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A51275	Geography rectified, or, A description of the world in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries, islands, cities, towns, seas, rivers, bayes, capes, ports : their ancient and present names, inhabitants, situations, histories, customs, governments, &c. : as also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London : illustrated with seventy six maps : the whole work performed according to the more accurate observations and discoveries of modern authors / by Robert Morden.	Morden, Robert, d. 1703.	1688 (1688)	Wing M2620; ESTC R39765	437,692	610

are glad to entertain Commerce with them and to crave their Assistance in their Wars one with another This Peninsula may be divided into four principal parts Decan Golconda Narsingua and Malabar Decan acknowledges Visapour Musopatta Baud. Viziapour Thev for her Capital City which is large but scambling the Kings Palace is vastly big but ill built the Seat of Idalcan or Dialcan a Mahometan King once very powerful He took Dabul from the Portugals besieged Cha●l and Goa leading in his Army near two hundred thousand men well provided with Ammunition his Artillery great having as 't is said one particular Cannon that will carry a Bullet of near eight hundred pound weight once tributary to the Mogul but now absolute Tav who has won from him Dultabat of a great Trade and one of the best Fortresses in the Moguls Empire Bider Paranda and other places and built the great and new City of Aureng-abad encompassed with a Lake and adorned with a fair Mosque and stately Monument Goa the Barigaza of old is the residence of the Portugal Viceroy and the King of Portugal's Magazine for the East-Indies and Harbour for their Indian Fleet 'T is reported that the Hospital of Goa is more Beautiful Richer and better accommodated than the Hospital of the Holy-Ghost in Rome or the Infirmery of Maltha The City is very large and though without Gates and Walls yet with its Castles and Forts 't is of great strength and force Their Houses fair their Palaces and publick Buildings very Magnificent their Churches stately and richly adorned Her Strength and Beauty took rise from the Decan Kings from whom Anno 1509 Albuquerque the Victorious Portugal conquered it and after that defended it against 70000 Foot and 3500 Horse which Idulcan brought to reduce it with 'T is the bravest and best defended City in the Orient seated in an Isle called Tilsoar 30 miles in Circuit surrounded by a fresh River streaming from the mighty Mountain Bellaguate The whole Isle so abounding in several little Towns Fields Groves and Gardens replenished with Grass Corn Cattle Fruit Flowers and such self-ravishing Objects that here the Portugals live in all manner of delight and pleasure exceeding Proud and Stately but Civil and Courteous both Sexes given to Venery and the Women excessively amorous of White Men but much confined The King of Visapour hath four good Ports in this Decan Territory Rejapour Dabul Dunga of old first yielded to the Mercy of Andragius Governor of Chaul but soon taken by the Decanees but recovered from them by F. Almeyda and after great Slaughter of the Inhabitants and Rich Spoile burnt the City repaired afterward by the Vice Roy of Goa About the year 1620 taken by an English Captain Hall who made the Daring Portugal know that their Bravadoes to the English were not terrible Choul the Comane of Ptol. teste Cast ravished from the Diadem of Decan by Almeyda in the year 1507. And in the year 1573 it was besieged by Misamoluc the Decan Prince with an numerous Army of Horse Foot and Elephants but he was forced to raise his Siege with Loss and Shame Crapatan and Mengrelia which last is one of the best Roads in all India and is famous for Cardamum the best of Spices and the Dutch have a Factory there The HISTORY of Sevagy Tav Sivagi Thev THe Plundering of Surrat by Sivagy and the desperate Attacks made upon some of our East-India Ships especially that of the President Captain Jonathan Hide Commander in the year 1683 by 1500 of his men in three Ships and four Grabs who were bravely repulsed with a great Slaughter though those brave Men had not the happiness long to enjoy the Honour of that noble Action the Ship being unfortunately cast away coming into the Chanel and all the Men but two lost These and many other of his Actions have given many occasion to inquire what he is and what Country he possesseth This Raja Sivagi born at Bashaim the Son of a Captain of the King of Visiapour's being of a restless and turbulent Spirit rebelled in his Fathers life-time and putting himself at the head of several Banditi and other debauched young men he retired unto the Mountains of Visiapour and made his part good against all those that came to attack him The King of Visiapour thinking that his Father kept Intelligence with him caused him to be arrested and he died in prison Sivigy conceived so great a hatred against the King that he used all endeavours to be revenged of him And in a very short time he plundered Visiapour and with the Booty he took made himself so strong in Men Arms and Horses that he became able enough to seize some Towns viz. Rasapour Rasigar Crapaten Daboul and to form a little State thereabout The King dying about that time and the Queens endeavours to reduce him being unsuccessful she accepted the Peace he proposed to her that he should enjoy the Territories which he had subdued that he should be tributary to the Young King and pay him half his Revenue However he could not rest but plundered some places belonging to the Great Mogul who therefore sent Forces against him under the Conduct of the Governor of Aurenge-Abat But Sivigi having his retreat always in the Mountains and being extreamly cunning the Mogul could not reduce him In the mean time to be revenged on the Mogul he resolved to plunder Surrat which he did for 40 days so that none but the English and Dutch saved themselves by the