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Chap. I« 



the narrowed place. Of thefe two grand fjninfuk's the Northern is generally call'd 

 America Mexicana, from Mexico the chief City of the Province, properly call'd cMexi* 

 carta- which was heretofore without doubt the moil potent, rich, and flourishing 

 of all the Kingdoms of the Indians, at leaft on the North*fide of the Ifthmm. In the 

 divifion of the feveral Provinces of America, as wellrhofe of the Northern as of the 

 Southern Continent, we find fo various an account among the feveral Geographers 

 that have written of them (not any two of them agreeing in one and the fame or- 

 der) that to reconcile the differing methods of fo many difagreeing Authors 

 would be an endlefs work : wherefore we (hall pitch upon the fureft courfe, and 

 not omittincr the mention of any of the Provinces taken notice of by the faid Au- 

 thors, hereby endeavor to take in whatfoever material hath been obferv'd by all 

 of them, and by the way take occafion to (hew how one differs from another in the 

 diftribution of them. Thofe therefore of the Northern America (that as near as 

 can be we may bring the defign of many into one) feem moft fitly defcrib'd in this 

 following order: i. EJtotiland -, z. Terra Labor atoris, ox NoVa Britannia 5 $. Canada, 

 or Nfrva Francia ; 4. Nova Scotia • 5. New England . 6. Nflt> Netherlands, now call'd 

 New York, as being in the poiTeflion of the EngliJJ? . 7. NfTp Holland 5 8. New Sn>ede- 

 land ; o. Apalchen, now call'd Virginia - y 10. Florida 5 u.Jucatan^ 12. Honduras ; 

 13. Nicaragua 5 14. Veragua 5 15. Costarica -, \6. Amen > t 17. 2S[oV4 Hifpania ; 18. Gua* 

 catimala ; 19. NoVa Gallicia • 20. NoVa fBifcaia 5 it. NoVa Mexico ; 22. Cibola ; 

 23 . Nova Granata j 24. Tontonteac ; 25. Quivira • 16. Nova Albion ; to which by moft 

 Authors is added California 5 which being anlfland we thought fit to refervc to be 

 fpoken of amongft the Iflands, as alfo Terra NoVa., or New- found Land j which laft 

 lies utmoft Weft, as the other Eaft of Northern America. Some there are alfo (and 

 particularly Monfieur de JMartini) who among the above-mention'd Provinces have 

 inferted Greenland, though doubtlefs with little realbn, fince though it be granted 

 that it is not divided by any Sea, yet it is evident, if any credit may be given to all 

 modern Maps and Globes, that the greatcft part of Greenland lies in the Hemifphere 

 of the known World ; and therefore we have judg'd it moft (convenient to refer the 

 particular mention thereof to the Defcription of the Artlick kegion. 



The Iflands of Northern America are 1. Terra Nova, or New-found Land- 2. The 

 Ifland of Ajfumption . 3. The Bermudas, or Summer -IJland $ 4. Hifpaniola • 5. St. John 

 <Porto ^ico ; 6. Quba^ 7. Jamaica*, 8. The Luc ayes I 0. The Caribes, or Antiflx ; 

 10. Margarita > y 11 Qubagua - y 12. La Trinidad • 13. Tabago 5 14. California, the biggeft 

 of all the American Iflands. 



The length of the Weft-Indies is generally computed to be from the utmoft South 

 of Terra Magellanica, to the fartheft North of EJtotiland, about fix thoufand Englifh 

 Miles, reaching from fix Degrees of Northern, to fifty three of Southern Latitude ; 

 the breadth from St. Michael or <Piura Weftward, to farabaya, a Town on the Coaft 

 of (Brafil Eaftward, three thoufand nine hundred Miles, and the whole compafs 

 thirty thoufand. 



Sect. II. 



Eftotiland. 



THat the Englifh have been very great Undertakers of Voyages and Difcove- 

 ries toward the North-Weft, appears by the denomination of divers pla- 

 ces, both from the Perfons which have Sail'd thitherward, and alfo from 

 fuchof our own Countrey Names as were thought fit to be there fix'd, as beyond 

 the JrEiick Circle are Sir James Lancafter's Sound, Sir Dudley Viggs'% Cape, Queens Amies 



Foreland, 



