Plinies Naturall Hiftdriea 



A milesjtoGnid'uSj S4milesanda haire;toCoSj25miIes5toSamus3ioomiIes5 to Chins, 84 

 miles: to MitylenCji^) milesj to TenedoSjiS miles ; to the cape SigcTUiHj 12 miles and a halfe ^ 

 tothemoLithof PontiiSj3i2miles3rtd a halfsitoGarambis the promontdriea 35onii!eS;to 

 the momh of Mseotis, 3 1 2 miles and an halfc ^ to the mouth of Tanais, 2 ^5 miles : which voy- 

 age may be cut fhorter (with the vantage of failing diredly) by 8p miles . From the momh of 

 Tanaisj the moft curious Authors have fet dov^ne no mcafure. Artcmidorpi'S was of opinion^ that 

 all beyond was unfound and not difcovcred, confefling that about Tanais the Sarmatian nati- 

 ons doe inhabitj who lie to the North pole, ifidor^ huh added hereto twelve hutidredmiicsj 

 asfarrc astoThule: whichis a judgement of his grounded upon baregueffe and conjedure, 

 Itakc itjthatthe borders of the Sarmatians areknownetohaveno lefle ^acc of ground, than 



B this laft mentioned commeth unto. And othcrwifc, how much muft ic be, that would contains 

 fuch an innumerable companie of people fhifting their feats ever and ahod, as they do.Wher- 

 by I guefTcj that the over-meafure of the clime inhabitable^is much greater.For I know certain- 

 ly, that Germanic hath difcoveredmightie great Hands not longfincc. And thiismuchof the 

 length and breadth ofthc earth, which I thought worth the writing. Now the liniverfall com- 

 pafie and circuit thereof, EratoHhenes (a great Gierke verily for all kind of literature, and in this 

 knowledge above all others doubtleffe moft cunnings and whome I fee of all men approved andl 

 allowed) hath fetdownctobe 2 52oooftadia. Which meafure, by the Romanes account andi 

 reckoning, amounteth to 300 hundred and 1 5 hundred miles. A wonderousbold attempt of 



^ hislbut yet fo exquifitcly calculated and contrived by him, that a fhame it were not to belecvc 



^ him. Hiffurchui^z wonderfull man both for convincing hinijand all his other diligence hdixi^s^ 

 addeth moreover litdc lelfe than 25 000 fhdia^ 



Chap. cix. 



'^ThtBArmontcdlmza[ure^and Circumference $fthcmrld, 



Dlanjfddorm in another kind would be beleeved : (for I will not beguile you of the grcatci 

 example of Grecian vanitie.) This man was a Mclian, famous for his skill in Geometrie ; 

 hecdyed very aged in his ownc countrcy :his neere kinfwomcn (who by right vsere his 

 J) heires in remainder) folemnized hisfunerals,and accompanied him to his grave.Thefe women 

 (as they came fomefewe day es after to his fepulchre for to perfourme fome folemne obfequies 

 thereto belonging) by report, found in his n)onument an Epiftle of this Dmjfidoru^^mktcn ia 

 his own name To them above, that is to fay,To the Living : and to this effea, namely,That hec 

 had made a ftcp from his fepulchre to the bottome and centre oftheearth, and that it was tlii- 

 thither 42000 Itadia. Neither wanted there Geometriciansjwho made this interpretation, Thas 

 he fignified that this Epiftle was fent from the middle centre of the earth, to which place down- 

 ward from the uppermoft aloft,the way was longcft 5and the fame was juft halfe the diameire of 

 the round globe: whereupon followed this computation,That they pronounced the circuit to 

 be 255009 ftadia. Now the Harmonicall propor tion,which forceth this univerfalitie and nature 

 g of the world to agree unto it felfe,addeth unto this meafure 7000 ftadiajand fo maketh the earth 

 to be the p ^000 part of the whole world 



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