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id: A51539
author: Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.
date: 1676
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3257
sentence: 101
flesch: 63
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txt: txt/A51539.txt
title:
  A collection of some attempts made to the North-East, and North-West, for the finding a passage to Japan, China, &c. As also somewhat relating to the satisfaction of all inquirers into Captain John Wood's present search of a passage by the North-Pole, &c. By Joesph Moxon, Hydroprapher to the King's most excellent Majesty.

summary:
  Sir Tho. Smith , Mr. Iohn Wolstenholme Esq and Alderman Iones , in the Discovery , 1616 ; he sailed round that great Bay called Baffin's Bay , into the Latitude of 79 deg . and finding no Passage , returned home . Hendrick Hamel of Gorcum was the Book-keeper to the Ship , and kept the Journal of their Voyage , and Passages that happened to them in their Slavery ; which Journal and Passages was afterwards printed at Rotterdam , together with A brief Description of the Kingdom of Corea ; with its Laws , Maxims , and Policies both Civil and Military : And in this Description of Corea , he relates as follows : That on the West - side trends the Coast of China , or the Bay of Nankin ; and that its North - end is fastened to China with a mighty huge Mountain , which makes Corea no Island but a Peninsula , because that on the North-East - side is nothing but an open Sea , in which is found every year many Whales with French and Holland Harping-irons in their bodies .


id: A37133
author: Dyer, William, of Rhode Island.
title: To the Kings most excellent Majesty. The humble petition of William Dyre Gent
date: 1670
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3311
sentence: 83
flesch: 49
cache: cache/A37133.xml
txt: txt/A37133.txt
summary:
  Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1906:9) To the Kings most excellent Majesty. Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 31639)


id: A20443
author: Digges, Dudley, Sir, 1583-1639.
title: Fata mihi totum mea sunt agitanda per orbem
date: 1611
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5124
sentence: 143
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A20443.xml
txt: txt/A20443.txt
summary:
  But if any yet doe doubt , let him looke into the Spanish Voyages , or Coll●…cttions of Antonio de Herrera the Coronist●… 〈◊〉 for the King , and Contraction house , in whose description of those partes the particular distances & bounds of Guadalaiara , Zacat●…cas , Nueu●… , Viscania , Cinaloa , Cibola , and the rest , from Compostela , Purification , S. Sebastian , on the South Sea , as from Mexico , and from 〈◊〉 on the North , too long to sette downe here doe plainely shew , that Continent is nothing broad , how euer it be painted . L. of way , and ha●…ing sure meanes to tell how many Degrees or Partes of their M●…ridian they are gone N. or S.


id: A15870
author: Zouch, Richard, 1590-1661.
title: The doue: or Passages of cosmography. By Richard Zouche ciuillian, of New Colledge in Oxford
date: 1613
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8502
sentence: 273
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A15870.xml
txt: txt/A15870.txt
summary:
  FEZ , long since famous for her fruitfull Vines ; And rich MAROCCO , which with Sugred Reedes Sweetens the relish of those sharper wines , VVhich th' other Countryes bruised cluster bleedes , Lye next those Island in the VVesterne maine , Where Fortunes first , since dwelt Actaeons trayne , From Carthage ruines , whose yet infant State , Bathed in poore Queene Didoes wronged bloud , Her most strange Loue turning to stronger Hate , With Rome in long-fixt opposition stood : TVNIS and TESELINE deriu'd , doe grow In fast-bound Friendship with great Europes foe . Where swift Iberus with true lowlinesse , Performes his dutie to the Midland mayne , The great and lesser BALEARIDES , First in the Streights doe guard the coasts of Spaine , Whose expert Youth , were wont , the smallest thing To strike far distant with their well-rul'd sling .


id: A26664
author: Alingham, William, fl. 1694-1710.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10497
sentence: 400
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A26664.xml
txt: txt/A26664.txt
title:
  A short account, of the nature and use of maps as also some short discourses of the properties of the earth, and of the several inhabitants thereof : to which is subjoin'd, A catalogue of the factories and places now in possession of the English, French, Dutch, Spaniards, Portegueze and Danes, both in the East and West-Indies.

