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A DIATRIBE OF Travel.
TRavel in the Younger ſort, is a part of Education; in the Elder, a part of Experience. Sir Francis Bacon's Eſſays.
There is no Map like the view of the Country; One journey will ſhew a man more then any Deſcription can. He that ſearcheth Forreign Nations is becoming a Gentleman of the World. Felthams Reſolves of Travel.
Many Travellers returning to their own home, bring back only ſome vain Garbs and Faſhions, and are leavened with the ill Cuſtomes and Manners of the Countries they paſſed thorough. Vagari, Luſtrare, diſquirere qui vis poteſt, pauci indigare, diſcere, id eſt, vere perigrinari. Lip…i Epiſtola ad Lanoium de Peregrinatione Italica. *The Marchioneſs of New-Caſtles Orations, part three.I think it moſt requiſite and fit, that none ſhould Travel without leave of the State, or Publick Council; and at their return ſhould be accountable to the State and Publick Council of their Travels, and the advantages they have made: Dr. Hall in his Firſt Decade of Epiſtles, Epiſtle 8th, giving advice to the Earl of Eſſex for his Travel, ſaith, There is nothing can quit the labour and coſt of Travel, but the gain of Wiſdom; when young Nobles came to take their leaves of our late King Charles, before they Travelled into Forreign parts; He thus councelled them; My Lord, keep alwaies the beſt Company, and be ſure never to be idle.
Alſted in his Systema Mnemonicum, l. 4. De Geographia, Zeilerus before his Itenerary of Spain and Portugal Monſieur de Sorbiere in his Lettres & Diſcours Lettre 85. Mr. Palmer in his Traveller, part ſecond, and Sir Francis Bacon in his Eſſays, give directions to Travellers, and ſhew what things are fit to be obſerved by them.
Neugebavarus and Loyzius have written in Latine 'De Peregrinatione.Erpenious hath put out a little Treatiſe, De Peregrinatione Gallica. Lipſius, another, De Peregrinatione ltalica. Gaſper Ens hath publiſhed Deliciae Apodemicae.
Dr. Hall hath written in Engliſh of Travelling, his Tract is ſtiled, Quo vadis. Sir Balthaſar Gerbier hath Subſidium Peregrinantibus.
Mr. Howell hath put out inſtructions for forreign Travel.
Mr. Palmer alſo hath written an Eſſay of the means how to make our Travels into forreign Countries profitable and honourable; he dedicated it to Prince Henry.
Jones hath put out inſtructions for Travellers.
The Merchant propoſeth to himſelf bonum utile in his Travel, and brings home exotick Commodities, as Wine, Fruit, Spices, Metals, precious Stones, Silk, and ſuch like, ſerving both for uſe and luxury.
Impiger extremos Currit mercatas ad Indos, Horat. Epiſt, 1. lib. 1.
The diſſolute rich young Gentleman, bonum jucundum; The well-bred Gentleman; bonum honeſtum, or honor, that he may accompliſh himſelf for the ſervice of his *Travelling is an honourable or honeſt action of men into forreign States, chiefly for a publick good to the Country of which ſuch are. …a. l. meſ. Est Peregrinatio profectio quedam, occupiditate ac deſideri, Extra Loca perluſtrandi, in vicendi & cognoſcendi instituta, ad bonum aliquod inde Acquirendum, quod vel patriae & amicis, vel nobis ipſis privatim prodeſſe poſſit. Newgebaverus de Peregrinatione. Eſt Peregrinatio nihil aliud quam ſtudium per luſtrandi terras Exoticus & Inſulas ab homine idoneo ſuſcipiendum ad artem vel ea acquirenda quae uſui & Emollumento patriae vel Rei eſſe publicae poſſunt. Loyſies De Peregrinatione c. 1. Ve…it Peregrinus a Peregre aut Pereger quod dicitur quaſi per agrum, unde & peragrare quaſi multos agros pererrare, Voſſ… Etymol. Ling…ae …atinae.Country.
In ſuch a one going to Travel, there is required.
Firſt, A competent age, that he be above 18 or 20 years old, although the years of 14 or 15 are more proper for learning the true accent of any Language, and all exerciſes belonging to the body.
Secondly, That he hath the Latine Tongue, and ſome skill in the Liberal Sciences.
Thirdly, †See Mr. Evelius account of Architecture, and Junius's art of Painting, l 2. c. 8. Painting and Sculpture are the Politeſt, and Nobleſt of antient Arts; what Art can be more helpful or pleaſing, to a Philoſophical Traveller, Philoſ. Tranſact. Vol. 3. p. 785.That he be skilful in Architecture, able ſo well to Limn or Paint; as to take in paper the Scituation of a Caſtle or a City; or the Platform of a Fortification.
