. Belgium 6. Denmark 7. Swethland 8. Russia 9. Poland 10. Hungary 11. Sclavonia 12. Dacia and 13. Greece Of each of which I will give some short account as also of the chief Islands as they are dispersed in the Greek AEgaean Cretan and Ioâ—ian Seas with those in the Adriatick Mediterranean and in the British and Northern Ocean 8. Amongst these I give Spain the first place as being the most Western Part of all the Continent of Europe environed on all sides with the Sea except towards France from which it is separated by the Pyrenaean Hills but more particularly it is bounded upon the North with the Cantabrian on the West with the Atlantick Ocean on the South with the Straits of Gibralter on the East with the Mediterranean and on the North East with the said Pyrenâ—ean Hills The Figure of it is compared by Strabo to an Oxes hide spread upon the Ground the Neck whereof being that Isthmus which unites it to France 9. The greatest length hereof it reckoned at 800 miles the breadth where it is broadest at 500 the whole Circumforence 2480 Italian miles but Mariana measuring the compass of it by the bendings of the Pyrenaean Hills and the creeks and windings of the Sea makes the full circuit of it to be 2816 miles of Italian measure 10. It is situate in the more Southerly Part of the Northern temperate Zone and almost in the midst of the fourth and sixth Climates the longest day being 15 hours and a quarter in length in the most Northern Parts hereof but in the extream South near to Gibralter not above fourteen which Situation of this Country rendreth the Air here very clear and calm seldom obscured with mists and vapours and not so much subject to Diseases as the more Northern Regions are 11. This Continent is subdivided into the Kingdoms of Navarr 2. Biscay 3. Guipuscoâ— 4. Lean and Oviodo 5. Gallicia 6. Corduba 7. Granada 8. Murcia 9. Toledo 10. Castile 11. Portugal 12. Valentia 13. Catalonia 14. Majorca And 15. Aragon but all of them are now united in the Monarchy of Spain 12. France according to the present dimensions of it is bounded on the East with a Branch of the Alpes which divide Dauphine and Piemont as also with the Countries of Savoy Switzerland and some Parts of Germany and the Netherlands On the West with the Aquitanick Ocean and a Branch of the Pyrenaean Mountains which divide it from Spain On the North with the English Ocean and some Parts of Belgium and on the South with the rest of the Pyrenaean Mountains and the Mideterranean 13. The Figure of it is almost square each side of the Quadrature being reckoned 600 miles in length but they that go more exactly to work upon it make the length thereof to be 660 Italian miles the breadth 570 the whole Circumference 2040. It is seated in the Northern temperate Zone between the middle Parallel of the first Clime where the longest day is 15 hours and the middle Parallel of the eighth Clime where the longest day is 16 hours and a half 14. The Principal Provinces in this flourishing Country are 1. France specially so called 2. Champagne 3. Picardy 4. Normandy 5. Bretagne 6. The Estates of Angiou 7. La Beausio 8. Nivernois 9. The Dukedom of Bourbon 10. Berry 11. Poictou 12. Limosin 13. Piregort 14. Quercu 15. Aquitain 16. Languedoc 17. Provence 18. Daulphine 19. La Bresse 20. Lionnois 21. The Dutchy 22. The County of Burgundy 23. The Islands in the Aquitanick
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OR THE DOCTRINE OF THE PRIMUM MOBILE AN INTRODUCTION TO Astronomy The First Part. Of the Primum Mobile CHAP. I. Of the General Subject of Astronomy AStronomy is a Science concerning the Measure and Motion of the Spheres and Stars 2. Astronomy hath two parts the first is Absolute and the other Comparative 3. The Absolute part of Astronomy is that which treateth of the Measure and Motion of the Orbs and Stars absolutely without respect to any distinction of Time 4. The Comparative part of Astronomy is that which treateth 〈◊〉 the Motion of the Stars in reference to some certain distinction of Time 5. The Absolute part of Astronomy treateth of the Primum Mobile or Diurnal Motion of all the Celestial Orbs or Spheres 6. The Primum Mobile or Diurnal Motion of the Heavens is that Motion by which the several Spheres are moved round the World in a Day 〈…〉 from East towards West and â—o forwardâ— from West towards East and so continually returning to the same point from whence they began their Motion 7. This first and common Motion of the Heavens will be best understood by