m The fifth Booke of * 



Jrtpcriliii%\vti\i it moreover Other names, to wit, Melamphyllus^yeajandCypariffia: others G 

 tearmeitPartheno-arufa^and Stephane. Rivers in it bee Imbrafus^ChefiiiSsand Ibettes.-foun- 

 laines of frefh water,Gigarco and Leucotheaibut no other hils, faveonely Cercetius. There lie 

 adjoining to it other Iflands befides, namely^RhyparajNyinphasa, and Achillea, Fourefcore 

 and thirteene miles from itjyou may difcover Chios,afreeStatejwithatowneinir,which is an 

 Ifland as renowned every way as Samos : ^herm by the auncient name calleth it ^thalia : Me- 

 trodsruj and chedulfis jChhyO^ncmzine ladie nymph, whole name was Chw : others fiip- 

 pofed it was fo called of Chion, /. Snow : and fome would have it to be Maoris and Pityula. An 

 hill there is in it called Pellen2eus,where the good marble is digged, called Chium. The aun- 

 cient Geographers have written, That it is a hundred twentie and five miles about3 ^J^^^' 

 r;/^ addeth nine more. Situate it is betweene Samos and Lesbos,fulloppofite unto the cape E- H 

 rythr^e. Ncere unto itlieThallufa (which fome write Dapnufa,) OenufTa, Elaphites, Eurya- 

 nafla,Arginuflra with a towne. Now are all thcfe about EphefuSjas alfo the Ifles of Fifijlratusfa 

 callcd:and thofe which are named Anthinse, tov^jMyonnefus^and Diareufa. In boththefe 

 the townes that werCjbec loft through water. FurthermorCjthe Ifland Porofelenj^ with a town 

 in it, Cercia^, Halone, Commonejilletia, Lepria, and Rhcfpheria,ProcufiE,Bolbula;,Phana2, 

 Priaposj Syce, Melane, ^Enare, Sidufa, Pela, Drymufa, Anydros, Scopelos,Sycufla,Mara«- 

 thufla,Pfile,Perirheufa,and many others of no reckoning. But among the Iflcsof name, is 

 that of Teosjlying farther in the dcepe fea, which hath a towne in it : and lieth from Chios four- 

 Icoure and one miles, and as much from the Bay Erythrae. Neere unto Smyrna are the Illands 

 Perifterides,Carteria,Alopece3Ela:ufra,BachinajPyftira,Crommyonne{iis,andMegale. And 1 

 juft before Troas^the Ifles Alcani2e,and three PJateas.Then the Lami^Ejand twoPlitani2e.Moie- 

 overathe IflandsPlate,Scopelos,Getone,Artheidon5CeIce,Laguffe,& Didymce.But the moft 

 ftately of all others in this {ea,isLesbos,which lieth from Chios threefcore and five miles. Na- 

 med it was in times paft,Hcmerte,Lafia_^ela(gia,-^giraj^thyope and Macaria ; within it were 

 eight townes of name ; whereof one, namely Pyrrha, is (wallowed up of the fea: and another, 

 to wiCjArisbejOverthrowneby an earthquake. As for the IfleMethymna was peopled from An- 

 tifla, which was united to it, and wherein were eight townes, and is about fcven and thirtie 

 atolia. miles from * Afia the leffe. As for the townes Agamede and Hiera which were in it, gone they 

 be now and utterly perillied. Yet there remaineErefbs,Pyrrha,andMitylenas,whieh hath con- 

 tinued for five hundred yeeresjmightie and puiflant. ifidorm faith,That this Ifland is in circuit K 

 about a hundred feventie and three miles : but the old Geographets,a hundred ninetie and five. 

 In it are thefe mountains,Lepcthymus,Ordyranus,IVIariftuSjCreon,andOIympus.Eighrmyles 

 and an halfe it is from the Continenr,where it lieth neereft. About this Ifland Lesbos,there lie 

 ncere at hand other little ones, namely,Saudalion,and the five Leucse. Of which,Cydonea is 

 one, wherein isafountaine of bote water. As for Argenufla?, from thence to i^^gs is reckoned 

 fouremiles.TherearebefidesinthiscoaftPheilufaandPedua. Now without Helleiponr, over- 

 againft the bay and cape Sigeum,lieth the IfleTenedus, called fometimes Leucophrys, Phse- 

 nice,andLyrneflbs. From Lesbos it is fixe and fiftie miles, and from Sigisum twelve miles and 

 an halfe. _ 



Chap. XXXii. 



diipelaffo. T ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^" ^gcum, and come to Hellefpont, now called the 



j _^ ftreights of Callipolis:whereinto the maine fea guflieth with a mightieforce and violence, 

 with his gulfes and whirlepooles,digging before him a way,untillhe have limitted and de- 

 vided Afia from Europe. The promontorie firft appearing there,wec named Trapeza. From 

 which, tenne myles off, ftandeth the towne Abydum, where the fireights are but feven ftadia 

 over.Beyond it is Percote the towne:and Lampfacum,called beforetime Pityufa. Moreover,the , 

 Colonic Parium,which Homer named Adraftia.Moreover,thc towne Priapos,the river -£fepus M 

 and the cape Zeli3.Then come yee to Propontus, for fo is the place called where the fea begin- 

 neth to enlarge it felfe. Into this channell runneth the river Granicum, which maketh the ha- 

 ven Artace,where once flood a towne. Beyond it there is an Ifland, which Akxander the great 

 joined to tht Continent [by two bridges^ according to Strabo] in which ftandeth the towne Cy- 



zicum* 