summary:
  Secondly , Eclipses of the Sun , which are caused by the Moon 's passing betwixt him and those places where he appears Eclipsed ; for unless the Earth were Globular , as Astronomers have assumed it , the time when , and place where , Solar Eclipses should happen , could not be determin'd ; but seeing both time and place is nicely limited , their supposition of the Earth's roundess must needs be true . A short account, of the nature and use of maps as also some short discourses of the properties of the earth, and of the several inhabitants thereof : to which is subjoin'd, A catalogue of the factories and places now in possession of the English, French, Dutch, Spaniards, Portegueze and Danes, both in the East and West-Indies.


id: A09258
author: Pemble, William, 1592?-1623.
date: 1630
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10997
sentence: 398
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A09258.xml
txt: txt/A09258.txt
title:
  A briefe introduction to geography containing a description of the grounds, and generall part thereof, very necessary for young students in that science. VVritten by that learned man, Mr William Pemble, Master of Arts, of Magdalen Hall in Oxford.

summary:
  Opposite to it in the Heauens is another circle of the same name , wherein are the 12. signes , and in which the Sunne keepes his owne proper course all the yeare long , neuer d●●lining from ●t on the one side or other . VVEE are now come to the last point concerning the measuring the Earth , which is two fold , either of the W●●●e earth .


id: A41248
author: Fage, Robert.
date: 1658
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15685
sentence: 457
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A41248.xml
txt: txt/A41248.txt
title:
  A description of the whole world with some general rules touching the use of the globe : wherein is contained the situation of several countries, their particular and distinct governments, religions, arms, and degrees of honour used among them ... / by Robert Fage, Esq.

summary:
  Gre●●ble , Anverse : the rivers that are most remarkable , are the L●yre , the Garone , the Rhone , the S●yne . The people are small of sta●●re , their complexion inclining unto swarthiness , rude in manners , very slothful and rebellious , yet given to hunting , their dyet mean , their appa●●el in towns gorgeous , in villages base , their religion papistically formal , little curious , their Clergy being counted the most illiterate and ignorant in that part of the world called Chris●endome ; it 〈◊〉 now in the hands of the king of Spain , 〈◊〉 by a Vice Roy , who resides at Calari● ▪ and must of necessity be a Spa●●ard , under whom are 〈◊〉 Deputies , Governour● , 〈…〉 what profits arise here to the King of Spain , I have no where found .


id: A37110
author: Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619-1682.
date: 1662
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25132
sentence: 1902
flesch: 82
cache: cache/A37110.xml
txt: txt/A37110.txt
title:
  A Geographical dictionary in which are described the most eminent countreys, towns, ports, seas, streights, and rivers in the whole world : very useful for the understanding of all modern histories.

summary:
  A Geographical dictionary in which are described the most eminent countreys, towns, ports, seas, streights, and rivers in the whole world : very useful for the understanding of all modern histories. 1662 Approx. A Geographical dictionary in which are described the most eminent countreys, towns, ports, seas, streights, and rivers in the whole world : very useful for the understanding of all modern histories.


id: A31608
author: Chamberlayne, Peregrine Clifford.
date: 1682
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25403
sentence: 2380
flesch: 83
cache: cache/A31608.xml
txt: txt/A31608.txt
title:
  Compendium geographicum, or, A more exact, plain, and easie introduction into all geography ... after the latest discoveries, or alterations, very useful, especially for young noblemen and gentlemen, the like not printed in English / by Peregrin Clifford Chamberlayne ...

summary:
  I Will not go about to say very much in commendation of this Science , neither could I speak its praise enough to satisfie my self , had I that intention ; therefore I will leave it to some more skilful Encomiast : But I cannot sufficiently admire , to see it thus neglected in a Nation where all other Arts and Sciences do flourish , and abound in so great a measure : No excuse ought to suffice any well bred Person for his ignorance in Geography ; this being a Science , and I may truly say , the only Science that comes within the capacity of all Mankind , whether old or young , Men or Women ; for any one may easily attain to the knowledge of it that has but a Memory , a few Maps and a little Method ; and methinks he that is ignorant of it , ( especially if a Man of parts ) must needs blush every time he reads the Gazette , and cannot give an account in what Country is seated such a Place , or Town of note ; and surely he must be strangely out of countenance to hear himself baffled in Geography by every ordinary Seaman : But the description of a particular Place , as a small Territory , Town , Castle , &c. Is called Topography , from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 locus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .


