The fecond Booke of 



Chap, txxxvn* 

 ^ Wht /lands have fprung uf^ and at what tmes* 



THofc famous Hands long fincc^ to witjDelos and Rhodcs^ are recorded toliavc growns 

 out of the fca : and aftenvards^others that were lelle^nainely^ Anaph c beyond Mclos : and 

 Nca^ bccwcenq Lemnus and Hellefpont. Alone alfojbctwcene Lebediis and leos : Thera 

 likewifejand TherafiajSmongthe Cyclades; which fhewed in the fourth yeere of the 135 Oiym- 

 pias. Moreover, among the fame Hands 1 30 yeeres after, Hiera, whichisthe fame that Auto* 

 mate. And two turlongs from it, after 110 yeeres , Thia^ even in our ixmc^ upon the 8 dav before 

 the Ides of luly, when M, lunius Sj/llattu^ and Z . Balku were Confuls, 



Chap, lxxxviii. 

 ^ What hinds the Seas have broken in betmenei 



EVen within our kenning and neare to ItaJiej betweenethe Hands i£oli.T| in like manner 

 neare to Creta^ there was one fbewed it felfe with bote fountaincs out of the fea^ for a mile 

 and a halfe : and another in the third yeere of the 143 Olympias, within the Tufcane gulfe, 

 and this burned with a violent wind. Recorded it is alfojthat when a great multitude of fillies flo- 

 ted ebbc about itjthofe perfons died prefenrly that fed therof. So they fay^that in the Camoaine 

 gulfej the Pithecufse Hands appeared. And foone after, the hill Epopos in them (at what time as 

 Ibdainly there burft forth a flaming fire out of it) was laid level with the plain champion.Within 

 the fame alfo there was a townc fwallowed up by the fea : and in one earthquake there appeared a 

 (landing poole 5 butinanother(by the fall and tumbling downe of certainehils)dieregiewethG 

 Hand Prochyta : For after this manner alio Nature hath made Hands. Thus, flie disjoyned Slc'i- 

 lie from Italic, Cypriisfrom Syria, pAiboea from Boeptia,Atalante and Macris homEub(sa_, 

 Besbycus from Bithynia, Leucoflia from the promontoiie and cape of the Sy renes. 



Chap, lxxxix. 

 what Hands became to icpe unto the Maine ^ 



AGainc,iliec hath taken Hands from the Sea, and joyned them to the firme land j and 

 namely, Antifia to Lesbos, Zephyrja to Halicarnaifus, Aethufa to Myndus, Dromifcos 

 and Perne to Miletus, and Narthecufa to thepromontorie Parthenius. Hybanda,fonic- 

 time an Hand of Ionia, is now diftantfrom the {ea 200 ftadia. As for Syrie, Ephcfus hath it now 

 in the midland parts far from the lea. So Magnefia, neighbour to it, hath Dcrafitas asad Sopho^ 

 Ilia. As for Epidaurus and Oricum, are no more Hands at this day. 



Chap. xc« 



^ what Lands have been turned xshollj into Sea„ 



NAture hath altogetjfier taken away certaine Lands : and firft and formofl where as now the 

 fea Atianticum is, it was fomctime the Continent for a mightie fpace of ground jil wee 

 give credit to P/^*/^?. And foone after in our Mcdireranean fea , all men may fee at this 

 day how much hath been drowned up, to wit, Acarnania by the inward gulte of Anibracia: A- 

 chaia within that of Corinth Europe and Afia within Propontis and Pontus.Over and bdfides^ 

 the fea hath broken through Leucas, Antirrhium, Hellelpont, and the two Bofphori* 



Chap, Xcl. 



^ what Lands havefwallowed up themfdves^ 



ANd now to palle over arrqes, of the lea and lakes* The very earth hath devoured and bu- 

 ried her felfe : to wit,that moft high hill Cybotus, with the town CuricesiSipylus in M.ig- . 

 ncfid : and i» the fame [)laae before- time^ the moft noble citie called Tantalus: the terri- 

 tories of Galatiis attd Gamale ih PhiBnice,togidier with the very cities. Phogium alfo, a paffing 

 high hill mi^thiopiaj as if the Very ikondsand Continent were not to be tr ufled, but they aUo 

 mull workc hurt and mifchiefe. ; 



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