Mikrókosmos. A little description of the great world / By Peter Heylyn.

  • Peter Heylin
Date:
[1629]
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Credit: Mikrókosmos. A little description of the great world / By Peter Heylyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    55 So Lycm fwallowed by the gaping ground, At a new mouth farrc off is nfing found. 3 Batis(now guadalcjuivir)which in the Arabiquc fignifieth a great Riuer. This,together with Cjmdianayaugment the Soyth Sea with their liquid currents.4S9#m^,which rifing from the jhilles otBifcay, runneth Weft ward. 5 Iberutywhich hauing his head among the fame mountaines, runneth Eaftward almoft 400 miles,and is navigable aoo.Theotherl will hereafter fpe- cifie. Thechiefehilsarethree,i Idubeda, Iubalda, or Aurentius SaltuSy ft retching from the Tyren&t towards Portugal* 2 Seim, Moremx declining from the midft otSpaine towards the draits of Gibraltar. A chaine of hits diffidently famous, were it onely in this,that Cervantes yhz \vito£Spaine> made itthefceane of many the warlike exploits atchieued by the flowre and creame of Knight errantne,D<?» Quixot de la Mancha. And thirdly the Alpuxaras or Seira Nevada, which thwart the Kingdome of granada,from Ead to Welbhigh deepy hiis, & among which the people to this day fpcake the Arabic] ue perfectly. This Kingdome is faid to be fil'd inhabited by Tubal the Ion of Iapbet,from whom to Gargarus CMelicola are numbred 25 Kings, who lafted 988 yeares:the chief of which are faid in the Spanijh Hid: to haue bin,i Hcjperus, whofubduing alfo Italys named both countries Hefperia: but fo, that Italy was called Hefperiathe greater:and Spaine, Hejperia the lelfe. 2 Hijpanus, whence they conceit the name of Hifpania to be deriued^Ta- gus}4 Batusfic 5 Anusy whence the threefamousriuersin Spain To called,mud by ail meanes be deriued.<5 Idubedat Godfather no doubt,to the great mountaine fo called. 7 Sicileusyfro whom the lie of Sicily is faid to take denomination. 8 Hijpalis,who is reported to haue built the cirty SevillyOt Hijpalis. yTrigus, the founder of Blavio-Briga, and other Townes ending in Briga. 1 o Lufus who gaue name to Lufitania or Tortugall. The Cata¬ logue ofthele Kings I defire no man tobeleeue farther , then that ofour own date from Brute to £'ajfibeline„ As for the com- mingofrubal hither,it is doubtlefiea meere vanity:though we deny not that the SparnardsMQ oftheprogenieofT'^/.-asbe- C jz -i»g