Fourthly, That he be well grounded in the true Religion, leſt he be ſeduced and perverted. Gal. 4.1. O fooliſh Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you ſhould not obey the truth, Galli a peregrinando nomen habent; For Vuallen in the Teutonick Tongue, ſignifies peregrinari, alluding therefore to this Etymoligy: He chides the Galatians for their wandering in Religion, q. d. You like Travellers, often change your Opinions about the Doctrine of Truth. I know a Noble Perſon who being in France well acquainted with a Popiſh Gentleman, once when the other left him, he wiſht that he were as good a Hugonot as himſelf; the other immediately after ſent him a Defence of their Religion, to which he replyed, and ſhewed the ſame unto me: I more diſliked the Popiſh Religion when I was in France then before, and more eſteemed the Proteſtants, ſince at Nants, and ſome places, there were ſcarce any French Proteſtants.
Fifthly, He ſhould be firſt well acquainted with his own Country, before he go abroad; as to the places and Government.
If any came heretofore to the Lords of the Council for a Licenſe to Travel; the old Lord Treaſurer Burleigh, would firſt examine him of England; if he found him ignorant, he would bid him ſtay at home, and know his own Country firſt.
Sixthly, It were of uſe to inform himſelf (before he undertakes his Voyage,) by the beſt Chorographical and Geographical Map of the Scituation of the country he goes to, both in it ſelf and Relatively to the Univerſe, to compare the Vetus & Hodierna Regio, and to carry with him the Republicks of the Nations to which he goes; and a Map of every Country he intends to travel thorough.
Seventhly, Before his Voyage, *This good and Chriſtian Counſel is given by Martinus Zeilerus in his Apodemical Canons before his Itenerary of Spain and Portugal.He ſhould make his peace with God, Receive the Lords Supper, ſatisfie his Creditors if he be in debt; Pray earneſtly to God to proſper him in his Voyage, and to keep him from danger, and if he be ſui juris, he ſhould make his laſt will, and wiſely order all his affairs, ſince many that go far abroad, return not home.
In the Survey of a Countrey, theſe things are obſervable.
Firſt, †Finis Peregrinationis ſit notitia ſextuplex, Ling…ae Regionis Religionis Rerum geſtarum morum & Clarorum virorum. Erpenius De Peregrination… Gallica.The Name and its derivation, the Latitude and Longitude of the place, the Temperature of the Climate, the goodneſs or barrenneſs of the Ground, the populouſneſs or ſcarcity of the People, the limits of the Countrey, how it is bounded by Sea or Land, or both, the Commodities, Natural, Artificial, the Diſ-commodities, either Imperfections or Wants, the Manners, Shape, Language and Attire of the People, their Building, their Havens and Harbours, the Religion and Government, the Hiſtory of the Countrey and Families.
2. The Courts of †Jones in his Inſtructions to Travellers mentions twelve generals. 1. Coſmographie. 2. Aſtronomy. 3. Geography. 4. Chorography. 5. Topography. 6. Husbandry. 7. Navigation. 8. The Political State. 9. The Eccleſiaſtical State. 10. Literature. 11. Hiſtories. 12. Chronicles, and under every one of theſe Heads, hath ſeveral particulars.Princes are to be ſeen and obſerved, eſpecially when they give audience to Embaſſadors, the Courts of Juſtice whiles they ſit and hear Cauſes, and ſo of Conſiſtories Eccleſiaſtick, the Churches and Monuments therein, the Walls and Fortifications, of Cities and Towns, Antiquities and Ruines, Libraries, Colledges, Diſputations and Lectures where they are, Shiping and Navies, Houſes and Gardens of State and pleaſure near great Cities; Armories, Arſenals, Magazines, Exchanges, Burſes, Ware-houſes; Exerciſes of Horſemanſhip, Fencing, Training of Soldiers, and the like; Treaſuries of Jewels and Robes, Cabinets, and rare Inventions.
Aubertus Miraeus in the Life of Lipſius, ſaith, that when he came firſt to Rome, he ſpent all his time (when he was at leiſure) in viewing the ſtones and antient places, and other rarities there, and ſpent his time in the Popes Vatican Library, in comparing together the Manuſcripts of Seneca, Tacitus, Plautus, Propertius, and other Antients. He viewed alſo other famous Libraries publick and private.
Thirdly, The choice Herbs †The Gardens, ſorts of Herbs, Flowers, Arbours, Knots, Mounts. The Orchards, ſorts of Trees, Apples, Pears, Plumbs, Berries, Spices, Orrenges, Lemmons, Figs; the Vines, Vine-yards; ſorts of Wine and Drinks. Jones.and Plants, Beaſts, Birds, Fiſhes, and Inſects proper to that Country, are to be taken notice of; Minerals, Metals, Stones, and Earths; their Proverbs alſo ſhould be obſerved, in which much of the wiſdom of a Nation is found.
