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A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…
A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Usher.A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Ussher.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1643
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. I. Of the Asia which by the Romans was first properly so called; and the several members thereof.
CHAP. I. Of the Asia which by the Romanes was first properly so called; and the severall members thereof.
AS the lesser Asia (now called Natolia or Anatolia) was a part of the great, and Asia properly so called a part of that lesser; so the Lydian Asia was a parcel of that Asia which was properly so called. For the fuller understanding whereof, we are to call to mind, that the Romans having possessed ⟨p. 2⟩themselves of the Countries which had formerly belonged unto the Pergamen Kings, reduced them into the form of a Province; which they called, aby the name of the great Continent, Asia.
AS the lesser Asia (now called Natolia or Anatolia) was a part of the great, and Asia properly so called a part of that lesser; so the Lydian Asia was a parcell of that Asia which was properly so called. For the fuller understanding whereof, we are to call to mind, that the Romanes having possessed ⟨p. 2⟩themselves of the Countreyes which had formerly belonged unto the Pergamen Kings, reduced them into the forme of a Province; which they called, aby the name of the great Continent, Asia.