The fourth Booke of 



faith, That it is in length 6^6 miles, and in breadth 2^8. A nd verily of Rhoetia alonCjthe brcdth G 

 well- nereis greater, at leaftwife at the lime chat it was fubducd,and the people departed out of 

 Germanic : for Germanic many years after was difcovercd, and yet not all of it knowne through- 

 ly. But ifit be lawfull to gucflc, there will nt)t be much wanting in the coafts and compaffe , ac- 

 cording to the opinion of the Greekcs 5 nor in the length fet downe by Agrippa . 



Chap. XII II. * 

 "^Germame, 



OF Germancs, there be fivckinds. ThcVindili, part of whomc bcthcBurgundianSjVa- 

 rini, Carinijand Gurtones . A fecond (brtjthe Ingsvones, part of whomc be the Cimbri, H 

 Teuioni, and people of the Cauchi.The next to them be the Iftxvonesaand part ofthcni 

 be the Cimbri. Then the midlanders,the Hermiones, among whomc arc the Suevi, Mermun- 

 duri J Chatti J and Cherufci. The fift, are the Peucini , and BafterniBj bordering upon the above- 

 named Dacie. Faire rivets that run inro the Ocean, to wit, Guttalus, Viftillus or Viftula, Albis, 

 Vifurgis, Amifius,Rhenus,Mofa. And withinforth the Hircynium hill, inferiour to none in 

 cftimation, ftandcth to guard and cnclofe them. 



Chap. XV. 

 ^ Ilands in the Caules Ocean. 



Vf Pon the very Rhene it felfc, for an hundred myles almott in length, lyeth the moft noble I 

 Hand of thcBatavi, and Cannenufates :as alfo others of the Frifians,Cauchians, Frifia- 

 boncs, Sturij, and Marfalij, which are Ipread within Helius and Flevus. For fo be the 

 mouthes, into which Rhenus gulThing, divideth it felfc : and is difcharged from the North into 

 certaine lakes: from the Weft, into the river Mofa.Butin the middle mouth bctw^cnCjhebea- 

 reth a finall current and channell, and keepeth his owni name. 



Chap. Xvi. 



. Ver againft this trad,lyeth Britannia,between the North and the Weft t an Hand renow- K 

 f med bothin Greeke and Romane records. Oppofitc it is unto Germanic, Gaulc, and 

 Spaine, the greateft parts by farre of all Europe, and no fmall fea betweene . Albion it 

 was fometime named, when all the Ilands were called Britanni;^, of which anon wee will fpeake. 

 This Hand is from Geflbriacum, a coaft towne of the Morini, fiftie miles,and take the next and 

 fliorteftcut.In circuir,as -A/.P///^f*«<f and T/z^^^r/^ report, it containcth 3825 miles. And now for 

 thefc ^oyeareswell neare,the Romane captaincs grow into farther knowledge thereof,and yet 

 not beyond the forreft Caledonia, as neere us it is. griff a fuppofeth, that it is in length 800 

 miles,and in breadth 300. Alfo that Ireland is as broad,but notfo long by 2oomiles.This Hand 

 is featcd above it, and but a very fhort cut or paftage diftant from it, to wit, 3 o miles from the 

 people Silures.Of other Ilands in this Ocean, there is none by report, in compafle more than t. 

 1 2 5 myles.Now there be Orcades 4o,divided afunder by- finall fpaces betwene : Acmod^e 7,and 

 3oHa;budes. Alfo betweene Britaine and Hibernia,Mona,Monapia,Ricnea,Vedis,Silimnus5 

 and Andros: but beneath them, Siambisand Axantos-.andon thecontrarie fide toward the 

 Germane fea,there lye fcattering the Gleftaria?, whicltthe later Greeke writers have named Ele- 

 drides,for that Amber there,was cngendred and bred.The fartheft of all, which are known and 

 fpoken of, is Thulcj in which there be no nights at all,as we have declared, about mid-fummerj 

 namely when the Sunne pafleth through the figne Cancer 5 and contraiiwifc no daies in mid* 

 winter : and each of thefe times they fuppofe,doe laft fixe moneths, all day,or all night. Tim<sm 

 the Hiftoriographerfaith,That farther within-forth, and fix dayes failing from Britaine, there 

 Jyeth the Hand Midis, in which white lead groweth ; and, that the Britaines doe faiie thither in M 

 winter veftels covered with leather round about and well fowed. There be that make mention of 

 others befide,to wit, Scandia,Durana,and Bergos, and the biggeft of all the reft Nerigcs, from 

 which men faile to Thule.Within one daies failingfrom Thule,is the frozen fea^named of fome 



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