id: A41246
author: Fage, Robert.
date: 1667
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 39079
sentence: 1053
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A41246.xml
txt: txt/A41246.txt
title:
  Cosmography or, a description of the whole world represented (by a more exact and certain discovery) in the excellencies of its scituation, commodities, inhabitants, and history: of their particular and distinct governments, religions, arms, and degrees of honour used amongst them. Enlarged with very many and rare additions. Very delightful to be read in so small a volum. By Robert Fage Esquire.

summary:
  ●…men , Zutfen , the Marquisate of the Holy Empire , the Lordships of Freezland , Mechlen , Overysel and Graving ; All which are Lands above measure well tilled and inhabited , conta●…ning two hundred and eight Cities , fortified with Walls and Ditches , and about six thousand three hundred Villages , with Parish-Churches , beside ▪ the Castles , Forts , and Noble-Mens Houses , which are almost infinite in number . The Sea is part of the Ocean , to which we cannot come , but through some strait , as the Mediterranean Sea , the Baltick Sea , and the like .


id: A37760
author: Echard, Laurence, 1670?-1730.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38887
sentence: 4154
flesch: 88
cache: cache/A37760.xml
txt: txt/A37760.txt
title:
  A most compleat compendium of geography, general and special describing all the empires, kingdoms and dominions in the whole world : shewing their bounds, situation, dimensions, ancient and modern names, history, government, religions, languages, commodities ... archbishopricks and universities : in a more plain and easie method, more compendious and (perhaps) more useful than any of this bigness : to which are added general rules for making a large geography, ... / collected according to the most late discoveries and agreeing with the choicest and newest maps by Laurence Eachard ...

summary:
  T. are Abbeville , Calais , and Boulogne ; Amiens is ch . T. under Mantua , are Casale and Acqui ; ch .


id: A26435
author: Abbot, George, 1562-1633.
date: 1664
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 58466
sentence: 1641
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A26435.xml
txt: txt/A26435.txt
title:
  A briefe description of the whole world wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdoms of the same, with their academies, as also their severall titles and scituations thereunto adjoyning / written by the Reverend Father in God George Abbot ...

summary:
  From this stra●…●…outhward , the Sea groweth more wide , and is called afterwards by the name of Mare Aegeum , and so descendeth to the full Mediterranean . But he answered that ●…ourescore and six yeares he had served Christ Jesus , and in all that time he had never done him harm : and therefore now in his old age he would not beginne to deny him .


id: A16482
author: Botero, Giovanni, 1540-1617.
date: 1601
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 68827
sentence: 2193
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A16482.xml
txt: txt/A16482.txt
title:
  The trauellers breuiat, or, An historicall description of the most famous kingdomes in the world relating their situations, manners, customes, ciuill gouernment, and other memorable matters. / Translated into English.

summary:
  What should I speake of his Commendams of the orders of Montegia , Calatrauia , Alcantara , and S. Iames , which were inough if he had naught else to suffice him : he is great master of the said orders , and thereby hath meanes to aduance and inrich his seruants , whomsoeuer he pleaseth , as freely as if he were king of France or Poland . Iagello then Duke of Lithuania , tooke to wife the Princesse Hedinge the last of the blood royall of Polonia , and was installed king on three conditions : the first , that he should become a Christian ; the second , that he should cause his people to do the like ; the third , that he should vnite his principalities to Poland .


id: A33342
author: Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
date: 1689
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 70486
sentence: 955
flesch: 20
cache: cache/A33342.xml
txt: txt/A33342.txt
title:
  A new description of the world, or, A compendious treatise of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, countries, islands, cities, and towns of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America in their scituation, product, manufactures, and commodities, geographical and historical : with an account of the natures of the people in their habits, customes, warrs, religions, and policies &c. : as also of the rarities, wonders, and curiosities of fishes, beasts, birds, rivers, mountains, plants, &c., with several remarkable revolutions and delightful histories / faithfully collected from the best authors by S. Clark.

summary:
  The Mountains of most note are those of Avergne , part of the Alps , and the Pyreenes , on the latter of which Nature strangely expresses her self , for that part of those Mountains toward rich and wealthy France , are altogether barren , but that towards Spain exceeding Fruitful , as if it had divested it self to cloath the one , and robbed the other . As fot the Mountains they are distinguished into six great Ridges , continued knit together , whereof the lesser are but parts , the chief of which are the Pyreenians that extend from the Cantabrian ▪ Ocean to the Mediterranian Sea.


