Armenia the greater described
Armenia Major lyeth on the farther side of Euphrates: is a very
A geographicall description of all the countries in the known vvorld as also of the greatest and famousest cities and fabricks which have been, or are now remaining : together with the greatest rivers, the strangest fountains, the various minerals, stones, trees ... which are to be found in every country : unto which is added, a description of the rarest beasts, fowls ... which are least known amongst us / collected out of the most approved authors ... by Sa. Clarke ...
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- A geographicall description of all the countries in the known vvorld as also of the greatest and famousest cities and fabricks which have been, or are now remaining : together with the greatest rivers, the strangest fountains, the various minerals, stones, trees ... which are to be found in every country : unto which is added, a description of the rarest beasts, fowls ... which are least known amongst us / collected out of the most approved authors ... by Sa. Clarke ...
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- Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
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"A geographicall description of all the countries in the known vvorld as also of the greatest and famousest cities and fabricks which have been, or are now remaining : together with the greatest rivers, the strangest fountains, the various minerals, stones, trees ... which are to be found in every country : unto which is added, a description of the rarest beasts, fowls ... which are least known amongst us / collected out of the most approved authors ... by Sa. Clarke ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33311.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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mountainous Country; hath part of Cappadocia, and Euphrates, on the West. Mesopotamia on the South: Colchis, Iberia, and Albania on the North. And the Caspian Sea, and Media on the East: One part of it is called Turcomania, the other Georgia. On the Mountain of Ararat, in this Countrey the Ark rested, and from hence the World was repeopled. The chiefest Rivers are Phasis and Lycus, which runne into the Pontick Sea: Cyrus, and Araxes into the Caspian; Euphrates, and Tygris which run into the Red, or Persian Sea.
Tygris, so called from its swiftnesse, passeth through the Lake Are∣thusa, yet neither mingling water, nor fishes, saith Solinus; afterward it diveth under Taurus, and riseth on the other side bringing much filth with it, and is again hidden, and again riseth, and at last carrieth Euphra∣tes into the Sea.
Mr. Cartwright in his Preachers Travels, saith, that these present Armenians are a very industrious people in all kind of Labour: that their women are very skilful, and active in shooting, and managing any sort of weapon, like the Ancient Amazons; That their Families are great, the Father and all his posterity dwelling together under one roof, having their substance in common, and when the father dy∣eth, the eldest son governs, all submitting themselves under his regi∣ment, after his death, not his son, but his brother succeeds, and when all the brethren are dead, then the eldest Son. In diet, and clothing they are all alike.