A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1592. 



these hote waters doe much abound, whereupon the 

 place is called Pyriplegethon. And I say, these things 

 should therefore be ye lesse admired, because the 

 searchers of nature have as wel found out causes of 

 the heate in waters, as of the fire in mountaines : 

 The causes of namely, that water runneth within the earth through 

 hote Baths. certaine veines of Brimstone & Allom, and from thence 

 taketh not onely heat, but taste also, & other strange 

 qualities. Aristotle in his booke de Mundo hath taught 

 this. The earth (saith he) conteineth within it fountains 

 not only of water, but also of spirite & fire : some of 

 them flowing like rivers, doe cast foorth red hote iron : 

 from whence also doeth flow, somtimes luke-warme 

 water, somtimes skalding hote, and somtimes temperate. 

 Uh. 3t nat. And Seneca. Empedocles thought that Baths were made 

 qua'st, \\oX.^ by fire, which the earth secretly conteineth in many 



places, especially if the said fire bee under that ground 

 where the water passeth. And Pontanus writeth very 

 learnedly concerning the Baian Baths. 

 No marvell though from banke of Baian shore 



hote Baths, or veines of skalding licour flow : 

 For Vulcans forge incensed evermore 



doeth teach us plaine, that heart of earth below 

 And bowels burne, and fire enraged glow. 



From hence the flitting flood sends smokie streames. 



And Baths doe boile with secret burning gleames. 



I thought good in this place to touch that which 

 Saxo Grammaticus the most famous historiographer of 

 the Danes reporteth. That certaine fountains of Island 

 do somtime encrease & flow up to the brinke : some- 

 times againe they fall so lowe that you can skarse dis- 

 cerne them to be fountains. Which kind of fountains, 

 albeit they bee very seldome found with us, yet I will 

 make mention of some like unto them, produced by 

 nature in other countries, lest any man should think it 

 somwhat strange. Plinie maketh a great recitall of these. 

 There is one (saieth he) in the Isle of Tenedos, which 

 at the Solstitium of sommer doth alwaies flow from the 



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