64 A. D. X524. 



Englifh pond-fifli : This therefore is probably a miftake in the tran- 

 fcribers *. 



Sundry other kinds of fruits and plants were firft cultivated in Eng- 

 land about this time ; fuch as apricots and mufk-melons, though others 

 make both thefe to have come much later, viz. the former in the year 

 1 578, and the melon-feeds not till the time of King James I, from Italy. 

 The large fine pale goofberry came hither alio from Flanders about this 

 time, with falads, garden-roots, cabbages, &c. as elfewhere noted. [See 

 the prefent Jlate of England, part Hi, anno 1683,/--. 258.] 



-- 1525 Sebaftian Cabot, fonnerly employed by King Henry VII of 



England, and now employed in Spain as chief pilot, inilead of going to 

 the Moluccos, as firft defigned, failed a great way up the vaft river De 

 la Plata, :md found the country of Paraguay fo inviting that he built 

 feveral forts in it ; and foon after that country vvas planted by Spain. 



The Hanie towns were flill fo powerful that Frederick I king of 

 Denmark was induced to defire an union with them, being herein fe- 

 conded by the great-mafter of Pruffia. 



And if Puffendorf's hiftory of Sweden is to be relied on, even the 

 Lubeckers alone fancied themfelves fo far mailers of the northern king- 

 doms, that they had already fold Denmark to Henry VIII king of Eng- 

 land, who had actually advanced to them 20,000 crowns on this account ; 

 but it feeir.s he wifely put off the payment of the remainder, till they 

 ihould fulfill their engagement. 



Moreover, KingGuftavusErickfon of Sweden, about this time agreed 

 with Frederick I of Denmark, to refer their differences about the ifland 

 of Gothland and the province of Blekinga, &.c. to the fix following 

 Hanfe towns, viz. Lubeck, Hamburgh, Dantzick, Roftock, Wiimar, and 

 Lunenburg ; between which tov^ns and thofe two kings an alliance was 

 made againil the expelled King Chrifi:ierii II, who claimed all the three 

 northern crowns ; by whicli alliance a final period was put to the union 

 of thofe three kingdoms ; which the Swedes alleged had ever been pre- 

 judicial to them, but beneficial to the Danes, who, whilfl; they com- 

 manded in Sweden, lived like opulent lords, vvhereas the native Swedes 

 were Haves and beggars. 



Although the foUovving treatife of geography was not perhaps the firft 

 general one of the kind, fince the revival of learning, yet it is doubt- 

 lefs a very old one : It is a Latin work, in folio, printed at S'raftfurg, 

 1525, intitled, ' Claudii Ptolon:ia^i geographical enarrationis libri oc- 

 ' to. Bilibaldo Pirckeymhero interprete. Annotationes Joannis de Re- 

 * giomonte in errores commifi^bs a Jacobo Angelo, in tranflaiione fua.' 



After Ptolemy's maps, tables, &c. this author gives us a new fet of 



* 'The pike, as he ageth, rcceivech diverfe ' to :\ p'lcksrf!! : irom d. pkiaell to a. pile ; aiij lad 

 '■ rtamcs ; as horn a yr.r to a j^/V//W; from a gilt- ' of all to a /,vrf.' \_Harrijuu''s D<-i.npii'jn nj fii'- 

 ' lied to a pod i ivouM pod i.o <i. jack: ; {tQU\^j:i.l:i bi:J, p. 244.1 Hf. 



