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In this Strait is the Rock called Scylla, and likewise another 

 named Charybdis : the Sea is full of Whirlpools, and both 

 those Rocks are notorious for their Rage. The utmost Cape 

 of this Island Triquetra (as we have said) is called Pelorus, 

 projecting against Scylla toward Italy. Pachynum lieth to- 

 ward Graecia, and from it Peloponnesus is distant 144 Miles. 

 Lilybaeum lieth toward Africa, and between it and the Cape 

 of Mercury there are 180 Miles : and from the said Lilybaeum 

 to the Cape of Caraleis in Sardinia, 120. Now these Pro- 

 montories and Sides lie one from the other at this Distance : 

 by Land, from Pelorus to Pachynum, 166 Miles : from thence 

 to Lilybaeum, 200 Miles : so forward to Pelorus, 170. In it, 

 of Colonies, Towns, and Cities, there are 72. Beyond 

 Pelorus, which looketh toward the Ionian Sea, is the Town 

 Messana, inhabited by Roman Citizens, which are called 

 Mamertini. Also the Cape Drepanum ; the Colony Tau- 

 rominium, formerly called Naxos; the River Asines; the 

 Mountain ^Etna, wonderful for its Fires in the Night ; the 

 Cavity (Crater) of it is in Compass two Miles and a half; 

 the burning Ashes thereof fly as far as to Taurominium and 

 Catana : but its crashing Noise may be heard as far as to 

 Maron, and the Hills Gemellis. There are also, the three 

 Rocks of the Cyclops ; the Port of Ulysses, the Colony 

 Catana ; the Rivers Symethum and Terias : within the Isle 

 the Fields Laestrigonii. The Towns Leontini and Megaris : 

 the River Pantagies : the Colony Syracusae, with the Foun- 

 tain Arethusa. Also, there are other Springs in the Territory 

 of Syracusa that yield Water for drink, as Temenitis, Archi- 

 demia, Magaea, Cyan, and Milichie. The Port Naus- 

 tathmos, the River Elorum, the Promontory Pachynum : 

 and on this Front of Sicily, the River Hirminium, the Town 

 Camarina, the River Helas, and Town Acragas, which our 

 Countrymen have named Agrigentum. The Colony Thermae : 

 Rivers, Atys and Hypsa : the Town Selinus : and next to it 

 the Promontory Lilybaeum, Drepana, the Mountain Eryx. 

 The Towns Panhormum, Solus, Hymetta with the River, 

 Cephaloedis, Aluntium, Agathirium, Tyndaris a Colony, the 



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