Pliriies Natumll Hiftone. 



:A Hicrajbccauf^kis Gonfecratcd to Ful^afJ^vih^m there is a litdehill thatbelcheth amicafteth up 

 flamesof fire in the night. A third there is alfoj named Strongyle, a mile from Lipara, lying 

 toward the funiie-rifing (wherein Mollis reigned) and differeth from Lipara onely in this, that 

 it fendeth foorth more cleere flames of fire : by the finoke thereof, the people of that coimtrey 

 will tell (by report) three dayes before- hand what winds will blow .'whereupon iris commonly 

 thoughtjthat the winds were obedient to A fourth there is befides, named Didymg, 



lefie than Lipara : and a fifr, Ericufa : a fixt, Phoenicufa, left to feed the reft that are next to it t 

 thelaft and leaft i&Euonymus. And thus much concerning the firft gulfe that divideth Europe^ 



Ghap* x. - 

 ' . Of tocri^thefmtiertomedfltalih 



A TLocres beginneth thefrontor forepart ofltaliCjcalled Magna Gr^cia, retiring itfelld 

 into three creekes of die Aufonian feajbecaufe the Aufoncs firft inhabited thereby. It cx- 

 tcndeth 82 milesjus p^otm teftifieth. But the greater number of writers have made but 

 In that coaft there bee rivers without number. But thofe things which are worth the writing off 

 iieere unto Locres^ be thefe^ Sagra the river^ and the reliques of the towne Caulon : Myftia j thd 

 caftle ConfiliumjCerinthuSjWhich fome thinke to be tfcc utmofl promontorie of Italiejbcaring 

 fartheft into the fea.Thcn followeth the creeke or gulfe Scylacenfu^^and ciiai which was called by 

 the Athenians when they built it^Scylletium. Which placc^ anodier creeke ferin.TUs. meeting 

 ^ withjUiaketh ademielflandrinwhich^thereisa port towne called Caftra Annibilis:and in no 

 - place is Italie narrower, being but twentie mile broad. And therefore Dionifim the elder would 

 have there cut it off quite from the reftjand laid it to Sicilie. Rivers navigable there be £here5C^-i 

 cinos,CrotaluSjSemiruSj ArochajTargines. Within forthis the towne PetjJiaj the mountain© 

 AlibanuSjand promontorie Lacinium : before the coaft whereof there is an liland lenne miles 

 from the land jcalled Diofcoron^and another Calypfusjwhich Homer is fuppofed to have called 

 Ogygia.MoreoYer5Tyris3Eranul^^Meloefl'ai And this is feveniie miles from Caulon ^as Agrivp^ 

 bath recorded. 



■ Chap.^ xi* 



jP c'fy The fecond Sea Qf Em-cpa 



FRom the promontorie Lacinium beginneth the fecond fea of Europe:ij takcth a great win-^ 

 dingandcompaflewithitjandendech at Acrocerauniiim, a promontorie of Epirus, from 

 which it is feventie miles diftant. hi which,there llieweth it {clfe the towue CrotOj and thef 

 river Naeathus. The towne Thurium betweenc the two rivers, Arathis and S3'baris3v\here there 

 was a towne of the fame nanie.Likewi(e,between Siris and Aciris there ilanderli Heracleajibmc- 

 time called Siris. RiverSjAcalandrumjMafucntum : the towne Metapontum, invVnich the third 

 region of Italie caketh an end.Ihe Inlanders be of the Brutians^the Apriulancs only : biK of Lu-' 

 caneSjThoadnateSjBandncSjEburineSjGrumentineSjPotentineSjSontines^SiriiieSjSergilancs^ 

 E Vrientines^VolcentaneSjUnto whom the Numeftranss are joined.Befides allthefejCtf/i? writeth. 

 That Thebes of the Lucanesjscleane de{!roied and gone. And 7'^i'i?/''0?;5!/?//5faith3ThatPando* 

 fiawasacittieof theLucaneSjWhcrein?_xi^/^^^?;^fr king of theEpifotes, wasfiaine. Knit here- 

 unto is the fecond region or trad of Icalicjconraining within it the Hirpines , Calabria ^ Apulia, 

 and the Salentines within anarmeof thefeajincompa{re25o miles, which is called TarenunuS 

 of a towne of the Laconians^fituate in the inmofl nouke or creeke hereof :and to it was annexed 

 and lay the maritine colonie which there was. And diflant it is from the promontorie Lacinium 

 1 3d milesjputting forth Calabrialike a demie Ifland againflit.The Grcekes called itMeffapiaof 

 their captaines name,and beforetime^Peucetiajof Peucetm^itht brother of Oenctrm. In the Sa- 

 lentine countrey betweene the two promontories^there is a hundred miles diflance. The bredth 

 *" of thisdemie Ifland, to witjfromTarentum toBrindis (if yougoe by land) istwo andtliirtie 

 miles^but farre thorter if you faile from the Haven or Bay Safina.The townes in the ContinenE 

 from Tarentum^bee Varia/urnaraed ApulajCeflapia and Aletium. But in the coaft of the Se-* 

 nonesj Gallipoiisj now Auxa^ 61 miles from Tarentum. Two and thirtie miles off is the pro- 

 montorie which theycallAcralapygiaj and here Italie runneth faitheft into the fea . Then 



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