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Of EUROPE in General.

UROPE, the least of the four parts of the world, yet not inferior to the rest in the generosity of the people, their riches, worth and virtue; and exceeds them, if we consider the true religion; it is said to take its name from Europea, the daughter of Agenor, King of Phenicia, containing many flourishing kingdoms. It is 2800 miles in length, 1200 in breadth; bounded on the West with the main ocean, on the East with the Ægean sea, Pontus Euxinus, the fens of Moetus, and the river Tanias; and from the bay of Granvicus, it is disjointed from Asia. In the North it is bounded by the Hyperborean sea, and on the South with the Mediterranean, divided in continents and islands, the continents are all entire, and the islands dispersed in the Greek, Iconion, Ægeion, Adriatic, Mediterranean, Cretan and the Northern seas; divided chiefly into France, Spain,