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CHAPTER CVIIl. 

 The Measure of the whole Earth in Length and Breadth. 



THIS our Part of the Earth of which I speak, floating, as 

 it were, within the Ocean (as hath been said), lieth out most 

 in Length from East to West, that is, from India to the Pil- 

 lars of Hercules, consecrated at Gades : and as my Author, 

 Artemidorus, thinketh, it containeth 8578 Miles. But, ac- 

 cording to Isidorus, 9818. Artemidorus addeth, more- 

 over, from Gades within the Circuit of the sacred Promon- 

 tory to the Cape Artabrum, where the Front of Spain beareth 

 out furthest, in Length 891 Miles. This Measure runneth 

 two Ways. From the River Ganges and the Mouth thereof, 

 where it dischargeth itself into the East Ocean, through 

 India and Parthyene to Myriandrum, a City of Syria, situ- 

 ated upon the Gulf of Isa, 5215 Miles. From thence by the 

 nearest Voyage, to the Island Cyprus, to Patara in Lycia, 

 Rhodes, and Astypatsea (Islands lying in the Carpathian Sea), 

 to Taenarus in Laconia, Lilybseum in Sicily, Calaris in Sar- 

 dinia, 3450 Miles. Then to Gades 1450 Miles. Which 

 Measures being put together, make, from the said Sea, 8578 

 Miles. The other Way, which is more certain, lieth most 

 open by Land, from Ganges to the River Euphrates, 5021 

 Miles. From thence to Mazaca, in Cappadocia, 244 Miles ; 

 and thence through Phrygia and Caria to Ephesus, 498 Miles. 

 From Ephesus, through the ^Egean Sea, to Delos, 200 Miles. 

 Then to Isthmus, 212 Miles. From thence by Land, arid by 

 the Laconian Sea and the Gulf of Corinth, to PatraB in 

 Peloponnesus, 202J Miles : to Leucas, 86J Miles, and as 

 much to Corcyra. Then to Acroceraunia, 132 Miles : to 

 Brundusium, 86 Miles : so to Rome, 360 Miles. Then to 

 the Alps, as far as the Village of Cincomagus, 518 Miles. 

 Through Gaul to the Pyrenean Mountains, unto Illiberis, 

 556 Miles ; to the Ocean and Sea-coast of Spain, 332 Miles. 

 Then the Passage over to Gades, 1\ Miles. Which Measure, 

 by Artemidorus 9 Estimation, maketh in all 8685 Miles. Now 



