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A07401	The vvorke of Pomponius Mela. the cosmographer, concerninge the situation of the world wherein euery parte, is deuided by it selfe in most perfect manner, as appeareth in the table at the ende of the booke. A booke right plesant and profitable for all sortes of men: but speciallie for gentlemen, marchants, mariners, and trauellers, translated out of Latine by Arthur Golding Gentleman.; De chorographia. English	Mela, Pomponius.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1585 (1585)	STC 17785; ESTC S112496	64,473	102

and the men spin and carde and take charge of the house at home The Women beare burthens on their shoulders the men on their heads When the Parentes fall in pouertie the women are bounde of necessitie to finde them the men are at choice They eate their meate openlie and without their doores and doo their naturall néedes in the innermost partes of their houses They worshippe the shapes of many Beastes or to saye the trueth the verie beastes themselues some one Beast and some an other in so much as it is a matter of life and death to haue kylled some Beastes euen vnwares And when they die either by disease or by mischaunce it is their custome to burie them and mourne for them The common God of all the people is Apis a blacke Bull marked with certaine spottes and vnlyke other Bulles in tongue and fayle It is a rare matter to finde one of that bréede For as they holde opinion he is not engendered by a Beast of the same kinde but is conceyued by supernaturall power of heauenlie fire and the daye that he is calued is helde for a most holie and Feastiuall daye of all the whole Nation They being by their owne assertion the auncientest of all Nations haue registred in autentike Chronicles thrée hundred and thirtie Kinges before Amasis and the continuaunce of aboue thirtéen thousand yéeres And they kepe it written in good Recordes that in the tyme that the Egiptians haue continued the Starres haue foure times altred their courses and the Sunne hath twise gone down where it now ryseth In the raigne of Amasis they inhabited twentie thousande Citties and nowe also they inhabite verie many The notablest of them farre from the Sea are Say Memphis Syene Bubastis Elephant and Thebes which hath as is reported in Homer a hundred Gates or as other saye a hundred Pallaces the houses of so many Princes eche of which Pallaces as the state of affayres required was wont to send foorth ten thousande armed men On the shore standeth Alexandria by the Marches of Affricke Pelusium cutteth the borders of Arabia The names of the mouthes of Nyle are Canopicum Bolbiticum Sebenuiticum Pathnuiticum Mendesium Tanicum and Pelusiacum Of Arabia The tenth Chapter ARabia extendeth from thence to the redde Sea and being thencefoorth more pleasaunt and plentifull it aboundeth in Frankinsence and Spices In the hither part sauing where Mount Casius maketh it high it is altogether plaine and barren and there it receyueth the Hauen of Azotus which is the Mart Towne and vent for the wares of that Countrie Where this hyll mounteth in height it is so high that from the toppe of it a man maye sée the Sunne in the fourth watch Of Syria The eleuenth Chapter SYria runneth a great way along the Sea● coast and verie farre also into the mayne Land and is called by sundrie names For it hight Caele and Mesopotamia and Damascene and Adiabene and Babilonia and Iewrie and Sophene furthermore it beareth the name of Palestine where it butteth vpon Arabia and Phaenicia and where it ioyneth to Cilicia it is called Antioche In olde time and a long while together it was a puissant Realme but most puissant when Semiramis reigned ouer it There are surelie many notable workes of hers but two of them passe all the rest namelie the building of that wonderfull great Cittie Babilon and the letting in of the riuers Euphrates and Tigris into those Countries which before time were drie Howbeit in Palestine there is a great and strong fortified Towne called Gaza for so the Persians terme a Treasorie and thervpon it tooke that name because when Cambises inuaded Egipt with warre he bestowed his prouision for the warres and all his Treasure there There is also Ascalon as bigge as the other And there is Ioppa builded by report before the flood where the dwellers by affirme that Cepheus reigned vpon likelihood for that certaine olde Altars with great shewe of holinesse haue in them styll ingrauen the names of him and of his brother Phineus And besides that for a more assuraunce of the thing so renowmed in verses and olde tales and of the sauing of Andromade by Perseus they shewe for a