viperous Defence they made by reason of their Cannon which Si●●● would not venture upon nor durst he adventure to attack the Ca●●le but marched off with the Wealth he got which was reported to be worth in Jewels Gold and Silver to the value of Thirty French Millions which was in the year 1664 when he was 35 years o● Age. And the Mogul s Affairs not suffering him to pursue his Revenge upon Sivigy he still continues his Robberies and Pyracies upon all opportunities and occasions Mal●bar or Malavar is a low Country with a delightful Coast and well inhabited by people that practice Pyracy There is a certain wind which blowing there in winter so disturbs the neighbouring Sea that it rouls the Sand to the mouths of the adjoining Ports so that at that time there is not water for little Barks to enter but in the Summer time another contrary wind is there so violent that it drives back the same Sand and renders the Ports again navigable The great number of Rivers in this Country renders Horses useless especially for War. A Country most part of the year verdant and abounding with Cattle Corn Cotton Pepper Ginger C●ssia Cardamum Rice Myrobalans Ananas-pappas Melons Dates Coco's and other Fruits Calecut or Calicut thought to be the Town which Ptol. calls Canthapis an Error of Niger and Bertius Calicaris Herb. is a Town of Trade where the Portugals first setled themselves though not with that success as at Cochin where

and the said Edward Byllynge that a partition should be made thereof The which was accordingly done by Deed interchangeable enroll'd which Partition begins on the West side of a certain place upon the South Sea call'd by the Name of Little Eag Harbor and which runs from thence by a streight Line to the most Northerly Extent of the whole Premises Upon which Partition it was agreed that Carterets part should be call'd the Province of the East New Jarsey and Byllynges part should be call'd the Province of West New Jarsey East Jarsey is bounded from the Line of Partition Eastward part with the Main Ocean and part with Hudsons River which separates it from New York And West Jarsey from the said Partition Line expands it self Southward and Westward unto that famous Bay and River of Delaware which also separates that Province from Pensilvania in which Bay and River it s well known Ships of the greatest Burden may Ride at Anchor and pass with safety a hundred Miles up into the Country And in which River from the Mouth of the Bay are not less than twenty Creeks and Harbors some whereof issuing five ten fifteen if not twenty Miles into the Province The Partition being thus made of the two Provinces The Government of West Jarsey was thereupon given and granted by the present King when Duke of York unto the abovenamed Edward Byllynge and his Heirs with the same Jurisdictions Powers Authorities and Government as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as the same was granted to him his Heirs and Assigns by the late King his Brother who was also pleas'd to approve thereof by Publication under the Royal Signet and Sign Manual Thereby and therein commanding the present and future Inhabitants within the Limits of the said Province to yield all due Regard and Obedience unto him the said Edward Byllynge as their Governor and to his Heirs Deputies Agents c. This Province from the Mouth of Delaware Bay along by the Sea side to the Line of the Partition appears in the Map to be about sixty Miles in breadth And from the Mouth of the said Bay to the Head or most Northerly Branch of the River of Delaware likewise appears to be about two hundred and fifty Miles in length This Province is divided into one hundred Shares or Proprieties as may be seen by the Registred Deeds of every person or persons who have already purchased a whole or part of a Propriety joyntly with others which Register is kept by Herbert Springet in George yard in Lumbard-street London unto whom any persons who are minded to buy one or more Proprieties may repair The said Edward Byllynge having above twenty of those hundred yet to sell As to the Government out of each Propriety a Free-holder is to be Annually chosen by the Inhabitants thereof and to Meet and Sit as a General Assembly upon a day certain every year which with the Governor or his lawful Deputies are the Legislative Power of the Province to make and alter Laws in all times coming But not contrary or in any wise repugnant to Liberty of Conscience in Matters of Faith towards God or the Religious Exercise thereof Liberty and Property both as Men and Christians being establish'd in West New Jarsey by an irrevocable Fundamental Law never to be extinguish'd or invaded by any subsequent Law hereafter to be made whatsoever As also not any the least Tax Talledge Subsidie Rates or Services to be imposed upon the People but by the consent of these their Representatives in the General Assemblies The Towns and Plantations already settled in this Province for the most part are upon that Noble and Navigable River of Delaware or upon some Creek or Harbor contiguous thereunto or upon the South Sea. And upon both are the like conveniencies for thousands of more Families It s chief Towns and Rivers are noted in the Map And it certainly enjoys all the advantages that the other parts do The Description of East New Jarsey THE Province of East New Jarsey lies next to New York Southwestward having on the South the Main Ocean on the East that well-known Bay for Shipping within Sandy Hooke to the North part of the Province of New York and New Albany and is bounded by that vast Navigable Stream called Hudsons River to the forty one Degree of Northern Latitude and from thence crossing over in a streight Line extending to the most Northern Branch or Part of Delaware River then to the West West Jarsey from which divided by a partition Line it takes its beginning from a place upon the South-Coast called Little Egg-Harbor and so runs in a streight Line to the aforesaid Northernmost