¶ Of Icana. chap. 81.

ICaria is an Iland, one of Ciriades in the West side, and the sea Icari∣um hath the name of this land Icaria, & this lande is betwéene Samum and Cin∣thonum, and is not able to dwell in for high rocks and cragges, and also for it is hauenlesse in euery side, and hath this name Icaria, of one Icarus of Creta that was drowned therein, as Isidore sayeth libro. 15.

(*Icaria, an Ile in the Sea Icarium, which is also called Icarus. Icarus the sonne of Dedalus, who hauing winges, (made by Arte) with his Father flewe out of the Ile of Crete, but when hée flew higher than his Father commaun∣ded, the ware, wherewith the fethers of his wings were glewed, melted with the heate of the Sunne: and y^e feathers falling off, Icarus was constrayned to fall into the sea, afterward called, Mare Icarium, Icarus is also the name of the father of the chast Penelope, which was wife to Vlysses the Gréeke, and is also the name of a mountain in the Region of Athens: the Ile Icarus, is called Ich∣thicusa.)