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. XIIII. [unspec I]

¶ Media, and the gates Caspiae.

AS for Ecbatana the head citie of Media, Seleucus the king founded it: and it is from Seleu∣cia the great 750 miles, and from the Caspian gates 20. The other great towns of impor∣tance in Media, be Phausia, Agamzua, and Apamia, named also Rhaphane. And as for the streights there, called the Caspian gates, the same reason is there of that name, as of the other by Caucasus; by reason that the mountaine is clouen and broken through, and hath so narrow a lane, that hardly a waine or cart is able to passe by it; and that for the length of 8 miles: all done by the picke-axe and mans hand. The rockes and cliffes that hang ouer on the one side [unspec K] and the other, be like as if they were scorched and half burnt: so dry and thirsty is all that tract, and without fresh water for 38 miles space: for all the liquor and moisture issuing out of those craggie rockes, runneth through it, which letteth the passage, and causeth folke to auoid that way. Besides, such a number of serpants doe there haunt, that no man dare passe that way but in winter onely.