Prefent, and of his prefence many a fign

Still following thee, ftill compaffing thee round
With goodness and paternal love, his face
Express, and of his fteps the track divine.

Which that thou mayft believe, and be confirm'd 355
Ere thou from hence depart, know I am fent
To fhow thee what fhall come in future days
To thee and to thy offspring; good with bad
Expect to hear, fupernal grace contending
With finfulness of men; thereby to learn
True patience, and to temper joy with fear.
And pious forrow, equally inur’d.

By moderation either ftate to bear,
Profperous or adverfe; fo fhalt thou leadi
Safe thy life, and beft prepar'd endure
Thy mortal paffage when it comes.

Afcend

This hill; let Eve (for I have drench'd her eyes)
Here fleep below, while thou to forefight wak'ft;
As once thou fleptft, while fhe to life was form'd.
To whom thus Adam gratefully reply'd:
Afcend, I follow thee, fafe guide, the path
Thou lead'ft me', and to the hand of heav'n submit,
However chaft'ning, to the evil turn

My obvious breast, arming to overcome
By fuffering, and earn reft from labour won,
If fo I may attain. So both afcend

In the vifions of God. It was a hill

Of Paradife the higheft, from whofe top
The hemifphere of earth in cleareft ken

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Stretch'd out to th' amplest reach of profpect lay. 38Q Not high'er that hill, nor wider looking round, Whereon for different cause the tempter fet

Our fecond Adam in the wilderness,

To fhow him all earth's kingdoms, and their glory..
His eye might there command where-ever stood

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City of old or modern fame, the feat
Of mightiest empire, from the deftin'd walls
Of Cambalu, feat of Cathaian Can,
And Samarchand by Oxus, Temir's throne,
To Paquin of Sinæan kings, and thence
To Agra and Lahor of great Mogul,

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L. 388. Cambalu,] Camphala, or Camhala; Tart. i. e. the city of the great lord. A vaft city in the north of Tartary, the capital of Cathai or China, and the fame as Pekin; the refidence of the emperors of China fince A. D. 1404. It is about twenty-five or twenty-eight miles in compass, very populous, containing (as they report) 2,000,000 of fouls, rich, and of fo vaft a trade, that 1000 waggons, loaded with filk only, are imported every day. It hath twelve gates, divers royal palaces and stately temples.

Ibid. Can,] or Cham; Tart. the great lord, or emperor. It is an ancient title of honour given to the emperor of Tartary and China.

L. 389. Samarchand,] Mamarcand, or Samercant; Tart. anciently Shamarcand, Perf. i. e. razed or demolished by Shamare; having been once destroyed by one of that name, in his expedițion to China; others woody, being feated in a wood. It is the capital of Zagathy or Sogdiana, a fouthern province of Tartary, and the metropolis of all Tartary for many ages.

Ibid. Oxus.] Lat. Gr. i. e. fwift, like the Tigris, because it falls from very high mountains, and has a rapid stream. A great river in Tartary, rifing in mount Taurus; it parts Sogdiana and Margiana, and runs into the Cafpian fea on the east side.

Ibid. Temir,] or Timur-Lenc, by the Arabians, . and Temir Cuthi by the Tartars; Tart. i. e. happy or fortunate iron; because of his victorious fword; and Tamerlane by us.

L. 390. Paquin,] Pekin, or Pecheli; Chinefe, i. e. the northern court; because it is the North of China, as Nankin, i. e. the southern court, for the fame reafon. The capital city of the province of Pekin, and the metropolis of that vaft empire, fince the year 1404, thirty leagues from the famous wall, (which is 1200 miles long, fix fathom high, built in twenty-feven years by 7,050,000 men, to keep out, the Tartars, about A. M. 3728, and 300 years before Jefus Chrift,) in a fertile plain, in the form of a vast square, each fide being twelve Chinese lys or furlongs in length, i, e. 3600 paces, with twelve gates, ftately palaces and temples, wherein are idols of maffy gold, as big as the life.

L. 391. Agra.] Indian. The capital city of the province of Agra, larger than Dehli. (Mog. i. e. a vast extent,) and a great city in India; being nine miles, in the form of a half moon, with a mighty and admirable caftle. It stands upon the river Gemn or Gemini, on this fide the Ganges, and is the metropolis of the Mos gul's empire.

