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A09765	A summarie of the antiquities, and wonders of the worlde, abstracted out of the sixtene first bookes of the excellente historiographer Plinie, vvherein may be seene the wonderful workes of God in his creatures, translated oute of French into Englishe by I.A.; Naturalis historia. English. Abridgments	Pliny, the Elder.; Alday, John, attributed name.; I. A.	1566 (1566)	STC 20031; ESTC S110480	40,229	130

doth neuer begin to hourd vp but in the full Moone The nature of the windes are dyuers according to the diuersitie of Countreyes and they procéede of the earth and of the vapors of the same which causeth somtimes in many places earthquakes The thunders and lightninges doe neuer fall in the winter for the coldnesse of the aire doth kepe them in and choakes them therefore they fall in the Sommer and many times thei marre the wine without touching the vessell There was a womā at Rome whose child was slaine within hir wom be by thunder lightning and the womā had no hurt at all Thrée things there are that neuer feele any harme by thunders lightnings the Lawrel trée on the earth the Eagle in the Sky and the Seacalfe in the sea for they neuer fall vpon their skinnes therefore best assured are they that are so clad Naturally there are signes and tokens in the earth the sea the aire and therefore it hath rayned somtimes bloude stones woll yea great stones acumulated in the aire by the coldnesse therof The Raynebowe is not séene in a close rainy day but y e sunne beames entring into the concauites of y e earth do reflere the Sunne and make varietie of colours by the mixture of the cloudes in the ayre and is séene moste cōmonly in y e Sōmet Also there are neuer lightly sene aboue two Rainbowes The earth is y e mother of al liuing creatures In the ayre is séene many tymes darkenesse and clowdes the hayles are deryued of the wa●ers but the earth is lowely seruing to all cr●atures shée bringeth forth corne wine fruites all kind of things pertaining to man She bringeth forth yron lead golde siluer precious stones herbes seruing vnto mans helth yea if y t a s●rpēt chaunce to byte any person the earth will not receyue that serpent when it is dead The earth is compassed rounde about with waters the which is mo●e knowen by experience than by arguments some part thereof is not inhabited towardes the North bycause of the great colde An other part is not inhabited bycause of the extreme heate towards y e south The middle of the earth is the Centry to the whiche most wayghtiest thinges doe take holde In some places there is no shadow of y e sunne specially in Alexandria y e great where as there is a depe well without shadowe Anaxemenes Milesius was the first foūder of Dials There are many signes of mouings mutation of tymes without great appearance as in the sea when that without winde the waues do ryse and rage And in the skye when y t there is a long strype or line and when that the well waters are troubled Two mountaynes haue bene séene naturally hyt and touch one another as if they had foughten y e waters meting together to striue and maruellously to encrease beastes to dye In Asia twelue cities were subuerted by y e earthquakes without perceyuing thereof at Rome Neare vnto Rome there are two hundreth acers of groūd the which doth shake when there are horses running thereon In the Ile of Paphos there is a place where there did neuer fall rayne And in the same Ile Nea in the City of Troados the sacrifices do neuer putrifle nor rot Nere Nere to Harpasa a town in Asia there is a great Mountaine y t one may shake with their finger but if you put your whole strength to it it remay●eth vnmoueable There are two moūtaines neare to the floud of Nyle the nature of them are dyuers for the one re●ayneth yron the other casteth it off in such sorte that if any of their shooes be clouted with nayles that goe vpon the sayd hil they can neyther go nor stand but are cast off and on the other hyll their shooes will sticke fast In the City of Charagena there is a certaine groūd that healeth all kinde of sores and diseases the Sea doth pourge in the full Moone the fluctuations of the seas commeth by the Sunne and Moone the which causeth it In the hys Sea there neuer falleth snow the sea is most hottest in winter and saltest in Sommer Of fresh waters there are diuers sorts In Dodone is the fountaine called Iupiters spring whiche doth kindle firebrandes it diminisheth at Noone and encreaseth at midnight and then afterwards decreaseth fayleth at myd day There are many hote waters bycause