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issueth out of the Black Trees being bitter, and that from 

 the Whiter sort sweet and potable. He saith that a second 

 Island is named Jimonia, in which there is one little House, 

 or Chapel, made of Stone : beyond it, but near by there is a 

 third of the same Name, but less in size : and then you come 

 to one called Capraria, full of great Lizards. Within sight 

 of these is the Island Nivaria, which took this Name from 

 the Snow that lieth there continually ; it is also full of Mists. 

 The next to it is Canaria, so called from the great number of 

 very large Dogs, of which Juba brought away two : and in 

 this Island there are some marks remaining of Buildings. 

 And as all these Islands abound plentifully with fruitful 

 Trees and Birds of all sorts, so this is replenished with 

 Palm-trees that bear Abundance of Dates, and likewise with 

 Trees that yield Pine Nuts. There is also great plenty of 

 Honey : and the Rivers produce the Papyrus Reed, and are 

 well stored with the Fish Silurus : and in conclusion he 

 saith, that these Islands are much infested with great Ani- 

 mals, that are very often cast out in a Putrid Condition. 

 Thus having at large gone through the Description of the 

 Globe of the Earth, as well without as within, it remaineth 

 now to collect into a small space the measure of the Seas. 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



A Summary of the Earth, digested according to its 

 Dimensions. 



POLYBIUS layeth it down, that from the Straits of Gib- 

 raltar by a straight Course to the Mouth of Moeotis is 3437| 

 Miles. From the same starting-place by a right Course east- 

 ward to Sicily, it is 1260J Miles ; to Crete, 375 Miles ; to 

 Rhodes, 146| Miles ; to the Chelidonian Islands as much ; 

 to Cyprus, 325 Miles ; from whence to Seleucia Pieria in 

 Syria, 115 Miles. Which computation makes the sum of 

 2340 Miles. Agrippa also counteth 3440 Miles for all this 

 distance from the Straits of Gibraltar directly forward to the 

 Gulf of Issa. In which reckoning I scarcely know whether 

 there be an error in the number, because the same Writer 



