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The fixtli Booke of 



tafnes Partedoii. And wlienyou are paft them^ you enter into the deferts of Cholchis : and on G 

 the fide of them which lyeth toward the Cerauni j , the Armenochalybes do inhabite : and Co for- 

 ward you coine into the trad and marches of theMofchi^which extend to the river Ibe^usj that 

 runneth into Cyrus. Beneath them, inhabite the Sacaflanij and beyond them the Macroniens, 

 who reach even to the river Abfarus. Thus you fee how the plaines and the hanging of the hills 

 in.thefc parts, are inhabited. Againe, from the marches and frontiers of Albania, all the fore- - 

 ffcJnt of the hills is taken up and poflellcd by thefavage people of the Sylvi j and beneath them, 

 oftheLubienes^andfo forward by the DidurianSjandSodij. 



Chap. xi. 



Th gates and fafage$ of themountaimCmcaJu^^ H 



WHcn yc arc beyond the Sodij, you come to the ftrcights of the hill Caucafus , which 

 many have erronioufly called Cafpise Portas. And certes^ Nature hath perfourmed a 

 mightie peeccof worke, in cleaving afundcr at one inftant thofe mountaines^ where 

 the gates were barred up as it were with iron portculleifes^ whiles under the mids thereof, the ri« 

 ver Dyriodorus runneth : and on this fide of it, ftandeth a ftrong fort and caftlc called Cuma- 

 nia^fituate upon a rock, able to impeach an armie never fq puiflant and innumerable that would 

 palfe thereby ^ in fuch fort, as in this place by meanes of thefe bar-gates, one part of the world is 

 excluded from the other: and namely moftof all they feemctobe fetoppolitcas a rampart a- 

 gainft Hatmaftis a towne of Iberia. But being pafTcd thcfefaid gates, you come to the moun- 2 

 taines Gordy ei, where the Valli and Suarni, barbarous and favage nations, areimployed onely 

 in the mines of gold.Beyond themasfarre astothePonticke fea, you enter into the countrey 

 of the Heniochi, whereof be many forts : and foone after,to the Achei. And thus much as tou- 

 ching this tra£t of thefeaPonticke,andofthemoftrenowmedgulfesof allothers. Somehavc 

 fctdownein writing, that betweenePontus and the Cafpianfeajicis not above 375 miks,Corne^ 

 ImsNcfos faith it is but 1 5o.Sceinto what great freights between both feas Afia is driven again, 

 and as it were thronged . CUudm Cdfir hath reported, that from Cimmerius Bofphorus unto 

 theCafpianfea,it is 150 miles, and that Sdeuctts TltCAtor purpoiedif he hadlived,tocutthe 

 land through from the one fide to the other : but in this purpofe of his, himfelfe was cut fliorc 

 and llaine by VtolomAm Ceraunus.lo conclude, it is in manner held for certein, that from thofe K 

 gates of Caucafus unto the Ponticke fea,it is 200 miles and no leffe. 



Chap. xii. 



"^T he Ijlandsitttk Ponticke fea, \ 



M the Ponticke fea, lye the Iflands Pland^, otherwife Cyancas or SympIcgades.Then ApoI« 

 iniajnamedalfoThynniaSjfordiftindion fake from that other fo named ;in Europe: it is 



from the continent one mile, and is in circuit three. luft over-againft Phamacea, is the Iflc 

 Chalceritis, which the Greekes called Aria, con fecrated as it were to Mars jwherein they fay 

 the foules that are, uled to fight and flutter with their wings againft all other birds that come 

 thither* 



^ Chap. Xiit. 

 }^ The regions and people confning npon the Scythian Ocean* 



"1 Aving thusfufficientlydifcourfedof all the countries within the firmelandof A{ia,ktus 

 now determine to pafle over the RhiphseanhilleSjanddifcoverthc coailsof the Ocean 

 which lye on the right hand of thofe hills. Wherein we have to confider, that Afia is da- 

 3d and beaten upon by this maine fea on three parts Jto wit, on the North fide, and there it is 

 ailed Scythicus:ontheEaftjwheretheycallitEous:andlaf^from the South, andthere they M 

 name it Indicus And according to the fundrie gulfes and creekes that it maketh, and the inha- 

 bitants by whoiTK- it paifeth, many names it taketh. Howbeit, a great part ofAfia toward the, 

 North,lyeth defert, and hath in it much wildernelTe inhabitable, by reafon of the extreme cold 

 of that frozen climate^ fo fubjedi: to the Pole Ar(5ticke. But being once pafl the utmoi^ quarter of 



the 



