The fsxtli Booke of 



leffe than two-acres of land. This the paifants of that coiintrey doe call Eione.The very coafts of . G 

 this ftreight Boiphorusj both of Afia fide and Europajboweth and windeth like a curb to Mce- 

 otis. As touching the townes here planted, in the very firft entrie thereof ftandeth Hermonaflfa, 

 and then Cepi^ founded by the Milefians. Being paft Cepi, you come foone after to Stratilia , 

 Phanagoria^ and Apaturos, in manner unpeopled and void: and laft of all, in thevericutmoft 

 point of rhe mouth where it fallech into the fea, you arrive at the towne CimmeriuSjnamed be- 

 foretime Cerberian. 



CnAPi Vii. 

 ^ Nations nhoiit Mosotti^ 



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BEing palled Cimmerium,you come to the very broad lake Moeoii s, ^Hjhereof we (pake be- 

 ore in the Geographic of Europe. Vpon the coaft whereof^ beyond Cimmerium on the 

 fide of Afia^inhabite the Moeotici, Vaci, Serbi, A-rchi, Zingij and Pfefij. After this, you 

 come to the great river Tanais, which runneth into Moeotis with two armes or branches : and 

 on the fides of it dwell the Sarmatians, an offfpring defccndedin old time (as men lay) from the 

 Medians : but fo multiplyed now,that they themfelves ate divided and dii'pearfed into many na- 

 tions. And firft of all are the Sauromata?^ furnained Gynxcocaijumeni, /,(as one would fay) 

 fubjed to women : Irom whence the Amazons are provided and furniihed of men to ferve their 

 turne in ftead of husbands.Nexttothem,aretheEu2Z3£jCptt3s,Cicimeni,Mefleniani, Co- 

 ftobocci, ChoatraSjZigas, Dandari, Thulfageriejand Turcx, even as farrc as the wildernefies, j 

 forreftsjchalesjand rough valleys. But beyond them are the Arnuphxi, who confine upon the 

 mountaineRhiphxi. As for the river Tanais, the Scithians call it Silys : and Moeoiis/hcy name 

 Temerinda, that is to fay, the mother of the fea, or rather, the feas end. In auncient time there 

 flood a great town upon the very mouth of Tanais,wbere it falleth into the fea. As for the neigh- 

 bour borders of this fea, inhabited they were fometime by the Lares : afterwards, by the Clazo- 

 mcnij and Moeones : and in proceife or time, by the Panticapenfes. Some Authours write, that 

 about Moeotis toward the higher moivntaines.'Cerwiunij,thele nations following doeinhabite, 

 to wit,firfi: upon the very co:iit and fea fide, theNa^jeas : and above them , the Elfedones, joy- 

 ning uoon the Golchi, andihc high moimtaiac [Corax^] After them, the Carmaces, the O- 

 ranes, Antica?^ Mazacsr, Afcantici, Acapeates,Agagammata', Phycari, Rhimofoli, and Afco- 

 marci. Moreover,upon the hill Caucafus, the Icatalcs, Imaduches, Ranes, Anclaks, Tydians, 

 Charaftafci,and Afuciandes. Moreover, along the river LagousjifTuing out of the mountains 

 Cathei, and into which Opharus runneth, thefe nations eniuing doe ^ImqW^ to wit, the Caucadi- 

 ans,3nd the Opharires -.beyond whomCj runneth the rivers Mcnotharus, and Imitues,out of die 

 niountaines Cillij, which paflcth through the Agedi, Carnapcs,G3rdei, Accifi,Gabri, and 

 Gregari : and about the fouics or fpring of this river Imitues,the^eople Imitiii and Apartheni. 

 Others fay, that the Suites, Auchetes, Satarnei, and Afampates, invaded and conquered thefe 

 parts 5 and that the Tanaites andNephconites, were by them put lo the edge of thefword, and 

 not one perfog of them fpared. Some write,that the river Opharius runneth through the Can- 

 teci,and the Saposi : and that the river Tanais traverfed fooietime through the Phatareans, Her- 

 ticei,Spondolici, Synthictje, AmaffijIifijCataretijTagorijCatoni^Neripi, Agandei^Mandarei^ 

 Saturchei,andSpalei. 



, Chap. VII I* 



Hitherto have we treated and gone through the nations and the inhabitants of the coafls 

 upon the Mediteranean fea. Now are wee to fpeakeof the people inhabiting the verie 

 midland parts of the maine within -.wherein Iproteil, and denie not, but that I will deli- 

 ver many things otherwife than theauncient Geographers have fct downe .-forafmuch as Ihave 

 made diligent fearch into the ih te of thofe regions, as well by cnquirie of Domttim C orbtilo(yho 

 lately went with an artiiie througbthofe qfiarters) as of divers kings and princes, who made re- 

 paire to Rome with fuites and Tupplications, but efpecially of thofe kings fonnes that were left 

 as hoftagcs in Rome. And firfl to begin with the nation of theCappadociacis.. Ihis is a country 



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