Plinies Natumll Hiftone, 



A Chap, lxxxiit, 



^Mnfirom'Emh(iuakesfeenc never but once <, 



THcre happened once (which I found in the bookesof the Tufcanes learning) within the 

 territonc of Modena, (whiles L, UHartim and Sex, Julipi^s were Confuls) a gicst ftrangs 

 wonder of the Earth: for two hillesencountrcd together, charging.as itwere;< andv\iai 

 violence alfaultingone another, yea and retiring againe with a moft mightie noife. It fell out ia 

 the day time .-and betweene them there ilfued flaming fite and finoke mounting up into the skie: 

 while a great number of Romane Gentlemen (from the high way ^Emylia) and a multitude of 

 fervants^yea and pafTengersby, or wayfaring men,flood andbeheld it. With this conBidl: and 

 B running of them together, all the villages upon them were daiQied and broken in peeces : verie 

 much cattell that was within J dyed therewith. And this happened the yeere before the warre of 

 our alTociates: which I doubt, whether it were not more pernicious to the whole land of Italic, 

 than the civile warres. It was no leflTc monftrous a wonder that was knovl;rie aifo in our age,in the ' 

 very laft yeere of Tiero the Emperor (as we have fhewed in his adies) when medowes andolive 

 rowes (notwithftanding the great pubiicke port-waylay betweene) pafled pyerthwart one into 

 anothers place, in the Marrucine territorie, within the lands of Vectim Mmdlm a Gendemari 

 of RomCj Procurator under iV^r^i in his affairesw 



Chap* lxxxiiii. 

 C ^ Wonders of Earthquakes, 



THere happen together with E3rthquakcs,deluges alio and inundations of the fea^ towit^ 

 infufed and entringinto the earth with the fame aire and wind, orelfe received into the 

 hollow receptacle,as it ledeth downe. The grcateil Earthquake within the remembrance 

 of man, was that which chaunced during the Empire of Tikrm C^fir ^whcn 1 2 cities of Afia 

 were over- turned and laid flat in one night. But the Earthquakes came thickeft and moft toge- 

 ther in the Punick warre, when within one yeere there were reported at Rome to have ben ievea 

 andfiftie. In which yeere verily,when the CarthaginiansandRomansfoughtabattaileatThra- 

 fymenus lake, neither of both armies tooke knowledge of a right great earthquake. Neither is 

 X) this a fimple cvill thing, nor the daunger confifteth onely in the very Earthquake and no more ; 

 but that which it portendeth, is as bad or vvorfc. Never abode the citie of Rome any earthquake^ 

 but it gave warning before-hand, of forae ftraunge accident and unhappie event followin g^- v, 



Chap. Lxxxv. 



i/^ what f luces the Seas hAvegone backd 



THefamccaufc is to be rendred of fomc new hillorpeece of gronnd,not feene before^ 

 when as thefaid wind within the earth, able to huffe up the ground, was not of power fuf- 

 ficient to breake foorth and make iffue. For there growcth firme land not oncly by that 

 which rivers bring in (as the Hands Echinades, which were heaped arid railed up by the river 

 £ Achelousjandfoby Nilus the greater part of ^gypt,into which, limhelcicuQHotncy^itovii 

 thelland Pharus, there was a cut by fea of a day and nights failing :) but alio by the retiring an^I 

 going backe ol the ica ; as the fame Poet hath written of the Ctrceia, The like (by report) happe- 

 ned bothin the haven of Ambraciajfor ten miles fpacejandalfo in thatof the Athenians, foK 

 five mileSjneerePirecBum : alfo at Ephefus, where fometime thelea beat upon the temple of £>/- 

 ana. And verily (if we give eare to Herodotm) it wac all a fea frotii above Memphis to the iEthio-- 

 pianhils : andiikewifefromtheplainesof Arabia » It was fea alfo about Ilium, and the flat of 

 Teuthrania ;and all that levell whereas the river Meander now runneth by goodly medowes. 



Chap. j-Xxxvi. 

 ?g» rhe redfon (tf ljlands that newly afpemm fif4^epa^ ■ . : . . ^, 



THere be lands alfo that put forth after aaother manner,' and all; at once ftew oa aijoaaide 

 in fome fea : as if Nature cryed quittance with her lelfe, atid made even, paying one for an- 

 other 5 naiBely, by giving againethacin one place, which, thofe chawmes and gapxn^g.gMlfcs 

 tooke away in another- ~ ^ - - 