Fourthly, Learned men, and ſuch as have abilities in any kind, are worthy to be known, and the beſt Books there, are to be inquired after. Men that Travel muſt be very cautious both of their ſpeech and demeanour; The Italian Proverb ſaith, For a man to travel ſafely thorough the world, It behoveth him to have a Faulcons Eye, an Aſſes Ears, a Monkies Face, Merchants Words, a Camels Back, a Hogs Mouth, and Deers Feet.
Sir Henry Wotton in his Letters, mentions twice the anſwer that was given him by Alberto Scipioni, when he beg'd his advice, how he might carry himſelf ſecurely at *The Aethiopians ſay, when thou ſhalt go into another Country, Ne ſis ſicut tu, Eſto ſicut illi in Italiâ tota tria hac mihi ſerva, Frons tibi aperta, Lingua parca mens Clauſam. Lipſn Epiſtola ad Lanoyum. In peregrinatione vitam agentibus hoc evenit, ut multa hoſpitia habeant nulla amicitias, Seneca Epiſt. ad Lucilium Epiſt. 11. Peregrim autem & in cola officium eſt, nihil praeter ſuum negotium agere, nihil de alio inquirere, miniméque in alienâ eſſe Republica Curioſum. Tull. Offic. l. 1.Rome, Signor Arrigomio (ſays he) Penſieri Stretti, Et il viſo Sciolto, Your thoughts cloſe, and your Countenance looſe, will go ſafely over the whole world.
Fifthly, †The prime Italian Dialect is Lingua Toſcana in Bocca Romana, the Tuſcane Tongue in a Romane mouth. Howels Inſtructions for Forreign Travels.Make choice of the beſt places for attaining of the Language, as Valladolid for the Spaniſh, Orleans, or Blois for the French, Florence or Sienna for the Italian, Lipſick or Heidelberg for the High-Dutch Tongues: in theſe places the beſt Language is ſpoken.
Abraham Ortelius in his Itinerarium Belgiae, perſwades Travellers to note, and obſerve what they ſee moſt memorable; Peregrinationes nostrae futurae nobis erunt longe gratiores, ſi una cum itineribus animadvertamus, & annotemus in Chartis, ſi quid obſervatione dignum occurrerit.
What profit Travelling brings to an Architect, Vitruvius ſhews, what to a Souldier, Vegetius, what to a Limner or Statuary, the Horſes of Phidias *Theſe with other Colloſſi Statues and Pictures are yet at Rome.and Praxiteles made by art, witneſs; Merchandiſe is almoſt maintained by Travel; How much are Coſmography, Topography and Aſtronomy, improved and furthered by Travel.
Change of Air by Travelling, after one is uſed unto it, is good: And therefore great Travellers have been long liv'd: The Countries which have been obſerved, to produce long livers, are theſe; Arcadia, Aetolia, India, on this ſide Ganges, Braſil, Topropane, Bitain, Ireland, with the Iſlands of the Arcades, and Hebrides, Sir Francis Bacon's Hiſtory of Life and Death.
How much may the art of Navigation further the ſpreading of the Goſpel! Rem profecto faſtigio ſuo dignam principes fecerint, ſi ſaſſeis non ad divitias indagandas, quae hodie ſola fere periculoſarum & longin quarum navigationem ille cebra est, ſed ad verbi dominici promulgationem inter illos populos ad huc veri luce deſtitutos, miſſis ad hoc theologis propagandam inſtruerent, ſi quid inde utilitatis poſtea ex commercii libertate in publico rediret, in lucro ponentes & acceſſionis loco accipientes, nam ex eo eſſet ut Dei gratia, ſine qua nihil poſſumus, expeditionibus illis aſpiraret, & aſpirante illa citra ſanguinem & indigenarum vexationem res in his regionibus, quantum ad religionem & civilem adminiſtrationem felicioribus auſpiciis, adminiſtrarentur, quam ab Hiſpanis factum eſt, qui avaritia Caeci xxx. Annos mutuis lanienis miſeros indigenas in Indiis & ad extremum ſeipſos graſſante inter eos divina ultione confecerunt. Thuan. Hiſt. lib. 64.Dan. 12.4. Many ſhall run to and fro, and knowledge ſhall be increaſed, that is, ſay ſome Expoſitors by Travelling to and fro, as the Waldenſes to learn and propagate the Truth, knowledge ſhall be multiplied in the earth in the laſt time. The ſame word is uſed, Numb. 11.8. Of the Children of Iſrael going about to gather Manna, and of the Devils going to and fro, Job. 1. and 7. Manifeſtly intimating, ſaith, Sir Francis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum l. 2. c. 10. Et Nov. Org. l. 1. Aphor. 93. that God would ſo order it by his providence, that the paſſing through the world (which is now fulfilled by ſo many far Navigations) and the increaſing of Sciences ſhould fall into the ſame age.
