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is supposed to have called Ogygia ; and also Tyris, Eranusa, 

 Meloessa. And this is seventy Miles from Caulon, as Agrippa 

 hath recorded. 



CHAPTER XI. 



The second Bay of Europe. 



FROM the Promontory Lacinium beginneth the second 

 Bay of Europe, bent with a great Winding ; and it endeth at 

 Acrocerauriium, a Promontory of Epirus, from which it is 

 seventy Miles distant. In it is the Town Croto, and the 

 River Naeathus. The Town Thurium, between the two 

 Rivers, Arathis and Sybaris ; where there was a Town of the 

 same Name. Likewise, between Siris and Aciris there 

 standeth Heraclea, once called Siris. Rivers, Acalandrum, 

 Masuentum ; the Town Metapontum, in which the third 

 Region of Italy endeth. The inland Inhabitants, the Aprus- 

 tani only, are of the Brutians : but of the Lucani, Thoati- 

 nates, Bantini, Eburini, Grumentini, Potentini, Sontini, 

 Sirini, Tergilani, Ursentini, Volcentani, to whom the Nu- 

 mestrani are joined. Besides these, Cato writeth, that Thebes 

 of the Lucani hath perished. And Theopompus saith, that 

 Pandosia was a City of the Lucani, wherein Alexander the 

 Epirote was slain. Attached to it is the second Region, 

 containing within it the Hirpini, Calabria, Apulia, and the 

 Salentini, within a Bay, in Compass 250 Miles ; which is 

 called Tarentinus, from a Town of the Laconi, situated in 

 the Recess : and to it was annexed the maritime Colony 

 which was there : it is distant from the Promontory Laci- 

 nium 136 Miles ; putting forth Calabria into a Peninsula 

 against it. The Greeks called it Messapia, from the Name 

 of a Leader, and before this, Peucetia, of Peucetius, the bro- 

 ther of CEnotrus. In the Salentine Country, between the 

 Promontories, there is the Distance of 100 Miles. The 

 Breadth of this Peninsula, from Tarentum to Brundisium, by 

 Land, is two-and-thirty Miles ; but far shorter from the Port 

 Sasina. The Towns in the Continent from Tarentum, are 

 Varia, surnamed Apula, Cessapia and Aletium. But in the 

 Coast of the Senones, Gallipolis, now Auxa, sixty-two Miles 



