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thus v?itli a towne foraetime called Euonos nine miles off: Scyatbus Eve miles : and Iiilios widi G 

 a towne 88 miles off. The fame is from Maftiifia in Corinthos 75 miles. And is it felfe in circuij 

 72 miles. Watered it is with the river Ilififus. From thence to Leranos 2 2 miles : and it from A- 

 thos 87. In compaffe it coniainerh 22 miles and ^ halfe.Townes it hath, Hcphxilia and Myri- 

 na, mto the market place whereof, the mountainc Athos caileth a fliadow in tlie hotell: feafoii* 

 of Summer. Thaflbs a free State.isfrom it five miles : in times paft called it was iEria or ^thria. 

 From thence, Abdera in the Continent is twentie miles : Athos fixtie two: the He Samothrace 

 as much, which is a free priviledged Statc^and lieth before Hebrus.Frora Imbriis two and thir- 

 tic myles :from Lemnus two and twentie miles and a halfei from thecoaft of Thracia ei^ht and 

 twentiemyles: incircuititis 32 myles: and hath a rifing of the hill Saoces for the fpaceof ten 

 myles : and of all the reft isfiilleft of havens and harbdroughs. Calimjc/ms calleth it by the old ^ 

 name Dardania : betweene Cherrhonefus and Samothrace is HslomcfiiSj about fifteenc myles 

 from either of them tbeyond lyeth Gethronc, Lamponia, Alopeconnefus not farre from Coe- 

 I0S3 an haven of Cherrhonefus : and fomc other of no name or regard.In this fea let us rehearle 

 alfo the defart and difpeopled Ilands/uch as we can find out names for^to wit^DeflicoSgLarnos, 

 CyilicoSjGarbrufajGelathufajScyllajDraconon^ArconefuSjDiethuiajScapoSjCaplicriSjMc- 

 fatej^antionjPhaterunefos^PateriajCaletejNeriphusandPokndus. 



The fourth of thofe great feas in Europ'e, beginning atHellefpont^endethin the month of 

 Mosotis.But briefly we are to defcribe the forme of the whole fea,to the end that the parts may 

 befooncr and more eafily knowne. The vaft and wide Ocean lying before Afia, and driven. ouc 

 from Eui;ope in that long coafl of Cherfonefus, breaketh into thejriainc with a (mall and nar- j 

 row iffije, and by a Firth of feven ftadia (as hath been faid) divideth Europe from Afia.The firft 

 faeights they call Hellefpontus. This way ^Tfr.v^i the king made a bridge upon fliips.& folcd his 

 armie over. From thence there is extended a fmall Euripus or arm of the fca for 85 miles fpace^ 

 to Piiapus a citie of Afia, whcras Alexander the great pafled over,From that pl^ce the fca grow- 

 cih wide and broad, and againe gathereth into a iircight : the largenefle thereof is called Pro- 

 pontisjthefireightSjBofphoruSj halfeamilc over rand that way Darms the father of Jf?r;^tfj 

 made a bridge overhand tranfported his forces.The whole length of this from FIcllelpont is 2 3^ 

 miles. From thence the huge mainefea called PontusEuxinuSjand in times paftAxenus, ta- 

 ke- h. up tlie fpace betweene lands farre dilfice and remote afunder, and with a great winding and 

 turning of the ftores, bendeth backward intocertaine hornsjand lyeth out ftretched from them 

 on both fides, rcfcmbling evidently a Scythian bow.In the very mids of this bending,it joyneth 

 clofetothemoudiof the lake Mc^otis. And that mouth iscalled Cimmcnus Borphorus^two 

 milesandahalfe broad. But betweene the two Bofphori, Thracius and Cimnierius, thereis a 

 diredl: and ftreightcourfe betweene, as P^/j^/z/^ faithjOf 500 myles. How the whole circuit of 

 all this iea ,as Fm-ro and all the old writers for the moff part doe witncsjis 2150 milzs.Neps C^r' 

 ndms addeth thereto 350 miles mores. Arnmidorv^s maketh it 2c?ip miles . Agrippn 23 5o raiics. 

 Mnti&mu 28(f)5 miles. In like fort,fome have determined & defined the meafure on Europe fide., 

 £0 be4078 miles and a halfe : others 1 1072 miles. CMJ'arro taketh his meafure in this manner .: 

 From the mouth of Pontus to Apollonia, 18S miles and a halfe; to Calacis as much* Then to 

 the mouth of Ifter 125: to Boryfihenes 2 5 o: to Cherrhonefus, a towne of the Heracleates,375 £ 

 miles. To Pan ticapceus, which ibmecallBofphorus, the utmoft coafl: of Europe,222 miles and 

 a halfe : which being put in a groffc fummc together, 1336 miles and a halfe. K^gripfa nicafiv 

 reth thus ;from Bizantium to theriver Iftcr 560 miles : then to Panticapa::um 630 :from thence 

 the very lake Mo2otis taking into it the river TSnais, running out of the Rhipha^an hils,is fup- 

 pofedtobeare thecompaife of i'^c6 miles, bceing the furtheft bound betweene Europe ancl 

 Afia. Others againe make 1 1 02 5 miles. But fiirely from his mouth to the mouth of Tanais/aifd 

 take a ftreight courfe^it is 375 miles without queftion . The inhabitants of that coaft, have been 

 namedinthedefcriptionand mention of Thrace, as farre as to Iftropolis : now from tlience^ 

 the mouthes of Ifter.This river arifing among the hills of Abnoba, a mountainc of Germanie, 

 over-againfi Rauricum a towne in Gaule, paffing many a mile beyond the Alpes, and through ^ 

 irmumerabie nations under the name of Danubius, with a mightie encreafe. of waters, & where 

 he firft beginneth to wafli Illyrieumjtaking the na me of Iffer after he hath received iixtie rivers^ 

 and the one halfe of them well -nearenavigabjcjiolleth into^Pontus with fixe huge flreaines. 

 The firft mouth of it is PeuccssfooRc after the jliuiditfelfcPciicej of whichihenext channcU 



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