of the smoke closenesse of the hylles from whence these hote waters spring There are springs that ●il make black shéepe become white and other waters that maketh white shepe become black by continuance of drinking and others that the ewes that drinke in them their milke will become blacke At Lincestis there is a fountayne of water that will make them that drinke therof dronken Also in Paphlagonia and in the fielde Calenus in the Ile of Andro there is a Fountaine or spring that rendreth wine euery yeare in the Nonas of Ianuary In a field called Carrimensis in Spaine there is a Ryuer that wil make the fishes that are therein to séeme of the colour of golde and if they are put into any other water they will séeme as other fishes Among the maruelles of fire the Mountayne called Ethna in Sicilia burneth continually the flames whereof are sene aboue the hill toppe An other hill that is called Chimera burneth in like maner the fire of which hill is so●er quenched with earth or with hay than with water In the thirde fourth fifth and sixth bokes Plinie describeth the earth the waters and the Ilands and deuideth the world into Asia Affrica Europa Asia conteineth the halfe of the world in the whiche is Armenia Capadocia Albania Suau●a whereas there is no mettall but golde Scithies where as is the sweete Sea and there are trées that bring forth silke ready to spinne India where there are people very ryche they labour with Elephantes and goe to warre with them Their king hath ordinarily sixe hundreth thousand foote men thirtie thousande horsemen and nine thousande Camels to his gages and to his dayly cost and when they be so old y t they can scarce sée nor can liue no longer they cast them selues into a great fire Beyonde the Indias is the Ile called Taprobane where as is the gréene Sea and there is planted precious stones with metals of golde and siluer The men of that Countrey are more greater thā others they sell their marchandise by making of signes the Moone neuer shineth with them aboue sixe houres they haue small edifices or buildinges and theyr vitayles neuer waxeth deare for their God they haue Hercules They doe electe and choose an olde man to their king which hath no children and if he chaunce to haue any whylest he is king they do kill them to that ende that the kingdome be not inherited by their elected king they do cōstitute xxx gouernours without whose assente none can be condempn●d to death If their king doth missedoe

they do punishe him or depose him from the crowne This Nation taketh great delyte in the chase of Tigres and Elephants and doth abounde in corne and fruites they do delight to fishe for shell fishes which are there very great in so much that one may hyde themselues in their sh●lles Alexandria the greate was foūded by the great king Alexander and neare vnto that is the red Sea by the repercussion of the Sunne that doth so colour it or else for that y e mood and the grauell is such or for that it is the nature of the water Also Siria and Arabia whose people are tanned heary al saue the heade and they are apparelled with the skinnes of fish There is also Mesopotanie Babilon Assiria Arabia the floud of Tyger hath his originall in a fountaine of Armenia In the Ile of Sagaros there can no dogge liue for as sone as he entereth into the Ile he turneth rounde tyll he fall downe deade The Sabiens are ry●h with the fertillitie of their Forrests with mettals hony and waxe The Candeans liue with Serpentes and in the Ile of Gagaudes was first foūd Popengaies Idumea Iuda Ierusalem Galile Si●ie Palestin whiche was the first founder of letters and at the first in stede of letters vsed certaine figures of beasts Also there is a Nation called Hessenians lyuing without wyues and without licherie When they are dead they are caste into the Sea they liue without money and grow of the deade Of the Ethiopians there are dyuers formes and kindes of men Some there are towardes the East that haue neyther nose nor nostrels but the face all full Others that haue no vpper lippe they are without tongues and they speake by signes they haue but a little hole to take their breath at by y t which they drinke with an ot●n straw● There a●e some called Syrbote that are eyght foote highe they liue with the chase of Elephantes In a parte of Affricke be people called Ptoemphane for their king they haue a Dog at whose fansie they are gouerned to whome they doe pro●osticate their doings and their cōduct in wa●xe Towards the west there is a people called Arimaspi that hath but one eye in their foreheade they are in the desert and