1 52 History of Na ture. [BooKllI. 



Degrees the most beautiful : which many rightly have made 

 not the third Portion of the Earth, hut the half, the whole 

 Globe being divided into two Parts : from the River Tanais 

 to the Straits of Gades. The Ocean, then, at this Space 

 abovesaid entereth into the Atlantic Sea, and with a greedy 

 Current drowneth those Lands which dread his coming ; 

 but those Shores that resist, with its windings it eateth and 

 hollo weth continually, excavating many Creeks in Europe, 

 wherein four remarkable Gulfs are to be seen. 



Of these the first, from Calpe, the remotest Promontory 

 (as is abovesaid) of Spain, is bent with an exceeding great 

 Compass, to Locri ; and as far as the Promontory Brutium. 

 Within it lieth Spain, the first of Lands ; that Part, I mean, 

 which, in regard of Rome, is the further off, and is named 

 also Boetica. And presently from the End of Virgitanus, 

 the hither Part, otherwise called Tarraconensis, as far as the 

 Pyrenean Mountains. That further Part is divided into two 

 Provinces through the Length : for on the North Side of 

 Boetica lieth Lusitania, divided from it by the River Ana. 



This River beginneth in the Territory Larninitanus of the 

 nearer Spain, one while spreading out itself into Pools, then 

 again gathering into narrow Brooks : or altogether hidden 

 under Ground, and taking Pleasure to rise up oftentimes, 

 falleth into the Atlantic Ocean. But the Part named Tarra- 

 conensis, lying close to the Pyrenean Mountain and running 

 along all the Side thereof, and, at the same Time, stretching 

 out itself across from the Iberian Sea to the Gallic Ocean, 

 is separated from Boetica and Lusitania by the Mountain 



have passed, and that greatness has departed like a dream, European 

 superiority still exists. A prophecy from the remotest ages (Gen. ix. 27) 

 delivered under circumstances in which its fulfilment was exceedingly 

 unlikely has proclaimed, that the God whom Pliny did not know shall 

 enlarge Japhet, the father of European nations ; that he shall dwell in 

 the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. And, accordingly, 

 we see the inhabitants of Europe spreading out, and exerting a mastery, 

 in the most distant climes ; in the strength of their superiority in the arts 

 of life, in science, the freedom of their political institutions, and, above all, 

 in religion. The superiority must continue so long as this foundation of 

 it shall exist. Esto perpetua. Wern. Club. 



