Precisely prepared by certainty, with an ordinary post on foot, or on horseback from all origins. Precisely of the goods that are carried through these aforementioned places, and back out from this City of Antwerp to the aforementioned places, how and to count the time of a month, for advice, and on what days the posts go out from Antwerp and return home. Together enriched with good instruction by Scherer and Memfort, Merchants and Forwarding Agents, beginning the first month of April 1671, for the service of all merchants, trading in foreign lands.

Bales and coffers or very light packets are usually brought by the Extra Post for 15 or 18 patacons a type of silver coin used in the Low Countries for a hundredweight to Amsterdam, but the coarse packs, which are not needed so hastily, come to pass over, as will also do the carts of the Pomper between the Advice, to be found over these aforementioned places. Along with an instruction by process.

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A detailed hand-colored copperplate map from 1671, created by Frederick de Wit in Amsterdam. The map illustrates the trade and postal routes from the Low Countries and Germany to Italy. Geographical focus: Central Europe, including the territories of the Holy Roman Empire, northern Italy, and parts of France. The map shows mountain ranges (depicted as clusters of shaded molehills), major river systems (the Rhine, Danube, Po), and a dense network of coastal and inland cities. Dark lines trace the primary transit routes used by merchants and postal carriers. Key labels: Seas: ZUIDERZEE, GULF OF VENICE, THE GENOESE SEA. Major Regions: BRABANT, WESTPHALIA, GAUL, LORRAINE, PART OF GERMANY, BOHEMIA, BAVARIA, SWABIA, AUSTRIA, STYRIA, CARINTHIA, TYROL, VENETIAN DOMINION, ISTRIA, SAVOY, PROVENCE, MILAN, MODENA, PARMA, and TUSCANY. Decorative elements: Top: Three heraldic coats of arms; the central one features the Dutch Lion with a sword and arrows, representing the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. Bottom Left: A large ornamental cartouche featuring the Italian title. It is flanked by two men: on the left, a traveler in a broad-brimmed hat, boots, and doublet holding a walking staff; on the right, a merchant in a darker cloak and hat. Bottom Right: A compass rose located in the Adriatic Sea.

New accurate map of the passage and road from the Low Countries by way of Germany to Italy and by way of the Swiss Countries to Geneva, Lyon, and Rome for the service of merchants and travelers in general, at the request of Messrs. Scherer and Memfort, Merchants and Forwarding Agents in Bregenz, brought to light by Frederick de Wit of Amsterdam in the year 1671.

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