Plioics Nacurall Fliftoiie* o 



A (as fome tliinke)with the trcafures of Dclphi.There the river Vatreniis from out of the territory 

 of Forum Gornelij, cncreafeth Padus. The next mouth that it hath, is Caprafi^, then Saais^ 

 an<l fb forth Volanc, which before-time was named OlanCi All thofe rivers and trenches afore- 

 faid, the Tufcancs began to make firft out of Sagis, carrying the forcible ftreame of the river a 

 croiie into the Atrian meeres^ which arc called the feven feas^ and made the famous haven of 

 Atria a towne of theTulcanes, of which the Adriaticke lea tooke the name afore-time, which 

 now is called Adriaticum.From thence are the full mouthes there of Carbonaria and the Fof- 

 fes PhyMinse^which others call TartaruSjbut all fpring out of the overflowing of the Fofle Phy- 

 littinajholpen with Athefiscommingoutof theTridentine Alpes, and Togilbnusout of the 

 territorieof thePadovans. Part of them made alfothe next port Brundulum .-like as the two 



B Medoaci and the Foffe Glodiajmake Edron, With thele Padus mingleth it felfe^and by thefe he 

 runneth over, and as it is faid by moft Writers, like as in i^^gypt Nilus maketh that which they 

 call Aelta, fo it fhapeth a triangle figure between the Alpes and the fca coaft, two miles in com- 

 palTe, AfliameitistorunnetotheGreekesfortoborrow of them the Etymologic and reafott 

 of any things in Italy :howbeit CMetrcdorm Sccpfminith, That forafmuch as about the fpring 

 and head of this river there grow many pitch trccs5called in French Pades, therfore it tooke the 

 name Padus. Alfoj that in the Ligurian language^the river it felfe is called BodincuSj which is as 

 much tofavj as bottomlefle. And to approove this reafbn and argument, there is a towne ther- 

 by called Induflria^but by an old name Bodincoraagumjwhere in very deedjbeginneth the grea- 

 teit deapth thereof. 



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Chap. xvn. 



^ Italie beyond Pddm^ the eleventh Rcgioni 



NEst to it, is the Region called Traiifpadana, and the eleventh in number : all vi?hole ifi the 

 mid-land part of Italy, into which the feas bring in all things with fcuicfull channell . The 

 townes therein, be Vibi-Forum,and Seguita. 1 he colonies at the foot of the Alpes, Au- 

 gufla of the TaurineSjan auncientdefcent from the Ligurians :from whence Padus is navigable. 

 Then, Auguila PrcEtoria,of the Salaili, ncere unto the tv\o-fold gulIers«or pafTages of the Alpesj 

 to wit, GraijsE and Penina? ; for men fay^that the Carthaginians came through the onc,and Her^ 

 D cuies in at the other, named GraijK. There f^andech the towne Eporedia, built by the people of 

 Rome, by diredion and commaundement out of the bookes of Sibylla. Now the Gauls in their 

 tongue call good horfe-breakcrs Eporedicce.AlfojVercellaof theLybici,defcended from th^ 

 Saliij: Novaria, from the Vcrtacomacores : which even at this very day is a village of the Vo- 

 contijjand not as Cato thinkethjof the Ligurians : ofwhomsthe Le viand Marici built Ticinumj 

 not faire from Padus ; like as the Boij comming over the Aipes, founded LausPompeia and 

 thcInfubriansjMilIaine. ThatComus andBcrgomuSjyea and Licini-Forum, with other nati^ 

 ens thereabout, were of the OrobianracCjGt/;? hath reported: butthe firfl: beginning andori- 

 ginall of thatnation of Orobians, he confeifechjthat he knowcth not. Which notwithfiandlng 

 Cornelim {Alexander ilieweth to have defcended from the Greekes jand this he gueffeth by the 

 ^ interpretation of their namej which f]gnifieth,Menliving in mountaines. In this tract, Barra a 

 . towne of the Qrobians is cleane deftroyed ; from whence,C4/^? faith,the Bergomaies tooke their 

 beginning 5 bewrayingeven by their name, that they were feared more highly than happily* 

 There are cleane gone and confumed alfo the Caturiges, banifned per'ons of the Infiibrians i 

 like wife Spinajbefore- named. In likefortjMelpumjatowne of ipeciaii importance for wealth; 

 which (as "HfipsCormlms hath written) was by the Infubrians^DoianSjand Senones ^ raled ois 

 that very day, on which Cmillm forced Vei j. 



Chap, XViii. 



p ^ Venice ithttmh Regmi 



NOw followeth the tenth region of Italy, Venice, lying faft upon the Adriaticke fea : the 

 river whereof Silis, cominethfoorth of the mountaines Taurifani : wherein alfb5isthe 

 towne Altinum, the river Liquentia iffuing from the mountaines Opitergeni 5 a haven 

 of ihe fame name ; the colonic Concordia. Rivers and havens^ to wit^ Romatinum^Tilaventum, 