help of an Instrument called a Globe which is an Artificial representation of the Heavens or the Earth and Waters under that Form and Figure of Roundness which they are supposed to have 8. This Representation or Description of the Visible World is by Circles great and small some of which are expressed upon and others are framed without the Globe 9. The Circles without the Globe are chiefly two the Meridian and the Horizon the one of Brass and the other of Wood And these two Circles are variable or mutable for although there is but one Horizon and one Meridian in respect of the whole World or in respect of the whole Heaven and Earth yet in respect of the particular parts of Heaven or rather in respect of the diverse Provinces Countries and Cities on the Earth there are diverse both Horizons and Meridians 10. The Meridian then is a great Circle without the Globe dividing the Globe and consequently the Day and Night into two equal parts from the North and South ends whereof a strong Wyre of Brass or Iron is drawn or supposed to be drawn through the Center of the Globe representing the Axis of the Earth by means whereof the whole Globe turneth round within the said Circle so that any part may be brought directly under this Brass Meridian at pleasure 11. This Brass Meridian is divided into 4 equal parts or Quadrants and each of them are subdivided into 90 Degrees that is 360 for the whole Circle The reason why this Circle is not divided in 360 Degrees throughout but still stoping at
Earth conteined between three Paralells the middlemo◠whereof divideth it into two equal parts serving for the setting out the length and shortness of the days in every Country 10. These Climates and the Parallels by which they are conteined are none of them of equal quantity for the first Clime as also the Parallel beginning at the AEquator is larger than the second and the second is likewise greater than the third 11. The Antients reckoned but seven Climates at the first to which Number there were afterward added two more so that in the first of these Numbers were comprehended fourteen parallels but in the latter eighteen 12. Ptolemy accounted the Paralells 38 each way from the Equator that is 38 towards the North and as many towards the South 24 of which he reckoned by the difference of one quarter of an hour 4 by the difference of half an hour 4 by an whole hours difference and 6 by a Months difference but now the parallels being reckoned by the difference of a quarter of an hour the Climates are 24 in Number till you come to the Latitude of 66 degrees 31 Minutes to which are afterwards added 6 Climates more unto the Pole it self where the Artificial day is 6 Months in length 13. The distances of all both Climates and Parallels together with their Latitudes from the AEquator and difference of the quantity of the longest days are here fully exprest in the Table following A Table of the Climates belonging to the three sorts of Inhabitants Inhabitants belonging to the several Climes Climes Paralells Length of the Day Poles Elevation Bea of the Clime   0 12.0 0.0   0    4.18   1 12.15 4.18    2 12.30 8.34   1    8.25 Amphiscii  3 12.45 12.43    4 13.0 16.43   2    7.50   5 13.15 20.33    6 13.30 23.10   3    7.3   7 13.45 27.36    8 14.0 30.47   4    6.9   9 14.15 33.45    10 14.30 36.30   5    5.17   11 14.45 39.02    12 15.0 41.22   6    4.30   13 15.15 43.32    14 15.30 45.29   7    3.48   15 15.45 47.20    16 16.0 49.21   8    3.13   17 16.15 50.13    18 16.30 51.58   9    2.44   19 15.45 53.17   Climes Paralells Length of the Days Poles Elevation Breadth of the Clime   20 17.00 54.29   10    2.17 Heteroscii  21 17.15 55.34    22 17.30 56.37   11    2.0   23 17.45 57.34    24 18.00 58.26   12    1.40   25 18.15 59.14    26 18.30 59.59   13    1.26   27 18.45 60.40    28 19.00 61.18   14    1.13   29 19.15 61.53    30 19.30 62.25   15    1.0   31 19.45 62.54    32 20.00 63.22   16    0.52   33 20.15 63.46    34 20.30 64.06   17    0.44   35 20.45 64.30    36 21.00 64.49   18    0.36   37 21.15 65.06    38 21.30 65.21   19    0.29   39 21.45 65.35    40 22.00 65.47   20    0.22   41 22.15 65.57    42 22.30 66.00   21    0.17   43 22.45 66.14  Clime Paralells Length of the Day Poles Elevation Breadth of the Clime   44 23.00 66.20   22    0.11   45 23.15 66.25    46 23.30 66.28   23    0.5   47 23.45 66.30   24 48 24.00 66.31 0.0 Periscii Here the Climates begin to be accounted by Months from 66. 