Hiftorie of the Indict, lib. i. 27 



Straight of Gibraltar. And it is true, that this place of 

 Pindar us, where he faith , That it is not law full, nejther 

 for wife men norfooles, to know what u beyond the Straight 

 efGibraltarfatii becne taken for a Proverbe. Thus we 

 fee by the beginning of this Proverbe , how the Anci 

 ents were obltinately fetled in this opinion- as alfb by 

 the bookes of Poets , Historiographers and ancient 

 CofinograpKers^h^the end and bounds ofjheearth 



/ whercthey pkntjthe 



s /there they fet the limits of the Romanc 

 Bmpire, and there theydefcribe the boundesofthe 

 world . And not onely prophane writers fpeake in this 

 fbrt,but alfo the holy Scripture, to apply it felfe to our 

 phrafe faith, That /^r^/tf^Auguftus Carfai was pub- 

 lijhcd^ to the end that all the world [iwuld be taxed: andof 

 Alexander the great , that he Jlr etched forth his Empire 

 even to the end and vttermojl bounds of the earth . And in 

 another place they fay, that the Gofpell did flourifh 

 and increafe through the vniverfall world . For the 

 holy Scripture by an vfuall phrafe, calleth all the 

 worlde, that which is the greateft part thereof, and 

 was at that time difcovered and kno^vne . And the 

 Anciens wcreignorant, that the Eaft Indian Sea^ 

 and that oTtHelWeft wercliavmable , wherin tfiey 

 Have generally agreed. By reafon whereof, Plinic 

 writes as a certaine trueth , that the feas which are be 

 twixt two lands, takes from vs a iiift moitie of the habi 

 table earth. For faith he, we cannot pafle thither, ncy- 

 ther they come hither. Finally, Tullie y Macrobitts,Pom- 

 poniu* CMela^nd the ancient Writers hold the fame o- 

 pinion. 



