The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome

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Title: The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome
Author: Pliny, the Elder.
Publication: London :: Printed by Adam Islip,; 1634.
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Subject terms: Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
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CHAP. VI.

¶ Lybya Maroeotis. [unspec D]

THe countrey following is named Mareotis Libya, and boundeth vpon Aegypt, inhabited by the Marmaridae, Adyrmachidae, and so forward with the Mareotae. The measure of it from Catabathmos to Paretoninm, is 86 miles. In that tract there lyeth in the way be∣tweene the village. Apis, a place renowned for the religious rites of Aegypt. From it to Paraeto∣nium are 12 miles. From thence to Alexandria 200 miles: the bredth thereof is 169 miles. Era∣tosthenes hath deliuered in writing, that from Cyrenae to Alexandria by land is 525 miles. Agrip∣pa saith, that the length of all Africk from the Atlanticke sea, together with the inferiour part of Aegypt containeth 3040 miles. Polybius and Eratosthenes, reputed to haue bin most exact and curious in this kinde, set downe, from the Ocean to great Carthage 1600 miles. From thence to Canopicum the neerest mouth of Nilus, they make 1630 miles. Isidore reckoneth from Tin∣gi [unspec E] to Canopus 3599 miles. And Artemidorus forty lesse than Isiodorus.