Plinies Naturall Hiftorie, 



Chap, xcii, 

 FFhat Cinies hve been dromed with the Sea, 



THe Tea Poncus hath overwhelmed Pyrrha and AntylTa about Ma?otis,Eh'ce, andBura^ in 

 the gulfe of Corinth : whereof^ the markes and tokens are to be feene in the deepc . Out 

 of the Hand Cea, more than 30 miles of ground was loft fodainly at once, with many a 

 manbefides. In Sicilie alfo the fea came inland had away halfe the ciue Thinduris^ and what- 

 foeverltaly nourfeth, even all bctweene it and Sicilie, The like it did in Boeotia and Ekufina, 



Chap, xciii. 

 of the flrange mnders of the Land, 



I^Or, letusfpeakeno moreof Earchquakesj and whatfoever elfe of that kind; and namely, 

 ^ of the graves and Sepulchres of Citties^ buried and extant to be feene. But difcouife we ra- 

 ther of the wonders, than the mifchiefes wrought by Nature in the earth . And furdy the 

 Storieofcoeleftiall things was not more hard to be uttered and declared: the weahh isfuch of 

 niettalsandmines^infuchvarietie/o rich^fofruitfulljrifmgftill one under another forfo many 

 ages 5 notwithftanding that daily there is fomuch wafted and confumed throughout the worlds 

 With iiresjtuinesj fhipwracks^warres^ and fraudulent pradifes : yea and fo much fpent widi ryot 

 andfuperfluous vanities, by fo many men livings that it is infinite: yet fee, how many forts of 

 jcmmcs there be ftiil, fo painted and fet out with colours? hi precious ftones^ what varietie of 

 iundrie colours? and how befpotted are they !i\.nd among them, behold the whitenefie'and 

 bright hew of fome one^ excluding all elfe but only light. The vertue and power of medicinabk 

 fountaines ; the continuall burning fo many hundred yeeres together of fire ilTuingforth in fo 

 many places : the deadly dampes and exhalations in fome places, either fent out of pits when 

 ihey were lunke, or elfe from the very nativefeatand pofuion of the ground jprefent death in 

 one place to the birds and foules of the aire >only (as at Sorade, in a quarter neere unto the cjt- 

 tie; ) in other^to all other living creatures, (live onely man ; yea^and fometime to men alfo^as in 

 the territories of Sinuefla and Putcoli. Which dampe holes, breathing out a deadly aire, fome 

 cdW^C baroness Scrobes^i, Charonsdkdizs. Likewifeinthe Hirpinesland, thatof Amfanaus^a 

 cavenecre unto the iQin^hoiNephites^ which as'many as enter into, dieprefently. Afterthe 

 like manner, at Hierapolis in Afia there is another fuch, hurting all that come to it bur only the 

 Prieft oiCyhele^ the great mother of the Gods . In other places there be alfo caves and holes of a 

 Propheticall power: by the exhalation of which,men are intoxicate.and as it were drunken, and 

 fo foretell things to come, as at Delphi, that moft rcnowmed Oracle, hi all which things, what 

 other reafon can any mortall man make, than the divine power of Nature diffufcd andipred 

 through ailj which brsaketh forth at times in fundcy forts ? 



Chap, xciiii. 



ff^ of certaine Lands that evermore dk qmke, 



^ Omepartsof the earth there be, that fhakeand tremble under mens feet as they goe: and 

 ^namely, in the territorie of theGabians, not farre from Rome citie, there be almofttwo 

 hundred acres of ground which tremble as horfcmen ride over them -.and likewifeinthe 

 territorie of Reate. 



Chap. XcV. 



^ oflflands ever flotwg and fwitnm'wg, 



CErtainelflands are alwaies waving and never ftand ftill, asinthecountrcyabout Csecii- 

 bum,Reate abovenamed,Mutina,and Statonia. Alfo in the Lake Vadimonis,and neer the 

 waters Cutyli^ejthere is a fhaddowie darke grove, which is never feene in one place a day 

 and night together.Moreover,inLydia3 the IflesCalanucse, are not onely driven to and fro by 

 \vindsjbut alio many be ^oyed and thruft with long poles,which way a man will j a thing that fa- 



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