Purchas his pilgrimes. part 1 In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part.

§. III. The Quantitie, and Bounds.

THe quantitie of Europe is much larger, especially towards the North, then Ptolemey and [ 10] the elder Geographers haue written. At Wardhouse, and the North Cape, the longest day is reckoned two moneths and seuen houres, in 71. degrees 30. minutes, whereas at the Hill Calpe, one of Hercules Pillars, and at Cab•• Mai••i in Morea (accounted the most Southerne parts in 36. degrees) the day is but fourteene houres and an halfe at the longest. Much diffe∣rence hath beene about the Easterne Confines. Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, and others extend it to the Riuer Phasis, or that Isthmus betwixt the Euxine and Caspian Seas; Dionysius, Arrian••s, Di••dorus, Polybius, I••rnandes, adde nothing to the Riuer Tanais: which Ortelius passeth ouer and takes in both V••lga and all the Muscouites and Tartarian Hords, as farre as the Riuer Ob. Pto∣lemey imagineth a line from Tanais Northwards; which well agrees to the method of our Histo∣ry, as including the most part of the Russian Empire. All the other parts are bounded and washed by the Sea, Palus Maeotis, the Euxine, and Egean on the East inclining to the South; the [ 20] Mediterranean on the South, on the West and North the Ocean. Bertius numbers 2400. Italian miles in the latitude, and 3000. in the longitude.