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Wells and Riuers.

ACadins, a Well wherein tables containing the oathes of such as sweare truly, will swim, or else sinke.

Ascoinus, a Riuer where∣in there grow great canes, which are so big, that men cut them off at euery knot, and make Boates of.

Acharon, one of the Ri∣uers of hell.

Acidalus, a Well whose water cures all sore eyes.

Aganippe, a Well conse∣crated to the Muses.

Alpheus, the Riuer wher∣with Hercules clensed An∣gaeans Oxen stalls.

Alysses, a Well which cures the bitings of mad dogges.

Athamas, a Riuer in Thes∣saly, the water wherof will set wood on fire.

Anygrus, the Well wher∣with the Centaurs cured

themselues being wounded by Hercules.

Aornus, a Riuer wherein liueth a fish whose voyce resembleth a Thrush.

Azanium, a Well, the water wherof being drank, causeth all wine to bee loathsome.

Ciarcan, a Well, the wa∣ter thereof being dranke, makes one eloquent, but he liues not long after.

Cocytus, a Riuer in hell.

Erythris, a Well, whose water causeth haire to grow apace.

Halcean, the name of a strange dauncing Well.

Helycon, a Well conse∣crate to the Muses.

Hyantian Fort, another Well of the like consecra∣tion.

Isaean Riuer.

The worthy Riuer of Ex by Exceter, wherein there is great store of ma∣ny kinde of fish, especially of Salmō, which is euer in kind all times of the yeare, and not to be betterd in any part of the world.

Silla, a Riuer wherin all things sink to the bottom.

Charibdis, a gulfe in the Sea, wherein is dangetous sayling, by reason of con∣trary windes.

Stix, a Riuer of hell, the water whereof is as strong as the strongest poyson.

Zanthus, a Riuer neere Troy, whereof if the hor∣ses of Rhesus had drunke, Troy had beene impreg∣nable.

Almo, a Riuer in Rome, where Cybills Priests did wash themselues after their sacrifices.

Auernus, a Lake dedica∣ted to the God of hell, where is an entrance into hell.

Phlegiton, another Riuer in hell.

Danubis, the greatest Ri∣uer in all Europe, rising out of the Hill Arnobae in Germanie, and pas∣sing through many Coun∣tries: it still keepeth his name, vntill it enter in∣to Illericum, where it re∣ceiueth sixtie Riuers into it, there it leeseth its first name, and is called Ister.

Pheneus, a Well, where∣of if one drinke of in the night time the water ther∣of is very hurtfull, but very wholsome in the day time.

Tearus, a Riuer in Thrace where Darius with his Ar∣my lay three dayes, only delighted with the plea∣santnesse of the water.