Branch of Delaware River This Province is very pleasant and healthful a great part of the back Land lying high As to the Trees Fruits and most other products it s not inferiour to any of the neighbouring Colonies And for the fertility of Soil fresh Water-Rivers Brooks and pleasant Springs it is highly esteemed The Country along Rariton-River is a place so delightful and fruitful that Ogilby in his Volumn of America folio 181 182 many years ago has given the World an extraordinary account thereof The Situation of this Province has a very great and apparent advantage for it lies even in the Center of all the English Plantations on that Continent near to an equal distance from the South-parts of Carolina and the North of Pemaquid the aforesaid Bay of Sandy-Hooke being very notable both for the conveniency and security of any number of Ships And the Sea-Coasts of this Province are very commodious both for Trade and Fishing especially the Whale Fishing Within the said Bay upon the North side of the Mouth of Rariton River there is an excellent Tract of Ground called Amboy Point where a Town or City is building called Perth In which Town several good Houses are already built and inhabited and more daily are building by the Proprietors and others that are come to settle there Nothing can be better and more advantagiously situated than this place for a Town of Trade which lies about sixteen Miles within the aforesaid Bay into which there may go in Ships of the greatest Burden and come out again at all Seasons as well in Winter time as in Summer and lie safe in Harbor without any inconvenience of Winds or Tydes and close to the Wharf before the Houses in this Town of Perth can lie Ships of three or four hundred Tun with their fasts on Shore at low Water There is besides the forementioned New Town seven Towns more built in this Province viz. Elizabeth Town Newark Woodbridge Piscataway Bergen Middletoune and Shrewsbury in which and in the out Plantations many thousand People are setled who possess their Lands c. some by purchase most upon very easie Rents payable to the present Proprietors there being all sorts of excellent ●ands undisposed of enough to plant many more thousands of Families who shall desire

Comely Affable People faithful in their Dealings addicted to Learning having three Universities such as they are But their Law allows of no Physitians but admit of some Chyrurgeons to cure their Wounds The Air is healthy but the changes of Weather are very uncertain for sometimes it Snows and Hails in the midst of Summer and the Winds are often in that season most furious Their Commodities are Sheep Cows and Horses Great plenty of most sort of Sea-fish all the year round their Coast There are Lakes upon the high Mountains well stored with Fresh-Water-Fish and their Rivers with Salmon In Summer time they have plenty of of Wild Fowl as Mallard Duck Teal Partridge Wild Geese Plowers In Winter time Ravens Eagles Wild Ducks Swans c. Their Drink is Milk mingled with Water Their Bread is Cod caught in the Winter time and dried in the Frost commonly called Stock-Fish as also Hokettle or the Nurse-Fish with the Livers they make Oil to burn in their Caves under Ground the other parts they cut into pieces and bury them four or five Weeks under Ground then wash them and dry them in their Stoves and this serves instead of Bread if broiled on the Coals it serves for Meat and of the Skins of the Fish they make their Shooes The general Employment of the People is either Fishery or the making of Wad-moll or a course sort of Woollen Cloth of which they make Gowns Coats Caps Mittins for Seamen and Fishermen There is also little Shock Dogs said to be the Whelps of ordinary Bitches lined by Foxes that come on over the Ice There is only one Fort which is upon one of the chief of the West M●●ny Isles ten Leagues from Merchants Foreland with twelve Iron Guns in it and there their Courts are held and the Bishop has his Residence As for their Government and Laws see Dithmar Belfkins and Arugreine Jonas or Purchas in his Pilgrimage Sometimes Danes Hamburgers and Lubekers put into the Island and furnish the Islanders with such Provisions as they want The chiefest places where the Ships stay are the Havens of Haneford and Keplawick and the Governor resides at Belested the Danes bring from thence dried Fish Train-Oil Butter Tallow Sulphur Raw Hides and particularly a sort of Whales Teeth which some esteem as much as Ivory Betwixt Cape Farewel and Cape Sumay lieth a great Sea dilating it self both towards the North South and West giving great hopes of a North West passage to China and the East Indies much searched into by many English Worthies Frobisher Weymouth Hudson Button Baffin Smith James and others who have sailed therein some one way some another and given names to many places as may be seen in the Map and in the year 1667 an Honourable and Worthy Design was renewed and undertaken by several of the Nobility of England and divers Merchants of London for the discovery of this North West passage and to settle a Trade with the Indians there Captain Zachariah Gillam being Commander who in the Nonsuch Ketch passed through Hudsons Straights then into Baffins Bay from thence Southerly into the Latitude of fifty one Degrees or thereabouts in a River now called Prince Ruperts River he there found a friendly correspondence with the Natives Built a Fort called Charles Fort returned with good success and laid the Foundation of an advantageous Trade in those parts But in the year 1687 seised upon by the French. The North West Part of AMERICA by R. Morden At●● Atlas in Cornhill Of GREENLAND GReenland is a Country of vast extent an unknown Tract and not yet fully discovered for notwithstanding several Voyages and many Ships have touched upon its Coasts yet it still lies obscured in a Northern Mist unless the names of certain Bays Capes c. viz. Cape Farewel Cape Comfort Cape Desolation Warwicks Foreland and Bearsford