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were Confuls, even untill the laft day of Aprill; upon which day, Z, Sjlla a lieutenant in the q 

 Allies warre^deftroyed it utterly : which now at this day is turned into graunges and fcrme-hou- 

 fes. There is decaied alfo there and come to finall ruine, Taurania. There be alfo fomc little re- 

 Jikes leftofCafilinumjlying at the point of the laft gafpe. Moreover writeth. that Apio* 

 a towne of the Latines, was woon by L.Tarqmmm the king, with the pillage v^hereof he be- 

 gan to found the CapitoU. From Surrentum,to the river Silarus, the Piceniine countrey lay 

 for thefpaccof 30 miles^renowmcd for the Tufcancs goodly temple built by ufon in the honor 

 di Iiim Argiva,, Within it^ftood the townesSalernum, and Picentia. At Silarns, the thirdrc- 

 gion of Italy, bcginneth together with the Lucane and Brutian countries : and theie alfo the in^ 

 habitants chaunged not a few times.For held and pofleffed it was by the Pelafgi , Oenotri,, Italy, 

 MorgeteSjSiciliansj people allfor the raoft part of great Greece : and laft of ^ii by theLucanes o 

 defccnded from the Samnites, who had to their leader and governour, Liicim, Inv^hich, ftan- 

 deth the towne Paeftum ^called by the Greekes Pofidonia : the Firth or creeke Paeftanus^thc town 

 Helia J now Velia. The promonrorie Palinurum, from which creeke retired within-fonh, there 

 isadire(5l:cut by water to thecolumne Rhegiaj 100 miles over. Nextuntothis^theriver Mel- 

 phes runneth: alfo there, ftandeth the towne Buxentum, in GrcekePyxus, and hard by is the 

 J:ivcrLaus:atowne there was likewifeof the fame name. And from thence beginneth the lea- 

 coaft of Brutium, where is to befeene the towne Blanda, the river Batum^the haven Parthcnius 

 belonging to the Phocacans : the Firth Vibonenfis, the grove Clampetia, the towne Temfa^ 

 called of the Greeks Temefe : and Terina held by the Crotonians, and the mightie arme of the 

 fea, called the guIfeTcrinceus: the towne Confentia.Within-forth in ademie ylandjthe river j 

 Acheron, whereofthetownes-men are called Acherontium. Hippo, which now we call Vibo- 

 valentia jrhe Port of Hercules^ the river MetauruSjthe towne Taurcntum, the haven of Oreftes, 

 and Medua :thc towne Scylleum,the river Cratais5mother(astheyfay) toScylla. Then after it, 

 the columneRhegia: the Sicilian ftreightsor narrow feas, and two capes one over-againft the 

 other 3 namely, Ca:nis from Italic fide,and Pelorum from Sicilicjhaving a mile and a halfe be- 

 tweene them: from whence toRhegiumis 12 miles and a halfe : and fo forward to a wood in the 

 Apennine, called Sila 5 and the promontorieor clifecalled Leucopetra, 12 mylesoff* From 

 whichjLocri (carryingthe name alfo of the promontorie Zephyrium) is from Silarus diftanc 

 303 miles. Here is determined the firft gulfe of Europe, wherein be named thcfe feas. Firft, At- 

 Janticum (from which the Ocean fea breaketh in) called of fome Magnum : the paffage whereas 

 it entreth,is of the Greekes called Porthmos; of us, Fretum Gaditanum3r.[Theftreightsc{ Ge- 

 braltar] when it is once entred the Spanifhfca, fo farre as it beateth upon the coafts of Spaine 

 Of others, Ibericum, or Balearicum : and anon it takcth the name of Gallicum, or the French 

 fea, right before the province Narbonenfis; and after that,Ligufticum :from whence all the way 

 to the Hand Sicilie, it is called Tufcum , which fome of the Graecians tearme Notium , others 

 Tyrrhcnum, butmoftof our countrymen Infcrum,?.[The nether fea.]Beyond Sicilie as farre as 

 to the Saletitines, Pol^b'm calleth ic Aufonium : but Eratofhems nameth all the fea Sardonum, 

 that is betweene the mouth of the Ocean and Sardinia : and from thence to SiciliejTyrrhenum : 

 and from it as farre as to Greta, Siculum : from which it is hight Creiicum. The Hands difcovc- 

 red along thele feas,were thefe : The firft of all, thofc which the Greekes named Pityiifie, of the £ 

 Pine fhrub or plant; but noWjEbufus: they are both a State confederatCj and a narrow arme of 

 the (ea runneth betweene them: they are 42 miles over. From Dianeiim,they lye 70 ftadi a: and 

 fo many are there,betwcene Dianeum and Carthage,by the m.ainc land : and as much diftance 

 from PityufcE into the maine Occanjlye the two Baleare Hands ; and toward Sucro,Colubra- 

 ria. Thefe Baleares in their warrc-fefVice ule much the Sling ; and the Greeks name them Gym- 

 jiefiiE. The bigger of them is an hundred miles in length, and in circuit 3 80, Townesithathof 

 Romanc citizenSjPalma and Pollentia : of Latines, Cinium and Cunici : as for Bochri, it was a 

 lowneconfederaie.From it, the lefler is thirtie miles off, taking in length 60 miles, and in com- 

 pafle 1 50. Citiesin it, be IamnOjSanifer3,and Mago. From the bigger 12 miles into the fea, 

 lieth the He Capraria,which lieth in waitfor all fhipwrackand over-againft thecitie Palma,Me- j\| ^ 

 nariasjand Tiquadra^and little Annibalis. The foile of Ebufus chafeth fcrpents away, but that of 

 Colubraria, breedeth them : and therforedangcrousitisforall that come into it, unleffe they 

 bring with them fome of the Ebufian earth. The Greekes call this Iland,Ophiufa. Neither doth 

 Ebuflis breed any Conies 5 which arefo common in theBaleareS;,that they eate up their corne. 



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