Old Hampshire Mapped

Blome's Geography

THE British isles; Wherein are seated the KINGDOMS OF England, Scotland, and Ireland; WITH Several smaller ISLES thereunto belonging.

The original Names of this Isle.

THese Isles under one Appellative represent a Body desected into divers parts; in which are conteined greater, and lesser Quantities. Viz. ALBION, derived from the name of Neptunes Son. Festus grounds it upon the Greek word [ ], signifying white, from whence the Alps received their original, being a place environed with white Rocks: For this very cause 'tis to be imagined Britain was pourtraied (on the coyned money of Antonius Pius) sitting on white Rocks in a feminine dress. In like manner the Greeks most aptly called it [ ], The white Land.

Britain subject to divers names.

This Britain we find subject to divers Denominations. Beronius is of opinion, it was called Samothea, from Samothes brother to Gomer and Tuball, the sixth son of Japhet, the son of Noah, who stept into this Isle about 250 years after the Deluge; and about 312 years after came in the Albion, as above recited. Some earnestly argue for it to be [ ], viz. happy, and that is most proper, it being such a goodly, pleasant, fruitfull, and happy place to inhabit in. This Albion rested 608 years, until Brutus, alias Brytus Julius, appearance in the year of the worlds Creation 2828, / who