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 Cyprus.

BEcause you may reade of Seleucia before, I therfore willing∣ly omit it, that I might speake more fully of Cyprus. This is a faire and spacious Isle, scituated in the Mediterranean sea in the gulph of Issa, bordering vpon Cilicia and Syria, distant 160 miles from Ierusalem towards the North, as Strabo saith, lib. 14. It is in compasse 428 miles, very fertile, powerfull and spacious for an Island. There inhabited in it in times past nine Kings, and (as Pliny saith, lib. 5. cap. 31.) called Macaria, or one of the happy I∣slands: the inhabitants were giuen much vnto luxurie and vene∣rie; from whence it hapned that Venus was greatly honoured a∣mongst them. It is said that there are many pretious stones found in it, besides Crystal, Allum, and Cypresse wood which abounds in that place, from which it seemeth the Island was called Cy∣prus. There are also found many Symples that are Physical, much Sack comes thenee and many other things necessarie for the life of man. Here also standeth the Mountaine Olympus, whose top seemeth to touch the heauens, from whence it taketh the name because there neuer lies any clouds vpon it. Lucan, lib. 2. There are foure mountaines of this name; the one lyeth between Macedon and Thessalie; the other in Cyprus, the third amongst the Mysi∣ans, at the foot whereof Haniball built Prusa; and the fourth in Aethiopia, vpon the East side of Heliopolis.

There are many cities in this countrey, as Macaria, Cyprus or Cyrhera, after called Paphos, and now Baffa (in which there stan∣deth such a famous Temple, that Venus of that is called Cypria and Cytherea) Nicosia, and Salamus now called Famagusta.

There haue beene many and cruell sharpe warres betweene the Venetians and Turkes concerning this countrie, but at this day it is vnder the jurisdiction of the Turks; from whence they fetch great abundance of Pitch and Rosin for their ships and cables.