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against Lusitania, and there sometime called by the same 

 Name. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

 The Measure of all Europe. 



HAVING finished the circuit of Europe, we must now 

 yield the total Sum, that such as are desirous of Knowledge 

 be not deficient in any thing. Artemidorus and Isldorus have 

 set down the Length of it from Tanais to Gades 84,014 

 Miles. Polybius hath put down the Breadth of Europe, from 

 Italy to the Ocean 1150 Miles, for then the largeness of it 

 was not known. But the Breadth of Italy itself (as we have 

 shewn) is 1220 Miles to the Alps : from whence by Lug- 

 dunum to the Port of the Morini in Britain, from which 

 Polybius seemeth to take his Measure, is 1168 Miles. But 

 the more certain Measure, and the longer, is directed from 

 the said Alps to the extreme West and the Mouth of the 

 Rhenus, through the Camps of the Legions of Germania, 

 1243 Miles. Now will we proceed to describe Africa and 

 Asia. 



