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CHAPTER VI. 



i 

 Of Corsica. 



IN the Ligurian Sea is Corsica, which the Greeks called 

 Cyrnos, but it is nearer to the Tuscan Sea, stretching out 

 from the North into the South, and in Length is 150 Miles : 

 in Breadth, for the more Part, 50: in Circuit, 322: it is 

 distant from the Shallows of Volaterrae 62 Miles. It hath 

 35 Cities : and the Colonies, Mariana, planted by C. Marius; 

 Aleria, by the Dictator Sylla. On this Side of it is Oglasa ; 

 but within 60 Miles of Corsica is Planaria ; so called of its 

 Form, which is level with the Sea; and, therefore, deceiveth 

 Ships. Bigger than it are Urgo and Capraria, which the 

 Greeks called .ZEgilos. Also, ^Egilium and Danium, the 

 same as Artemisia ; both lying over against the Coast of 

 Cosanum. Other small ones, also, as Maenaria, Columbraria, 

 Venaria, Ilua, with the Iron Mines, in Circuit 100 Miles, 

 10 Miles from Populonia, called by the Greeks, .ZEthalia : 

 from it is Planasia, 39 Miles off. After them, beyond the 

 Mouths of Tiber in the Antian (Creek), is Astura; and close 

 by Palmaria, Sinonia ; and just against, Formias, Pontiae. 

 But in the Bay of Puteolanum, Pantadaria and Prochyta, so 

 called, not of jEneass Nurse, but because of the gushing of 

 the Sea from JEnaria. ^Enaria itself took its Name from the 

 Station of the Ships of uEneas ; called by Homer Inarime, by 

 the Greeks, Pithecusa; not for the Number of Apes there, as 

 some have thought, but of the Work-houses of those that 

 made earthen Vessels. Between Pausilipus and Naples, Me- 

 garis ; and soon after, eight Miles from Surrentum, Capreae, 

 renowned for the Castle of the Prince Tiberius ; in Circum- 

 ference 400 Miles. Next, Leucothea; and out of Sight Jieth 

 Sardinia, close upon the African Sea, but less than nine Miles 

 from the Coast of Corsica : and still those Straits are made 

 more narrow by reason of the small Islands named Cunicu- 

 larise. Likewise Phintonis and Fossae, whereof the very 

 Strait itself is named Taphros. 