plaine Monument the excessiue great bones of the Monstar of the Sea Of Phaenicia The twelfth Chapter PHaenicia is renowmed for the Phaenicians a pollitique kinde of men and both in feates of warre and peace péerelesse They first inuented Letters and Letter matters and other Artes also as to goe to the Sea with Shippes to fight vpon the water to reigne ouer Nations to set vp Kingdomes and to fight in order of battell In it is Tyre sometime an Ile but nowe ioyned to the firme Land since the time that Alexander made workes about it to assault it Further foorth stand certaine small Uillages and the Cittie of Sidon euen yet styll wealthie and in olde time the greatest of all the Citties vppon the Sea coast before it was taken by the Persians Betwéene that and the foreland of Euprosopon there are two Townes called Byblos and Botris and beyonde them were thrée other ech distaunt a furlong a sunder and therefore the place was of the number called Tripolis then follow the Castle Simyra and a Cittie not vnrenowmed called Marathos From thence the Countrie being not crooked with the Sea but lying right foorth side by side vnto it bendeth his shore into the maine Land and receiueth a great Baye About the which dwell ritch people the cause whereof is the scituation of the place for that the Countrie being fertyle and furnished with many Riuers able to beare Shippes serueth well for the easie exchaunge and conueying in of all kinde of wares both by Sea and Land Within that Baye is first the residue of Syria which is syrnamed Antioche and on the shore thereof stande the Citties Seleuca Paltos Beritos Laodicia and Arados betwéene which Citties runne the Riuers Lychos Hypatos and Orontes Then followeth the Mountaine Amanus immediatlie from whence beginneth Myriandros and Cilicia Of Cilicia The thirteenth Chapter IN the innermost retreite there is a place sometime of great renowme as a beholder and witnesse bearer of the discomfiture of the Persians by great Alexander and of the flight of Darius at that time hauing in it a famous great Cittie called Issos whereof the Bay is named the Bay of Issos but now hauing not so much as a lyttle Towne Farre from thence lyeth the Foreland Amanoides betwéene the Riuers Pyramus and Cydnus Pyramus being the néerer to Issos runneth by Mallon and Cydnus runneth out beyond through Tarsus Then is there a Cittie possessed in olde time by the Rhodians and Argiues and afterward at the appointment of Pompey by Pyrates now called Pompeiople then called Soloe Hard by on a lyttle hyll is the Tombe of the Poet Aratus woorthy to be spoken of because it is vnknowne

The third Chapter FRom hencefoorth to the Alpes Germanie is bounded on the West with the Rhyne on the South with the Alpes themselues on the East with the borders of the Nations of Sarmatia and on the North with the Occean Sea The Inhabitants are huge of body and hautie of minde and according to the sauadgenesse that is bredde in them doo inure both of them as well their mindes to battell as their bodies to the custome of paines taking In the greatest colde that is they goe naked tyll they growe to mans estate and childe-hood is verie long among them The men goe cloathed in Mandilions or in barkes of Trées and be the winter neuer so sharpe they not onelie can endure to swimme but also haue a delight in it They be at warre with their next borderers and they picke quarrelles to them of pleasure and not of desire to raigne or to inlarge the thinges which they possesse for they doo not greatlie manure the grounds which they haue but to make Countries about them waste Force is their Lawe insomuch that they be not ashamed euen of robberie and murther onely they be good to Straungers mercifull to suppliaunts They be so hard and carelesse of their fare that they féede euen vpon rawe fleshe either new killed or softened by kneading it with their handes and féete in the skinnes of the Cattell and wilde Beastes themselues after it is stiffe for colde The Land is troublesome with the multitudes of Riuers combersome with the multitude of Mountaines and for a great parte vntrauelable for Wooddes Fennes and Marishes Of Fennes and Marishes the greatest are Su●cia Mesia and Melsiagum Of Wooddes the greatest is Hercynia There are some other also that beare name but as Hercynia is the greatest for it is thrée score dayes iourney ouer so is it also the best knowne The highest of the Mountaines are Taurus and Rhetico sauing those which it is scarcelie possible for the tongue of a Romane to vtter The notablest Riuers of them that runne foorth into other Nations are Danubius and Rhodanus of them that runne into the Rhyne Maenus and Lupia of them