Of the Couniry of the Amazons.

Of Brafil.

Of Paraguay.

and very ignorant, others more ingenious, but addicted to Diffimulation and Sodomy. The Commodities are vaft Quantities of Gold and Silver, coftly Pearls, Cotton, Tobacco, Cochineel, and other Drugs, &c. Here is one Spanish Archbishoprick, and five Bishopricks. The Natives are mostly Idolaters, but fome are converted to Christianity. They generally fpeak the Spanish Tongue.

THE LAND of the AMAZONS is very little known; the Air is temperate, and the Soil fertile, fo far as it is yet difcover'd. There are on the Banks of the River Amazone about fifty Nations of fierce favage People, faid to eat human Flesh. The Commodities are reckon'd Gold, Silver, Sugar, Ebony, Cocoa, Tobacco, &c. Their Religion is Paganifm, and their Languages unknown.

BRASIL is divided into fourteen Captainries, viz. Para, Maragnan, Siara, Rio Grande, Parabia, Tamaraca, Pernambuco, Seregippe, All Saints Bay, Los Ilheis, Porto-feguro, SpirituSanto, Rio-Janeiro, St. Vincent. The Air is very temperate and wholefome, though in the Torrid Zone. The Soil is extraordinary fertile. The Brafilians are faid to be a cruel, thievifh and revengeful People in general, but those which are civilized prove ingenious. The Commodities are Red or Brafil-Wood, Sugar, Amber, Rofin, Balm, Tobacco, Train-Oil, Confectures, &c. The Natives have but a faint Notion of God or Religion; and though they have divers Languages, 'tis faid they can't pronounce the three Letters L, F, R.

PARAGUAY is divided into feven Provinces, viz. Guayra, Paraguay proper, Parana, Uraguay, Rio de la Plata, Tucuman, Chaco. The Air is faid to be very temperate and healthful;

the

the Soil very fertile in Corn, Wine, and Fruits.
The People are very big and tall, yet nimble and
agile; they are faid to be lefs favage than many
other Indians; laborious, and revengeful of
Wrongs. The Commodities are Gold, Silver,
Brafs, Iron, Sugar, Amethyfts, &c. Here is one
Spanish Archbishoprick, and four or five Bishop-
ricks. The Religion of the Natives is grofs Ido-
latry, and their Language an harsh and unplea-
fant Jargon.

CHILI is divided into three Governments, of Chili. viz. Chili proper, Chicuito, and Chili Imperial. The Air in Summer is very warm and temperate, but in Winter exceffively fharp and piercing. As to the Soil, the Mountainous Parts are generally dry and barren, but the Vallies are exceed ing fertile in Maize, Wheat, and other Grain. The People are white, tall, couragious and warlike. The Commodities are Gold, Silver, Maize, Corn, Honey, Oftriches and Metals. The unconverted Chilians are the groffeft Idolaters of all the Americans, the chief Object of their Worship being the Devil, whom they call Eponamon, i. e. Powerful. Most of them ufe the Spanish Tongue, and fome their antient Jargon.

HAVING thus given a fuccinct Account of those Parts of the four Continents which are known, I pafs over the unknown Parts to the Principal Inlands, Mountains, &c.

ISLANDS of EUROPE.

THE Principal of these are (1.) The Britannic of the Euro-
Ifles; Great Britain and Ireland; with the pean Islands,
leffer ones of Man, Anglefey, Wight, Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney, &c. and the Clufters of
Iflands call'd the Orcades, the Shetland, and the
Hebrides. (2.) The Scandinavian Islands, or

thofe

Of the Inles of
Afia.

Of the Hles of
Africa.

those belonging to Sweden, Denmark and Norway; as Gothland, Zealand, Funen, &c. (3.) Iceland, a large Island, fubject to the Crown of Denmark. (4.) The Azores, which are in Number nine, poffeffed and inhabited by the Portugueze. (5.) The Mediterranean Islands, viz. Yvica, Majorca, Minorca, Sardinia, Corfica, Sicily, Malta, Crete or Candia, Cyprus, &c. (6.) The numerous Ifles in the Archipelago, the Ionian Sea, &c. most of which are fubject to the Turk.

ISLANDS of ASIA.

