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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07401	The vvorke of Pomponius Mela. the cosmographer, concerninge the situation of the world wherein euery parte, is deuided by it selfe in most perfect manner, as appeareth in the table at the ende of the booke. A booke right plesant and profitable for all sortes of men: but speciallie for gentlemen, marchants, mariners, and trauellers, translated out of Latine by Arthur Golding Gentleman.; De chorographia. English	Mela, Pomponius.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1585 (1585)	STC 17785; ESTC S112496	64,473	102

❧ The worke of Pomponius Mela. The Cosmographer concerninge the Situation of the world wherin euery parte is deuided by it selfe in most perfect manner as appeareth in the Table at the ende of the booke A booke right plesant and profitable for all sortes of men but speciallie for Gentlemen Marchants Mariners and Trauellers translated out of Latine By Arthur Golding Gentleman AT LONDON Printed for Thomas Hacket and are to be sold at his shop in Lumbert streete vn-the signe of the Popes head 1585. ❧ To the right Honourable Syr William Cicill of the Noble order of the Garter Knight Barron of Burgley Lord high Treasurer of England and one of her Maiestyes most honourable pri●●e Counsell health honour and prosperitie INtending long since my very good Lord for the benefit and delight of my Countrimen to haue set foorth a description of the whole world in our owne Language according to the consent of the auncient and late VVriters I thought this mine Author Pomponius Mela for hys breefenesse order and perspicuitie to bee a very fitte ground to begin with for those three partes which were knowen in former ages purposing therewithall to haue added some breefe collection of the late wryters concerning the description of the other partes which beeing eyther vtterly vnknowen or very lyghtly and darckly glaunced at by the men of auncient tyme haue since beene better discouered and brought to light by the continuall Nauigationes of the trauellers of these our latter yeeres And as my meaning and hope was then to haue made this first enterpryse of myn●e as a frame of a buyldinge to haue beene set vp and finy shed by mee more exactly afterward at further leysure accordinge to the small ability of my poore skyll or as a roughe hewen Image to haue beene perfected and polyshed by the industry of some other person of greater readyng better skyll and longer experience and finally to haue beene beautifyed and furnished wyth more particular and large discourses bothe of the places and of the notablest thinges whych eyther the places themselues doo naturally yeelde or haue beene doon or made in them by the famousest personages whome the wrytinges of our auncestors haue made renowmed vnto vs So least this worke of myne which hath slept now many yeeres might passe away as it were in a Lethargy wherby I of the performaunce and my Conntry of the enioying of any fruite of my duety in this behalfe myght be vtterly bereft and so consequently my sayd purpose and the trauell taken to the setting forward thereof should bee of none effect at all I haue caused the Printer to put to hys helping hand to the preuenting of that perrill whych thinge wyl easely be doon if it may please your good Lordshippe according to your accustomed good wyll towardes such as any way indeuour eyther to further others or to profit themselues in the knowledge of lyberall Artes to permitte thys my trauell to shroude it selfe vnder the shadowe of your protectyon that beeing by your ●●uour after a sort quickned and cheered vp againe it may if not growe in tyme to full rypenesse yet at leastwyse yeeld the pleasure of the infancy the delight wherof may chaunce to bee such as shall prouoke some person ●yther to traine it vp to full grouth or to vndertake the dooing of some better worke of the same kynde And for the more inlarging hereof with substaūce and variety of matter both delectable and profitable as farre as tyme would permytte I haue delyuered vnto the Printer hereof the Polyhistor of Iulius Solinus and certayne trauelles of one Andrew Theuet lykewyse translated long a goe to bee added as appendauntes to thys worke of Pomponius Mela that as they treate though diue●sly yet cheefely of one ground so they may ioyne in one volume to remayne together to the behofe of posterity vnder the security of your Lordshyps fauour vnto the whych I most humbly commend my selfe and these my simple dooinges wrytten thys sixt of February 1584. Your good Lordships most humble alwayes to commaund Arthur Goldinge ❧ The fyrst Booke of that worthy Cosmographer Pomponius Mela of the scituation of the world His Preface I Go about to intreat of the scituation of the World a combersome worke which in no wise admitteth eloquēce For in a manner it consisteth wholie of the names of Nations and places and of the order of them which is somewhat troublesome a matter more tedious than handsome to bring to passe howbeit right woorthy to be séene and knowne as that not for the wittie handling thereof by the writer but in respect of it selfe may sufficientlie recompence the labour of such as take heede to it An other time I will speake of mo things and more exactlie As for now I will meddle but with the notablest thinges and that bréeflie And first I will shewe the platte of the world which be the greatest partes therof how eche one of them lie to other and howe they are inhabited Then will I peruse the outermost of them all againe and set out the Sea coasts according as they be both within and without and according as the Sea shooteth into them or beateth about them with an addition of such thinges as are woorthie remembraunce in the natures of the Countries and the inhabiters of them And to the intent this thing may the easilier be conceiued and borne away the summe of the whole shall be repeated somewhat déepelie ❧ The deuision of the world into fowre partes The first Chapter ALI this therefore whatsoeuer it be which we terme by the name of Heauen and Earth is one and in one compasse comprehendeth it selfe and all other things differeth but in parts From whence the sunne riseth is called the East where it setteth is called the West his race betwéen them is called the South and the quarter ouer against that is called the North. In the middes héer of the Earth rising in height is enuironed round about with the Sea and being cut from the East to the West into two sides which are named halfe Spheres it is distinguished with fiue Zones Wherof the middlemost is combred with heate the two vttermost with cold the other two being habitable haue like seasons of the yéere but not both at one time The Antycthones inhabite the one halfe Sphere we the other For as much as the plat of the other is vnknowne by reason of the heate of the Zone which is betwéene them and vs we must entreate of the scituation of ours This therefore stretching from the East to the West and because it lyeth so being somewhat more in lenght than in breadth where it is broadest is enclosed wholie with the Occean from whence it receiueth foure seas one at the North two at the South the ●ourth at the West The other thrée shalbe mencioned in their places This being narrowe and not aboue ten myles ouer openeth the maine Landes and entreth into them where spreading farre