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as, the commodious fituation, good foil and roads, deep and fafe ha- 

 vens and rivers, colonies, good government, fchools, privileges, induf- 

 try, &c. All which, though neceflarily conducive to make a great 

 and rich city, will never attain the end without commerce and manu- 

 fadlures, and foreign or maritime trade where it can be had. Among 

 the kingdoms of Chriftendom, (fays he) the greatefl, richeft, and moft 

 populous is France, containing 27,000 pariflies, and 15 millions of peo- 

 ple ; fo fertile by nature, and fo rich through the induftry of her peo- 

 ple, as not to envy any other country ; and by means of the refidence 

 of the kings of fo mighty a kingdom fo long at Paris, that city is be- 

 come the greateft in Chriftendom, containing about 450,000 people. 

 What he adds is remarkable, though furely not ftridly true even then, 

 and much lefs fo in our days, at leaft with relation to England, viz. 

 the kingdoms of England, Naples, Portugal, and Bohemia, as alfo the 

 earldom of Flanders, and the dukedom of Milan, are ftates, in a man- 

 ner, of equal greatnefs and power ; fo that the cities wherein the princes 

 of thofe fame countries have for any long time made their refidence 

 have been, in a manner, alfo alike, as London, Naples, Lifbon, Prague, 

 Milan, and Gaunt, which have each of them, more or lefs, 160,000 in- 

 habitants *. But Lifbon is indeed fomewhat larger than the reft, by 

 means of the commerce of Ethiop, (i. e. Africa) India, and Brafil ; as is 

 likewife London, by means of the wars and troubles in the Low coun- 

 tries ; and Naples is, within thefe thirty years, grown as great again as 

 it was. In Spain there is not a city of any fuch greatnefs, partly be- 

 caufe it has been, till of late, divided into divers little kingdoms, and 

 partly through want of navigable rivers, to bring fo great a quantity of 

 food, &c. into one place, for maintaining an extraordinary number of 

 people. The cities in Spain of moft magnificence are thofe v;here the 

 antient kings and princes held their feats, as Barcelona, Saragofla, V^a- 

 lentia, Cordova, Toledo, Burgos, Leon, &c. being fuch as pafs not the 

 fecond rank of the cities of Italy. Yet he allows Granada, where the 

 Moorifli kings fo long reigned, and Seville, through the difcovery of 

 America, to be greater than thofe other cities ; and Valadolid (by 

 means of the former long refidence of the kings of Spain, though no 

 city) may compare with its nobleft cities ; and alfo Madrid is much in- 

 creafed, and continually increafing, by the court which Kin^ Philip 

 keeps there. Cracow, through the former long refidence of the kings 

 of Poland, and Vilna, by that of the great dukes of Lithuania, are the 

 two moft populous cities in Poland. In Ruflia, Volodiraer, Great No- 

 vogrod, and Mofcow, are the moft eminent cities, as having been all 

 three the feats of their great dukes, though at this day Mofcow, their 



* It niuft be obfeived, iLat the quotations aie here tal^en fioiri the Englifli tiaiiflation, priiitcJ I'li 

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