1l links Natural! oiftorie* 



A fore the Tea water (which naturally is heavier) upholdeth and bearcth up vvhatfoever is brought 

 in. Yea and amongllfrefhwatersj feme there be that floieand glide over others. As for exam- 

 ple, in the lake Fucinus, the river that runneth into it ; in Larius^ Addua 5 in VerbanusjTicinus 5 

 in Benacus^Minciiis ; in SevinuSjOllius ;in Lemanus lake, the river Rhodanus. As for this rivet 

 beyond the AlpeSjand the former in Italic ; for many a mile as they paflcjcarrie forth their o wnc 

 \i'aters from thence where they abode as ftrangers, and none other ^ and the fame no larger than 

 iheybroughtin with them. This is reported likcwife of Orontes, a river in Syria j and of many 

 others. Somerivers againe there be, which upon an hatred tothe feajtun even under the botom 

 thereof ;as ^rethufajafoUntaincin Syracufa: wherein this is bbfervedjthat whatfoever is call 

 into itjcommcth up againe at the river Alpheusj which running through Olympia, falleth into 



B the fea fliorc ot P^^loponncfus. There go under the ground, and fhew above the ground againe^ 

 Lycus in AfiajErafinus in Argolica, Tygris in Mefopotamia. And at Athens^what things foe- 

 vei are drowned inthefountaine of ^fculapius, be caft up againe in Phalericus. Alfo in rhe'A- 

 tinate plaincs, the rivet that is buried under the earth, twentie miles off appeareth againe. Sc^ 

 doth Timavus in the territorie of Aquileia, In Afphaltites (a lake in lurie which engendreih Bit- 

 ttifnen) nothing will finke nor can be drowned^no more than in Arethufain the greater Arme- 

 nia : and the fame verily^ notwithlf anding it be full of NitrCj breedeth and feedeth fiili. In the 

 Salcntines countrey, neere the towne Manduria, there is a lake brim full : lade out of it as much; 

 water as you will, it dccreafeth not 5 ne yet augmenteth , poure in never fo much to it. In a river o£ 

 the CiconianSjand in the lake Velinusin the Pic€neterritorie,ifwood bethrownein,itis cove- 



Q redover with a ftoniebarke.Alfo in Surius, a river of Colchis, thelikeis tobefeend: infomuchj 

 as ye fhall have very often the barke that overgroweth it ^ as hard as any ff one. Likcwife in the ri- 

 ver Silarus beyond Surrentum, not twigs oneJy that are dipped therein, but leaves alfo grow to 

 be ftonesjand yet the water thereof otherwifeisgoodandhokfometo bedrunke. In the verie 

 paHage and ifTue of Reatine meere, there groweth a rocke of flone bigger and bigger by the dr- 

 illing of the water. Moreover, in the red fea there be olive trees and other fhrubs, that grow up 

 greene. There be alfo very many fprings, which have a wonderfull naEure,for theirboihng heats 

 yea, and that upon the very mountainesofthc Alpesj andinthe fea betwcene Italic and^Sna- 

 ria: as in the Firth Baianus,andthe river Liris_, and many others. Forin diversand fundriepla- 

 ces yee may drawfteih water out of thefeaj-namely about the ylands Chelidonis and Aradu^s 



D yea and in the Ocean about Gades.In the hot waters of the Padovans,there grow green herbs : 

 in thofeof the Pifanes, there breed frogs : and at Vctulonij in Hetruria, not tarre from the fia_, 

 filhes alio are bred. In the territorie CafinaSj there is a river called Scatebraj which is cold, and 

 in Summer time more abounding and fuller of water than in winter : in it, as alfo in Stymphalis 

 of Arcadia, there breed and cOme foorthotit litdewater-mycejOrfinallLimpins.InDodone,; 

 thefountaineof lupiter b'eingexceedingchiil andeoldjfo as it quencheth andpiitteth out light 

 torches dipped thereinjyet if you hold the fame neere unto it when they arc eXtind andput 

 out,it fetteth them on fire againe. The fame Ipring at noontide, evermore giveth over to boile 

 and wanteth water, for which caufc they call it na^avomencs : anon it beginneth to rife untill 

 itbe midnightj and then it hath great abundance -.and from that time againe itfainteth by little 



E andhttle. Inlilyricum thereisacoldSpring,ovcrwhich,ifyeelpreadany cloihcs/ney catch a 

 fire and burne. The fountaine of Itipiter Hammon in the day time is cold, all night it is ieething 

 bote. In the Troglodites countrey there is a fountaine of the Sunne,called the Sweet Spring, a- 

 bout noone it is exceeding cold,anon by little and litdeit groweth to be warm^^but at midnight 

 itpafTethand isoffenfivefor heatandbitternefle.The head of thcPojatnccnein Summer,gi- 

 veth over, as it werc^and intermitteth to boile,and is then ever drie. In the liland Tenedus there 

 is a fpringjwhich after the Summer Sunneff eed,evermore from the third houre of the night un- 

 to the {ixt,doth overflow. And in the ifle Delos,the fountaine Inopus, falleth and rifeth after the 

 fa«|g fort that Nilus doth, andxogcther with it. Over againfi the river Timavus, there is alittlG 



t Ifland^withinthefeajhavinghotenwels, which cbbeand flovvasthetideof thefeadoth,and juli 

 therewith,In the territorie of the Pitinates beyond Apenninus,the river Novanus at every mid- 

 fommer time fwelletb and runneth over the bankes,but in mid-winteris clcanc drie.In the Fali(- 

 eane countrey,the water of the river Clitumnus maketh the oKen and kine white that drinke of 

 iti And in B^otia, the river Melas maketh fheepe blacke : CephyfTus running out of" the fame 

 lake^Gaufeth them to be white ; and Penius againe giveth them ablaek eolour : but Xanthus necc 



