Plinies Naturall Hiflorie. 



A have fwallowed up much more by farte thanis left behind to be feene : no nor to have kt Pro^ 

 pontis gufh through Hellefpontj and fo to encroach againcupon the earth and gainc more 

 ground Hinlefle from the ftrcights'of Bofphorusalfo he enlarge hiralelfe into another hiigerand 

 vaft feajandyet is never content, untill the lake Moeotis alfq with his ftreightj meet with him as 

 he thus fpreadeth abroad and floweth at liberticjand fo joyne together and part as it werCjtheit 

 ftolnc good betweene them. And verily that all this is happened maugre the earth, and that ic 

 made all refinance that it could, appeareth evidently by fo many ftreights and narrow paffages 

 lying betweene thefe two elements of fo contrarie nature (confidcring that in Hellelpont, the 

 lpaceisnotabove875 paces from land to land ;a:nd at the two Bolphorithe fea isfo pafleablej 

 that oxeiyor kine may fwim at cafe from the one fide to the other : and hereupon they both took 



B their name :) the which vicinitie ferveth very welltocntertaine andnouriftiamitie among na- 

 tions jfeparated by nature one from another: and in this difunion as it werCjappeareth yet a bro- 

 therly fellowfliip and unitie. For the cocks may be heard to crow, and the dogges to barke/rom 

 the one lide to the other : yea and men out of thefe two worlds may parly one to another with au- 

 dible voicCj and have commerce of (peechtogitherjif the weather be calme, and that the wind^ 

 doe not carrie away the found thc^reof. 



Well, the meafiire fome have'taken of thc fea, from Boiphorus Thraciusimto thdake of 

 Moeotis, and have accounted it to be 1438 miles andabalfe. But£r/z/^//^£»^j reckonethit leffe 

 by one hundred. Jgr-ippa faith, thatfrom Chalcedon to Phafis,it is a thoufand miles, and fo to 

 Bofphorus Ciramerius 360 miles. As for us, wee willfetdowne fummarily and in generall,the 



C diftances of places, according to the moderne knowledge of our nation in thefe daies, for as 

 much as our armies have warred in the verie ftrcight and mouth of this Cimmerian ftreight. 



Being paifed then from the ftreight of Bofphorus Thracius, we meet with the river Rhebasg 

 which fome have called Rhoefus : and beyond it, PfilHs another river : then, come we to the port 

 of Calpas, and Sangarius one of the principall rivers of Afia :it arifeth in Phrygia : it leceiveth 

 other huge rivers into it, and among the reft Tembrogius and Gallus. The fame Sangarius, was 

 called alio Coralius. After this river,begin the gulfes Mariandini, upon which is to be fcene the 

 towne Heraclcajfituate upon the river Lycus.It is from the mouth ot Pontus 200 miles.Beyond 

 itistheportAcone,curfed for thevenemous hearb and'poifonous Aconirum, which taketh 

 name thereof. Alfoihe hole orcave Acherufia. Rivers alio there be, Pedopiles, Callichorumj 



D and Sonantes. One towne, Tium, eight and thirtie miles from Heraclea.: andlaflof all, the 

 river Bilis* ^ . 



Chap. lii 



^ TherJAUorJcfihe PaphUgomttnSydtid Cappadocinns, 



BEyond this river Bills, is the countrey Paphlagonia,which fome have named Pykmcrinas? 

 ^nd it is enclofed with Galatia behind it. Ths M towne yee meet in it, isMaftya, built by 

 the MilefiansiandncxtjoitjisCromna. hi this quarter the Heneti inh^hkc^^sC orneluis 

 IS! epos faith. Moreover, from whence the Venetians in Italic, whobearc their namCjare defcen- 

 E ded, as he would have us belceve.Necre to the faid towne Cromna, is another called Sefamumi 

 in times pafl, and now Amaflris. Alfo the mountaine Cytorus3^4 miles from lium.VVhen you 

 are gone paft this mountaine, you fhall come to Cimolus and Stephane, two townes, and like- 

 wife to the river Parthenius*. and fo forward to the cape or promontorie Corambis, which rea- 

 cheth forth a mighrie way into the fea rand it is from the mouth of thefea Pontus 315 miles, or 

 as others rather thinke, 3 50. AsfarrealfoitisfromtheftreightCimmerius, oras fome would 

 rather haveit, 3 12 miles and an halfe. A towne there was aifo in times pafl: of that name: and 

 anotherlikewife beyond it called Arminum:butnow,thereisto be feene the colon ie Sinope, 

 1 miles from Citorum. Being pafl it, you fall upon the river Varetum, the p'eople of Cappa- 

 docia jihe townes Ga2ima,and Gazelum, and the river Haly to , which iffuing out of the foot of 

 F the hill Taurus, pafleth through Cataonia and Cappadocia.Then meet you with thefe townes 

 followingjGangre,Cariffa, and thefreecitie Amifum,which is from Sinope 130 miles.As you 

 travell farther, you iTiall fee a gulfe carrying the name of the faid towne, where the fea runneth fo 

 farrewithinthelandjthatitfeemethtomake Afia well- neere an Land: for from thence to the 

 gulfe IfTicus in Cilieia^ is not above 200 miles through the continent Jn all which trad:,there be 



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