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Contents of the Second Book. 



CHAP. 



89. What Islands have been joined 



to the Continent. 



90. What Lands Jmve become all 



Sea. 



91. Of Lands that have been swal- 



lowed up of themselves. 



92. What Cities have been over- 



flowed by the Sea. 



93. Wonderful Things of Lands. 



94. Of Lands that always suffer 



Earthquake. 



95. Of Islands that float continu- 



ally. 



96. In what Countries it never 



raineth : also, of Miracles, as 

 well of the Earth as other 

 Elements, accumulated to- 

 gether. 



97. The Reason of the Sea- tides, 



as well ebbing as flowing, 

 and where the Sea floweth 

 extraordinarily. 



CHAP. 



98. Wonderful Things in the Sea. 



99. The Power of the Moon over 



Sea and Land. 



100. The Power of the Sun : and 



why the Sea is salt. 



101. Also of the Nature of the 



Moon. 



102. Where the Sea is deepest. 



103. Remarkable Observations of 



the Waters, of Fountains, 

 and Rivers. 



104. Remarkable Things in Fire 



and Water jointly together : 

 also of Maltha. 



105. Of Naphtha. 



106. Of Places that burn continu- 



ally. 



107. Wonders of Fire alone. 



108. The Dimension of the Earth, 



in length and breadth. 



109. The harmonical Circumfer- 



ence of the World. 



In Sum, there are in this Book, of Histories and Observations, Four 

 Hundred and Eighteen in Number. 



LATIN AUTHORS ABSTRACTED IN THIS BOOK : 



M. Varro, Sulpitius Gallus, Tiberius Ccesar the Emperor, Q. Tubero, 

 Tullius Tiro, L. Piso, T. Livius, Cornelius Nepos, Statins, Sebosus, Ccelius 

 Antipater, Fabianus, Antias, Mutianus, Cecina (who wrote of the Tuscan 

 Learning), Tarquitius, L. Aquila, and Sergius Paulus ! . 



FOREIGN AUTHORS : 



Plato, Hipparchus, Timceus, Sosigenes, Petosiris, Necepsus, Pythagoras, 

 Posidonius, Anaximander, Epigenes, Gnomonicus, Euclides, Cceranus Philo- 

 sophus, Eudoxus, Democritus,Crisodemus, Thrasyllus, Serapion, Diccearchus, 

 Archimedes, Onesicritus, Eratosthenes, Pytheas, Herodotus, Aristoteles, 

 Ctesias, Artemidorus Ephesius, Isidorus Characenus, Theopompus. 



1 Sergius Paulus. There can be no doubt that this writer on Natural 

 Philosophy whose works are lost is the same person that is mentioned 

 in the 13th Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles; and from the nature of 

 his pursuits we are enabled to perceive the reason why, at one time, he 

 was the patron of Elymas the Sorcerer. The greater portion of the Im- 

 postors- of those days were accustomed to found their claims to regard on 

 their acquaintance with some branches of Philosophy, in which Sergius 

 Paulus was an inquiring student. We do not find the name of the Sorcerer 

 among the numerous authors referred to by Pliny. Wern. Club. 



