_A generall description and division of Geography._
Topographie is a particular description of some small quantity of
Land, such as Land measurers sett out in their plots.
Chorographie is a particular description of some Country, as of
England, France, or any shire or prouince in them: as in the
vsuall and ordinary mappe.
Geography is an art or science teaching vs the generall
description of the whole earth, of this especially wee are now to
speake of, and also Chorography as a part vnder it conteyned:
both, excellent parts of knowledge in them selues, and affoording
much profit and helpe in the vnderstanding of history & other
things. The parts of Geography are two.
Generall, which treateth of the nature, qualities,
measure, with other generall properties of the earth.
Speciall, wherein the seuerall countrys and coasts of the
earth are deuided and described.
Of the generall in the first place, and more at large then of the
other, because it is more difficult, and hard to bee vnderstood,
and yet of necessary vse, for the vnderstanding of the other.
This generall tract may bee parted into fiue particular heads.