. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . yourview, then to tell the Scituation, Mountaines and Rivers;of which every Map and Traveller can informe also is not to be now measured by the antientGeographicall limits, but by the present Royall, so muchbeing most properly France, as is comprehended in thatmost compact, best seated, well peopled, and goodliest ofKingdomes. The parts you shall see in the Diocessehereafter following. Germany in largest sense by someis bounded by Rhene, Vi
. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . yourview, then to tell the Scituation, Mountaines and Rivers;of which every Map and Traveller can informe also is not to be now measured by the antientGeographicall limits, but by the present Royall, so muchbeing most properly France, as is comprehended in thatmost compact, best seated, well peopled, and goodliest ofKingdomes. The parts you shall see in the Diocessehereafter following. Germany in largest sense by someis bounded by Rhene, Vistula, the Danow and the Ocean,is divided into Kingdomes, Dukedomes, Counties, and Cap. The Kingdomes are Denmarke, Norway,Sweden, Boheme. The rest concerning Germany andother parts of Europe I teach not here; I point at ratherthese things, and therefore will returne to Our formerdiscourse of languages, and therein produce a betterLinguist and Artist then my selfe, Our learned Country-man, Master Brerewood in his laborious Travells andIndustrious Enquiries of Languages and Religions. [Chapter PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES. [Li. 95-] Chapter XII. Enquiries of Languages by Edw. Brerewood,lately Professor of Astronomy in GreshamColledge. Reece, as it was anciently knowne by thename of Hellas, was inclosed betwixtthe Bay of Ambracia, with the RiverArachthus, that falleth into it on theWest, and the River Peneneus on theNorth, and the Sea on other parts. Sothat Acarnania and Thessalie, were to-ward the Continent the utmost Regions of Greece. Butyet, not the Countries onely contained within thoselimits, but also the Kingdomes of Macedon, and Epirus;being the next adjoyning Provinces (Macedon towardthe North, Epirus toward the West) had ancientlythe Greeke tongue for their vulgar language: foralthough it belonged originally to Hellas alone, yetin time it became vulgar to these also. Secondly, it was the language of all the Isles in theiEgaean Sea; of all those Hands I
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