Plini'cs Naturall Hiftone* 



A againft the colonic Pariana. And HellefpontuSj dividing Europe from Afia, fcven (ladia afun- 

 der(aswehavcraid)hathfoure citties there oppoftte one againft another^ to wit, in Europe^ 

 Calippolis and Seftos 5 in Afia, Lampfacutn and Abydos. Thcn^ is the promontorie of Cher- 

 fbnefusMaftifiaJuftcontrarie CO Sigeum^ in the crooked front whereof is Cynoflema •. for fois 

 torn be named, the very rode of the Athenians navie. The towne andchappcll of Pro- 

 /^yJiU^.-andinthevery utmoft forcfrontofCherronefuSj which is called /Eoliuni, the townd 

 Elseiis. After it, as a man goethto the gulfe Melanc^the havens Carlos, Panhormus^ and the a- 

 bovenamed Catdia. The third fca of Europe^ is in this manner bounded and hmited. Moun- 

 taines of Thracia over and above thofe afore rchcarfed, Edonus^ Gigemorus^MerituSjand Me- 

 lamphyllon. Rivers falling into Hebrus, be Bargusjand Suemus. The length of Macedonie^ 



B' Thracia, and Hellefpontus , is fet downe before. Some make it fevcn hundred and twentie 

 miles. Tlie breadth is three hundred and cightie miles. Thefea ^geum tooke that name of a 

 rocke, b:twcene Tencdosand Chios^ moretruely than ofan Hand named Aex,refembling a 

 goat, aPid therfore fo called of the Greekes ; which all at once appcareth to rife out of the mids 

 6f the fea, Thefea -men thatfaile from out of Achaiatb Andros, difcovcrit on the right hand, 

 and to them it prefageth forae dreadful! and mi fchievous accident. Part of the ^g^an fea 

 is laid to the Myrtoum^ and focalled it is of a little Ifland, which fhcweth it felfe to them 

 that fetfaile from Gereitus to Macedonicj.not farrefromCharyftosinEuboea* The Romanes 

 comprehend alhhefefeas in two names rnamdy, Macedonicum^ all that which touchethMa-J 

 ccdonia and Thracia: and Graecicnfum where it beateth upon Greece. AsfortheGreekes^ 



C they divide even the Ionian fea into Siculum and Creticum, of the Iflands. Alfb, Icarius they 

 call that betwcene SamosandMycione. All the othei; names arc given by gulfes and creeks^ 

 whereof we have fpoken. And thus much verily as touching the feas and nations contained in 

 this manner within the third feciionorgulfeof Europe, r ' 



Chap; Xlit 



'^7 he Jjlands hetwcene thofe Unds^ among ivhlchyCrttd^tuhxcii CjchdeSs 

 andS^orades : alfe ofHeHefpoiit^Pontm^Mceotis^Va' 

 cU^SarmatiaandScythk, 



D T Slands overagainft Threlprotia, Corcyra: 1 2 nlilcs from Buthrotus^ and the fame from ths 

 J^cliffes Acroccraunia 5omyieSjwithacittieof thefame name, Corcyra of freecondition^alfo 

 the towne CaffiopCj and the temple of Inciter Cafsiofam : it liech out in length py miles. Ho^ 

 mer called it Scheria and Ph^acia : Callimachm alfo, Drepane. About it are fbme others : but 

 bending toward Italic, Thoronos : and toward Leucadia the two Paxse, five miles divided from 

 Corcyra. And notfarre from them before Corcyra, Ericufa, Marate, Elaphufa, MalthacejTra* 

 chi^esPytionia^PcychiajTarachic. And from Pholachrum a promontorie of Corcyra^the rocke 

 into which there goeth a tale, that thefhipof was turned, for the refemblance it hath of 

 fuch a thingJBeforc LeucadiajSybota.But between it and Achaia there be very many: of which 

 Telcboides the fame that Taphise : but of the inhabitants before Lcucadia^thcy be called Taphi- 



E aSjOxiejandPrinoelTa rand before ^coliajthcEchinadeSj^isliajCotonis^ThyatirajGeoariSj 

 Dionyfia^CyrnuSjChalciSjPinaraandMyflus. Before them in thedeepe fca,Ccphaleniaand 

 Zacynthusjboth free States ilthacajDulichiumjSamejCrocyleajand Paxos.Cephalenia fome- 

 time called Mekna^is I imyles off, and 44 myles about. As for Same, it wasdeftroied by the 

 Romanes : howbeitjftill it hath three townes : betweene it and Achaia is Zacynthus with a townj 

 a ftately Iflandjand pafTing fcrtile.In times paft called it was Kyrie, and is 22 miles diftant from 

 the South coafl of Cephalenia.The famous hill Elatusis there.TheIfland itfelfeis in circuit25 

 miles.Twelve miles from it is Ithaca jwherein ftandeth the mountaine Neritus, And in the whole 

 it taketh up the compafle of 2 5 miles.Ftom it tvselve miles off is Araxum a cape of Peloponne- 



p fus. Before this Ifland in the maine fea there appeare Afleris and Prote. Before Zacynthus 35 

 miles full Eaft,are the two Strophades,called by others Plotas; and before Ceph3lenia,Letoia. 

 Before Py los three Sphagias,and as many before Meflcne,called Oenuffje, In the gulfe Afinaeus 

 three Thyr ic^es : in the Laconian gulfe, Tegahufa, Oathon, Cythera with the towne,named be-* 

 foretime Porphyris. This lieih five miles from the profnontorie Malea,daungerousforfbipsto 

 come aboutit;by reafon of the ftreights there. In the Argolick fea are Pityufa^Irine and Ephyres 



