6 06 The feven and thirtieth Rooke » 
Rhofne and Po both meetin one, and difcharge themfelves togither into the faid Venice gulfe, G 
they thew their grofle ignorance in Cofmographie anddefcription of the world; and therefore 
they would bee rather pardoned if they knew not what Amber was. Thofethat write more: mo- 
deftly than the reft (and yet can lye as well as the beft) beareusin hand,that aboutthe fides of 
the forefaid Venice gulfe or Adriaticke fea, upon rockes otherwife inacceflible, theregrowtrees 
which yeerely at the rifing of the Dogftar doe yeeld forth this amber in manner of agum. Theo- 
phrastus contrariwife affirmeth, that amber is digged out of the ground.As for Chares,he faith, 
that Phaéton died in 2thiopia neate unto the temple of Jupiter Ammon,which is thereafon ofa 
chappell there wherein hee is fhrined, as alfo of an oracle much renowmed ; inwhich quarters _ 
(quoth he) amber is engendred. P/ilemon would make us beleeve, tharatnberis minetall, and 
that within Scythia in two places itis gotten foorth of theearth; in the oneit isfoundwhiceand 
of the colour of wax, whichthey call EleGrum ; in theother itis reddifhor tawnie, apd that is k 
' named Sualternicum. Demoffraiws calleth amber, Lyncution, for thatit commeth of the urine 
of the wild beafts named Onces or Lynces :the whichis diftiné in colour, for that which pro- : 
ceedeth from the male is reddifh and of a firiecolour ;the other which pafleth from thefemale, 
is more weake in colour,and enclineth rather to be whitith. Some give itthe name Languriuin, 4 
and make report of certaine beaftsin Italie named Langutie. Zenothemes tearmeth the fame = 
beafts Langas, andby hisfaying, they live about the Po. Sudives talketh of a tree in Liguria, 
which fhould beare this amber: of whofe opinion alfo was (Metrodorus.. Sotacus was verely per- 
{uaded , that itran downe from certaine trees in Brittaine, and thofe hethereupon called Elec- 
trides. Pytheas affirmeth, that in Almaine there isthe arme of the Ocean called Mentonomon, J 
along which there inhabit certaine people named Gutti; forthe {pace cf fix thonfand Radia; 
tromwhich, within one daies failing, there lyeth an Ifland called Abalus, into which at everie 
Spring tide, thereis caftup by the waves of the fea ata high water,a great quantitie of amber; 
andit is taken for nothing elfe buta certaine excrement congealed and hardned, which the fea 
in that feafon purgeth and fendeth away. The inhabitants of thofe parts (faith he) ufeirfor theit 
ordinaric fewell to burne,and to fell it untothe Saxonsand other Dutch, theirnext neighbours. 
a Banoma- 7jmews accorded with him, fave only that he would have the faid Iflandtobe called *Baltia, Poi 
; lemon was of this mind, thatamber would never flameif it were fet on fire. Niceas would have 
us conceive, that it fhould be a certaine juice or humour proceeding (I wot not how ) from the 
raies of che Sun; and yet hee maketh a reafon thereof, imagining that the faid beams fhouldbe K 
exceeding hot towardthe Sun fetting, which rebounding from the earth, leave behind thema 
* ehibusfome Certaine fattie {weatin that part of the Ocean 3 and the fame afterwards is caft up with *tides into” 
tead efaibs, the Sea-{horeand fands of the Germans. Hee writeth alfo, thatin Egypt itis engendred after 
‘in Summer thar manner, where it is called Sacal:as alfo among the Indians, who make more agcountof it ‘ 
than of frankincenfe. Semblably in Syria, the women (faith hee) make wherves of it for their . 
{pindles, where they ufe tocall it Harpax, becaufe it will catch up leaves, ftraws,and fringes han- 
ging tocloaths. T4eophraftws reporteth, thatthe ocean cafteth up amberattides, to the capesof 
the Pyrenzean hills: which Xenocrates alfo beleeved,who is the laft that hath written'of Amber, 
and {uch like. There is at this day living, 4/arubas, who hath reportéd,that neareuntothe Atlan- — 
* oreather tick fea there is the lake Cephifis, which the Morescall * Electrum, and the {ame being chafed L 
Elefnsasap- and heat throughly by the Sun, cafteth up from the mud thereof, amber, floting aloft upon the 
fee lite water. Maefias maketh reportof aplace in Afftickenamed Sicyone, as alfo of the river Cra- 
j this, which floweth our ofalough and runneth intothe fea;ia which lake or lough, there live 
certaine kinds of foulewhich hee nameth Meleagrides and Penelopes: herein amber is engen- 
dred(by his faying)atter the fame manner as before I fhewed in the lake Ele@tris. Thecmenes faith, 
thatneare unto the great Syrtis where the hortyardand garden of the Hefperides lieth,a man 
fhall find thatamber falleth ourof the faid garden into a lake beneath, and then the virgins at- 
tending upon that place,come ordinarily to gather it. Crefias affirmeth, that among the Indians 
thereisa river called Hypobarus, (which word fignifieth asimuch, as bearing all good veffels) 1 
‘runneth out of the North and falleth intothe Eaft fea, neare unto a wildmountaine full of trees 
thatbeareamber.He addeth moreover & faith,thatthofetrees are called Aphytacore by which 
_ denomination is meant, moft delightfom fweetnefle. sthridates writeth, that toward the coaft of 
Germanie there lieth an Ifland,and the famenamed Oferi@a,replenifhed with woods of Cedar — 
‘exces yeelding Amber,which tunneth fromhem intosocks.Xenserates.is of opinion, That “ss 
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