A Brief Summe of Geographie, by Roger Barlow by E.G.R. Taylor

Author:E.G.R. Taylor [Taylor, E.G.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317188889
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

In this ilond thei gather moche blode of dracons, it is a tree called draco, it groweth upon the serres very asperous and hie. The bodie of the tree is of grey colour spottyd and beres no lefe but in the toppe of the tree which is a grete busshe of long sharpyd leves growing upward like unto flagges that growe in moystie groundys, and those that do gather this sanguis draconis do scotche the bodie of the tree in divers placis with a knife, and within ij or iij daies after thei fynd it hangyng full of droppis like a gumme colour of blode, which thei do selle and is gretelie estemed in medecyne. I have gathered of there1 my self and before that when I hard speake of sanguis draconis I thought it had bene the blode of some lived serpent and so did many more, but it is none other then above rehersed. Also in the said ilond in a certein moneth of the yere there falleth in divers placis upon trees busshes and stonys a certene dewe clammy like honey which the people do gather in bagges of lether and after putteth it in erthen pottes and so restyd awhile it worketh and purgeth al the coruption upward in such wise that it wil be so pure yt it wil not suffre somoche as a lefe or strawe in it, and that stoured awaie it resteth hard white and pure as eny sugre and hath an excellent swete release2. Thei call it mangula3, it hath a marvelous operation in pourgyng a mannes bodye4. In this ilond also is a kynd of styckys called rubio which rolleng them together with ther honde do smoke and cetche afire.

THES ilondes of canaria hath the ylonde of mader on the northe which is a good ylond and plentyfull of frutes wherein growith moche suger. It is an ilond of moche trat and longeth to portugal. It hath 25 leges of longitude and 10 of latitude, it stondis in 32 degrees ½ est and west out of sapher 150 leges1, and from the madera to tenarif is 65 leges and to cape sent vyncent is 145, it stondeth southwest quarter west with cape sent vincent. This ilond of the madera hath the ilondes of assuris north west and the ile of maio at northe. The ylondes of assuris wch be viij, that is the ilond of florys, the phaial, the pico, sent george, gracio, the tarsera, sent mighel and the ilond of sancta maria, thei stond from 37 degres unto 402. Thei be good ilondes of corne and catall and in the ylond of sent mighel growith moche ooile. Thei be inhabited with portingales. The best of them is the ile of tarsera. In the yle of sent mighel be certen hilles of pomes3 stones which stones will swymme upon the water, and fewe yeres past a towne in this ilonde of iij hundreth howsholds called vilia franca was overwhelmed in

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