BOOK IV.] History of Nature. 3 



Dodonceus, so famous for the Oracle : the Mountain To- 

 marus, celebrated by Theopompus for the hundred Fountains 

 about its foot. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Ejjirus. 



EPIRUS itself reaching to Magnesia and Macedonia, hath 

 behind it the Dassaretae above named, a free Nation; but 

 presently the savage People of the Dardani. On the left 

 side of the Dardani, the Treballi and Nations of Moesia lie 

 ranged : from the Front are joined to them, the Medi 

 and Denthelatse ; upon whom the Thraces border, who 

 reach as far as to Pontus. Thus it is environed with 

 Rhodope, and is fenced presently also with the Heights of 

 Haetnus. In the Coast of Epirus, among the Acroceraunia, 

 is the Castle Chimsera, under which is the Spring of the 

 King's Water. The Towns are Maeandria and Cestria : the 

 River of Thesprotia, Thyamis : the Colony Buthrotium : 

 and the Gulf of Ambracia, above all others most famous, 

 receiving at its Mouth the wide Sea, 39 Miles in Length 

 and 15 in Breadth. Into it runneth the River Acheron, 

 flowing out of Acherusia, a Lake of Thesprotia, 36 Miles 

 from thence : and the Bridge over it, 1000 Feet long, ad- 

 mirable to those that admire all Things of their own. In 

 the Gulf is the Town Ambracia. The Rivers of the Molossi, 

 Aphas and Arachtus. The City Anactoria, and the Lake 

 Pandosia. The Towns of Acarnania, called formerly Curetus, 

 are Heraclea and Echinus : and in the very entrance, Actium, 

 a Colony of Augustus, with the noble Temple of Apollo, and 

 the free City Nicopolis. When out of the Ambracian Gulf 

 and in the Ionian Sea, we meet with the Leucadian Coast 

 and the Promontory of Leucate. Then the Bay, and Leu- 

 cadia itself, a Peninsula, once called Neritis, but by the 

 Labour of the neighbouring Inhabitants cut off quite from 

 the Continent, but joined to it again by means of the Winds 



