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wall of five miles about, ThenjtbeproniontodcParthenium. A citie oFthcTam'ijPbcia.Thc G 

 haven Symbolon;the promontorie Criu mstoponsovci'-againft Charainbcs a promontorie 

 of Afiajtunning through the middle ofEuKinus, for the fpace of lyoir.iles: v^hichisthe caufe 

 clpccially that maketh the forme abovefaid of a Scythian bow. Neie to it, are many havens and 

 lakesof theTauri, ThetowneTheodofia, diftant fromCdu mctopon 122 myles, and from 

 Chcrfonefus 1^5 miles-Beyondithere have been towneSjCyte^'ZephyriumjAcrejNympha^um^ 

 andDia.And theftrongeftof the mall by many degreesjftandeth yet ftillinihevcry entrie of 

 Bolphorusjnamelyj Panticapasum of the Milefians^ from Thcodoiia 1055 miles: but ftom 

 Cimmerum^ a towne fituatc beyond the Firth, a mile and a halfe as we have faid. Aad this is ail 

 the breadth there that dividcth Afia from Europe: which foraetime is pafieable over moft-what 

 on foot 3 namely when the Firth is frozen and ail an yce.The breadth of Bofphorus CimmeriuSj H 

 is 1 2 miles and a halfe. It hath upon it thcfe townes, Hermifiuraj Myrmecium 5 and within it, an 

 Hand Alopece. But along Moeotis from the fartheii narrow land paiTagc^ which place is called 

 Taphroe, unto the mouth of Bofphorus, it containeth 2 ^'o miles. OnTaphrce fide, the Conti- 

 nent within-forth is inhabited by the Anchetas, among whome Kypanis ipringcth s and Neurij 

 where Boryl^henes hath his head . Moreover, the GelonijThuOagcttejBudinij Bafilidsc, and 

 the Agathyrfi;,with blew haire on their heads. Above them, the NomadeSjandthe Anthropo- 

 phagi. On Buges fide above Moeotis, the Sauromates and Efledones dvvell. But along die bor- 

 ders even as farre as Tanais, the Moeotse, of whome the lake was focallcdjandthe utnioft oii 

 their backes the Arimalpi.Within a Httle appeare the Rhiphsan hils,and a countrey called Pte- 

 rophoros, for the refemblance of cercaine wings or feathers, occafioncd by the coniinuall fall of 

 fnow. A part of the world thus is condemned by dame Nature^ and drowned in deepe and thick 

 darknefle, dwelling within no other houfes but the workes of fl-ozen cold, and [he ycie harbours 

 of'the chilling Northerne wind. Behind thofe hilies and beyond the Nort h polc^there is a blcf^ 

 fed and happie people (if wee may beleeve it) whom they call Hyperborei, who Jive exceeding 

 long, and many fabulous and ilrangc wonders are reported of thcm.In this trad are fuppofed to 

 be the two points orpoles about which the world turncth about, and the verie endsoi the heu- 

 vens revolution. For fix moneths together they have one entire day^and night as iongjwhen the 

 Sunne isclcane turned from them : buttitdr daybeginnethnotatthe fpring^quinodiall (as 

 thefcaud and ignorant common people doe imagine) andfo continueth to the Autumne : tor 

 Gnceinthcyeere^and namely at our mid- fummer when the Sun cntrethinto Cancer^the Sunne K 

 rifeth with them rand once likewifeit fettcth, even in mid-winter with us, when the Sunne en- 

 trcth Capricorne. The counirey is open upon the Sunne, of a blificfull and pieafant tempera- 

 ture,void of all noifome wind and hurtfull aire.Their habitations bein woods and groves jV^'hers 

 they worfliip the gods both by themielves, and in companies and congregations: no ciiicord 

 ktiow they 5 no ficknelTc arc they acquainted with.Thcy neve? die,b ut when they have lived long 

 enough : for when the aged men have made good cheerejand annomted their bodies withrweei; 

 ointments, they ieape fronj off a certaine rocke into the (ea. This kind of fepulture, of all others 

 is mofthappie.Some Writers have feated them in the fiifl part of tlic fea^oalis in Afia, and 

 not in Europe, for that indeed fome be there refembliiig the like manners and cuftomes , and 

 even fo fituacCjUamed Atocori. Some have fet them jult in the mids becv^ccne both Sunnes, to ^ 

 witjthefettingofit vvith the Antipodes,aad theriiingof it with us: which cannot polfibly be, 

 confideringfovaflandhuge afea commingbetweene. As for thofe that haveplaced them no 

 where but in the fixe moneths day-light, have written thus much of il iem, That tiiey fow in the 

 morning,, reapeatnoonCjat fun-fctcing gather the fruits from the trees , and in the nights lye 

 dole fhut up within caves. Neither may we make doubt of that nation, fince that fo many Au- 

 thors doe teflific, That they were wont to fend the firft fruits of their corne, as farre as Delos to 

 Apollo ^vihoim above all others they honour.And virgins they were that had the carriage of this 

 piefent, who for certaine yeeres were venerable,andcourteoufly entertained of all nations, un- 

 till fuch time as upon breach of f aitbfull hofpicalitie, they tooke up an order to beftow thofe fa- 

 cred oblations in the next marches of their neighbour borderers : and they againe to conveigh M 

 the fame to their neighbours that confined upon them,and fo forward as farre as to Delos . But 

 i>one after, this cuftome was for-letandcleane given over. The length of Sarmatia, Scythia, 

 andTauriGa,andofallthattraa from the river Boryfthenes, is ^Somyies, the breadth 717,35 

 M,J^r/ppalmh cafl: it. But 1 for my part fuppole^ thatthe meafureof this part of the earth is 



uncertaine. 



