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one ground did not differ from another, then we should have odoriferous reeds*rushes, grasse, frankincense, peper, and myrrh, not only in Syria and Arabia, butin all other Countries also. Likewise many properties are derived out of Watersand Fountains ; which otherwise could not be made, but that the waterifh humorin the earth, conveys his scent and such like properties, into the root of that whichthere groweth, and so nourisheth up that matter which springs out, and causethsuch fruit as savours of the place, according to his own kind. Zama is a City in A-frica, and Ismuc is a Town twenty miles from it: and whereas all Africk besides, isa great breeder of beads, especially of serpents, about that Town there breednone at all; nay, if any be brought thither, it dies: and the earth of that place al-so kHieth beasts, whithersoever it is carried. In the great Tarquine Lake of Italy,are seen Trees, some round, !ome triangle, as the wind moves them; but nonefour-square. In the Country beyond the River Po , that part which is called Mon-sterax, there isa kind of Corn called Siligo, which being thrice sown, makes goodbread-corn. Neer to Harpasum a Town of Asia, there is a huge Rock, which if youtouch with one finger, will move ; if with your whole body, it will not move.There are some places of the earth that are full of great fires, as Ætna in Sicily, theHill Chimæra in Phafelis • the fire whereof Ctefiat writes,will he kindled with wa-ter, and quencht with earth. And in the Country of Megalopolis, and the fieldsabout Arcia, a coal falling on the earth, sets it on fire. So in Lycia, the Hills Ephe-sli being touched with a Torch, flame out, insomuch that the stones and sands theredo burn in the waters; wherein if a man make a gutter with a staff, he shall fee Ri-vers of fire run therein. The like things are reported of waters. For seeing theypasse under the earth, through veins of allum , pitch, brimstone, and such like ;hence it is that they are sometimes hurtful, and sometimes wholsome for the body.There are also many kinds of water, and they have divers properties. The RiverHimera in Sicily, is divided into two parts: that which runs against Ætna, is verysweet, that which runneth through the salt vein,is very salt. In Cappadocia, betwixtthe Cities Mazaca r andTuava, there is a Lake, whereinto if you put reeds or timber,they become stones by little and little, and are not changed from stones again, nei-ther can anything in that water be ever changed. In Hietapolis, beyond the RiverMæander, there is a water that becomes gravel, so that they which make water-courses, raise up whole banks thereof. The Rivers Cephises and Melas in Bxotia,if cattel drink of them, as they do continually to make them conceive, though thedams be white, yet their young sliall be russet, or dun, or coal-black. So the sheepthat drink of the River Peneus in Thessaly, and Astax in Pontu*, arc thereby madeblack. Some kinds of waters also are deadly, which from the poisonous juice ofthe earth become poisonous; as the Well ofTerracina called Neptunius, which killsas many as drink of it; and therefore in old times it was st opt up. And the LakeCychros in Thracia, kills all that drink of it,and all that wash themselves with it. InNonacris, a Country ok Arcady , there flow very cold waters out of a stone, whichare called the water of Styx, which break to pieces all vessels of silver and brasse ;and nothing can hold them but a Mules hoof, wherein it was brought from Ant ifa-ter , into the Country where Alexander wasfand there bis Son Jella killed the Kingwith it. In the Country about Flascon,the way to Campania, in the field Corneiutn,there is a Lake with a Well in it, wherein seem to lie the bones of Snakes, Lysards,and other Serpents; but when you would take them out, there is no such thing. Sothere are some sharp and sow re veins of water, as Lyncesto, and Theano in Italy;which I sought out very diligently, and found it by the way to Rome, a mile fromTheano ; and it is exceeding good against the Stone. There is a Well in Paphlago-nia, whosoever drinks of it, is presently drunken. In Chios is a Well, that makesall that drink of it, sottish and senflesse. In Susa is a Well, whoso drinks of ir, lo*feth his teeth. The water of Nilus is so fertile, that it makes the clods of earth tobecome living creatures.In Æthiopia is a Well,which is so cold at noon,that you can-not drink it; and so hot at midnight, that you cannot touch it. There are many otherlike Wells, which Ovid speaks of: Ammons Well is cold all day, and warm bothmorning and evening; the waters of Athamas,set wood on fire, at the small of the

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