THESE are (1.) The Ifles of Japan; as the famous Ifle of Japan itself, Tonfa, and Bungo, &c. (2.) The Ifle of Formofa lying near the middle Eastern Coast of China. (3.) The Philippine Ifles; as Luconia, Mindanao, Tendaye, with feveral fmall ones. (4.) The Moluccoes; the chief whereof are Gilolo, Ceram, Celebes. (5.) The Inlands Des Larrons, or of Thieves. (6.) The Sunda Inlands, the chief of which are Borneo, Sumatra and Java. (7.) The Maldives, a Clufter of very fmall Inles in the Indian Sea. (8.) Ceylon, a famous Ifle near Cape Comorin, in the Indian Sea, abounding in most forts of Spices.

ISLANDS of AFRICA.

THESE are (1.) Madagascar, the largest and moft confiderable of all, lying off the East Coaft of Ethiopia. (2.) The Iflands of Cape Verde, which are ten in Number, and fituate to the West of Negroland. (3.) The Canary Islands; which are fourteen in Number, among which are the noted Isles of Teneriff, Ferro and Canaria; thefe lie near the Coaft of Bildulgerid. (4.) Madera ; noted for its excellent Wine. It is

fituated

fituated over-against the Kingdom of Fez in Barbary. (5.) St. Helena, Afcenfion Ifle, St. Thomas, Zocotora, and divers other small ones up and down in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

ISLANDS of AMERICA.

THESE are (1.) California; the largest Island of the Illes in the World, lying Weft of New Mexico, in of America. the great South Sea. (2.) New-found-Land; a very large Island, in the Poffeffion of the Englifh; it lies before St. Laurens Bay, in North Latitude 50 Degrees. (3.) The Antilles, which contain many fingle Islands very confiderable, as Cuba, Hifpaniola, Porto-Rico, belonging to Spain, and Jamaica to the English. They alfo comprehend feveral Clufters of fmall Inlands; as (4.) The Caribbees Ifles; the Chief of which are St. Chriftopher's, Antego, Monferrat, Barbadoes, &c. (5.) The Lucayos Ifles, moftly belonging to the Spaniards. (6.) The Sotovento Ifles, lying along the North Coaft of Terra Firma, and belonging to the Spaniards. (7.) Bermudas, or the Summer Inlands, belonging to the Crown of England. (8.) Terra del Fuego; this is an Island feparated from the moft Southern Parts of America by the Streights of Magellan; and of which our Knowledge is very uncertain.

MOUNTAINS.

OF MOUNTAINS, fome are extended to Of the chief a vaft Length, and rife very high, and are Mountains in call'd Ridges or Chains of Mountains; the Chief the World. whereof are (1.) The Dolphrino Hills between Sweden and Norway. (2.) The Hyperborean Mountains in the North Part of Muscovy. (3.) The Caparthian Mountains in the South Part of

Poland.

Poland. (4.) The Pyrenean Hills between Spain and France. (5.) The Alps between Italy, and France and Germany. (6.) The Apennine Hills dividing Italy into East and West. (7.) Mount Taurus, reaching from East to West of all Afia. (8.) Imaus, in Tartary. (9.) Caucafus, between Tartary and the Mogul's Empire. (10.) The Libyan Mount between Zaara and Egypt. (11.) Mount Atlas, between Barbary and Biledulgerid. (12.) The Mountains of the Moon, in Ethiopia. (13.) The Andes, extending North and South thro' the whole Length of South America.

OTHERS are fingle, and remarkable for their exceeding Height, as the Pike in Teneriff, &c. But others are still more remarkable for being Vulcanos, or fuch as have terrible Eruptions of Fire, Coals, Smoak, &c. As Etna in Sicily; Vefuvius in Naples; Hecla in Iceland; with many others in feveral Islands and Parts in the Torrid Zone.

Of the Oceans.

OCEAN S.

THE mighty Body of Waters which overwhelms by far the greatest Part of the Earth's Surface, is divided into feveral Oceans, viz. (1.) The Hyperborean on the North, and (2.) The vaft Western Ocean, on the West of Europe. (3.) The Tartarian and Chinefian Oceans on the North and Eaft; and (4.) The Indian, and Part of the vaft Southern Ocean, on the South of Afia. (5.) The Ethiopic and Atlantic Ocean, and Part of Mer del Zur, on the West and South of Africa. (6.) The vaft Oriental Ocean on the East, and (7.) The great Pacific Ocean on the West of America.

SEAS.