are brought from the weft Indias. Fol. 83. 
as Simeon » rchiatrosa Oreeke autho2 doth ſhe w, ſaying 5 n 
that the An ban in diuers vlaces dooth ſpꝛing. they bee bys Grecke au- 
fountaines from whence it deoth zung as thot: of Pitch . 
Litour: the woꝛzſt is that whiche theſe ſiſhes doo taſte, and 
ſwaliowe downe, xc. The fame it femet erapio Doty vn⸗ 
derſtande, and beftdes this Simeon a Gceke, and Acho, 1 
finde no other Oreekes that make mention therof, but it is 
treated of by the Arabies with as great ignoꝛance and con⸗ 
fulton as map bee ſeene. Mhoſoeuer by them will verikxe 
What “mb is, it is to bee determined vppon, that it is a 
kinde of Pitch that tommeth foozth of ſpꝛings r fountaines, | 
that are made in the depth ofthe Sea, and comming footy 
tothe apꝛe the Licour being groffe doth congeale,and ware 
hard, and is made the Hu bar which we ſer, as many things 
ells which are in the lower parte ofthe Sea, are foft ¢ tens 
der but being brought out into the aire are made harde. As 
we fx in the Coꝛal, which in the lower partes ofthe ea is Coral. 
ſolt and tender, and by bringing it into the aire is turned ine ⸗ 
to a ſtons: and the abr whertorthe Beads are made, in 5 
the lo we partes ofthe Sea is white, and being come ſdozth Ambar con- 
intothe aire, turneth hard and ſkonp, and is pitch, which chs £eled. 
Meth foo2thof a ſountaine, which is inthe Germaine Sea, 
Wherbp the barbarons opinions are tonſounded that fay the 
Amba is the ſeede of the Mhale. And the cauſe whereof 
this ignoꝛante came, was this, fo2 that Anbar was found? Amber 
inthe NAhales, and other fithes, and therfoze men laid that found in the 
if grewe ofit one nature in their mawes, and as this Pitch Whales mam 
riſetz vp to the higheſt partes of tze Sea by reaſon of the 
lightnes thereof the Ubales do deudure it, thinking that it 
is a thing to bee eaten, and fo men finde it in their Pawes. 
Foꝛ itit were ſerd, it would be found in other parts of their 
bodies. where itis natural toal beats. In my time was tas 
ken a MAhale, inthe cosit ofthe Canaria that had moze thé 
ons hundzed pound weight of dabar within him, and * 
3 that 
