The fec5nd Boote of 



merabkothers^which be indeed little, but yet naturally ififuing out in great abiindanccr in the Q 

 Proaiontorie Nymphieuiiij there commeth forth a flaming fire out of a rockjwhich is fee a bnr- 

 ning v\ith rainc.The like is to be fecne alfo at the waters called Scanti^.But this verily is but fee- 

 ble when it pafleth and removethjneither endureth it long in any other matter. An aili there is 

 growing over this fierie fountaine andcoveringitjwhichnotwithiuinding is aiwaies grcene. In 

 theterritorieofMutinajthere lifeth up fire alfo, upon certainefetholidaies'imto r^i/V^?/?^ . Ic is 

 found written. That if a cole of fire fall downe upon the arable fields under'Aricia^the very foile 

 prefently is on fire. In the Sabines territorie^as alfo in the Sidicihes, ftonesif they be,annointed 

 or greaiedjwill be fet on a light fire.In a towne of the Salentines called Egnaiia,ifiire be bid up- 

 on a ccrtaine hallowed ftone there^it will immediately flame out. Vpon the alter of luf^o Laci^Ha 

 Handing as it doth in the open airCj the afhes lie unmoveable and (iirre not, blow v^)hat ftormie H 

 winds that will on every fide.Over and befides^thfere be fires feene fuddainely to arife^both in wa- 

 ters and alfo about the bodies of men, P'alerm \^ nlm reporterh, That the lake Thrafymenus 

 once burned all over: alfo that ■S^^'mw T/^////^ in his childhood,as hee lay aOeepCj had a light 

 fire ftione out of his head : likewifdjas L,UiirUui\iXiAt an Oration in open audience to the ar- 

 niiejafter the two Scif ios were flaine in Spain jand exhorted his fouldiors to revenge tlieir death, 

 his head was on a flaming fire in the fame fort. More of this argument, and inbetter order, will 

 we write foone hereafter* For now we cxhibite and (hew the mervailes of all thingshuddlcd and 

 intermingled together. But in the meane while, my mind being pafTed beyond the interpreta- 

 tion of Naturejiafteneth to lead as it were by the hand the minds alfo of the readers^ through- 

 out the whole world, I 



Chap, cviil. 

 ^ The meafare of the iPhkAift^ in Ungth and hreddth, 



THis our part of the earth whereof I fpeakCjflotingas it were within the Ocean (as hath bed 

 faid)lieth out in length moft from the Eaft to the Weft,ihat is to fay/rom India to HercU' 

 les pillars consecrated at Gades: and as mine authour Artermdorti'S thinketh, it cbntaineth 

 8 5 hundred, and 78 miles But according to ifidorm ^8 hundred,and 1 8; Artemidorm addeth 

 moreover, from Gades within the circuit of the facred Promontorie, tothccape Artabrum, 

 wher-fi the front and head of Spainebeareth outfartheftin length 8pi miles. Thismeafure run- ^ 

 neth two waies.From the river Ganges and the mouth thereof, whereas he difchargeth himfelfe 

 into the Eaft Ocean,through India and Parthyene unto Myriandrum a citie or Syria,fituate up- 

 on the gulfe or Firth of ira,52 hundred and 1 5 miles.From thence taking the next voiage to the 

 Ifland Cyprusjto Patara in Lycia,Rhodesand Aftypataea (Iflands lying in the Carpathian fca) 

 to Tasnarus in Laconia,Lilyb£eum in Sicilic,Calarisin Sardinia,34 hundred and 5omiles.The.n 

 to Gades 14 hundred and 50 miles.Which mealures being put ail together, make in the whole 

 from the faid fea,^5 hundred 7S miles . The other way, which ismorecertainc,lictIi mofl: open 

 and plaine by land,co v\it,from Ganges to the river Euphrates 50 hundred miles and 2 1 . From 

 thence to Mazaca in Cappadocia 244 miles, and fo forward through Phrygia and Caria to E- 

 phefus 400 milesj5)8 . From Ephefus through the ^Egean fea to Delos 2 co miles. Then to lith- 

 mus 212 miles.From thence partly by land,and partly by theLaconianfea and the gulfe of Co- 

 rinthjto Patrje in Peloponnefus 202 miles and an halfc: fo, to LeucasS^ miles and a halfe, and 

 as much t9 Corcyra . Then to Acroceraunia 13.2 miles and an halfe : to Brundufium 8^ miles 

 and an halfe; fo to Rome 3 hundred miles and 60, Th>cn to the Alpes as far as the village Cinco- 

 magus 5r8milcs. Through Fraunce tothePyrenEanhils,unto Illibeds 55^milcs,to the Oce- 

 an and the lea coaft of Spaine 332 miles. Then the cut over to Gades (even miles and a halfe. 

 Which meafurc by Artemidorm his account^ makethinall 8^ hundred 85 miles. Now the 

 breadth of thcearthjfrom the Meridian or South pointjUntothe-Northjis cclleeled to beelefle 

 almoft by the onehalfe,namely,54 hundred and 61 miles. Whereby itappearesh pIainely,how 

 much of the one fide heat of fire, and on the other fide frozen water hath ftollen away. For i am 

 not of mind that the earth goeth no farther than fo, for then it fliould not have the forme 

 of a globe 5 but that the places on either fide bee unhabitable, and therefore not found out and 

 dlfcovered. This meafure runneth from thellioreof the^rhyopian Ocean, which nowisha- 

 bitedjunto MeroCj5 50 niiks,Froni thence to Alexandria 1 2 00 and 40 miles. So^to Rhodes 58 5 



miles^ 