wilde Countrey The people called Agriphagi liue with the flesh of Panthers and Lyons and the people called Anthropomphagi which we call Canibals liue with humaine fleshe The Cinamolgi their heades are almoste lyke to the heades of Dogges Affrica aunciently called Libia doeth containe the Moores and the pillers of Hercules among the floudes there is Onylus that doth ingender Cocodrils There are goodlye Forrestes with vnknowen trées some of the which trées beare small threades of the whiche is made clothing of cotton Cyrenes and Syrtes make their houses of salt stones cut out of the mountaines there is the mountaine of Giry the which doth ingender and bring forth many precious stones In Libie which is at the ende of the Ethiopes there are people differing from the common order of others they haue among them no names and they cursse the Sunne for his great heate by the which they are al black sauing their téeth and a litle the palme of their handes and thei neuer dreame The others called Troglodites haue Caues and holes in the grounde haue no other houses Others called Gramantes they make no mariages but all women are cōmon Gamphasantes they go all naked Blemmyis a people so called they haue no heades but haue their mouth and their eyes in their breastes And others there are y t go more by trayning of their hāds thā with their fete There are gathered y e spices ther is nothing that they are afrayd of but of greate Dogges that wil barke at them byte them Africke begynneth beyonde the Realme of Spayne and Grenado is deuided in y e sea of Europa as betwene Douer and Calis there beginneth the kingdoms of Feoz ▪ of Tunis of Barbaria of Carthage and of others of the Ethiopians Europia beginneth from the sea Meditarene so called bycause it is a floude in the midst of the world Upon this sea that deuideth Asia and Europia the king Xerses caused to be made a bridge of shippes such a number he had for the warre Europa conteyneth Rome the auncient Citie the plentiful Italy Venice discended of the Troyans Grece Thessalia Aca●a Macedonia Thessalie where as is a floud called Peneus nauigable in the middest for into the sayde floude entreth the Ryuer of Orcon but his water swimmeth aboue the other without mingling together as doth Oyle Italy hath the noble Ryuer of Poste bearing vaynes of golde In the Iles of Pont there are people that liue with the egges of wilde foule others that haue ●ete like horses whose ●ares are so greate and so long that therewith they couer their whole bodyes Europe doth containe Germanie whiche is the hye and base Almaine Burgony Sauoy Brittaine Gaule that is deuided into thrée partes From the Ryuer Lescault to the Ryuer of Sayne is called Gaule the fayre from Sayne to Gyrrond is Gaule the auncient and contayneth Lionois and from Girronde to the hilles of Pirennes that deuideth Spaine and Fraunce is Aquittaine Spaine also is of Europia where as is Cath●lognia Araragō Castilian Portingall Syuell Andelosia Leon Galicia and the kingdom of Granado euen to the Sea The seuenth booke treateth of man THe world hath brought forth many things of y e which man is almoste the least He hath clothed the beastes birdes fishes and trées with skinnes feathers scales barke and otherwise But man commeth forth all naked ready to wéepe and lightly before fortye dayes he doth not laugh he y t ought to raigne ouer the beastes on the earth is at the beginning weaker than any he knoweth nothing without he be taught neyther to speake nor to goe and naturally doth nothing but weepe Naturally the beastes seeke their lyuing flye from their enimy swimme with many other things giuen them of nature The Lyons do not warre betwene thē selues the Serpentes doe not byte one an other but men study howe to destroye one another by warres and dess●tions Men neuer lightlye in all poyntes resemble one like an other in their faces the which commeth by the diuersitie of the cogitations of their parents the which maketh their symilitudes so farre vnlike and therefore the brute beastes that haue no suche varieties in their thoughts eng●der none but their like Men there are called Arimaspi that haue but one eye in their forehead whiche incessantlye warre against the Griffons about mettals and they finde in the ground golde and other mettals Those that are towarde the ende of the west drinke in deade mens 〈◊〉 In Albania some haue their eyes yellow y ● 〈◊〉 to them in their youth and they see better by night than by day In Affrica in some places there are a gret multitude of serpēts whose properties they vse for the tryall of their wyues chiefly