Orbis terrarum factus eſt hac noſtra aetate, mirum in modum faeneſtratus atque patens Baconus De Augmentis Scientiarum, l. 2. c. 10. Noſtris temporibus & novi orbis partes complures, & veteris orbis extrema undique innoteſcunt. Baconus Nov. Org. l. 1. Aphor. 72.
In the Philoſophical Conferences of the Virtuoſi of France Conference 87. It is determined whether Travel be neceſſary to an ingenuous man. He ſaith there, if you except Embaſſies, Imperetam anima homo, qui Circum ſcribitur natalis ſoli fine, Seneca.in which the good of the State drowns all other conſidera…ions, thoſe that would Travel muſt be young and ſtrong, rich and well borne, to get any good by their Travells.
La Moth le Vair in his Opuſcules Lettre 6. Humiles iſtae & plebeae animae domi reſident & affixae ſunt ſuae terrae: illa divinior eſt quae coelum imitatur & gaudet motu. Lipſii Epiſtola de Peregrinatione Italica. Hodie magnum dedecus eſt Germanis patrios tantum noſſe mores; praecipua vero pars laudis exteras regiones, ad minimum, Italiam, Gallias, Hiſpaniam, Belgiam, Angliam, ve per luſtralle. Balduini Oratio Panegyrica.Speaks of the profit of Voyages, and Lettre 7. of the unprofitableneſs of them, he ſaith in the ſixth Letter, that Travelling is the beſt School for life, in ſeveral reſpects: The French ſay Ʋn honeſte homme, Eſt un homme meſte, an honeſt or wiſe man is a mixt man, that is, one who hath ſomthing in him, in point of knowledge of all Nations.
Charles the fifth made Nine Voyages, The States of the Empire. Dial. 1.into Germany, Six into Spain, Seven into Italy, four into France, Ten into the Low-Countries, Two into England, as many into Affrica, he alſo paſſed the Ocean and Mediterranean Seas eleven times.
The Emperour Hadrian travelled over a great part of the world, Linguetus non minus doctrina quàm diuturna totius Europae peragratione Clarus Bodini methodus Ad Facilem Hiſtoriarum Cognitionem. Polybius nequid falſi ſcriberet imprudens, in longe ſemotas profectus eſt oras, eaſque ſuis luſtravit oculis Diodor. Sicul. Ex teſtimonia Juſtini martyris, annos triginta Europiam atque Aliam luſtravit Pauli Poet. not. in Marc. & Com. Imperat. Vitam. Proſper Alpinus olim Aegyptum magno cum fructu ſtudioſae juventutis peragravit. Pignorii menſae Iſiacae expoſitio Pythagoras quidem inter Barbaros diſcendi cauſa peregrinatus eſt, atque ut nonnulli tradiderunt, Prophetam Ezechielem vidit Douneaeus in Chryſoſt. Vide Selden. de jure, &c. Lib. 1. Cap. 2.and with his Head bare, though it was cold and wet, and ſo fell into a deadly dſeaſe; whence the Verſes of Florus the Poet, whom Salmaſius (in his notes on Aelius Spartianus) thinks to be the Hiſtorian, who elegantly wrote the Epitome of the Roman affairs and lived under Hadrian.
Ego nolo Caeſar eſſe,
Ambulare per Britannos,
Scythicas pati pruinas.
I will in no wiſe Caeſar be,
To walk along in Britainie,
The Scythick froſts to feel and ſee.
To which the Emperour anſwered in the like ſtrain
Ego nolo Florus eſſe,
Ambulare per tabernas,
Latitare per popinas,
Culices pati rotundos.
And I will never Florus be,
To walk from ſhop to ſhop, as he,
To lurk in Taverns ſecretly,
And there to feel the Rome-wine fly
But (ſaith Stuckius) how many Chriſtian Princes and Nobles are now to be found, In his Scholia in Arriani Periplum Pontei Euxini. William Poſtel a French-man, was a great Traveller and Mathematician.more like Florus than the Emperour Adrian?
