Plinies N^turall Hiilorie. If 



A chifed with the liberties of oldLatium. Stipendiaries or Tributariesj fixe and rhiriic; Moreo- 

 ver, the Colonics bee thus named, Augu(h Emerira:and upon the river AnajMetalllnenfe, 

 PacenfisjNbrbenfis^which is named alfo Csefariana.To it arc laid^nd enrolled Ca(ka lulia aild 

 Caftra Ca^cilia.The fift is Scalabis^called Praefidiuiii luIium.The {'icq borough of Romane cit- 

 . tizens Olyflippojnamed alfoFelicitas lulia. Towns ofthe old Latium libertigjliboraswhich like- 

 wife Wis called Liberalitas lulia : Myrtilis alfo and Salatia which wee have fpoken of. Of Tribu- 

 taries, fuch as I am not loth to name,be{ide the abovefaid inthe additions of Bi^ticji, Augudo- 

 brigetifes, Ammienfes, Aranditani, Axabriccnles^Balicnfes, Cfefardbricenfcsj Caperenlesj 

 <2aurenfeSj ColarnijCibilitani^ConcordienleSjihe fame that BonoriJnreraufcnfcs.Lanciei^ 

 fes. Mirobngenfes furnamed CelricijMedubrieenlcSj the fame ihatrtumt)arij, Qcelenfes whd 



B alfo are Lancicnfes^TurtuIi^namcd Barduli and Tapori.tJJ'?^ i,^^; //'^^ hath written, that Lufita- 

 niajtogether with Afturia and Galbciajis in length 54omiles,and ih breadth 526.But all Spairi 

 from the two Promontories of Pyrenseus albng thc feas", taketh up incircuitof the whole coafi 

 2poo mile5,and by others^ 2700. Overagainft Celtiberia bee very many Iflands^ called of the 

 GreekesCalTiterides^ for theplentie of lead wlTichthc^'yecld : and juft againft the ptomonrorie 

 of the Aixotrebxjfixe named Deorum [/.of the gods] which (bmc have called Fortunat.T.Buc 

 in the very point or cape ofBstica/rom.the mouth ofthe fittlij/ j axiilesjlieth the Iflarid Gades^ 

 twelve miles long, as Polybius writeth, ar>d three miIesi>ro.a.d. It is from the niai ne^ where it is 

 necreftjlelTe than ^yoopaces^ in other parts above 7 miles. The wliolelfland it felfe cbntaineth .Leffc tWh ^ 

 the fpace of fifteene miles in circuit. It hath within it a towne of Romane cittizens named Au- quarters of 

 Q guftajVrbs lulia Gaditania.On that fide that regardeth Spain^within 100 paces^there lieth ano- 

 , ther Iflandjthrec miles loUg/and a mile broad^wherein beforetime was the towne of Gades.Ths 

 name of this Illand>aftcr jE/^^i'-*'/*^ and Philifiidcs^ is Erythia : but according to Tim^itu and Silt- 

 w^jAprodifias : the naturall home br^d inhabitants callitliinonis ^ The bigger of thefe two 

 GsAcsyTLsTim^m faith, was by them called Cotinu%our countreymen nameitTarteffos^ the 

 Carthaginians Gadir^which in thePijnicke language fignifieth *ihe number of feven.Erythia "or Godh: 

 the other was callen^becaufe the Tyrians^who were the firii inhabitants, were reported to have 'sefum,or'z3 

 had their firft beginning out oi the red fea Erythra^uni.Sorae thinke that Gcrym here dwclt^hec J° 

 whofe droves of cattell Hercules had away.There bee againe that thinke how it is another^overa- ttthcMlit 

 gainft Luficaniajand there fometime fo called. 



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Chap, xxiii. 



The meafere if ailBuropei 



HAving finidicd our circuit about Europe, we muft riot^yeeld the totsll fumiiie and com- 

 plete meafure of it in the whole,.that fuch as are defirous of knowledge5bee not to fceke 

 in any one thing. Artemidonts and Ifidorus have fet^wne the length thereof from Ta- 

 mistoGades84oi4miles. Poljhmh-i,i\\ putdownethe breadth of Europe^from Italie to the. 

 Ocean 1 1 50 miles/or as then the largeneflc thereof was notknowne . Now the very bresdth of 

 Italic alone by it felfe(as we have fhewed) is 1 2 20 miles to the Alpes : from whence by Lions to 

 E the Brittaine part of the Morinij^hich way Foljhm feemeth to take his meafiire, is 1 1 (58 miles^- 

 But the more certaine meafure and the longer is direded from the faid Alpes to the Weft and 

 the mouth of the Rhene, through the place called Caftra Legionum Germaniss^ 1 243 m\m} 

 Now from hence forward will we defcribe Aifrieke and Afia* 



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