Of Thessalia. chap. 161.
THessalia, as Isidore saith, libro. 15. is a Prouince of Grecia, and hath that name of Thessalus the king, and ioyneth on the south side to Macedonia. In Thes∣salia be many riuers, & therein be many towns, ye chiefe therof is called Thessalo∣nica. There is also the mount Pernassus, that was sometime hallowed to Apollo, & Thessalia was the country of Achilles, and thence came the Laphites. And it is said of them, that they brake first horses with Bridles, and sate on their backes, and séemed one body horse & man. There∣fore knights of Thessalia were scined to be Centauri, as Isidore saith, lib. 11. cap. de Portentis: In Thessalia were first found shillings of golde, and crafte and vse of breaking of horses: as Isidore sai∣eth, libro. 15. And farther bée sayth, lib. 4. that in Moses time tell a greate floud in Thessalia, that destroyed the more deale of the people of that lande: And a fewe were saved by succour of the mountaines, and namely in mount Parnassus: about the which mount Deucalion reigned that time: And such as fledde vnto him in shippes he receiued, and in the toppe of the hill Pernassus he nourished and cherished them. Wherefore the Greekes fables feigned, that Deucation should re∣store mankinde of stones, as he affirmeth there.
(Thessalia a region in Gréece, called also Aemonia, sometime Pandora, som∣time Pyrthea, of some Pelasgia: of Ho∣mer, Argopelasgicon. It is inuironed with foure greate and famous Hilles, on the East with the mountaynes of Pelion and Ossa: on the North with Olympus: on the West with Pin∣dus: on the South Othris.