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Show netat L oy I Feibues --- > 25 e .stie T S o= S - o z L e ---- pleafure, abundancy, aqd plenty of thin s _ s A e == g L Lr I -e o The Divifio of the Empir of China Mountains in others; of whic Kingdoms nine are reckoned in the South art, and fixin the North in a manner hath contrived all this complex f Kingdoms unacceflible unto al others; onthe Faft and South the Ocean s carcely navigable, by reafon of th violence of the Tides 3 and on the Weft the C aggy Ridges of the Mountain dmit of no pafiage;and on the North it at this da is fortified partly by a Defar of an immenfe v ftnefs, and partly by a Wall of 900 Ital an Miles, ere&ed b King Xio,about two hundred Years before the I carnation of our § aviour, b the work of ten hundred thoufand Men, in he {pace of five Years, for to re {train the incurfion of the Tartars 5 {o that being de ended by {o many Fortifications, it relyeth on its own weight : if that y u do but only obferve the Wall, i 1s a work that will caufe an amazement, whic without doubt, if that the Anti ents had arrived unto the knowledge of, they woul have reckoned it amongf the Seven Wonders of the World But let us now {ubjoin the names of th Kingdoms - R is fituated in the midft o s whole Empire is divided into fiftcen Ki gdoms, difterminated varioufly what by moft vaft Rivers in fome Place , an e 5 e ; ~ ---- 1. Honam . Xenfr . Xanfi . Xantuwm - . Peking Leautun e e ~ CON o bt e A5 G P _...:_.__.. T o ¥ ~1r i = = ._.._ I - B racter as 1t port Learn CXamin And unto th and myc by the courfe . Kiangf: . Suchuem all othey . ‘Otquang ad Vaflta . Chekiam 9. Nankim Wit read i Ty .__:?‘ and c throui and af ~ ?fi'n/d to the curioy( a Roo 1. Canton, or Quantung . Quangfi . Yunnan . Fukien QA\VL £ - cha whic and f one, that 1sto and n man = e - - e - 1 or conte The Southern Kingdoms of the Empire of Chinaare . o T : 3. 2 place = a o T S = S The Northern Kingdoms of the Empire of Ch naare A h and the latter implyeth the midd]e the Earth, which allo they will have to be quadrate r four-fquare Th o o T e th a Garden, by reafon of it becaufe that the Chinefes {uppofe that thei Kingdo S e = 1tby th of proper and different terms; now at this da i i and by fome Cinuboa, whereof the forme fignifi whence 1t cometh to pafs that almoft eac {everal Nation doth defcrib impofitio = ob 2 S- - oftenas the right of Dominion devolved from oge amily unto another, according unto the mutability of Humane Affairs, fo alf was the Kingdom dignifie with a new name by him that affumed the Rega ities5 which he that doth, dot impofe fome glorious title on the Kingdom,accord {ure: Sointimespalt we read that it was calle Tan, which is to fay an Empir without bounds; other times T, that denotet by th name of a great Duke; 1find i nate the Milky-path e N i alfo called Sciam, as it you fhoul adorned Xingdom: Chen {ignifieth a Ki gdom, that exceedeth all other Kingdoms in perfection ;5 alfo Han, by which wo d they denom s gtt mese grar,- £ e Y pape = 4 a ATHAN ASIVS KIRGCHE e That I may comprehend all jn brief, h re firft I fha]l annek a Geographica Scheme or Map of the whole Empire divided nto fifteen Kingdoms, that you ma fnor tbat fl]O the Con bJletainngCi4t athe |