They that have written the Iteneraries of the Apoſtles, See 2 Cor, 11.25.have obſerved that St. Paul Travel'd much farther, than either St. Peter or St. John, as they have deſcribed the circuite; and Purchas both Divines, of which laſt, Dr. Caſaubon of Credulity and Incredulity, part firſt, ſaith, a book of very good worth with them that know the right uſe, and more valued abroad, than it is at home by many. Of the Navigation of the French into America, Johannes Lerius hath written well of the †Probaebile eſt ideo poetas fixiſſe Aeneam, Herculem, The ſeum, Pyrithoum, Ʋlyſſem & Orpheum, ad inferos deſcendiſſe, propter longinquas Eorum Navigationes quibus a Conſpectu hominum diu ſeparati, mox reduces, Exiſtimati ſunt eo perveniſſe ſi animae poſt mortem degunt Moryſoti Orbis. Maritimi Hiſt. l. 1. c. 33.Navigations of the Portugals and Spaniards, See Guicciardines Hiſtory of Italy, lib. 6. Of thoſe of the Engliſh, Hackluit ſpeaks ſufficiently. Of the profit which comes to men by Navigations, ſee Fourniers Hydrography, l. 4. c. 9. and of the Faith enlarged and amplified by means of Navigation: See the ſame book, chap. 6. There are alſo the Navigations and Voyages of Leyis Vertomannus, and Cadamuſti Navigatio ad terras ignotas, of whom Peter Martyr ſaith, in the ſeventh Chapter of his ſecond Decade, that he ſtole certain An notations out of the three firſt Chapters of his firſt Decade, written to Cardinal Aſcanius and Acimboldus, ſuppoſing that he would never have publiſhed the ſame.
Dr. Caſaubon (in his firſt part of Credulity and Incredulity, in things Natural, Civil and Divine) ſaith, I have (as all men, I think have, that are any thing curious) read ſeveral relations of all the known parts of the world, written by men of ſeveral Nations and Profeſſions, Learned and Unlearned, in divers Languages; by men of ſeveral ages, ancient and late.
There are divers Hodaeporica Voyages, and Itineraries, Antient, Modern, in Proſe, Verſe, in Latin, French, Engliſh.
†Vixit Benjamin ut ejus interpres benedictus Arias… teſtatur, anno ab orbe Condito. 4033. Druſ. Obſervat. Sac. l. 13. c. 2.Benjamin Tidelenſis, his Itinerary. He was a Jew, and travelled over a great part of the world. Ecchellenſis in his Preface to his Hiſtoria Arabum ſeems to ſlight him: Conſtantine l'Empereur (who hath publiſht notes upon him) ſaith, in his Diſſertat. Ad Lectorem. Cum judicio legendum hoc itinerarium, nec auctori in omnibus habenda fides, praeſertim ubi ſuorum conditionem ac statum extollit: plurima tamen notatu digna paſſim occurrunt, ut quae de locorum diſtantiis aliiſque annotat.
There is Cotovici Itinerarium Hieroſolymitanum & Syriacum.
Buſbequii *Angeriue Giſtenus Busbequius multis legationibus Elarus. Aubertimiraei Vita Juſti Lipſii.Itinerarium Conſtantinopolitanum & Amaſianum.
Douza de Itinere Conſtantinopolitano.
Furerii Itenerarium Aegypti, Arabiae, &c.
Antoninus his †Seu Antonii, ſeu Antonini, ſeu Aethici, Itinerarium Zeileri Hiſtorici, Chronologi, &c. Geographi. Antonini Itinerarium ſive Aethici potius Voſſii not ae in Fragmentum Peripli Ponti Euxini.Itinerary (if it be his) for both Thuanus and Voſſius De Hiſtoricis Latinis, l. 3. c. 2. and others, ſeem to queſtion it, with Mr. Burtons Commentary.
There are Les Fameux Voyages De Pietro De le Valle Surnomme Illuſtre Voyageur in three Quartoes. His Travels into Eaſt-India, and Arabia Deſerta, are Tranſlated into Engliſh by Havers, and ſo I think are the other in three Quartoes.
Voyage d'Orient du Philippe Carme Dechauſe Sieur de Loyer, his Relation de voyage de Levant De la Haie of the Levant, and alſo Blunts voyage into the Levant. Divers Voyages du P. Alexandre De Rhodes.
Voyages du Seigneur de Villamont in three Books.
Voyage de la terre Sainte.
Voyage du Duc de Rohan en Italie, Alemagne, Pays has uni, Angleterre & Eſcoſſe.
Jo. Hugenvans Linſchotens Diſcourſe of Voyages into the Eaſt and Weſt-Indies, whom Mr. Boyle *In his Sceptical Chymist.ſtiles the ſober relater of his Voyages.
Sir Francis Drakes Voyages. Thuanus calls our *He was the next after Magellanus, that ſailed round about the World. See Camdens Britannia in Devonſhire.Drake, Celeberrimus univerſi orbis lustrator. Paulus Venetus hath written both an Itinerary, and three Books, de Religionibus Orientalibus.