31 where the day is 24 hours long unto the Pole it self where it is 6 Months in length 1 67.15 2 69.30 3 73.20 4 78.20 5 84.0 6 90.0 14. Hitherto we have considered the inhabitants of the Earth in respect of the several Zones and Climes into which the whole Globe is divided there is yet another distinction behind into which the inhabitants of the Earth are divided in respect of their site and position in reference to one another and thus the inhabitants of the Earth are divided into the Perioeci Antoec◠and Antipodes 15. The Perioeci are such as dwell in the same Parallel on the same side of the AEquator how far distant soever they be East and West the season of the year and the length of the days being to both alike only the midnight of the one is the moon to the other 16. The Antoeci are such as dwell under the same Meridian and in the same Latitude or Parallel distance from the AEquator the one Northward and the other Southward the days in both places being of the same length but differ in the Seasons of the year for when it is Summer in the one it is Winter in the other 17. The Antipodes are such as dwell Feet to Feet so as a right Line drawn from the one unto the other passeth from North to South through the Center of the World These are distant 180 degrees or half the compass of the Earth they differ in all things as Seasons of the year length of days rising and setting of the Sun and such like A matter reckoned so ridiculous and impossible in former times that Boniface Arch-Bishop of Mentz seeing a Treatise concerning these Antipodes written by Virgilius Bishop of Salisburg and not knowing what damnable Doctrine might be couched under that strange Name made complaint first to the Duke of Bohemia and after to Pope Zachary Anno 745 by whom the poor Bishop unfortunate only in being learned in such a time of Ignorance was condemned of Heresie but God hath blest this latter age of the World with more understanding whereby we clearly see those things which either were unknown or but blindly guessed at by the Antients 18. The second part of the Terrestial Globe is the Water which is commonly divided into these parts or distinguished by these Names Oceanus Mare Fretum Sinus Lacus and Flumen 19. And first Oceanus or the Ocean is that general Collection of all Waters which encompasseth the Earth on every side 20. Mare the Sea is a part of the main Ocean to which we cannot come but through some Fretum or Strait as Mare
government the several Provinces are 1. Peloponnesus 2. Achaia 3. Epirus 4. Albania 5. Macedon 6. Thrace 7. The Islands of the Propontick 8. AEgean and 9. The Ionian Seas and 10. finally the Isle of Crete And thus I have given you a brief description of those Countries which are comprehended in the Continent of Europe the Islands in this part of the world are many I will mention only some few These two in the British and Northern Ocean known by the names of Great Britain and Ireland are the most famous to which may be added Greenland In the Mediterranaen Sea you have the Islands of Sicilia Sardinia Corsica and Crete which is now called Candia the greater and the less As for the other Islands belonging to this part of the world the Reader may expect a more particular description from them who have or shall write more largely of this subject This we deem sufficient for our present purpose Let this then suffice for the description of the first part of the World called Europe CHAP. IV. Of Asia ASia is bound on the West with the Mediteranean and AEgaean Seas the Hellespont Propontis Thracian Bosphorus and the Euxine Sea the Palus Maeotis the Rivers Tanais and Duina a Line being drawn from the first of the two said Rivers unto the other by all which it is parted from Europe on the North it hath the main Scythick Ocean but on the East the Indian Ocean and Mare del Eur by which it is separated from America on the South the Mediterranean or that part of it which is called the Carpathian Sea washing the shoars of Anatolia and the main Southern Ocean passing along the Indian Persian and Arabian Coasts and finally on the south-west the red Sea or Bay of Arabia by which it is parted from Affrick Environed on all sides with the Sea or some Sea like Rivers except a narrow Isthmus in the south-west which joyns it to Africk and the space of ground whatsoever it be between Duina and Tanais on the North-west which unites it to Europe 2. It is situated East and West from the 52 to the 169 degree of Longitude and North and South from the 82 degree of Latitude to the very AEquator