The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant.

CHAP. XIV.

* 1.1AFRICA I make to be my second Division of the World, which is found to be a Peninsula, almost incompassed round, having the Red Sea on the East, the Atlantique Ocean on the West, the Southern Ocean on the South, and the Mediter∣ranean on the North; and where the Sea is defective, to make it a compleat Island, there is a little Isthmus of 20 leagues that tieth it to Asia, which sundry Princes in former ages intended to trench through, to have the benefit of both those Seas united, but have desisted, as finding the Sea in the Red Sea Gulph to be higher than the Land of Aegypt, by nature all flat, level, and plain, and so might thereby overflow and drown all Aegypt.

* 1.2Africa is at this day usually divided into eight parts, which are,

• 1. Barbary.
• 2. Numidia.
• 3. Lybia.
• 4. Negrita.
• 5. Aethiopia Interior.
• 6. Aethiopia Exterior.
• 7. Aegypt, and
• 8. The Islands thereof.

* 1.3And first, Barbary is now divided into four Kingdoms, which are, first, Tunis; second, Ar∣gier; third, Fesse; and fourth, Morocco; the Commodities these Countries send abroad, I shall speak of when I come to these particular places.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Africa, and the Provin∣ces thereof.
• * 1.2

  Divided in∣to eight parts.
• * 1.3

  Barbary 1.