. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region. Tartary is not parted from America by the Str* ights of Am an. 4 4-° AMERICA. Chap. II, guagc and Pcrfons 5 nor Africans, hecaufe that in all the Coun> trey of America, not one %ro is to be found, except a few near the River Mar- tha, in the little Territory Quare^ua, which muft by Storm be drove thither vrltv'and chicflyout ^rom thcVuinny Coaft : So that ^^ the Mother of all People,, onely remains to be Implanter of our America, whofe Weftern Coaft, oppofite to Afia, is more inhabited than to the Eaft, where it refpects Europe. Moreover, Armenia, out of which, by Noah's Progeny, the whole Earth was re*peopled , borders on Scythia, now call'd Tartary , and Tartary faces America, feparated onely by the Straights of Anian. though fame are of opinion, that out of the South into the Frozen Sea, there is no paflage thorow thefe Straights^ elfe (as we have already prov d the contrary) how came all thofe Voracious and Poyfonous Beafts into America, if it be clearly feparated from Afia by Sea ? It deferves here to be related, what happened to Henry Corneli/on Schaep, and William tByleVeld, Sailing from Batatia to difcover the Tartarick River Tolyfange, but were taken and carry'd Prifoners to the Japan Court at Jedo. being Com- manded there by Order of the Councel to give an account of & Japan Map or Card, which was laid b
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