Plinies Natqrall Hiftone* 



A There be as it were to more little ones among the fliclves of the Tea. Now in the maritime coaft 

 of Gallia in the very mouth of Rhodanus, there is Metina ; and foone after^that which is called 

 Blalcon 5 and the three Scoechadesj called Co of their neighbours the MafTilians , for the order 

 and ranke wherein they ftand ; and they give them every one a feverall namejto witaProte^Mefe , 

 (which alfo is called Pomponiana) and the thirdyHypea. After them^ are SturiumaPhosniceji 

 Phila5LcroJ&Lerinaove^again^lAn^ipo^^,S5whereinalfQ|sa^ok€nor memoriallpttherovva 

 Vcrgaonum. . „ , i 



IHtheLigurianfeljJs Gorfidalhe yknd,;which the Greekcs called Gymoi* bucnearei ijis 

 to the Tufcane fea :it lycth aut from the North into the; Souihy and eomaineth in iengthan 

 hundred andiifticmilcs iin breadth for the morcpart it bea^ireth fiftie jaijd^fpit 322 : di^lani:] 

 it is from the Waflies or Downiis of- Volatcrrae $2 mileso Gitjesit harh 3 5 : and ciiek colonies^ 

 to wic, Marianaj planted thcrebyC, tMarm .• Aleria, by Didatour. ^^//.j.^Qa this ficlc okjt^is 

 Oglafas butvviihin^omiles of ■Gbrfica;, therein PJanari^jfocalle^o^ 

 it is and leveil with the fea ;.and therefore deceivetb many a ftip that runnciib, aground upqtjiiCe 

 Biggerthan it are Vrgo and Gapraria, which the Greekes called '^gilos^rfejii^^ v^gK 

 P lium and Dianiiimythe fame that- Artemifiaj both lying over:againft thcx;oaft 

 ^ fiiialloncsalfojasMxnariajGoiumbrariejMto 



dred miles (ten railes fiom Populoniaj called of the Greeke^j iEthaflia ;ironi itif PJari^{ia-35?s 

 miles oif. After them, beyond the mouthes of Tybrc in the Antian creek, i^sA^ura^ and ^lym, 

 Palmariaj Sinohiajand juft againU Formise^Pontise. But.in: thfe Pu^eolanejylfej Pantadar^^^ 

 ^d^Prochytaj fo called j not of ^ettejs his nourcejbut becauie it was broken' b.y the gu^liing 

 betwecne of the fea from ^naria . yEnaria it, lelfe tooke thatname of ^£'»^4.rliisll)ips that hy- 

 in rode there, calledby /i^^'wfrlnarimsj of the GreckesPithecufajnotfor the niimber of Alps 

 thefCj as fomc have thought, but of the worke houies and furnaces of potters thati made e^a^^ 

 then veffels, as tunnes and fuch iikcjto furnifh Italic with. Betweene Pauiiiypiis and Naples^Me?.^ 

 D garis J and foonc after, eight miles from S urrentum, C apreae, renowmed for the caftle shere o£ 

 prince 7)e'^;7/a^; and it bearedi in compafie foure hundred miles. Anonyqu fhall feeLeHco- 

 thea:bucwithoacyour kenning, lyech Sardinia fa^l upon the- Africke feaj. biit le0e th;^n nine 

 miles from the coaft of Cor,(ica:and ihll thofe ftreights are made more narrow byreafon of 

 fmallylands,named Cunicularios . Like wife Phiptonis and Follie,wbeieof the very feaitfelkis 

 named Taphros. 



Chap, yiu 

 of SAYdima4 



£ ^ Ardiniaon thcEad {ide beareth iSSmiles, on the Weft 170 , Southward 74, and North- 

 ^ ward 122 :fo that in all, it taketh up the compaffcof5^o miles. Itis from the Capeof Ga-J 

 raleistoAfricke 200 miles: from Gades it isdiftant i^hundred miles. It bath two ylaiids 

 on that fide where the promontorie Gorditaninti ftandeth, which be c^lkd Hercules ylands : of 

 Sulfenfescape {ide, Enofis;ofCaralitanum^,Eearia. Some fet not farre fromit theylandsBe- 

 leridcs,and Collodes : and another which they call HcrasLutra,/* Mmes laver,or Hieraca. The 

 States of greateft name therein^be the IIienfes,BaIari, and Corfi :and of the foure townes, the 

 chiefe are inhabited by the Sulcitanes, Valentines,Neapolitanes,Bofenfes,and Caralitani who 

 are Roniane enfranchifed citizens, and Norenles. One colonic there is in it a'ndno morcwhich 

 iscalled, AdTurriiBLibyfonis.Thisyland Sardinia jT/w^z/^ called (of thefafhionof a fhoeoc 

 flipper) SandaHotis: but^^y/^/^/jfortherefemblanceof afootcsftep,Ichnufa. Over-againft 



V the creeke P^eftanum^there is Leucafia, called fo of a Mercmaid or Sirene there buried. Againft 

 Veffia, there lyePoniia and Iflia, both joyntly called by one name Oenotidesjagoodprefum- 

 prion and argument that Icalie was poflefled by theOenotrians. And againft Vibo, other lil- 

 lie ones^ called Ithaieefiae, the;watGbcownes of r/y/^^ 



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