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tain, and is an overlooker to a very great Number of Nations. 

 So soon as it is risen from the Indian Sea, it parteth : and the 

 right Hand passeth Northward, the left Southward, bending 

 toward the West : dividing Asia through the midst : and 

 (but that it meeteth the Seas) ready to oppress the whole 

 Earth. It retireth, therefore, toward the North, fetching a 

 great Circuit, and so making way, as if the Industry of 

 Nature continually opposed the Seas against it ; on one side 

 the Phrenician Sea, on another the Sea of Pontus ; here the 

 Caspian and Hyrcanian Seas, and full against him the Lake 

 Moeotis. And notwithstanding these Bars, within which it 

 is pent and entwined, yet at last Conqueror ; it winds away 

 and passeth on until it encounters its kindred Riphaean 

 Mountains : and wherever it goeth, it is distinguished by a 

 Number of new Names. For in the Beginning of its Course 

 it is called Imaus : a little forward Emodus, Paropamisus, 

 Circius, Camibades, Parphariades, Choatras, Oreges, Oro- 

 andes, Niphates, Taurus ; and where it is predominant, Cau- 

 casus ; where it stretcheth forth its Arms, as if now and then 

 endeavouring toward the Seas, it taketh the Name Sarpedon, 

 Coracesius, and Cragus ; and then again Taurus, even where 

 it gapeth, and opening itself to the People. And yet it 

 claimeth its Unity still, and (these Passages are called) by 

 the Names of Gates ; as in one Place Armenise, in another 

 Caspise, and again Cilicise. And besides being broken into 

 Parcels, and escaped far from the Sea, it taketh here and 

 there many Names of Nations ; as, on the right Hand Hyr- 

 canus and Caspius ; on the left, Pariedrus, Moschicus, 

 Amazonicus, Coraxicus, and Scythicus. And throughout all 

 Greece, Ceraunius. 



To return to Lycia, beyond its Promontory, is the Town 

 Simena, the Mountain Chimaera, emitting Flames by Night ; 

 the City Hephaestium, where the Hills likewise oftentimes 

 are known to burn. Formerly the City Olympus stood there ; 

 but now the Mountain Towns, Gage, Corydalla, and Rhodio- 

 polis. Near the Sea, Lymira with a River, into which 

 Arycandus runneth : also the Mountain Massyrites, the 

 Cities Andriarca and Myra. These Towns, Apyr and Anti- 