that fall into the Occean Amisius Visurgis and Albis Uppon the Riuer Albis is the great gulfe called Codanus full of Ilandes both great and small The sharpe Sea which is receyued into the bosome of those shores dooth no where beare any great breadth nor any likenesse of a Sea but is shed out wanderinglie and dispearsedlie after the likenesse of Riuers by waters that runne into it and oftentimes runne cleane through it Where it beateth vpon the shores it is hemmed in with the bankes of Ilands not farre distant asunder so as it is euerie where almost of a lyke scantling narrowe and resembling an arme of the Sea bowing and bending from place to place with a long brew In it are the Cimbrians and Theutons and beyond them the Hermions which are the vttermost people of Germanie Of Sarmatia The fourth Chapter SArmatia being broader innermore then at the Seas side is deuided from the former Coūtries by the riuer Visula from whence it extendeth backe to the riuer Ister The people in their behauiour and Armour resemble much the Parthians But as their Countrie is of sharper ayre so be they of fiercer disposition They abide not in Citties no nor in any certaine dwelling places but as pasturage prouoketh them or as the enimie fléeing or pursuing giueth them cause so doo they euer conuey their goodes and Cattell with them dwelling alwayes in Tents lyke warriers frée vnbridled and so vnmeasurablie fierce and cruell that euen their women goe to battell with the men to the intent they may be the fitter for the purpose as soone as they be borne their right pappes are seared that the hand which is to be put foorth to seruice maye be the more at libertie to strike and their breast become the more manlike To bend a bowe to hunt and to ride are the tasks of Maidens To encounter the enimie is the wages of women growen insomuch that not to haue stricken an enimie is counted a heinous crime and for their punishment they be enioyned to liue Maidens still Of Scithia The fift Chapter FRom thence-foorth the Sea coastes of Asia sauing where the snowe lyeth continuallie and where the colde is intollerable are inhabited by the Nations of Scithia called almost all by one name vniuersallie Sages The first vpon the Sea coast of Asia be the Hyperboreans furthest North beyond the Riphoean mountaines vnder the verie North-pole in which Countrie the Sunne dooth not rise and set daylie as it dooth with vs but it ryseth in the Lenton equinoctiall and setteth not againe tyll the Haruest equinoctiall by reason whereof it is daye by the space of sixe whole monethes together and likewise night by the space of other sixe monethes The Land is narrowe open to the Sunne fruitfull the Inhabiters are most vpright dealers and liue both longer more happilie than other men For they enioying alwaies feastfull peace can no skill of warre nor of quarelling but doo buste themselues about matters of Religion specially cōcerning Apollo the first fruites whereof they be reported to haue sent to Delos at the first by certaine Uirgins of theirs and afterward by their neighbour Nations deliuering them from one to an other styll further further which custome they kept long time vntill at length it was restrained through default of those Nations Their dwelling is in Woods and Forrests and when suffizance or rather wearines of life commeth vpon them then decking themselues with garlands they throwe themselues chéerfully headlong into the Sea from a certaine rocke which vnto them is the honourablest buriall that can be The Caspian Sea breaketh into the maine Land at the first with a narrowe and long gutte like a riuer and when it is flowne in after that manner in a streight channell it sheadeth abroade into thrée Bayes namelie into the Hircanian directlie against the mouth into the Scithian on th● left hand and on the right hand into that which peculiarlie and by the name of the whole is called the Caspian Baye It is altogether rough cruell harborlesse open on all sides to winde and weather and more replenished with noysome Beastes then other Seas are and therefore lesss nauigable At the right hand as ye enter in the Scithians syr named Nomades possesse the Sea shores Within it to the Caspian Bay are the Caspians the Amazons otherwise called Sauromats At the Hircaniā Bay be the Abanes Mosks and Hircanians At the Scithian Bay be the Amards Pesiks and at the enteraunce it selfe the Derbiks Many Riuers both great and small do run into that coast but the famousest is Araxes which springing out of the side of Moūt Taurus commeth downe from the Thunder-hilles in one channell and issueth out into the Caspian in two So long as he cutteth through the féelds of