. A collection of voyages and travels: consisting of authentic writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other collections. And continued with others of note, that have published histories, voyages, travels, journals or discoveries in other nations and languages, relating to any part of the continent of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof,from the earliest account to the present . line o/Ottoman. Salutem in Authore falutis, &c. SINCE the writing of fome of myformer letters, I having often been atConftanti
. A collection of voyages and travels: consisting of authentic writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other collections. And continued with others of note, that have published histories, voyages, travels, journals or discoveries in other nations and languages, relating to any part of the continent of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof,from the earliest account to the present . line o/Ottoman. Salutem in Authore falutis, &c. SINCE the writing of fome of myformer letters, I having often been atConftantinople, and thoroughly viewd thefame, according to promife, I have thoughtgood to write fomething unto you there-of. May itpleafeyou therefore to underfland,that Conftantinopolis is a city in Thracia,fo called of Conftantine the emperor, be-caufe he enlarged the fame. It was be-fore called Byzantium. Strabo entitled it lllujlre, and Pliny and Juftin called itMoft Noble, being one of the moft fertilein all Europe. It is fituated in Thracia,upon the gulf Pontus, which feparatethAfia from Europe. The form thereof isthree fquare, whereof the two fides arewafhed by the fea, and the third joinethto the firm land. The foil thereof is verydelectable, brings forth all kinds of goodfruits neceffary for fuftenance of humanlife. The fituation thereof is fo well de-2 vifed t /Ja>[ y/w Lh r acian Bofporiis /ist/A ConPtantinople dvu&t//h //</,. *y/w 7r/i/r//* r/Jwv gPfib l7t///rA #/^ $ancta Sophia//??/?/ 2)uJFpAtm Z/S3. fi?/rfi
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