Some think him ſomewhat fabulous for what he reports of Quinſay. Dolendum eſt Marci Pauli Vemeti Itinerari totum mendaciis ab impoſtore quodam contaminatum. Quis enim credit illa quae de Quinſai ſcribit, pontes in ea lapideos duodecim mille altiſſimos ſub nixos fornicibus fuiſſe ita ut …ves erectis malis ea pernavigare potuerint. Hornius de Orig. Gent. Amerba. c. 3.Dr. Heylin in his Coſmography in Madagaſcar one of the Afracan Iſles, for what he relates of the Bird called Ruck, of ſuch incredible ſtrength and bi…neſs, that it could ſnatch up an Elephant, as eaſily as a Kite doth a Chicken.
Mr. Burton in his Melancholy, part 2. Sect. 2. Member 3. p. 244. ſaith, I would cenſure all Plinies, Solinus, Strabo's, Sir John Mandevils, Olaus Magnus, Marcus Polus, lies.
Apollo ſaid to the Author of the China Hiſtory, that he ſhould reduce the immenſe Metropolitan City of ſo many Kingdoms, inhabited by many millions of men to ſome credible meaſure; and particularly, that he ſhould bring the Palace of that King, which he had affirmed to be many miles long, to ſuch a form, as Vitruvius ſhould not laugh at him for it; ſaying, that if that building were ſo great as he had deſcribed it to be, the Halls muſt needs be half a mile long, and the Chambers little leſs; which if it were true, the whole Academy of Architects had reaſon to ſay, that to bring the meat but to the Table, the ſervants of ſo great a King muſt ride Poſt. Boccalini his Advertiſements *A very ingenuous piece much prized by Mr. Selden, and which coſt him his life.from Pernaſſus. Century 2d. 16th. Advertiſement.
Yet Mr. Boyle in his experiments touching Cold, Title 19. ſaith of him, a writer not always half ſo fabulous as many think him, and Scickard in his Tarich. p. 185. ſaith, Marcus Polus Venetus, Minime vanus author, Cujus Narrata pridem incredibilia, quotidie magis magiſque verificantur.
There is Relation du Voyage de Muſcovie, Mr. Terries Voyage into the Eaſt-Indies, and the Hiſtory of the Caribee Iſlands, which I have ſeen in French, and is tranſlated into Engliſh by J. Davis.Tartarie & de Perſe du Sieur Olearius Secretaire de Duc de Holſtein. Both the Author and Book are commended by Bochart in his late learned Treatiſe de Animalibus Scripturae. It is now tranſlated into Engliſh. Mr. Boyle ſtiles him the Applauded Writer Olearius. In his Experimental Hiſtory of Colours, Experiment 9. He ſtiles him the Judicious Olearius, who was twice imployed as a publick Miniſter.
There is the world ſurveighed, or Vincent le Blanck's Travels; He ſpent fifty years making ten or twelve Voyages almoſt through all the parts of the World. Mr. Boyle calls him that Rambler about the world.
There are alſo Moryſons Travels, George Sandy's Travels, and Sir Edwine Sandes his Relation of the State of Religion in the Weſtern parts of the world, both very good.
Biddulph's Travels.
Herbet's Travels.
Monſieur de Monfart's Travels.
The Preacher's Travels.
Coriat's Crudities.
Lithgow's Travels.
Ferdinand Mendez a Pinto's Travels; who five times ſuffered Shipwrack, was ſixteen times ſold, and thirteen times made a ſlave, and ſpent one and twenty years in Travelling.
Sir John Mandevil's Travels.
He Travelled thirty three, thirty four years, ſay ſome.
He was in Scythia, the greater and leſs, Armenia, Egypt, both Lybia's, Arabia, Syria, Media, Meſopotamia, Perſia, Chaldaea, Greece, Illyricum, Tartary, and divers other Kingdoms of the world.
He committed his whole Travel of thirty three years to writing, in three divers Tongues, Engliſh, French and Latine. Purchas his Pilgrimage. part 3. l. 3. c. 6. out of Baleus.
Joannes Mandevile, Non minimam Conſecutus eſt laudem deſcribendo regiones, vel opere de re medica. Voſſius 'De Hiſt. Lat. l. 3. ca. 2.
B. †De Britannicarum Eccleſiarum primordiis c. 13.Ʋſher, ſpeaking of Cloughte Kilti in Cork, ſaith, In quo fundamenta conſpiciuntur ampliſſimae domus, quam nobilis illius Johannes Magnavillani (ſive de Mandevile 34. annorum peregrinatione notiſſimi) fuiſſe tradunt accolae.
Quibus relationibus olim fides nullatenus fuit adhibita, Spizelius de re iteraria Sinenſium, ſect. 2.
Yet Sir Walter Raleigh in his Hiſtory of the World, part 4. l. 4. c. 2. ſect. 21. and Dr. Heylin in his Coſmography (as he ſomewhat improperly *Non parvum errorem Commiſiſſe mihi videnturi, qui glo…i terrae & aquae deſcriptionem, propium, particulareque Geographiae nomen habentem Communi, generalique nomine Coſmographiam appellant. Barocii Praefatio ad Coſmographiam.ſtiles his great Folio) ſpeaking of India, p. 882. ſhew, how he was honoured abroad, and how many of his relations (though eſteemed fabulous by ſome) were ſince confirmed by the Portugals.