where 't is said the King of Denmark hath a Governor Of GREENLAND TOwards the North East lies a Tract of Land called Greenland by the English Spitsburg by the Dutch seated between seventy six Degrees and eighty two of Northern Latitude but whether an Island or Continent is not yet known The whole Land is so compassed with Ice that it is difficult to be approached sometimes in the middle of June tho' ordinarily the Ice breaks in May. The Soil is in most places nothing but Rocks or heaps of vast Stones many of them so high that the upper half seems to be above the Clouds The little Vallies between them are nothing else but broken Stones and Ice heaped up from many Generations About Roefield and Maple Haven is the greatest quantity of low Land which also is full of Rocks Stony and for the most part covered with Snow and Ice which when melted as in Summer discovers nothing but a barren Ground producing Heath Moss and some few Plants as a kind of Cabbage Lettice Scurvy-Grass Sorrel Snakeweed Hartsease a kind of Strawberry divers sorts of Ranunculus and of semper Vives in the Mountains that are exposed to a warm Air and Sun-beams in the Holes and Rocks infinite quantity of Fowls Nest whose Dung with the Moss washed down by the melted Snow makes a Mould in the Vallies or Clefts which produceth those Plants aforesaid For tho' it hath the Sun for half a year yet never about thirty three Degrees and forty Minutes above the Horizon the power of its Beams are insufficient to dispel the Cold or dissolve the Ice so that the Vapors from the Earth are not hot enough to warm the Air nor thin enough to rise to any considerable height but hang continually in thick dark Mists about the Land that sometimes you cannot see the length of your Ship. 'T is also remarkable that at Cherry in June 1608 it was so hot that melted Pitch ran down the sides of the Ships and that the Ice is raised above the Water many Fathoms and many times above thirty Fathom under Water and sometimes 't is frozen to the bottom of the Sea. The freezing and breaking of the Ice makes a great and terrible noise sometimes it breaks into great pieces and sometimes it shatters at once into small pieces with more noise but less danger The Beasts of the Country are Foxes of divers Colours Raindeer Bears six Foot high and fourteen Foot long Of Water Fowl there is great variety and in so great abundance that with their flight they darken the Sun viz. Ducks Willocks Stints Sea-pidgeons Sea-Parrots Gulls Noddees There are also great quantities of Fishes as Seals Dog Fishes Lobsters Gernels Star-Fish Macarel Dolfins Unicorns Whales c. Our Men that wintered in Greenland Anno 163● lost the Light of the Sun October the fourteenth and saw it not again till February the third Those that staid there 1633 say that October the fifth was the last day they saw the Sun tho' they had Twilight till the seventeenth and on the twenty second the Stars were plainly to be seen and so continued for all

Minerva cruel and great Eaters Their Habits as well as their Manners are not far different from those of the Turks their Language is a kind of Sclavonian but differing in most places But yet the Latin the Turkish and the High Dutch are in use among them There are two Archbishopricks Strigonium and Colocza with ten Bishopricks the half whereof are in the hands of the Turks Four Orders of Persons have Liberty to sit in their General Assemblies the Prelates Barons Nobility and Burgesses The dignity of Palatine is the most considerable next to that of the King for which reason the Hungarians will admit of no King but one of their own Nation The Archbishop of Strigonium is Primate and Perpetual Chancellor of the Kingdom and Crowns the King after his Election The chiefest strength of the Country consists in Light Horse The Horsemen are there called Hussars and the Infantry Heiduques Besides Extraordinaries the Emperor draws out of what he possesses in Hungary about a Million of Liures every Year that is from the Silver Mines his Imposition upon Houses and his Tax upon Cattel Exported The Grand Signior requires a Caraz from those that are under his Jurisdiction who pretends to all Hungary and the Dominions belonging to it by vertue of the Submission made to Solymon by Sigismund Son to King John Count of Cepusa and by the Queen his Mother The chief Rivers of Hungary are first the great Danubius of Polyb. Strab. Plin. aliis Danubio Ital. Hispan Danube Gallis Danaw Thonaw Germanis which runneth quite through Hungary making a Course for above 300 miles from Presburg to Belgrade and from thence passing by the shores of Servia Bulgaria Wallachia and Moldavia with many Mouths it entereth into the Euxine or Black Sea. Having from its first source performed a Course of above 1500 miles No River whatsoever so far from its discharge into the Sea affordeth more Naval Vessels of strength and sufficiency for Fight The Emperor hath his Vessels of War built like Gallies at Vienna Presburg and Comorra and an Arsenal for Provision of more upon occasion The Turk once had his Vessels at Gran Buda and Belgrade Nor hath any River afforded the like Signal Engagements and Encounters at this distance from the Sea. At the Siege of Belgrade Mahomet the Great brought 200 Ships and Gallies well stored up the Stream And the Hungarians sent as many down from Buda that after a sharp Encounter they took twenty of the Turkish Vessels and forced the rest on shore near the Camp so that Mahomet caused them to be set on fire to prevent the falling of them into the Enemies hand At the Siege of Buda the Christians had 24 Galliots 80 small Pinnaces and about 100 Ships of Burden and other great Boats when all miscarried under Co. Regensdorff At the Siege of Vienna by Solyman Wolfgangus Hodder did a good piece of Service with his armed Vessels from Presburg who sank the Turkish Vessels that came from Buda with the great Ordnance to batter the Walls of Vienna Nor doth any River afford so large and