A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1592. 



This Naxus is one of the Hands called Cyclades 

 lying in the ^gasan sea. Cardane giveth a reason 

 hereof, namely, because Hydromel or water-hony, in 

 long continuance will become wine. Aristotle nameth 

 a fountaine in Sicilia, which the inhabitants use in stead 

 of vineger. The same author maketh the cause ot 

 savours in water to be heate, because the earth being 

 hote changeth and giveth savour unto the water. 



Now concerning the colours of water so saieth Cardane. 

 There is the same reason (saith he) of the colours of 

 water, that there is of the savours thereof, for both have 

 their originall from the earth. For there is white water 

 within two miles of Glauca a town in Misena : red 

 water in Radera a river of Misena not farre from 

 Radeburg : & in old time neere unto Joppa in Judea : 

 greene water in the mountaine of Carpathus by Neusola : 

 skie-coloured or blue water betweene the mountains 

 [I. 567.] of Feltrius & Tarvisius : & it is reported that there was 

 water of that colour in Thermopylis : cole-blacke water 

 in Alera a river of Saxonie, at that place where it dis- 

 chargeth it self into the Weser. The causes of these 

 colours are the colours of the soile. Also Aristotle 

 saieth, that about the promontorie of Japigia, there is 

 a fountaine which streameth blood : adding moreover, 

 that Mariners are driven farre from that place of the 

 sea, by reason of the extreme stench thereof. Further- 

 more, they say that in Idum^a there is a fountaine 

 which changeth color foure times in a yeere : for som- 

 times it is greene, somtime white, somtime bloodie, & 

 somtimes muddy coloured. 



Concerning the smels of waters, thus writeth Cardane. 

 There is the like reason of difference in smels. But 

 for the most part the steames of waters bee unpleasant, 

 because the earth doeth seldome times smel well. The 

 water of the river Anigris in Aelis stanke, to the destruc- 

 tion, not onely of fishes, but also of men. About 

 Meton in Messania, out of a certaine pond there hath 

 bene drawen most sweet smelling, and odoriferous water. 



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