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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¶ IN THE FOVRTH BOOKE ARE COMPRISED Regions, Nations, Seas, Townes, Hills, Hauens, Riuers, with theis dimensions and people, either now or in times past knowne: viz,

...Chap.
1. Epirus.
2. Aetolia.
3. Locri.
4. Peloponnesus.
5. Achaia.
6. Arcadia.
...

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7. Greece and Attica.
8. Thessalie.
9. Magnesia.
10. Macedonia.
11. Thracia.
12. The Islands lying between those countries: among which, Creta, Euboea, the Cvclads, Sporades: also the Isles within Hellespont neare the sea Pontus, within Moeotis, Da∣cia, Sarmatia, and Scythia.
13. The Islands of Pontus, called Mer Major.
14. The Islands of Germanie.
15. Islands in the French Ocean.
16. Britaine and Ireland.
17. Gaule or France.
18, Of Galia Lugdunensis.
19. Of Aquitaine.
20. Of high Spaine, named Citerior.
21. Of Portugall.
22. Islands in the Ocean.
23. The dimension and measure of all Eu∣rope.

Herein are contained many principall townes and countries, famous riuers; Islands also, be∣sides cities or nations that be perished: in sum, diuerse things, histories, and obseruations.

Latine Authours cited.

M. Varr, Cato Censorius, M. Agrippa, Divus Augustus, Varro Attacinus, Cor. Nepos, Hyginus, L. Vetus, Pomponius Mela, Licinius Mutianus, Fabricius Thuscus, Atteius Capito, and Atteius Philologus.

Of forreine Writers.

Polybius, Hecataeus, Hellanicus, Damastes, Eudoxus, Dicaearchus, Timosthenes, Ephorus, Crater, Grammaticus, Serapion of Antioch, Callimachus, Artemidorus, Apollodorus, Agathocles, Eumachus Siculus the Musitian, Alexander Polyhistor, Thucydides, Dociades, Anaximander, Philistides, Mallo∣tes, Dionysius, Aristides, Callidemus, Menaechmus, Aedasthenes, Anticlides, Heraclides, Philemon, Mene∣phon, Pythias, Isodorus, Philonides, Xenagoras, Astyonomus, Staphilus, Aristocritus, Metrodorus, Cleobulus, and Posidonius.