well peopled Islands the most considerable is the Island of Schut or Insula Cituorum with its several Islands in it containing many good Towns besides many Villages well peopled and well fortified against the Incursions of the Turks and Tartars And the Island Raab made by the great and lesser Rivers Raab There is also another Island against Mohatch another at the entrance of the Dravus and a new Island hard by Belgrade fifty years since there was no face of an Island but by the setling of the Ouse or filth brought down by the Savus and the Danube it is now full of Trees and what advantage or disadvantage this may be to Belgrade doubtless a little time may shew tho the Turks once were very secure and fearless of any forces in these parts Between Vicegrade and Vacia there is St. Andrews or Vizze a fair and large Island A little below Buda there is Ratzenmarckt Island extending in length 40 miles containing many Villages in it Here the Turkish Forces Encamped when they came to raise the Siege at Buda 2. The Tibiscus Ptol. Tibesis Herod Pathissus Plin. Tisianus Jornand Tissia Laz. vulgo Teiss Arising in the County of Moramarusius out of the Carpatan Mountains At Tokay it takes in the Bodroch or Bodrogus at Kaschaw the Tareza the Hewatz Hewath or Hernach meets and rolling down the Mountains receives the Scheya and Gayo Rivers at Onoth and a little further they all four fall into the Teisse At Zolnock the Zagywa the Turna Sarwizza and Genges fall into it At Czongrad the Kalo the Sebeskeres the Fekierkenz olim Chrysus R. Keureuz incol Kraiss Germ. At Seged the Marisus Strab. Marus Tac. Maros Hung. Merisch or Marisch Germ. Marons Incolis Lastly the Temes River falls into it near its own confluence into the Danube between Petro Varadine and Belgrade By this River Teisse cometh down the great quantity of Natural Salt-stone taken out of the many Salt-Mines in Hungary and Transylvania and carried into the adjacent and neighbouring Countries 3. On the West-side of Hungary is the River Arabo Ant. Narabo Ptol. Now the Raab rising in Styria and falling into the Danube by Javarin or Rab receiving the Lauffnitz Binca and Gurtz A considerable River and famous for in the year 1664 Germany was much alarmed at the raising of the Siege of Canisa and taking the Fort Serini much more at the Turks passage over this River Raab but the extraordinary valour of the Christians especially the French put them to a shameful flight so that after 8000 lost upon the place near St. Gothard crowding in heaps to pass the River the Horse trampled upon the Foot and the Foot throwing themselves headlong into the water together with the Horse sunk down and perished so that the water was died with blood and the whole River covered with Men Horse and Garments all swimming promiscuously together no difference here between the valiant and the coward the foolish and the wise all being involved in the same violence of calamity so that the waters devoured a far greater number than the Sword whilest the Grand Visier Achmet standing on the other side of the River was able to afford no kind of help and as void of all counsel and reason knew not where to apply a remedy such a defeat and dishonour since the time that the Ottoman Empire arrived to its greatness such a slaughter and disgrace that it suffered no Stories to that time make mention of which occasioned a Truce for 29 years between the two Empires by which Truce the Province of Zatmar and Zabolch granted to Ragotzi returned again to the Emperor That the Castle of Zachelhyd be demolished That Varadin and Newhausel remain to the Turks 4. The Dravus Melae Draus Plin. Drabus Strab. Darus Ptol. La Drava Ital. Le Drave Gal. Drau Incol Trab Hung. which arising among the Mountains of Saltzburg and Carinthia

is a place of Trade being in the Road of the Persian Caravans Thyatyra Akisar by the Turks the last of the Seven Asian Churches is a City well inhabited and of a very considerable Trade of Cotton-wooll which they send to Smirna Hierapolis Seideschecher Turcis teste Crussio Leuncl Pambuck-kalaf Smith Aphiom-Carassar Tavenn is seated over against Laodicea where are now to be seen the Ruines of vast Fabricks and the Grotta of Platonium of Strab. famous for those pestilential Vapors which it perspires Melaxo Mol. Melesso aliis formerly Miletus sent several Colonies abroad and a long time withstood the Kings of Lydia Halicarnassus famous for the Mausoleum built by Queen Artemisia in memory of Mausolus her Husband Xanthus famous for the stout Resistance of its ancient Citizens against Harpagus Alexander and Brutus in all which Sieges they suffered all Extremities imaginable Sattalia otherwise Antali lends its Name to a Gulph hard by Tarsus Tarsos Plin. Tarso Europis Terassa incolis Tersis Turcis Leuncl once a famous Academy and Archbishoprick and Metropolitan of Cilicia built by Sardanapalus Anno Mundi 3440. post Romam 60 Isodoro It hath also been called Antoniana Severiana Hadriana the place of St. Paul's Education Cogni the Iconium of old advantageously scituated in the Mountains Tiagna where the learned Apollonius was born Amasia Amasea Strab. Ptol. Amnasan Turcis is famous for the Birth of Mithridates and Strabo for the Martyrdom of Theodorus and for the Residence of the eldest Son of the Grand Signior built in the hollow of a Mountain Zela not far off built by Zeila Son of Nicomedes famous for the Victory of Pharnaces over Strabo Trebizond Trapesus Strab. Plin. Mel. c. Trabisonda Trebisonda Europaeis Tarabasar Turcis teste Leunc the Seat of an Empire of short continuance viz. 200 years from the year 1261 to the 1460. now the Residence of a Turkish Basha Tocat the new Caesaria of old is a fair City and one of the most remarkable Thorough-fares in the East where are lodged the Caravans from Persia Diabequer Bagdat Constantinople Smirna and other places The Christians have there Twelve Churches and there resides an Archbishop that hath under him Seven Suffragans The on● place