Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.

Of the Euxine sea.

THe Euxine Ocean is that great and troublesome sea which beginning not farre from Constantinople, runneth from Bosphorus and Thrace, towards the East and North, containing to the Longitude eight hundred miles, but to the Latitude two hundred and eighty. Towards the South it toucheth vpon Asia the lesse; towards the East vpon Calcos; towards the West, Thracia and Valachia: but towards the North it is ioyned to the poole of Maeotides. This sea in times past was called Pontus

Axenus, that is, the inhospitable country; because as Strabo, lib. 1. of his Cosmography saith, The inhabitants neere about the sea∣shore did vsually sacrifice those strangers they got, or else cast their bodies vnto dogs to he deuoured, making drinking cups of their skuls. But after, when the Ionians had built certain townes vpon the sea coast, and had restrained the incursions of certaine Scythian theeues which vsually preyed vpon Merchants that re∣sorted thither; at the command of Pontus their King, who had ob∣tained a large and spatious kingdom in that country, they called it Pontus Euxinus, which is as much to say as, the hospitable coun∣try. Ovid testifieth almost the same, concerning the originall of the name of this sea, after this manner;

Frigida me cohibent Euxini littora Ponti, Dictus ab antiquis Axinus ille fuit.

The chilly shores of th' Euxine sea constraines me to abide, In antient time call'd Axinus, as it along did glide.