Plimcs Naturall Hiftorie. 



A cookc name, and is fwallowed up of a great miere of of j ^ miles. Out of the fame channell and 

 above Aftropolis,apoole isbredot <?3 miles compaffe, which they call Halmy ds. The fecond 

 mouth is called Naracuftoma:the third Caloftoma5neare the Hand Sarmatica : the fourth 

 Pfeudolbma^ andtheilandConopon Diabafis. After that, Boreolbma, and Spireoftoma* 

 Each of the (care fogreatj that by report the Tea for 40 miles length within it is over-matched 

 with the fame, and the frefh water may fo farre be evideiuly tafted.From it^ into the inland parts 

 of the countrey, the people verily be all Scythians : but divers other nations there be that inha- 

 bitethecoaftsnextto the fea: in fome places tlieGetCjcalled of the Romanes Daci: in others 

 SarmatjEjeftheGreekesSauromata^jraid among them^theHamaxobij or Aorfi. Elfewherej 

 the baftard and degenerate Scythians, v\ho are come from bafe (laves, orclfethe Troglodites; 



B and anon the Alani and Rhoxalani. But the higherparts betweene Danubius and the forrefl 

 He rcyniusj as farre as to the Pannonian wintering harbours of Carnuntum, and the confines 

 there of the Germans, the fielden country alfo & plains of I:;zyge, the Sarmatians poifelTe. B ut 

 the hills and forrefts, the Dakes who were expelled by them, doe inhabite as farre as to the river 

 Pathyflus from Marusjor peradventure it is Duria, dividing them from the Suevians and king- 

 dome of Vannians.l he-parts againit thefe^theBaihrnsedoe keeper and from thence, other 

 Gzmiml ^^grippd hath fetdown that whole tractfromlfter to the Ocean,to amount nnto 2000 

 milesjand 400 lelle in bread [h, to wit jfrom the deferts of Sarmatia to the river Viftula.The name 

 of Scythians every where continually runneth into Sarmatians andGermanes . Neither hath 

 that old denomination remained in any others but thofe^ who (as! havefaid) live fartheftoff 



C and in the edge ofchele nations, unknowne in manner to all men befidcs. But the townes next to 

 iflcrareCremnifcoSjand^polium :themountainesMacrocrennij:the noble river Tyra^gi- 

 ving name to the towne, whereas before- time it v^as called Ophiufa. Within the lame tlici e is a 

 fpatiousllandj inhabited by the Tyrageta?. And it is from Pieudoftomum, a mouth of Jftcr, 

 I go miles. Sooneafter be the Axiacaj, bearing the name after the river : beyond whom are the 

 Crobyzi : the river Rhode : the crecke Sagaricus, and the haven Ordefus . And 120 myles froni 

 Tyra,is the great river Boryllhencsjalfo a lake and people of that name: yea and a towne 15 

 miles within from the fea, called by auncient names OlbropoHs, and Miletopolis . Againe, in 

 the fea fide^the haven or harbour of the Achceans : the Hand of Achiih^ famous for the tombe 

 of that woiihie wight. And from it 1 35 mileSjthere is a demie Ilandlying out acrollc ni faiTiion: 



D of a fword, called Dromos Acliillcos, uponoccafion of his eKercilediere of running; the 

 length whcreol\d'^/7/?/?j hath declared to be 80 miles. Alithat trad throughout, the Taurifci^- 

 Scythians, and Sarmatians doc inhabite. Then tiie wild woodland countrey gave the name un- 

 to the fcaHyh^3um,which bcateth hard upon it : theinhabitants are called Ena^cadiose.Beyond, 

 is the river Panticapes, which divideth the Nomadcs and Georgians afunder : and foone after, 

 Accfinus. Some writers doc ihew,thatPanticape togitherwithBorydhenes, runne togitherin 

 one conPiuent beneath Olbia, but they that write more exadiy, doe name Hypanis. See how 

 much they erred, who have deicribed it in a part of Alia. It cntreth into the fea with a mightie 

 great ebbe and returne of the water, until! it be within five miles of Moeotis, compaiTmg as it 

 goeth a mightie deale of groundjand many nations. Then there is a gulfc or arme of the lea cal- 



E led Corcinites,and a river Pacy ris. Townes,Njuba*rum and Carcine. Behind, is the lakeBuges, 

 let out into the fea by a great ditch. And Bugesit felfe from Coretus(an arme or braunch of the 

 Jake Mceotis) is disjoyned, with a backe part full of crags and rockes. Rivers it rsceiveth, Buges, 

 Gerrhus, Hypanis, comming all from divers quarters: for Gerrhuspartcth the B.ifilidesand 

 Nomades. Hypanis, through the Nomades and ihe Hyleans, falleth intoBuges by a channell 

 made by mans hand,buc in his owne naturall channell into Coretus.The region of Scythia is 

 named Sendica. But in Carcinites,Tauricabeginneth iwhichalfoin times paft was environed 

 all about wich the fea, wherefoever now there lie plaines and flat fields. E ut afterwards it moun- 

 teth up with hugehillcs.Thirtie nations there be m it: and of them 24be Inlanders. Sixtownes^ 



P Orgocyni,Carafeni,A{fyrani,Traa:ari,Archilacbita:, and Caliordi. The very pitch and creft 

 of the hill, the Scytotauri doe hold. Bounded they are Weftward, witli Cherronefusj Eaf^ward 

 with the Scythian Satarchi. In thecoaft next to Catcinites arethefetownes^Taphras, in the very 

 freights of the demie Hand : then, Heraclea, Cherronefos,endowed with franchifes by the Ro- 

 manes. Aforetime it was called Megarice,and is the moft civile and faireft of all the reft of that 

 tradj as retaining ftilhhe names and faflaions of theGreekcs^andis befides compafledwith a 