in all Asia where Saffron grows in the middle of the Town is a great Rock upon the Top whereof is an high Castle with a Garison to command the Neighbouring Parts 't is govern'd by an Aga and Cadi for the Bashaw lives at Siwas which is the ancient Sebastia a large City three days Journy from Tocat Laiazzo the famous Issus near to Pylae Ciliciae where several Battels have been fought In modern Story That of a Soldan of Egypt against Bajazet the second Emperor of the Turks wherein he was defeated In the same place Alexander the Great defeated Darius in person There Ventidius Bassus vanquish'd the Parthians And Severus the Emperor overcame Pescenninus Niger his Rival in the Empire Not far off stood the ancient Anchiale built in the same day and year in which Tarsus was by Sardanapalus Satalia Attalia Ptol. Antali Turcis teste Leunc is famous for its rich Tapestries and for giving Name to the Neighbouring Gulph founded by Ptolomy Philadelphus King of Egypt Among the Rivers of Asia the Less there is first Thermodon upon whose Banks the Amazons inhabited now called Parmon Hali Halys Strab. Ptol. Pli. Laly Nig. C●silirma P. Gyl Otmagiuchi Aytotu Turcis teste Leuncl was the Bounds of the Kingdom of Cyrus and Croesus Granicus toward the Hellespont Granica Saus Lazzara teste Nig. was the Witness of the first Victory of Alexander the Great over the Persians Pactolus Strab. Plin. Chrysorhoas Sol. now Sarabat near to Sardis and Thyatira was famous for its golden Oar Meander Strab. Plin. Zenoph Maeandros Ptol. now Madre ex Aulocrene fonte oriens for his Swans and his Windings Cydnus near Tarsus now Carasu Leuncl whose Waters were so cold that they kill'd the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa who bath'd himself therein And Alexander who did the same was forsaken and given over by all his Physicians The most renowned Mountains of the Lesser Asia are Taurus which divides all Asia into two Parts as we have said already It is the most famous Mountain in the World for its Height its Length and for its Members Caucasus and Imaus Ida near to Troy is famous for the judgment of Paris between the three Goddesses On Mount Tmolus Midas preferred Pan's Pipe before Apollo's Harp. On Cragus was the Monster Chimaera made tractable by Bellerophon On Latmus passed the Loves of the Moon and Endymion Mount Stella for the fatal Overthrow of Mithridates by Pompey and Bajazet's by Tamerlain Of SYRIA SYria Soria Italis La Sourie Gallis Suristan Turcis Souristan Incolis By the Ancients it was divided into three principal parts viz. Syria Propria Phaenicia and Palestina or the Holy Land. At present the Turks divide it into three Beglerbegs viz. of Halep or Aleppo Tripoli or Tarabolos and Scham or Damascus which contains 16 or 20 Sangiacks whose Names and Situations being for the most part to us unknown I shall follow the Ancient Geography and first speak of Syria Propria In the Division or Parts of this I find much Contrariety among all Geographers and in all Maps Baudrand tells us 't is divided into Comagena Phoenicia Coelosyria Palmyrena and Seleucia In another place he saith its parts are Syria Propria Coelosyria Comagene and Palmyrene Cluverius saith 't is divided into Antiochene Comagene Coelo-Syria and Palmyrene Golnitz divides it into Comagena Seleucia Coelo-Syria and Idumaea Heylin into Phoenicia Coelo-Syria and Syrophoenicia Bleau into Comagena Coelo-Syria Phoenicia Damascena and Palmyrena I come therefore to speak of the chief places in Syria Propria which are 1. Antioch or Antiochia magna Theopolis à Justiniano Imperatore Rebbata à S. Trinitate by the Turks Antachia Leuncl once the Metropolis of Syria situate on the River Orontes now Assi or Hasei 12 Miles from the Mediterranean Shoar Once adorned with stately Palaces Temples c. The Seat of some of the Roman Emperors The Suburbs called Daphne from Apollo's Mistriss so called turned into a Laurel now 5 Miles from Antioch was accounted one of the most delicious places in the World famous for the Oracle and Temple of Apollo who was here worshipped in a Grove 10 Miles in Compass planted with Cypresses and other Trees so full and close together that the Beams of the Sun could not dart through watered with pleasant Streams beautified with Fountains and enriched with Variety of Fruits 2. Aleppo Chalybon Rawolfio Postello Beroea Berou or Beroe Zonara Cedreno P. Gyll Hierapolis teste Bellonio Sansone Brietio At present Aleppo or Halep is the greatest and principal City of all Syria and one of the most famous of the East and the 3d in the Ottoman Empire if we consider it as the Rendezvous of the Caravans and of the Turkish Armies as the Magazine of

spent 12000 Talents or 7 Millions of Crowns Then did the Altar smoke with Incense and the Doctor was offered up in Sacrifice and the dead Corps worshipped as a Deity It is a great City without Walls thought to be the Rages in Tobit the best half of it is in Gardens seated in a large and fair Plain 30 Miles in compass Here dyed Sir Robert Shirley and Sir Dodmore Cotton the Ambassador who went for Persia Anno 1626. having no gilded Trophies to adorn their Sepulchres only their Virtues which will out-last those bubbles of Vanity Here also dyed Abbas the Persian Monarch in the Year 1628. Sauvay Herb. Saba de Val. a City pleasantly seated upon a rising Hill in a fruitful Country much delightful for aerial Musick especially the Nightingale A Thousand warbling Notes their Throats displays Which their sweet Musick chants as many ways About 11 Leagues from Tauris is a Lake about 15 Leagues compass in the middle of which is a little Hill that rises insensibly out of which there bubble out many little Springs and the Earth which they water is of two strange distinct qualities for one sort serves to make Lime the next to that is a hollow spungy Stone and under that is a white transparent Stone which is only a Congelation of the Waters of these Streams for somtimes you shall meet with creeping Animals congealed