Down to the golden Cherfonefe, or where
The Perfian in Ecbatan fat, or fince
In Hifpahan, or where the Ruffian Czar
In Mofco, or the Sultan in Bizance,

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Ibid. Labor,] or Lhor; Perf. from the Heb. i. c. light. The capital city of the kingdom or province of Lahor, which contains feveral kingdoms. It is three leagues in length, yields 37 millions per annum to the Mogul; and there the emperors kept their court, from A. D. 1155, till they removed to Agra; fince, it is very much. diminished.

Ibid. Mogul,] or Moghol; Tart. i. e. white; because they defeended from the Moghol Tartars, or fome white men who invaded India, under a captain or king called Mogor, or Mogol, and erected a kingdom in Bengal, &c. about A. D. 1187.

L. 392. Cherfonefe,] Lat. Gr. i. e. a peninsula. A geographical term; because it is a piece of land furrounded with the fea, but at one place, which unites it to the continent or main land; an ifthmus.

L. 393. Perfian,] i. e. the emperor of Perfia, whose royal feat I was Ecbatan.

Ibid. Ecbatan,] or Ecbatana; Arab. i. e. of divers colours; because the walls and towers were built of feven different coloured ftones, which did caft a glorious fplendour. It is called Achematha, Efdr. vi. 2. and by the inhabitants Tebris, Cabin, now Tauris.

L. 394. Hifpahan,] by fome Hagiftan, by the Armenians Spubun, and now Ipahan, Perf. i. e. the happy city, or the city of the whites. The metropolis of all Perfia, in the province of Iraca or Erach, the ancient Parthia. It is feventy miles fouth from Casbin, eighty north from Ormus. Schach Abbas the emperor of Perfia fixed his royal feat there, beautified, enlarged and enriched it, and there his fucceffors have kept their court these 200 years past.

Ibid. Czar,] or Kfar, i. e. king; or, Sclavon. the emperor; a title of the emperors of Mufcovy or Ruffia. It was firft affumed by Iwan Wasielewitz, when he conquered the city of Cufcan, and was crowned there, A. D. 1552.

L. 395. Mofto,] or Mofkowa; Heb. from the Mofchi or Mofci; an ancient people, who defcended from Mefhech, the fon of Japhet, Gen. x. 2. Ezek. xxxviii. 3. and first inhabited the country of Colchis. It is the chief city of Mufcovy, upon the banks of the river Mofcow, and gives the name to that vaft empire in the north of Europe. This city is old, large, populous, and rich; built of wood, ill contrived, not paved, and was founded A. D. 1334.

L. 395. Sultan,] Turkish, because the Turks fettled there first, and afterwards broke through the Cafpian ftreights, and fettled in Armenia, about A. D. 844. At that time, the Cafpian fea was

Turcheftan-born; nor could his eye not ken
Th' empire of Negus to his utmost port
Ercoco, and the lefs maritime kings,
Mambaza, and Quiloa, and Melind,
And Sofala thought Ophir, to the realm.

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froze over thirteen feet deep, and men walked 100 miles on the ice of it. A kingdom or province of Zagathaian Tartary, lying between Great Tartary and the empire of the Great Mogul, on the caft of Cathay or Catha; having Tartaria Propria on the north, and Indoftan on the fouth, and on the caft fide of the Caf pian fea.

Ibid. Bizance,] Bizantium; from Bizas, the captain of the Megarean fleet, the firft founder of it. It was first called Lygus, from its founder; afterwards it was repaired by Paufanias king of Sparta, about A. M. 3307. An ancient city of Thrace, and the last in Europe on the Bofphorus Thracius. See B. II. 1. 1018. It was deftroyed by Sept. Severus, after a fiege of three years, and turned into a village about A. D. 196, to punish the citizens for revolting; but rebuilt, enlarged, and beautified by Conftantine the Great, who made it the royal feat of the Roman empire, which proved the ruin of it, and commanded it to be called New Rome, A. D. 300; but it is commonly called, after him, Constantinople, i. e. the City of Confiantine.

L. 397. Negus,] or Neguz; Ethiop. i. e. emperor. The emperor of Abyffinia, in Upper Ethiopia; a title which the Abyffines bestow upon their prince.

