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of that Country are said to tell, three Days before-hand 1 , 

 what Winds will blow : from whence it is commonly thought, 

 that the Winds were obedient to JEolus. A fourth is named 

 Didym&, less than Lipara : and a fifth, Ericusa : a sixth, 

 Phoenicusa, left to feed the Rest that are next to it : the last 

 and least is Euonymus. And thus much concerning the first 

 Gulf that divideth Europe. 



CHAPTER X. 

 Of Locri, the Front of Italy. 



AT Locri beginneth the Front of Italy, called Magna 

 Graecia, retiring itself into three Bays of the Ausonian Sea ; 

 because the Ausones first occupied it. It extendeth eighty- 

 two Miles, as Varro testifieth ; but the greater Number of 

 Writers have made it but seventy-two. In that Coast are 

 Rivers without Number; but the Things which are worth 

 the writing of near Locri, are these : Sagra, and the Vestiges 

 of the Town Caulon : Mystia, the Camp Consilinum, Cerin- 

 thus, which some think to be the longest Promontory of 

 Italy. Then the Bay of Scylaceum, which was called by the 

 Athenians, when they built it, Scylletium. Which Place the 

 Bay Terinaeus meeting with, maketh a Peninsula : in which 

 there is a Port called Castra Annibilis : and in no Place is 

 Italy narrower, being but twenty Miles broad. And, therefore, 

 Dionysius the Elder wished to have there cut it off, and 

 added it to Sicily. Rivers navigable there : Caecinos, Cro- 

 talus, Semirus, Arocha, Targines. Within is the Town Pe- 

 tilia, the Mountain Alibanus, and the Promontory Lacinium : 

 before the Coast of which is an Island ten Miles from the 

 Land, called Dioscoron ; and another Calypsus, which Homer 



1 Wheelwright, in his translation of Pindar, thinks the following lines 

 from the seventh Nemean Ode refer to the circumstance mentioned by 

 Pliny : 



" Three days ere yet the tempest rise, 

 The skilful mariner descries," &c. 



Wern. Club. 