Daviti in his book entitled, Le Monde, Mentions Malherbe for a great Traveller, ſpending twenty ſeven years in divers Voyages almoſt through all the parts of the World.
Purchas in his ſecond part of his Pilgrims, l. 10. c. 1. Speaks of Damian a Goes, a Portugal, who did ſee, ſpeak, and was converſant with all the Kings, Princes, Nobles, and chief Cities of all Chriſtendome, in the ſpace of twenty two years.
Mr. Greaves in his Pyramidographia, Mentions the Travels of Monſieur de Breves Embaſſador at Conſtantinople, les Voyages de Monſieur de Breves, which I have purchaſed from France.
Alexandre de Rhodes, in the third part of his Voyages, ch. 13. Speaks of Monſieur de Boulaye, which hath publiſhed, Ʋn tres beau liure de ſes voyages, ou il faut voir ec autant de fidelite, Yanaquillus Faber in his notes on the ſixth book of Lucretius c. 1. ſaith, Lambertus Maſſilienſis, hath left a little Book, De Peregrinatione Aegyptiaca, printed at Paris, which he undertook 1626.que de nettete d'eſprit, la, Conduite qu' il a monſtree ſans des Royaumes ſi differents.
He hath travelled over (ſaith he) the greateſt part of Europe, Aſia, and Africa. I have ſeen that French Book alſo.
There is Alex. Geraldini Itinerarium ad regiones ſub Aquinoctiali, in ſixteen Books.
There are alſo Relations of Divers Curious Voyages by Monſieur Thevenot, There are alſo the Republicks of ſeveral nations in little portable books.in three Tomes, and Relation Du voyage, de l'Eveque de Breyte, per la Turquie, la Perſe, les Indes, &c. juſques au Royaume de Siam, & autres lieux par M. de Bourges, Preſtre, &c. Both mentioned in the Philoſophical Tranſactions. I have muſtered up theſe ſeveral Itineraries and Voyages, both becauſe I have peruſed moſt, if not all of them, (except the two laſt) when I was about my great book of Geography, though it be not yet printed. And becauſe I ſuppoſe Travellers may hereby furniſh themſelves with the beſt writers of thoſe parts of the world, whether they intend to go, either to inſtruct them about thoſe places before they go, or to carry with them: Who ever ſince the beginning of things and men, hath been ſo often by royal imployment ſent Embaſſador to ſo many Princes ſo diſtant in place ſo different in rites, as Sir Robert Sherlie! There are the three Engliſh Brothers, and Sir Robert Sherley his Embaſſy into Poland, both Printed. See Finets Obſervat. page 136, 137. 172, 173, 174, to 177.Two Emperours, Rodolph and Ferdinand, two Popes, Clement and Paul, twice the King of Spain, twice the Polonian, the Muſcovite alſo, have given him Audience. And twice alſo (though not the leaſt for a born ſubject to be Embaſſador to his Soveraign) his Majeſty hath heard his Embaſſage from the remote Perſian. Purchas his Pilgrims, part 2. l. 10. c. 10.
Dr. Nicholas Wotton (Uncle to Sir Henry Wotton) was Privy-Counceller to four ſucceſſive Soveraignes, Viz. King Henry the 8th. Edward the 6th. Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth. He was nine times Embaſſadour for the Crown of England, to the Emperour, the Kings of France and Spain, and other Princes. Camdens Hiſt. of Q. Elizabeth.
Some have inſtanced in ſeveral Engliſh Embaſſadours, how well they have acquitted themſelves; but I ſhall ſingle out one as very deſerving.The Appendix to the Hiſtory of Mr. Medes life.
Sir Thomas Rowe, after many Ambaſſages to almoſt all the Princes, and States in Chriſtendome; (all which were managed with admirable Dexterity, Succeſs and Satisfaction) was laſt of all Ambaſſador Extraordinary to Ferdinand the third, Emperour of Germany; who gave him this Character, I have met with many Gallant Perſons of many Nations, but I ſcarce ever met with an Ambaſſador till now.
Biſhop Bedell was Chaplain to Sir Henry Wotton at Venice. Dr. Featly, to Sir Thomas Edmonds in France. Dr. John Burgeſſe, to Sir Horatio Vere, in Germany.
Mr. Boyle in his Preface to his Experiments, touching Cold, commends Captain James his Voyages, it being ſcarce, and not to be met with, in Purchas's Tomes (having been written ſome years after they were finiſhed) and his Voyages publiſhed by the laſt Kings command; He ſtiles him in his Book, that Ingenuous NavigatorHe being bred in the Univerſity, and acquainted with the Mathematicks.
