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Another River, Bacuntius, running likewise into Saus at 

 the Town Sirmium : where is the City of the Sirmians and 

 Amantines. Forty-five Miles from thence, Taurunum, where 

 Saus is intermingled with Danubius. Higher above there run 

 into it Valdanus and Urpanus, which are no obscure Rivers. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 

 Mcesia. 



To Pannonia is joined the Province called Mcesia, which 

 extendeth^'along Danubiusl unto Pontus. It beginneth 

 from the confluent above named. In it are the Dardani, 

 Celegeri, Triballi, Trimachi, Mcesi, Thraces, and the Scy- 

 thae, bordering upon Pontus. Fair Rivers, out of the 

 Dardanian Borders : Margis, Pingus, and Timachis. Out 

 of Rhodop, Oessus : out of Haemus, Utus, Essamus, and 

 Jeterus. Illyricum, where it is broadest, taketh up 325 

 Miles : in Length from the River Arsia to the River Drinius, 

 800 Miles. From Drinium to the Promontory Acroce- 

 raunium, 182 Miles. M. Agrippa hath set down this whole 

 Gulf, comprehending Italy and Illyricum, in the compass of 

 1300 Miles. In it are two Seas, bounded as I have said: 

 that is, the Lower, otherwise called the Ionian, in the first 

 Part : the Inner, called Adriaticum, which also they name 

 the Upper. In the Ausonian Sea there are no Islands worth 

 the naming, but those above specified. In the Ionian Sea 

 there are but few : upon the Calabrian Coast, before Brun- 

 dusium, by the interposition of which the Harbour is made : 

 and against the Apulian Coast, Diomedea, famous for the 

 Tomb of Diomedes. Another of the same Name, called by 

 some Teutria. The Coast of Illyricum is heaped with more 

 than 1000 ; such is the nature of the Sea, full of Shallows, 

 with narrow Channels running^ between. But before the 

 Mouth of Timavus, there are Islands famous for hot Waters, 

 which flow with the Sea. And near the Territory of the 

 Istri, Cissa, Pullariaj, and those which the'Greeks name Ab- 

 syrtides, from Absyrtis, Brother of Medea, there slain. Near 



