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dike.
The necessity So necessary for the understanding of History (as I
of Cohnogra- have said)and the fables of Poets,(wherei i no smal part
pby, of the treasure of humane learning lieth hid) that with-
out it we know not how the most memorable enterpri*
ses of the world have been carried and performed* we
are ignorant of the growth,ssourish,and fail,of the first
Monarchies, whereat History taketh her head and be-
ginning: we coneeive nothing of the government, and
commodities of othernations; we cannot judge of the
strength of our enemies, distinguilh the limits between
kingdom and kingdom,names of places from names of
people : nay (with Monsier Gaulart) we doubc at Paris
whether we see there the same Moon we have at Lon-
don ov not : on the contrary, we know this and much
more,without exposing (as in old time)our bodies to a
tedious travail, but with much more ease, having the
world at will,or(as the saying isJthe world in a siring,
in our own chamber. How prejudicial the ignorance
of Geography hath been unto Princes in forrain expedi-
tions against their enemies, unfortunate Cyrus will tell
you, who being ignorant of Oaxis and the Streights,
was overthrown by Jhoniaris the Scythian Queen* and,
of two hundred thousand Persians in his arm v, not one
a Thermal*
shat long Hill
ot Greece,tho-
row which
there is a straic
and narrow
parsage enviro-
ned with a
rough Tea and
deep senne *
so called from
'the welsolhot
waters which
are there a*
aongche rocks
escaped through his unskilfulness herein,as Justine re-
porteth.
And at another time what a memorable victory to
his perpetual glory carryed Leonidas from the Persians,
only for that they were unacquaintedwith the streights
of * IhermvpyU.
And the soul overthrow that Crasisus received by the
Parthians,vias imputed to nothing else, than his igno-
rance of that Countay, and the passages thereof.
Alexander,therefore taking any enterprise in hand,
would ftrst cause an exast Map of the Country to be
drawn in colours, to coniider where were the sasest
entrance, where he might pasfe this River, how
to
Seas,qualities of Regions, manners of people atid the
dike.
The necessity So necessary for the understanding of History (as I
of Cohnogra- have said)and the fables of Poets,(wherei i no smal part
pby, of the treasure of humane learning lieth hid) that with-
out it we know not how the most memorable enterpri*
ses of the world have been carried and performed* we
are ignorant of the growth,ssourish,and fail,of the first
Monarchies, whereat History taketh her head and be-
ginning: we coneeive nothing of the government, and
commodities of othernations; we cannot judge of the
strength of our enemies, distinguilh the limits between
kingdom and kingdom,names of places from names of
people : nay (with Monsier Gaulart) we doubc at Paris
whether we see there the same Moon we have at Lon-
don ov not : on the contrary, we know this and much
more,without exposing (as in old time)our bodies to a
tedious travail, but with much more ease, having the
world at will,or(as the saying isJthe world in a siring,
in our own chamber. How prejudicial the ignorance
of Geography hath been unto Princes in forrain expedi-
tions against their enemies, unfortunate Cyrus will tell
you, who being ignorant of Oaxis and the Streights,
was overthrown by Jhoniaris the Scythian Queen* and,
of two hundred thousand Persians in his arm v, not one
a Thermal*
shat long Hill
ot Greece,tho-
row which
there is a straic
and narrow
parsage enviro-
ned with a
rough Tea and
deep senne *
so called from
'the welsolhot
waters which
are there a*
aongche rocks
escaped through his unskilfulness herein,as Justine re-
porteth.
And at another time what a memorable victory to
his perpetual glory carryed Leonidas from the Persians,
only for that they were unacquaintedwith the streights
of * IhermvpyU.
And the soul overthrow that Crasisus received by the
Parthians,vias imputed to nothing else, than his igno-
rance of that Countay, and the passages thereof.
Alexander,therefore taking any enterprise in hand,
would ftrst cause an exast Map of the Country to be
drawn in colours, to coniider where were the sasest
entrance, where he might pasfe this River, how
to