some of the Islands only lying on the South of that Circle so that the longest summers day in the southern parts is but twelve hours but in the most northern parts hereof almost four whole Months together 3. This Country hath heretofore been had in special honour 1. For the creation of Man who had his first making in this part of the World 2. Because in this part of it stood the Garden of Eden which he had for the first place of his habitation 3. Because here flourished the four first great Monarchies of the Assyrians Babylonians Medes and Persians 4. Because it was the Scene of almost all the memorable Actions which are recorded by the pen-men of the Scriptures 5. Because our Saviour Christ was borne here and here wrought his most divine Miracles and accomplished the great work of our Redemption 6. And finally because from hence all Nations of the World had their first beginning on the dispersion which was made by the Sons of Noah after their vain attempt at Babel 4. This part of the World for the better understanding of the Greek and the Roman Stories and the estate of the Assyrian Babylonian and the Persian Monarchies to which the holy Scriptures do so much relate we shall consider as divided into the Regions of 1. Anatolia or Asia minor 2. Cyprus 3. Syria 4. Arabia 5. Chaldea 6. Assyria 7. Mesopotamia 8. Turcomania 9. Media 10. Persia. 11. Tartaria 12. China 13. India and 14. the Oriental Islands Anatolia or Asia minor Anatolia or Asia minor is bounded on the East with the River Euphrates by which it is parted from the greater Asia on the West with the Thracian Bosphorus Propontis Hellespont and the AEgean Sea by which it is parted from Europe on the North with Pontus Euxinus called also the black Sea and Mare Maggiore and on the South by the Rhodian Lydian and Pamphilian Seas several parts of the Mediterranean So that it is a Demi-Island or Peninsula environed on all sides with water excepting a small Isthmus or Neck of Land extending from the head of Euphrates to the Euxine Sea by which it is joyned to the rest of Asia It reacheth from the 51 to the 72 degree of Longitude and from the 36 to the 45 degree of Latitude and lyeth almost in the same position with Italy extending from the middle Parallel of the fourth Clime to the middle Parallel of the sixth so that the longest summers day in the Southern Parts is about 14 hours and a half and one hour longer in those parts which lie most towards the North. The Provinces into which it was divided before the Roman Conquest were 1. Bithynia 2. Pontus 3. Paphlagonia 4. Galatia 5. Cappadocia 6. Armenia Major Minor 7. Phrygia minor 8. Phrygia major 9. Mysia the greater and the less 10. Asia specially so called comprehending AEolis and Ionia 11. Lydia 12. Caria 13. Lycia 14. Lycaonia 15. Pisidia 16. Pamphylia 17. Isauria 18. Cilicia 19. The Province of the Asian Isles whereof the most principal are 1. Tenedos 2. Chios 3. Samos 4. Choos 5. Icaria 6. Lesbos 7. Patmos 8. Claros 9 Carpathos 10. Rhodes Cyprus Cyprus is situated in the Syrian and Cilician Seas extended in length from East to West 200 miles in breadth 60 the whole compass reckoned 550 distant about 60 miles from the rocky Shores of Cilicia in Asia minor and about one hundred from the main Land of Syria It is situated under the fourth Climate so that the longest day in Summer is no more than 14 hours and a half Divided by Ptolemy into the 4 provinces of 1. Paphia 2. Amathasia 3. Lepathia 4. Salamine Syria Syria is bounded on the East with the River Euphrates by which it is parted from Mesopotamia on the West with the Mediterranean Sea on the North with Cilicia and Armenia minor parted from the last by mount Taurus and on the South with Palestine and some parts of Arabia The length hereof from Mount Taurus to the Edge of Arabia is said to be 525 Miles the breadth from the Mediterranean to the River Euphrates 470 Miles drawing somewhat near unto a Square The whole Country was antiently divided into these six parts 1. Phoenicia 2. Palestine 3. Syria specially so called 4. Comagena 5. Palmyrene and Caelosyria or Syria Cava Arabia Arabia hath on the East Chaldaea and the Bay or Gulf of Persia on the West Palestine some part of Egypt and the whole course of the red Sea on the North the River Euphrates with some parts of Syria and Palestine and on the South the main southern Ocean It is in circuit about 4000 Miles but of so unequal and heteregeneous Composition that no general Character can be given of it and therefore we