L. 398. Ercoco,] Erquico, Arquien, and by others Erroce; Ethiop. It is a fea port town of Ethiopia on the Red sea, near the Perfian ocean, with a fine harbour, and a very good trade, and was the utmost boundary of the vast Abyffinian empire, to the northcaft of Africa.

L. 399. Mombaza,] Monbaza, or Mombazza; Arab. For this, and feveral cities on that coaft, were built by a colony of the Arabs, who, about A. D. 930, settled a trade there. A very large and wealthy city, having a good trade, and is the capital of a smali kingdom of the fame name, in a little island, twelve miles in compafs; feventy miles from Melind, 150 leagues from Quiloa, near the line, in the eastern ocean; fubject to the emperor of Ethiopia in Zanguebar, but very fruitful and populous.

Ibid. Quiloa,] Kiloa; Ethiop. A capital, rich, and pleasant city, upon a river, and in an island of the fame name, between Mofambique and Melind, on the caft shore of Africa, near Zanguebar, in Ethiopia Inferior.

Ibid. Melind,] or Melinda; Ethiop. The capital of a small kingdom on the coast of Zanguebar, between Mombaza and Pata,. belonging to Ethiopia Superior, near the lake Calice.

L. 400. Sofala,] Sophala, Zophala; Ethiop. A petty kingdom. in Lower Ethiophia, between the river Magnice on the fouth, and

Of Congo, and Angola fartheft fouth;

Or thence from Niger flood to Atlas mount,
The kingdoms of Almanfor, Fez and Sus,

the river Cuana to the north; fo called from Sofala, the capital of it, which is fituated in a little ifland upon the Ethiopick ocean.

It

is fuppofed by fome to be the Ophir (Heb. rich; because it abounded with gold, pearls, ivory, peacocks, &c. See 2 Chron. viii. 18.) to which king Solomon fent his fleet; from the abundance of gold, and other rich commodities of it.

Ibid. Ophir.] Heb. Arab. i. e. abounding in riches; being the place where the pureft gold abounded; about which there are many conjectures among the learned; or from Ophir, the son of Joktan, the fon of Sem, who first settled there.

L. 401. Congo.] Ethiop. It is a vast country, called by fore Lower Guinea, which has part of Negroland on the north, Ethiopia on the caft, Caffraria on the fouth, the ocean and Guinea on the weft, and lies on the western shore of Africa in the Lower Ethiopia; so called from the capital city. Others call it ManiCongo, t. e. the province of Congo.

Ibid. Angola.] Ethiop. The ancient and true name of it was Ambonde, and the people were called Ambondes; till one of their princes, called Mani-Angola, i. e. the governor of Angola, about 460 years ago, with the affiftance of the Portuguefe, fubdued many petty neighbouring kings, and made himself fole monarch of them. He, for his mighty acts, was called in their language Inene, i. e. the great; and from his name this kingdom was called Angola. L. 402. Niger,] or Nigir, i. e. black; because it runs through a foil all covered over with duft, that is black and scorched with the fun. It is the greatest river on that fide of Africa, rifing out of a lake of the fame name in the country of Medra, of Upper Ethiopia, and divides Nigritia into two parts.

L. 403. Almanfor,] rather Almanzor; Arab. i. e. the victor; as Seleucus king of Syria was ftyled Nicator, Gr. i. e. a victor. Jofeph Almanzor I. was king of Morocco, who invaded Spain with" 60,000 horfe and 100,000 foot, A. D. 1158. He ufurped the territories of the Spanish Moors, who invited him over, was beaten by the Christians, and slain with an arrow at the fiege of Santaren in Portugal.

Ibid. Fez,] rather Fefs and Feffa, Arab. i. e. Sprinkled with dust, Spread out or large; or from Phaz, or Paz, Heb. i. e. fine gold; becaufe gold abounded thereabout. A large wide kingdom on the weft of Barbary, having the Mediterranean fea on the north, the Atlantick ocean on the weft, the river Mulvia on the east, mount Atlas on the fouth, which parts it from Morocco. The country is mountainous and defert; but in fome places it produces all manner of grain, almonds, figs, very large grapes, cattle, leopards, the best horfes in all Barbary, and the fiercest lions in all Africa. It bclongs to the emperor of Morocco.

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