Som animadversions and observations upon Sr. Walter Raleigh's Historie of the world wherein his mistakes are noted and som doubtful passages cleered / by Alexander Ross.
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Som animadversions and observations upon Sr. Walter Raleigh's Historie of the world wherein his mistakes are noted and som doubtful passages cleered / by Alexander Ross.
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Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.
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London :: Printed by William Du-Gard for Richard Royston ...,
[1648]
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Raleigh, Walter, -- Sir, 1552?-1618. -- History of the world.
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Lib. 2. cap. 2. § 4.
EGypt is now called by the naturals in their own language Mezre] So the Arabians at this daie cal it Meser, and the Egyptian's first moneth of old was called Mesori; in Scripture it is called somtime Masor, as Isa. 19. 6. The rivers of Masor shall bee dried up. Kimchi explain's it the river of Mizraim, or Egypt. So * 1.1 in two other places; but wee Translate the word Masor Forts, or senced places, for so indeed the word signifieth, and Egypt was naturally fortified from the North by the sea, from the South by the cataracts of Nilus, and mountains of Ethiopia; from the East and West by de∣sarts. Or Egypt may bee called Masor from the
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narrowness thereof, for it is narrow and long from the sea to Syene; and becaus Egypt is divided into two parts, to wit the bigher, where Nilus hath but one channel, & the lower, where it is divided into di∣vers channels, called by the Greeks Δ delta, from the triangular figure it make's, hence it is called Mis∣rajim in the Dual Number.