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CHAPTER VII. 

 Of Sardinia. 



SARDINIA, on the East Side, is in Extent 188 Miles; on 

 the West, 170 ; Southward, 74; and Northward, 122 : so that, 

 in all, it taketh up the Compass of 560 Miles. It is from the 

 Cape of Caralitanus to Africa 200 Miles : from Gades, 1400 

 Miles. It hath two Islands on that Side where the Promon- 

 tory Gorditanum standeth ; which be called Hercules' Is- 

 lands : on the Side of Sulsensis, Enosis ; of Caralitanum, 

 Ficaria. Some Place not far from it the Islands Belerides 

 and Col 1 odes : and another which they call Heras Lutra, or 

 Hieraca. The most celebrated People therein are the Ilienses, 

 Balari, and Corsi : and of the fourteen Towns, the Sul- 

 citana, Valentin), Neapolitan!, Bosenses, and Caralitani, who 

 are Roman Citizens ; arid Norenses. There is one Colony 

 which is called Ad Turrim Libysonis. This Island Sardinia 

 Timceus called (from the Shape of a Shoe) Sandaliotis : but 

 Myrsylus (from its Resemblance to a Footstep), Ichnusa. 

 Over against the Bay Psestanum is Leucasia, so called from 

 a Siren there buried. Opposite Vestia, lie Pontia and Issia ; 

 both jointly called by one Name, (Enotides ; an Argument 

 that Italy was possessed by the CEnotrians. And opposite 

 Vibo other little ones, called Ithacesise, the Watch-places of 

 Ulysses. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 Of Sicily. 



BUT Sicily excelleth all other of these Islands. It is 

 named by Thucydides, Sicania ; by many, Trinacria, or Tri- 

 quetra, from its triangular Form. It is in Circuit (as Agrippa 

 saith) 198 Miles. In Times past it was joined to the Bru- 

 tians' Country ; but soon after, by the Rush of the Sea, it 

 was torn from it, and a Strait was left of 12 Miles in 

 Length, and one and a half in Breadth, near the Column 

 Rhegium. Upon this Occasion of opening, the Greeks gave 

 a Name to the Town Rhegiurn, situated on the Edge sf Italy. 



