were no fuch in the first Ages of the World, but that they were made by the breaking in of the Sea upon the Land.

II. THE Streights of Denmark [or the Sound] lie between Zeeland and Schonen, thro' which the Atlantic, in part, flows into the Baltic, where they are ftraiteft. They are about half a German Mile over. Near to this there are two other small Streights, the one between Zeeland and Funen, and the other called the Belt, between Funen and Jutland.

12. THE Streights of Babelmandel, at the Mouth of the Arabian Gulph, near the Sea-Port Aden, thro' which there is a Paffage out of the Indian Ocean into the Red-Sea.

13. THE Streights [of Ormus] at the Mouth of the Perfian Gulph, are not properly fo called, because they are but little narrower than the Gulph itself.

14. THE Hellefpont, a Streight famous among the Grecians, thro' which there is a Paffage from the Archipelago to the Propontis; near to this there is another narrow Sea, called the Thracian Bofphorus, which joins Propontis to the Euxine Sea.

15. THE Faro, or Streights, of Messina, between Italy and Sicily.

MANY have been of Opinion, that there were Streights fomewhere northward of Virginia, which is in 40 degr. North Latitude, whereby the Atlantic is joined to the Pacific Ocean, and thro' which they might find a free and open Paffage to China, and the Philippine Inlands: but this, in the Year 1609, was in vain attempted thro' Hudson's Streights.

THUS have we explained and pointed out the Parts of the Ocean, distinguished by the Situation of the Land, in like manner as in Chapter viii. we de scribed the different Plans of Countries, occafioned: by the breaking in of the Ocean. That the Geo

grapher

SECT. IV. grapher may keep all these in his Memory, it will not be unferviceable to him to trace out the Perimeter of the Sea Coaft, and to take a tranfient View of the Shores and Bounds of each Country, and alfo how they are fituated, and joined one to another.

PROPOSITION VIII.

[To trace out the Sea Coasts, that environ the four Quarters of the Earth, viz. The old and new World, and the North and South Continent.]

1. THE old World, (comprehending Europe, Afia, and Africa,) is extended northward to the Streights of Waygats, adjoining to Samoieda; upon the Weft of which is the Kingdom of Mufcovy, where the White Sea is received into a large Bay from the North; on the further Side of which is Lapland, and next to that, on the Weft, Norway, whofe Shore runs North and South; then winding to the East, we came to the Shore of Gotland and Schonen, where there is a Gulph that receiveth the Baltic Sea, which is bounded by Sweden, Finland, Livonia, Prufia, Courland, Pomerania, Mecklenburg, Holftein, and Jutland; then turning fouthward on the further Side of Jutland and Holstein, we find the Shores of Weftphalia, Holland, Flanders, France, and Spain; where there is another Inlet that receives into a vaft Bay the Mediterranean Sea, which is hemmed in by Spain, France, Italy, Sclavonia, Greece, Romania, Afia minor, Egypt, Barbary, and Morocco, over-against the Spanish Shore; then we turn along the Western Shore of Africa, to Cape Verd; and from thence the Shore bends eastward along Guinea, and fouthward by Congo and Angola, to the Cape of Good Hope; where it is again refle. &ed northward, and gives Bounds to Sofala, Zam

guebar,

guebar, and [Anian]; here the Arabian Gulph, or Red-Sea, is extended to Egypt, which is joined to the Arabian Shore, and to the Shores of the Perfian Gulph: upon the Eaft of thefe, are the Shores of Perfia, Cambaya, Indoftan, Malacca in India, Bengal, Cambodia, China, Tartary at Corea, to the Streights of Uries; where follow the unknown Coast of Northern Tartary, and the Samoieds, which is [very likely] joined to the Streights of Waygats, where we began.

2. AMERICA is thus encompaffed by the Ocean. On the North at the Streights of Davis, there is Hudson's Bay, from whence follow in order to the southward the Shores of New-Britain, NewEngland, New-France, Virginia, Florida, Mexico, and New-Spain, on the Ifthmus; then New-Caftle, Guinea, Brafil, and Patagon, at the Streights of Magellan, where the Shore from running fouthward. begins to turn towards the Weft; thence from South to North are extended the Shores of Chili, Peru, New-Spain and New-Mexico, which is bounded by the Gulph of California; [where follow the unknown Shores of Mozembec, &c. (bounded perhaps by the Streights of Anian) which may be contiguous (for any thing that we know) to thofe of Davis's Streights.]

3. THE Artic Continent is extended to Davis's Streights, and from thence begin the Shores of Greenland, which run a little to the South, and then return northward to Spitsberg, where they are called the Shores of New-Greenland: thefe are stretched out over against Nova Zembla, and the North of Tartary; from whence the reft of the Shore to Davis's Streights is unknown.

4. THE South Continent ftretches to the Streights of La Maire, whence the Shore is perhaps continued to New-Holland, where the Lantchidol Sea is received into a Gulph, on the other VOL. I.

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SECT. IV. Side whereof is New Guinea, which [very probably] is contiguous to the Shores at the Streights of La Maire.

LET us now trace out the Perimeter of the Ocean. Between Davis's Streights, and Nova Zembla there is the northern Ocean, and Icy Sea, or Sea of Greenland; which is continued till between Europe and America, where it is called the German Ocean, the British Ocean, the French and Spanish Ocean, and, in the whole, the Atlantic Ocean; (and maketh three Bays, viz. the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Mexican Gulph) which, when it comes between the Coafts of Africa and Brafil, is called the Ethiopian Sea on the one Hand, and on the other the Sea of Magellan: further to the East, between Africa and the South Continent, is the fouthern Ocean, and between Afia and the fame Continent the [eaftern or] Indian Ocean; also between Afia and South America is the Pacific Ocean [or great South Sea] which is extended northward to the Streights of Waygats and Anian, and fouthward to the Streights of Magellan [and La Maire] by which it is joined to the Atlantic. It goes under feveral Names along the Coaft of America, as the Sea of Chili, Peru, Mexico, California, &c.

The Terraqueous Globe is divided into Land and Water. Again Water is divided into the main Ocean, Lakes, Moraffes, and Rivers. The main Ocean is formed by the Earth into three forts of Portions.

1. The Ocean, whofe prime Parts are four.

1. The

1. The Atlantic [or western Ocean] with the Ethiopic Sea, between Europe and Africa on the one Hand, frica on the one Hand, and America on the other. It obtains various Names from the Places it watereth, viz.

The Britannic Ocean,
The German Ocean,
The Spanish Ocean, &c.

2. THE Pacific Ocean, or great South Sea, between the furtheft Parts of Afia and the Indian Inlands, on the one hand; and the western Shore of America on the other.

3. THE northern Ocean, about the Artic Continent, fometimes called the Icy Sea, Tartarian Ocean, &c.

4. THE fouthern Ocean, about the Antartic Continent, a Part of which is the Indian Ocean. 2. Bays or Gulpbs.

oblong Of which these fix are

[The Tyrrhene Sea.

The Ionian

Sea.

The Levant,

&c.]

The Gulph of Venice,
The Archipelago,

The Euxine Sea, &c.

2. The Baltic Sea with it's fecondary Bays, viz. the Bothnic Bay, the Gulph of Finland, the Livonian Sea, &c.

3. The Arabian Gulph, or Red-Sea, between Africa and Arabia.

4. The Perfian Gulph, or Gulph of Balfora, between Arabia and Perfia.

5. The Sea of California, between California and New-Mexico.

6. The Gulph of Nankin, between Corea and

China.

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