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Show _ The EmBassy of th m 4fs divide nandde Quier, out-fhot them all by a more ample Difcovery then all the former Afta (not to make mention ofany other Divifions of the World ma th being impert; th gy - nent to the following Difcourfe) ftands bounded on the North by the Zartaric Sea on the Eaft withthegreat Indian Ocean called Egus, andon the South with the fame on the Weft with the Arabian Gulph,and the flip/ of Land fituated betwixc this Gulp m and the MediterraneanSea ; the extentof which from the Hellefpont as fa as Mallaff the utmoft Town of Traffick in India, confifts of 1300 Dutch miles : the breadch fro do Jed ~7;- All Afia, whichthe Ancientsdivide into Afia the Great and 4fia the Lefs,moder Computors part into five Divifions, Perfia, the Zurkifb Empire,India, (towhich the caft in the adjacent Ifles) Zartary, and China the Nameo What concerns the Name of China, or the further part of 4fia, much time an painshave been {pent and taken by feveral Hiftorians both old and new, asalfo b fot Wo B rive The differen ce in the pronuntia falfe trad India Mot N vario of gr Boo I thatn and o Cbim it Ch . King by. - fe&t ; Han, the Milky way Long before the Conqueft of China by the Zurtars in their l ft invafion, and the depofing of the Emperour of China, (viz. When the Soveraign y of the Kingdom was i the Family of Cin) China was called by the Chinefes Min which fignifies Perfpicuty or Brightnefs Afterwards they added to the word Min the fyllabl 7 it Fhen Zamin, or (as fome write) Zaming, whi h fignifies The Kingdom of grea bore the name of Zai-jven, and a this time it is called by the Zartars, who poflefs thi Kingdom under the Great Cham Zaicing But though thisKingdom of Ching doth often chang its Lord and Name, the Chinefes however have time out of mingd called it b two other particular names, as Chung choa, and Chungque; the firlt whereof fig ifies The Midd]e Kingdom and the other, Th Kin La ha be Afis, or China, was called Zhau, Tu, Tha, Sciam, heu, as allo Han; Zhay which fignifies Boundlefs broad ; 7, Reft 5 Zha,Great ; Sciam Curious; Cheu,Per For above 300 years thisKingdo nei tion of the word China and Sina betwixt usand the Spaniards is not much ; but in regard it falls fomewhat hard to thofe people to pronounce the Ch, they there ore mak ufe of the Greek letter 3. The Zartars call chis Kingdom Catay, and fometim s Myngin 5 butthis name rather denotes the Inhabitants themfelves then the ountrey; fo Mangin fignifies in their Language a wilde and uncivillized People and with thi word the Zartars often deride the Chinefes This Country was likewife formerly called Catayby Marcus Panwelz_a Venetian, who was the firft Difcovere thereof in part But the moft known name by which that Kingdom is called ac prefe c by thofe o Eurpeis China The reafon why thar Kingdom has been called by fo many fevera names may be fuppofed to be this , from an ancient cuftom obfer ed amongft them that whofoever gets the Soveraignty over them, prefents the Kin dom with a ne - hame according to his pleafure. ~ Amongft the reft we read,tha formerly this furthe parto Brightnefs (ac the cene the Nativesof the Countrey and Foreiners, to give the true derivation thereof, an the feveral names by which China has been formerly called, to whom I fhall refer m felf to fatisfie the curiofity of the Reader in this particular That thefe are the People whom Ptolemy cafls Chinefes, both the Conftitution of th Countrey, and the Name by which it is known at this time, may {uffice to prov th truth thereof; for that which in Spanifl is writ China, in talian is called Cina, i Hig Dutch Tfehina, and in Low Dutch and Latin Sina tho the Arabian Gulph to the Cape of Zabin 1220 Dutch miles i the | 1600 Oliver van Noord a Holland:r paft, but of later years a Spariard, Forj; T |