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Achaea Domitius Nero endowed with Freedom. Pelo- 

 ponnesus, from the Promontory of Malea to the Town 

 Lechseum upon the Corinthian Bay, lieth in Breadth 160 

 Miles: but across, from Elis to Epidaurum, 125 Miles: 

 from Olympia to Argos, through Arcadia, 63 Miles : from 

 the same Place to Phlius is the said measure. And the 

 whole, as if Nature weighed out a Recompense for the 

 irruptions of the Seas, riseth up into three score and sixteen 

 Mountains. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 Greece and Attica. 



FROM the Straits of the Isthmus beginneth Hellas, by our 

 Countrymen called Graecia. The first Tract thereof is Attica, 

 in old Time named Acte. It reacheth the Isthmus on that 

 Part of it which is called Megaris, from the Colony Megara, 

 from the Region of the Pagae. These two Towns, as Pelo- 

 ponnesus lieth out in Length, are seated on either Hand, as 

 it were, upon the Shoulders of Hellas. The Pagaei, and 

 more especially the ^Egosthenienses, lie annexed to the 

 Magarensians. In the Coast is the Harbour Schoenus. 

 Towns, Sidus, Cremyon, the Scironian Rocks for three Miles 

 long, Geranea, Megara, and Elcusin. There were besides, 

 CEnoa and Probalinthus, which now are 52 Miles from 

 the Isthmus. Pyraeeus and Phalera, two Ports joined to 

 Athens by a Wall, within the Land five Miles. This City 

 is free, and needeth no more any Man's praise : so abund- 

 antly noble it is. In Attica are these Fountains, Cephissia, 

 Larine, Callirrhoe, and Enneacreunos. Mountains, Brilessus, 

 Megialcus, Icarius, Hymettus, and Lyrabetus : the River 

 Ilissos. From Pyraeeus 42 Miles is the Promontory 

 Sunium ; likewise the Promontory Doriscum. Also Po- 

 tamos and Brauron, Towns in time past. The Village 

 Rhamnus, the Place Marathon, the Plain Thriastius, the 

 Town Melita and Oropus, in the Border of Bceotia. To 

 which belong Anthedon, Onchestos, Thesprae, a free Town, 

 Lebadea : and Thebes, surnamed Boeotia, not inferior in 



