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Salentini, Polybius calleth it Ausonium : but Eratosthenes 

 naraeth all the Sea Sardonuin, that is, between the Mouth of 

 the Ocean and Sardinia : and from thence to Sicily, Tyr- 

 rhenum : and from it to Greta, Siculum : beyond which it is 

 called Creticum. The Islands along these Seas are these : 

 the first of all, those by the Greeks named Pityusae, of the 

 Pine plant ; but now, Ebusus : they are both a City con- 

 federate, and a narrow Arm of the Sea runneth between 

 them : they are forty-two Miles apart. From Dianeum they 

 are distant seventy Stadia : and so many are there between 

 Dianeum and New Carthage, by the main Land : and as far 

 from Pityusse into the main Ocean, lie the two Baleares ; 

 and toward Sucro, Colubraria. These Baleares, in War, 

 use much the Sling ; and the Greeks name them Gymnesiae. 

 The greater of them is 100 Miles in Length, and in Circuit 

 380. It hath Towns of Roman Citizens, Palma and Pol- 

 lentia : of Latins, Cinium and Cunici : and Bochri was a 

 Town confederate. From it the lesser is 30 Miles off, 

 being in Length 60 Miles, and in Compass 150. Cities 

 in it are Jamno, Sanisera, and Mago. From the greater, 

 12 Miles in the Sea, lieth the Isle Capraria, dangerous for 

 Shipwrecks : and opposite the City Palma, Menariae, and 

 Tiquadra, and little Annibalis. The Soil of Ebusus chaseth 

 Serpents away, but that of Colubraria breedeth them ; and 

 therefore it is Dangerous for all that come into it, unless they 

 bring with them some of the Ebusian earth. The Greeks 

 call this Island, Ophiusa. Neither doth Ebusus produce 

 any Rabbits ; which are so common in the Baleares, that 

 they eat up the Corn. There be about twenty more little 

 ones in the shallow Part of the Sea. But in the Coast of 

 Gallia, in the Mouth of Rhodanus, there is Metina ; and 

 soon after, that which is called Blascon ; and the. three 

 Stoechades, called so by their Neighbours the Massilians, for 

 their Order ; and they give each one a several Name, as 

 Prote, Mes (which also is called Pornponiana), and the 

 third, Hypea. After them, are Sturium, Phrenice, Phila, 

 Lero, and Lerina, over against Antipolis; wherein is a 

 Memorial of the Town Vergaonum. 



