¶ De orbis diuisione / Augustinus de cinitate dei libro sexto ca∣pitulo / Octauo ¶ Capitulum Sextum
THe departyng of the world take hede that the grete See of Occean beclyppeth alle the erthe aboute / And the Erthe is departed in thre grete partyes. Asia that is one parte· Europa that other / And Affryca the thyrdde / But the thre partyes ben not alle euen lyke moche / ffor Asia one of the thre conteyneth half the erthe / And stretcheth fro the southe by the eeste vnto the north / And is closed aboute with the see of Occean / But it endeth wes••ward atte grete See / Beda de na∣turis. his endes ben the mouthe of the Ryuer Nylus in the south and of the Ryuer thanays in the northe. Ysidorus libro quarto / decimo / capitulo quarto / That other parte europa stretcheth doun∣ward fro the Ryuer thanays by the northe / Occean to the costes of Spayne and ioyneth to the grete See by Eeste and by southe And endeth in the Ilonde Gades. ¶ Item / Ysidorus / capitulo quinto / Affryca the thyrdde parte stretcheth fro the west to the southe vnto the Coost of Egypte / And these two partyes Affry∣ca and Europa ben departed a sounder by an Arme of the See Plenius libro 3o. co. po. The mouthes of that Arme conteynen ffyften thousand paas in lengthe / and fyue thousand paas in breed. And of thylke mouthes the See of myddel erthe be∣gynneth / And by dyuerse armes spredeth and wexeth inward the londes