therein for one piece sent to Sha Abbas Tavernier offered 15000 Crowns in which was a Lizard about a Foot long Ardevil is not only famous for the Royal Sepulchres of Sha Sefi and other Persian Kings and for the Pilgrimages that are made to it but also for numerous Caravans of Silk which render it one of the most considerable Cities in Persia It is of a moderate bigness seated in a lovely opening of the Mountains the Avenues of it are very pleasant being Alleys of great Trees and is watered with a River that runs thorow the middle of the City Sultany Tigranocerta Tigranopolis and Tigranopetra teste Appiano Sultania Jovio Saua Bonacciolo Bitlis Baud. is a very large City and if you will believe the Armenians they will tell you that there were once near 800 Churches in it Kom Coom Herb. Gauna Arbacta or Coama of old by some Hecatompolis is one of the great Cities of Persia in a fat Country abounding with Rice and excellent Granates that which is most remarkable is a large Mosque where are the Sepulchres of Sha Sefi and Sha Abbas the Second the Tomb of Sedi Fatima the Grand-Daughter of Hali and the Tomb of Fatima Zubra the Daughter of Mahomet Caschan is also a large City and well peopled stored with Silk-weavers which make the best purfled Satins mix'd with Gold and Silver The Houses are fairly built The Mosques and Baths are in their Cupoloes curiously caerulcated with a feigned Torquoise The Buzzar is spacious and uniform The Caravansera is the most stately Fabrick of that kind in Persia Bakuy gives its Name to the Caspian Sea and near to it there is a Spring of Oil which serves all over Persia to burn in Lamps Kirman towards the Ocean affords very fine Steel of which they make Weapons very highly priz'd For a Scymiter of that Steel will cut through an Helmet with an easie Blow Ormus formerly bore the Title of a Kingdom As to the Name it was called Organo and Gera by Verrerius Necrokin by B. Jonas Zamrhi by the Tartars Vorocta by Niger Ormusia by Josephus Omiza Pliny Amozon Ptol. Ogyris Theuetus Curtius and Rufus Ternia Strabo where Prince Erythaeus was buried from whom Mare Rubrum had its denomination The Island is about 15 Miles in compass subject to such excessive heats that it produces nothing considerable but Salt and is two good Leagues from the firm Land. There is not a drop of fresh Water in it but what is carried thither In the Year 1507. it was reduced under the Crown of Portugal by Alphonso d'Albuquerque The fair and delicate situation of Ormus for Trade and Commerce as it was the Staple and Glory of the Eastern World has occasioned some to say That if the World were a Ring Ormus was to be the Jewel In the Year 1622. Sha Abbas took it by the assistance of the English commanded by Capt. Weddal and then translated the Trade to Gombron which he called by his own Name Bender Abassi The Portugals lost about 6 or 7 Millions at the taking of the Town Gombrou or Gomrou Hacand Os●r since the Fall of Ormus is become a City of great Commerce guarded with two Castles in which are planted 80 pieces of brass Ordnance The Air is so hot and unwholsom that no Strangers can live there above 3 or 4 Months in the Year but for 6 or 7 Months are forced to retire up in the Mountains 2 or 3 days Journy off About 3 Miles from Gombrou is the famous Bannyan Tree of as great Repute as the Idol Oak to our Druidae of old Now all Nations that traffick upon the Indian Seas and Land Caravans carry Commodities thither and bring from thence Velvets Taffaties Raw Silk and other Persian Commodities So that now Ormus is ruined and may well be called Ormah or destruction Baharem upon the Coast of Arabia is the ancient Tylos yet belonging to Persia it is an Island famous for its Springs of fresh Water at the bottom of the Sea For its Pearl Fishery where are found the clearest biggest and roundest in all the Levant The Air is so unwholsom and so hot that no Strangers can live there unless it be in December January and March for the Wind is so sultry and stifling that it suffocates and kills them presently and somtimes 't is so hot that it burns like Lightning But at Bander Congo the Air is good and the Soil and the Water excellent only the Passage for Ships is dangerous and therefore not so much traded to as the other The City Candahur is the chief of one of the conquered Provinces of Persia Sha Abbas left the possession of it to Sha Sefi in whose time Alimerdenkan delivered it up to the Great Mogul But Sha Abbas the Second took it in the Year 1650 under whose power it still remains At Caramon-Shashoon of old Counstia was decided that Famous Contest for the Persian Crown 'twixt Artaxerxes and Cyrus Of Asiatick Tartaria A New Description of TARTARIE by Robt. Morden THis is the Vastest Region of our Continent in Bigness it equals all Europe and contains all those great and spacious Provinces which the Ancients called Seres Scythia extra Imaum Scythia intra Imaum Sucae Sogdiana and the greatest part of Sarmatia Asiatica extending itself the whole length of Asia If we look back to their Original we shall find that they were of all other the most Antient people patient in Labours fierce in War and strong of Body their Flocks and Herds their greatest wealth Silver and Gold they contemned as much as others coveted it Meum and Tuum

