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teoli, the Tuscan Sea, Corsica, the Baleares, the Middle of 

 Spain. A Gnomon of seven Feet giveth six of Shadow. 

 The Longest Day is fifteen Equinoctial Hours. The sixth 

 Parallel compriseth the City of Rome, and containeth the 

 Caspian Nations, Caucasus, the North Parts of Armenia, 

 Apollonia upon Rhindacus, Nicomedia, Nicaea, Chalcedon, 

 Byzantium, Lysimachia, Cherrhonesus, the Gulf Melane, 

 Abdera, Samothracia, Maronea, .ZEnus, Bessica, the Mid- 

 land Parts of Thracia, Poeonia, the Illyrii, Dyrrhachium, 

 Canusium, the utmost Coasts of Apulia, Campania, Hetruria, 

 Pisa, Luna, Luca, Genua, Liguria, Antipolis, Massilia, Nar- 

 bon, Tarracon, the Middle of Spain called Tarraconensis, 

 and thence through Lusitania. To a Gnomon of nine Feet 

 the Shadow is eight Feet. The Longest Day hath fifteen 

 Equinoctial Hours and the ninth part of an Hour, or the 

 fifth, as Nigidius is of opinion. The seventh Division be- 

 ginneth at the other Coast of the Caspian Sea, and falleth 

 upon Callatis, Bosphorus, Borysthenes, Tomos, the Back 

 Parts of Thracia, the Tribali, the rest of Illyricum, the 

 Adriatic Sea, Aquileia, Altinum, Venetia, Vicetia, Patavium, 

 Verona, Cremona, Ravenna, Ancona, Picenum, Marsi, 

 Peligni, Sabini, Umbria, Ariminum, Bononia, Placentia, 

 Mediolanum, and all beyond Apenninum : also over the 

 Alps, Aquitaine in Gaul, Vienna, Pyrenaeum, and Celtiberia. 

 The Gnomon of thirty-five Feet casteth a Shadow thirty-six 

 Feet in Length ; yet so, that in some part of Venetia the 

 Shadow is equal to the Gnomon. The Longest Day is fif- 

 teen Equinoctial Hours, and three-fifth parts of an hour. 

 Hitherto we have reported the exact Labours of the Ancients. 

 But the most diligent Modern Writers have assigned the rest 

 of the Earth not as yet specified, to three Sections. (The 

 first) from Tanais through the Lake Moaotis and the Sar- 

 matae, all the way to Borysthenes, and so by the Daci and a 

 part of Germany, the Galliae, and the Coasts of the sur- 

 rounding Ocean, where the Day is sixteen Hours long. A 

 second, through the Hyperborei and Britannia, where the 

 Day is seventeen Hours long. Last of all, is the Scythian 

 Parallel, from the Rhiphean Hills unto Thule : in which (as 



