The fecond Booke of 



ved many a mans life in the warre againft LMithridates, There be other litck ones alfo in the ri- 

 ver Nymphxus called Saltuares[or DauncersJ becaufe in anyconfortbl Miificians finging, 

 they ftirre and move at the ftrokc of the fectjkeeping time and meafurcln the great Lake of Ita- 

 lie Tarquinienfis, two Iflands carrie about with them gtovcsand woods: one while they are in fa* 

 fhion three fquare , another while rou^d^ when they clofc one to the other by the drift of winds^ 

 but never fourefquarc. 



Chap, xcyj. 



In rvhat knds $t never ramcth,Alfo many (Irange wonders and mirdcks of the CAVth^ 

 and other elements heaped together. 



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PAphoshath in it a famous temple of Fe»m:v\pon a certaine floore and altar whereof^it ne- 

 ver raineth.Likewife in Nea.a towne of Troas^a man fhall never {ee it raine about the ima^e 

 of Mwerva,ln the fame alfo the beafts killed for facrificejif they be left therejneverputrihc, 

 Neere to Harpafaja towne in Afia^thcre ftands a rocke of ftone of a ftrange and wonderous na- 

 ture : lay one finger to it^and it will ftirre, but thruft at it with your whole bodie, it will not move, 

 but ftiffely refift. Within the demie Ifland of the Tauri, and cittie Parafinumj there is a kind of 

 earth that healeth all wounds.But about AlTos in Troas^there growes a ftone, wherewith all bo- 

 dies are confuniedjand thereupon Sarcophagus it is cailed.Two hils there be neere the river In- 

 dus; the nature of the one is to hold fa ft all manner of yron^jand of the otherjnot to abide it : and 

 therefore if a mans ilioe foil be clouted with hob nailes, in the one of them a man cannot pluck I 

 2way his foot^and in Ihc other hee can take no footing at all. Noted it is^tbat in Locri and Cro- 

 tone there was never peftilence knownCjnor any trouble or daunger by earthquake. And in Lycia 

 ever after an earthquake, it hath been faire weather for fortic daies. In the territorieof Arda, if 

 cornc be fovvedjit never commeth up. At the altars Murtu-e in the Veientian fieldjlikewifc in Tuf- 

 cLilv num and the woodCyminia,thcre be certaine placesjwherein whatfoever is pitched into the 

 ground,can never be plucked up againe.ln the Cruftumine countrey all the hey there growing, 

 is hurtful] in the fame place : but be it once without it,good and holfbme it is«. 



Chap. XCVli. 



^ ^What is the re^ifsn of the reciprocallMe andflsw sfthe fea^.-and where it k that they 

 keepe no order ^wd are rvithout reafon, 



OF the nature of waters much hath beene faid : but thefca-tide that it fliould ^ow and ebbe 

 againcjis moft mervellous of all other.The manner thereof verily is divers,but the caufe 

 is in the Sunnt and ^4oonc.BGtwcene two rifmgs of the Moon , they flow twicc,and twice 

 goe backc,and alvjaies in the fpace of foure and cwenne houres.And firft as heerifeth aloft toge- 

 ther with the world,the tides fwelljand anone againc^as it goethfi:om theheigth of the Meridian 

 line, and enclineth VVeftward, they flake : againejas fhe moveth from the W'ei^, under our hori- 

 fon,and approcheth to the point contrarie to the Meridian jthey flow,and then they are received 

 backe into the fea untill (he rife againe : and never keepeth the tide the fame houre that it did the 

 day before: for it waiteth and giveth attendance upon the Planetjwhich greedily draweth with it 

 the feas^and evermore rifeth to day infome other pike than it did yefterday. Howbeit the tides 

 keepeiuft the fame times betweene, and hold alwaies fixe houresapeece : Imeane not of every 

 day and night or place indiffeientiy,biit oiiely the equinodiall.For in regard of houresjthe tides 

 of the fea are unequall:for as much as by day and night the tides are more or lefle onetime than 

 another; in the equino^iali onely they are even and alike in all places. A very great argument 

 this is, fullof lighr, to convince that grofleand blockifh conceit of them who areofopini- 

 ouj that the planets being under the earth, loofe their power: and that their vertue begin- 

 neth when they are above onely. For they fhew their effe(as as well under as above the earth, 

 as well as the earth which worketh in all parts. And plaine it is, that the Moonc performeth her 

 operations as wel under the earth,as when we fee her vifibly aloft;neither is her courfe any other 

 beneath, than above our horizon. But yet the difference and alteration of theMooneismani- 

 fold^and firft every fevea daics: for whiles flie is ncw^^thc tides be but iiiiall untill th^ firft quarters 

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