Plinies Ndturnll Hiflofie.' 



A iincertsinc. But aftet the order which wc have begun , let us go forward with the rcfl behind of 

 all this Divifion : as for the petie feas theteof, we have verily ilievved them alreadie. 



Chap, xiit, 

 ^ T^fe hands Pmtus, 



HEllcipont hath no Ilandsiib be fpokn ofJnEuropc.tnPontiis are two^a mile aitd a lialfd 

 from Europejand 14 milesfrom the mouth of the river, to wit^Cyane^, of others called 

 Sympleg^des ; and by report of fables,they ran one into another:the reafon was,becaufe 

 they being fevered by a fmall fpace between,to them that enter the fea full upon them^rhey fee- 

 B med twainc : but if they turned their eye a little afidefrom them, they made afhcw as if they met 

 together. On this fide Ifter there is one, pertaining to the Apolloniates, 80 miles from Bofpho- 

 rusThtaciuSj out of which tJid.LucuUm htou^hiL^poUo C^fiiolum, What were within the 

 mouthcs 6f Ifter j'We have declared alreadie. Befote Eoryfthcnes, is the abovcnamcd Achillea, 

 the fame is called Leuce andMacaron. This, our moderne Cofinographers in thefe dayesdoe 

 fet 140 myles from Boryflhenes : from Tyra 120: from the Hand Pence 50. It is in compaile a- 

 bout,ten miles.The reft be in the gulfeCarcinires, namely Ccphalonnefos,Rhofphodufa,and 

 Macra.I cannot palTe by the opinion ofmany writers, before we depart from Pontus^who have 

 thought that all the inland feas or Mediteranen, arifefrom that bead, and not from the fheights 

 of Gades: and they lay for their ground an argument not without feme good probabilitie, be- 

 C caufeoucof Pontusthefeaalwaie9flowsth,andntverebbethagaine. 



But now wee are to departfrom thenee, thai other parts of Europe m.ay be fpoken of : and 

 when we are gone over the Rhiphoean hills, we muft paiie along clbfc to' the Norch Ocean, and 

 keepe the left hand untill we come to Gades. In which tradt, there are reported to be very man v 

 Hands without names: of which, by the report of J/W//'/, there is 6nc before Scythia called 

 Bannomanna,diftant from Scythia one daies failing; into v^hichjin the tempera te k:ifon oi tln 

 fpring, Amber is eaft up to the ihoxc by the waves of the fea. All the other coafls are no other- 

 wife marked and knowne, but by uncertalne herc-fay. The North Ocean fromxhe river Paropa- 

 mifusjwhereas itdafheth upon Scythia, Hscatatis nameth Amalchium, which word m the Ian- 

 guage of that nation, fignifieth Frozen. Philetmn v\'riteth,that the Cimbrians call it Morim#u» 

 E> fa, /. Mortuum mdrc^ [the dead feaj] even as fa?re as to the promontorie V^xhcx : but all beyond 

 forward, Croninm. Xeriofhon Lnnrffacenti^s faith^ That three dayes failing from the Scychiaii 

 coaft,there fs the Iknd Bakia,of exceeding greatneSoT he fame doth /^)Y/^/<?M>amc Bafilw 

 be alfo named the lies Oon^T,- wherein the inhabitants live of birds eggcs and otes. Otljcrs alfoy 

 A^/herein menare borne with horfe fcet.called thereupon Hippopades. Others againe of the Pa- 

 -lioii,whobdngotherwirenaked,.liave mightiegreateares that cover tlicirv;hok bodies. And 

 now forward we begin at the nation of the Ingcvoni,the firit of all the Gcrmanes in thole parts^ 

 to difcover all upon more furc and evident rcport.There^^s the exceeding great mountain Sevo, 

 notinferiourtothehighhillsRiph^i, whichmaketha mightichuge giilfe.evenasfarre as to 

 thfe Cimbrians promontorie^called Godanus, and full itis of Hands 5 of which, t!ie goodlrcfl: 

 E of all is Scandinavia, the bigneife whereof is not yet difcovcrcd . Apart onely thcreof.ls much 

 as isknowne, the nation of Hellcvioncs doth inhabitc in 500 villages, and they call it', A fccond 

 worldo' And as itis thought,Enigia is notleflfe a jote. Some fay, that thefc parts' as farre as to the 

 river Viftula, is inhabited by the Sarmafians,VcneE-ians,Scyrians,3ndHirrians:airo that the 

 gulfe of the fea is called Ciylipenus : and' that in the mouth or entrance of it is tlic Hand Latris,* 

 Alfo that not farre from it,thereis another arms of the (ea bounding' noon the Cimbrians The 

 promontorie of the Cimbrians Hiooting flirre into the feas,- raaketha'dcmj/ Hand, which is 

 •called Cartris, From which coaft^ three and twentie Iland^ havebe^n difcovcred and knowne 

 by the Romane armies . The nobleft of them be Burchana^ called of Our countrey-men Faba^ 

 ria, of the plentieof a pulfe (called Beanes) growne there of it felfe unfowne . Likewife GlclTa- 

 F ria, fo called by the fouldiers, of Amber 5 but of the barbarous people, Auftrania : and befides 

 them Adania. Along this fca-coaft,untill you come to the river Scaidis, the Germane nations 

 do inhabite : but the meafure of that trad cannot eafily be declared,fuch unmeafui'able difcord 

 and diitercnce there is among writers.The Greeks and fome of our ownc country have delivered 

 thecoaft of Gcrmanie to be 2500 miles about, Agnfi>a again joining with itRhetia a^Noricuin, 



i faith. 



