"Our most provident and glorious Creator so furnished countries with severall commodities that amongst all there might…"

"Water, making but one globe with the earth, is yet higher than it. This appears, first, because it is a body not so h…"

"A Continent is a great quantity of Land, not separated by any Sea from the rest of the World, as the whole Continent …"

"Here we have lying before us an old geography book, printed early in the reign of Charles the First. It is what Mr. C…"

"High Churchman and scholar though was, our friend Heylyn puts on no saturnine or crabbed visage. His manner, on the c…"

"Concerning rivers, we find a scientific opinion which we fear will not pass muster with the learned of our own times.…"

"Here also is a dictum in respect to the political position and power of islands which, could the author be suddenly r…"

"Even as late as the middle of the seventeenth century Heylin, the most authoritative English geographer of the time, …"

"There are some... Points relating to Episcopacy, which Dr. Heylyn has long time since cleared and determined. And if …"

"In all things that were either spoke or writ by him, he did loqui cum vulgo so speak as to be understood by the meane…"