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I tali, Morgetes, Siculi, People for the most part of Greece : 

 and last of all by the Lucani, descended from the Samnites, 

 under their Leader Lucius. In which standeth the Town 

 Paestum, called by the Greeks Posidonia: the Bay Psestanus, 

 the Town Helia, now Velia. The Promontory Palinurum, 

 Creek receding, from which there is a Passage to the Column 

 Rhegia, 100 Miles over. Next to this, the River Melphes : 

 the Town Buxentum, in Greek Pyxus; the River Laiis ; 

 and a Town there was likewise of the same Name. From 

 thence the Sea-coast of Brutium, the Town Blanda, the 

 River Batnm, the Haven Parthenius belonging to the 

 Phocaeans : the Bay Vibonensis ; the Grove Clampetia, the 

 Town Ternsa, called by the Greeks Temese : and Terina of 

 the Crotonians, and the very large Bay Terinseus : the Town 

 Consentia. Within, in a Peninsula, the River Acheron, 

 from which the Townsmen are called Acherontini. Hippo, 

 which now we call Vibovalentia ; the Port of Hercules, the 

 River Metaurus, the Town Tauroentum, the Port of Orestes, 

 and Medua : the Town Scylleum, the River Cratais, Mother 

 (as they say) to Scylla. Then the Column Rhegia : the 

 Sicilian Straits, and two Capes, one over against the other ; 

 namely, Caenis from Italy, and Pelorum from Sicily, a Mile 

 and half asunder : from whence to Rhegium is twelve Miles 

 and a half: and so forward to a Wood in the Apennine 

 called Sila ; and the Promontory called Leucopetra, twelve 

 Miles. Beyond which, Locri (carrying the Name also of the 

 Promontory Zephyrium) is from Silarus distant 303 Miles. 

 Here is included the first Gulf of Europe, wherein are named 

 these Seas : first, Atlanticum (from which the Ocean breaketh 

 in), called of some Magnum : the Passage through which it 

 entereth is by the Greeks called Porthmos; by us FretumGadi- 

 tanum ; when it hath entered the Spanish Sea, so far it washeth 

 the Coasts of Spain, Freturn Hispanum : of others, Ibericum, 

 or Balearicum : and presently it taketh the Name of Gallicum, 

 before the Province Narbonensis : and after that, Ligusticum : 

 from whence, to the Island Sicily, it is called Tuscum ; which 

 some of the Grecians term Notium, others Tyrrhenum, but 

 most of our Countrymen Inferum. Beyond Sicily to the 



