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15 generally Mahometism but in some parts there are a great many Christians and Jews. Their governments are various, but all subject to the Grand Seignor, the tyranny of whose sway so discourages industry, that those Phœnicians, which of old were so famous for commerce, are now become poor and despicable; and Judea, the land which for its fruitfulness was said to flow with milk and honey, is now become a barren and uncultivated place.

Of AFRICA in General.

FRICA is larger than Europe, but less than Asia; is bounded on the East by the Red Sea, on the West by the Atlantic Ocean, on the North by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the South by the Æthiopic ocean, and joins Asia by an Isthmus of sixty miles. Africa has its name from Affro or Apher, descended from Abraham, and contains six principal