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Ocean, and thus divides all this earth from the eaflern parts. All 

 to the northward is Afia, and to the fouthward Europe and Alia 

 are feparated by the Tanais ; then fouth of this fame river (along 

 the Mediterranean, and weft of Alexandria) Europe and Afia 



join- 

 Europe begins (as I faid before) at the river Tanais, which 



takes its fource from the northern parts of the Riphasan moun- 

 tains, which are near the Ocean that men call Sarmondifc b ; and 

 this river runs directly fouth, on the well; fide of Alexander's 

 temples, to the nation of the Rhocovafci c . Here rifes that fen & 

 {which men call Mosotis ;) and thence it iffues with a great flood 

 near the town called Theodofia % from whence it empties itfelf 

 to the eaftward into the Euxine Sea, and then becoming narrow 

 for a confiderable tract, it paffes by Conftantinople, and thence 

 into the Mediterranean. The fouth-weft f end of Europe is in 

 Spain bounded by the Ocean ; but the Mediterranean almoft en- 

 tirely clofes at the ifiands called Gades, where Kercules's pillars 



accuracy of either ./Elf red or Orofius in this geographical defcription I 

 and where luch a number of places are mentioned, one after another, it 

 is fomething difficult to difcover to which of them the context relates ; 

 it is therefore very probable that I have myfelf made fome miltakes alfo 

 in the punctuation, upon which much depends. 



b Saimatico Oceano in Orofius : where the Saxon however plainly re- 

 fers to a known name of a place or fea, I generally fliail tranflate the 

 Saxon corruption,, by what is the real, and commonly accepted 

 name. 



c Koxolani, in Orofius ; and thofe who de'fire to know where this 

 nation was fituate.l, may confult Havercamp's edition. 



d 1 have tranflated this literally, by ufing the Saxon term pen, as I 

 mall in every inftance where the modern Englifh is clearly derived from 

 that language, and fhall commonly print fuch word in Italics. 



e Literally, which men call Theodofia ; but as I have given two in- 

 fiances before of this Saxonifm, I fhall nos repeat it. 



f Weft-fouth, in the Saxon, which we never fay, through fo many ©£* 

 our nautical expreflions are borrowed from the Saxon, as Starboard^ 

 &c 



3 ftand*. 