formerly a famous City but swallowed up and shuffled into Ruins and Rubbish by an Earthquake which are very frequent in Japan Oudarro is a stately City adorned with a sumptuous Palace and lofty Spires The other chief Islands about Japan are Bungo Cikoko Saykok or Ximo all one Island but thus called by several Authors 2. Tonsa or Xicoco or Tokoese and Chiccock 3. Firando and Gotto with innumerable others Congoxuma is the first City where the Portugueses landed and got footing in Japan and was their Staple Nangesaque is the chief Staple and Residence of the Dutch in Japan first built by the Portugues This Lodge or Fortress lies on the small Island Disma and is the Magazine for all Indian Commodities and the best harbor for the reception of Merchant Vessels of any Port in Japan At this day the Hollanders pretend all Trade at Japan The extent of Jesso being Mountainous and abounding with costly Furs is yet unknown only that 't is a vast and wild Country full of Savage People cloathed with Skins of wild Beasts who can give no account further than they dwell Of the ISLES in the Indian Sea. SUch is the Infinity of these Isles that 't is impossible to give a just account of them I shall therefore only mention the most considerable And first of the Maldives The Maldives and Ceylon Ilands by Robt. Morden Of the Islands of the MALDIVES THE Maldives Islands situate under the Equinoctial Line derive their Name from the principal City called Male and Dive which signifies an Island They are reckoned to be about 12000 but that is supposed to be only by taking a certain Number for an uncertain They are dispersed from the North-West to the South-East into 13 Provinces which the Inhabitants call Attollons every one of which is fenc'd with a Bank of Sand but some of them are only Sand-hills or Rocks being all of them very little for Male the chief is but a League about They are divided by Arms of the Sea and environ'd with Rocks which renders the Access to them very difficult There are some Ports or Openings one opposite to another so plac'd that they give an Entrance into the four Attollons for the benefit of Trade otherwise the Currents would carry the Vessels above 7 or 800 Leagues beyond The Currents run six Months to the East and six to the West somtimes more somtimes less But the Sea being shallow the Winds outrageous and few Commodities to be had these Islands are not frequented by the Europeans The King of Maldives is called Rascan his Kingdom never is governed by the Female Sex and for his Revenue it consists in the misfortunes of others that is to say Wrecks at Sea. So that there is no trusting to the Maldives Pilots who will cast away a Ship on purpose that their King may have the Spoil On the other side the King himself uses to caress the Masters of Ships and to invite them to his Island to the end that dying of the Distemper of the Island which carries off Strangers in a short time he may be Heir to their Goods The Natives are little Olive coloured and Mahumetans They are subject to violent Fevers and Sickness by reason of the excessive heat They shave with cold Water catch Fish swimming and will dive to the bottom of the Sea to find a convenient place where to cast their Anchors They will fetch up out of the Sea with an incredible easiness an 100000 weight by the help of a Cable and some pieces of their Candon Wood. Their Coco's are very profitable to them for of those they make Wine Honey Sugar Milk and Butter They eat Almonds instead of Bread with all sorts of Food They put every Trade into a particular Island and to preserve their Wares from Vermin they build their Storehouses upon Piles in the Sea about an 100 paces from their Isles A Description of ZEILON alias CEYLON the Nangieris of Ptol. A New Map of CEYLON by Rob Morden THE Hollander is now Master of all the Sea-Coast the Inland Country is under the King of Candy and is divided into several Parts or Provinces which lie upon Hills fruitful and well-watered and are called in general Conde Uda This Inland Country of Conde Uda is strongly fortified by Nature the Entrances being up vast and high Mountains and the Ways so very narrow that but one Man can go a-breast and these Paths also are barricado'd up with Gates of Thorns and two or three Men to watch and examin all that come or go Candy or Conde by the Europeans Hingodagul-neure by the Inhabitants is the Chief or Metropolis of the whole Island bravely situated in the midst of it for all Conveniences but of late much decayed South of Candy 12 Miles distant lies Nellemby-neur where the King kept his Court when he left Candy Alent-neur is the place where the King was born and his Magazin for Corn and Salt. Badoula was burnt down in the time of War by the Portugals Digligy-neur is the place where the King now keeps his Court since the Rebellion Ann. 1664. its Situation is very Rocky and Mountainous being a place for Safety and Security Anurodgbarro is one of the ruinous Cities where they say 90 Kings have reigned distant from Candy 90 Miles Northwards Leawava affords Salt in abundance the Easterly Winds beating in the Sea and in the Westerly Wind which makes fair Weather it becomes Salt. Rece is the chiefest Flower of their Corn which is of several sorts some will be ripe in seven Months others in six five four and three but all requires water to grow in Their Seed-time is about July and August their Harvest about February Of Fruits there are great plenty and variety viz. the Betel Nut whose Leaves are 5 or 6 Foot long and have other lesser Leaves growing out of the sides of them some of these Nuts will make People drunk and giddy-headed and purge if eaten green There are also Jacks which are as big as a Peck-Loaf the out-side prickly like a Hedgehog and of a greenish colour the Seeds or Kernels do much resemble Chesnuts in colour and taste The Jombo is like an Apple full of Juice and pleasant to the Palat 't is white and delicately coloured with red as if painted There are also Murro's like Cherries sweet to the taste Dongs like Black Cherries Ambeloes like to Barbaries Carolla Cabella Cabela Paradigye like our Pears Here are also Coker-Nuts Plantines and Banara's of divers sorts sweet and sowre Oranges Limes Partaurings in taste like our Lemmons but much bigger Mangoes of several sorts Pine-Apples Sugar-Canes Water-Melons Pomgranats Grapes black and white Mirablins Codiews and several other There is also the Tallipot-Tree which bears no kind of Fruit until the last year of its life and then it comes out full of yellow Blossoms which smell very strong which come to a Fruit round and hard as big as our Cherries but not good to eat but the Leaf of