Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

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Taprobane,* 1.1 an Ile in the Indian sea, and was of some dide Writers supposed to be in the contrarie part of the worlde against vs, and therefore they called it an other worlde: It lieth in the point be∣tweene East & West, the quantity there∣of is diuersly described by sūndry authore. For Strabo writeth that it is in length eight thousande furlongs, which is a thousand miles. Plinius, Martianus, and Solinus, do affirme it to be in lēgth seuen thousand furlongs, which is eight hun∣dred lxxv. miles, in breadth .5000. furlōgs, which is 625. miles: part of it extendeth beyond the Equinoctial line, more south, and hath on the Northeast the lesse In∣die. It is nowe called Samotra, and is vnder the dominion of the great Cam, and is gouerned by foure Kings, in an exquisite forme of iustice, notwithstan∣ding that the people be Idolaters: They hunt Tygres, Elephants, and Panthers, of the which there is great plentie. Also there be found Carbuncles, Saphires, Iacincts, Topaces, Rubies, & Granates, in great numbers. There groweth Si∣namome,

Canel, Beniamine, and other swéete trées, in great abundaunce. And they haue money of golde, siluer, & brasse, of the same waight and value, that the auncient coine of the Romanes was. There is also found great plentie of ori∣ent pearles.

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