He commends alſo Mr. Ligon of the Barbado's, Neither of theſe two have I ſeen.and ſtiles him ingenious Mr. Ligon,
But enough (if not too much) of this.
Geographers, who write of the four parts of the Earth, are as large in Europe, as in the other three, Aſia, Africa, and America, To which one part, all learning ſeemeth now to be in a manner confined; which within this hundred, or two hundred years, hath produced ſo many able men of all profeſſions; Divines, Lawyers, Phyſicians, and Philoſophers; Papiſts and Proteſtants.
Bolton in his Nero Caeſar. c. 29. ſect. 1. ſpeaking of ancient Rome, ſaith, The wonder of the feat did not grow from the greatneſs only, but from the innumerable ornaments of publick, and private works, erected for uſe, delight, and glory, diſperſed over all the fourteen wards, or regions thereof. Temples, Forums, Libraries, Therms, Aquaducts, Theaters, Amphitheaters, Circi, Porticus, Arches, Columns, Statues, Palaces, and the reſt, whoſe bare names ſcarce remaining, do fill up Volums with their inventories.
The beſt Circuit a Traveller can take, is to go through Holland towards Germany, thereby to ſatisfie his curioſity by degrees, for Germany will afford more ſatisfaction than the Low-Countries; France more then Germany, Italy more then France, Gerbiers ſubſidium Peregrinantibus.
Paris, Rome, and Conſtantinople, are the Court of the World; Venice Geneva, and Lisbon, the City; Provence, Andaluzia, and Italy the Garden, Africk, and America, the Deſart and Wilderneſs.
Flecknoes Relation of twenty years Travels, Letter 22.
Johnſon in his Relation of the moſt famous Kingdoms. l. 1. of Travel, adviſeth a Traveller to take heed of the Pride of Spain, Dr. Hall thinks Italy a dangerous place for Youth. Ʋrſin, in a Gratulatory Epiſtle to a friend returned out of Italy, addes, Ex cloaca diabolorum. Neceſſe est peregri…aturam habere duos ſaccos, patientiae unum, pecuniae alterum. Commenii Praxis Senicae par. 5. Actus 4. S…ena. 1.the Poyſon of Italy, the Treaſon of France, and the drink of Flanders.
Thoſe who have a deſire to travel to Jeruſalem ſhould take heed to themſelves; that they make no Shipwrack of Conſcience, for if they come not well commended, or well monyed, or both, there is no being for them, except they partake with them in their Idolatrous Services. Purchas his Pilgrimage, part 2. l. 8. ch. 9.
Lud. Bartema Relates, that they that Travel over the Deſarts of Arabia, which are all covered with light and fleeting Sands, ſo that no Track can ever be found, do make certain boxes of wood, which they place on Camels backs, and ſhut themſelves in them, to keep them from the Sands, and by the help of the Load-ſtone, like the Marriners Compaſs, they ſteer their Courſe over the vaſt and uncouth Deſarts.
The Latine, the French, the Sclavonick, and the Arabian Tongue, are known in many places, For Africa; Leo *Leo Af… in rebus Africanis fere inſtar omnium eſſe poteſt Hoſmanni mantica. Leo Africanus A man of no ſmall credit among them who are well verſed in the Hiſtory of the World. Dr. Caſaubon of Credulity and Incredulity part. 1. Some ſay Golnitz is the beſt Itinerary for France, & le Voiageur Irancois, Jodocus Sincerus his Itinerarium Gallia is well liked.is the beſt, for the Levant; Blunt is a good book to take with thee thither, and ſome others I have before-named; for Italie, Scotti & Capugnani Itinerarium Italiae, & Raimunds Mercurio Italico, will be uſeful; for France, Dallingtons View of France, and Mr. Evelins little book, for the Polity or Government; for Holland, Colnitzius, for Germany Zeiler.
Sir Benjamin Ruddierd (whoſe diſcourſe and ſpeeches were full of Apothegmes) was wont to ſay, France was a good Country to ride through, Let Italy glory in this, that it is for pleaſure the Garden of the World. It may be truly ſaid of great Britain, that it is the Court, and preſence Chamber of the great King, Eſa. 8.8. Ezek. 48.35. Surely few parts of all the Earth are like England, for the Showers of Heaven, and the Riches of the precious Ordinances of God. Mr. Baxters Direct. to the Converted, for their Eſtabliſhment.Italy a good Country to look upon, Spain a good Country to underſtand, but England a good Country to live in.
So wiſhing the Traveller a proſperous Voyage, There caſt Anchor.
A Diatribe OF MONY OR COYN.
Printed in the Year, MDCLXXI.