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^Vfomwhence firfl arofe all the fabulous lyesl and theexc^l^ - , . 

 knr Learning of the Greek^Si 



fie third Sea of Marope, heginneth At the momtMHes JmaerauHi^j and endeth it^ 

 Helk/pm : It containeth befidts ]p fmsllergulfes or creekes, 2 5 ihmfand tf^Usi 

 Within it^m JEpirm^ Acarmnta^ JBfoliay Fhocu^ L ocris^ MhaidyMefama^Li^ 

 conk^x^rgotisy Magaris, Attics^ Bceotia, Judagawe from arioiher/ea the fam& 

 Phocis and Locris^ Doris ^ Phthiotis^ ThefJaUa^ Magaep^Macedcma^Thracia.A/i 

 'the fabnlom veme^ and learning of Greece^ proceeded out of this quarter. And 

 therefore we will therein fiay fomewhat the logger. The count rey Bpfm ^generally fo caikdjhegmmth 

 at the mountaines Jcroceraunia » In it, are frH the Chaones^of whome Chaomataketh the name: 

 then the Thefprotians^and Anttgonerfes : the flace'AornUs^and the aire arifmg out of it fo noyfomt 

 and pefiferoPisfpr hirdf,The Csftinesjand P err hxkans with their mmntaine Pindm'^theCaJffC" 

 pM^the pry opes ySelli^fhUopeSjandMolop, among whome is the temple of lup'nct Dodonseus^y^ 

 famL>m for the Oracle there : the nsonntaimTotfiarm^rertowmedi^y Ihto^om^m for the hundred 

 fotmtaines ah oh t the foot thereof » 



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IPmis it fclfe reaching to MagncfiaatidMacedonis, hatfi behind it the Daff^ 

 ' retians above named, a free nationjbiit anon the favage people of the DaKda- 

 nians .On the left fide of the Dardanianwhe Trebeliians and nations of Moe* 

 fia lye raimged : afront there join evnto ihemjtheMcdi and Denthelates-, up- 

 onwhomethe Thracians border,whorcachasfarreas to Pomus, Thus en- 

 vironed iris and defenccd roundjpartly with the high hill Rhoddpejand anon 

 ahowith Hiemus, In the utmod coafl of Rpirus among the Acroccrauniajis thecaftle Chimsfe- 

 rajUnderwhichisthcfpring of the kings water, ithe townes are, M£Eandria and Ceftria:the 

 river of Thefiprotia ^ Thyamis : the colonic Buthfotium i and thegulfe of Ambrada3 above all 

 others moft famous, receiving at his mouth tlie wide fea ; 3 9 miles in length,and 15 in breadth, 

 Into itrtinnnech thc river AcheroT^, flowing oiit of Acherufia,alake of Thelproiia 3^ myles 

 from thence :and for the bridge ov^r it 1 00c foot long,admirablc to thofe that admire & won- 

 der at all things of their ownc.In the very gulfc is the towne Ambracia.The rivers of i he Molof- 

 iianSjAphas and Arachtus.ThGcitticAnadoria,andthe lake Pandofia. The townesof Acarna- 

 nia^called beforetime Curetusybee Heraclea and bchinus : and in the very entrance and mouth 

 thercofj Artium a Colonic of ^//^/^/^/, with the goodly temple bf iif/'tf//«7,and the free citip Ni- 

 copolis.Whenyee are gone out of the Ambracian gulfc into the Ionian feajyee m^et with the 

 Leucadian fea coaft^and thcPromoiitorie of Leucate. Then thecrceke5and Leucadia itfelfc, a 

 demie Iflandsfometime called Isfcn'tis, but by the labour of the inhabjcantsthexeby, cut quite 

 .from the Contincnt^but annexed to itagainc by raeanes of the winds blowing together heapes 

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