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Show Cuar.7.§.10.4.8. | Thefirst Booke of the firpart Cuar.7.§.10.4-7 102 the Riuers of Tanais or DonVolga or Edel ; prouiding by Riuers are now by the Trade of.Mufcouia knowne to cuery Merchant; andthat they arife out ofLakes, low;wooddie;and marifh grounds. The Riuet of Ta. nots or Don,arifeth to the South of the Citie Talla,fometwentie Englifo miles, out of 2 Lake called /wanowe/fére,inthe great Wood Okenjtzkilies or Lepiphanolies, Volga,which For stvthia Sacavor Sace, is: vndoubtedly vnder the Mountaines of Par opanifuss on which, or nearewhich it is moft probable thatthe Arke firtt tooke ground : and from thofe Eaft parts*(according eat came all thofe companies which ere&cd the Zi it Shinaar Or Babylonia. opinace authority: sehich Annins hath, is Out of Diodorus :where hee hath, read , that the' Scythiaws wereoriginally Armenians , taking name 4 Se the Kege corum, Ptolomie calls Rha, and the Tartars call Edel, rifeth our ofa grcat Wood Vodkonzki :from which Lake the two other. Lake called Fronow,in the famous Riuers flow of Bo- 5 10 7)ithenes (now Neyper and D/wina ginneth in that place with thefe words: Fabulantur Scythe; The Scythiansfable: and his Interpreterin the table ofthat worke giueth this title to that very Chapter. Seytherim orig ch[ucce(fs;fabula, The originaland[ucce/fé of the Seythians,a fabla AndGnd eede) there needs no great difproofe hereof, fince Pso/omy doth direétly delineate Scythia Se L601. beleeueth. Butthis fuppofed seythea Araxeain Armenia lyeth in 78. degrees of longitude (thatis) 42.degrees diftant from the Sace and the Country about Araxes Prolemy calleth Coltheneand Sodwcene and Sacapene'without any mentionofScythia atall: and yet all thofe which are or were reputed Scpthians either with Jmatus or without, TabrAfie.pe 8¢O the numberof 100.f{euerall Nations,are by Ptolomy precifely fet downe. Butto cometo thofe later Authors, whereof fome haue written, others hauefeene agreat part of thofe North-caft Regions,and fearched their antiquities with great diligence : Firft, A¢ariws Niger boundeth Scythia within Jmaus, in this manner ; (for Septhis without thefe Mountaines is alfo beyond our purpofe) Scythiaivter Imanms montem ts 30 f,queproprio vocabulo Gaffaria hoe tempore dicitur :ab Occafn Sarmatia Afiatica: ab Or'ente Imao monte: a Septen trione terra tncognita: 4 Merid Sacets, Sogdiants, Margiantsygue oflia Oxceamnis in Hyrcanum mare exeynts, ch parteiatpfius maris hine ug, ad Rha fise minis offia terminatur : Scythia within the Mountaine Imaus %s thatpart ofthe world, which in their owne[peech is at this tinse called Gaffar by Sarmatia Afiatica( or ofAfia:)on the Eaft ia; and the Same is bounded on the wei fide by the knowne Lands : on the South by the Sacce(which areitmaan Mountaines :on the North by wn the Sace ) the Sogdiani,and the MarRhanowolgagiani,to the mouth of Oxus, falling into the Hyrtan Sea, and by a part of thefame Sead Sarre 48 the mouth ofRha, Com.r.Afie, Now if NV.ger {ets all Sarmati« Afiatica, to the Wek of Scy folaze thie, then Sarmatia( gay maneSane Regio ef], queinnwmer as nationes complechitur ) Which isa great Region, 6omAd meridiem flexoBolphore . pars feptentrio- © More 9 = ve saris but the Weft bound ( 30 Yeers before his owne time : thefebe his words: Com/flat cams e/feLen tem nonam,cy aduentitiam apartibus Orientis mutatisfedibus)paul0 plus abbinc trecentis annis Afie Sarmatian sngre(fam:lt is manifest{aith he,fpeaking ofthe Scythian Nation Nationcomefrom the coafts ofthe Eaftfrom whence they entred )thatthis is a lateplanted into AfiaandLat newfeates a little more than 30 0.yeeresfince:Fox (indeed) beforethat time bited Sarmatia, Affatica. And this Mathias lined in the yeere the Gethes or Powloct inha- 15 1 1.and this his Difcourfe of Sarmatia was printed at Augai#a in the yeere 1506. as Buchol zerws in his Chronolegie for inthe Eaft it was that the Arke ofNoshiefted,andthe scythe Sace were thofe people whichl foot ofthofe Mountaines,of Taarss or Ararat, wherethey encoun iued at the North teror begin to mixe 30 themfelues with the preat Imaws.And were there no othertef timony than the generalf defcriptionof the Earth now extant, and the witneffeofPt olemie, it is plaine, that betweene all parts of Armenia,and Schythia,there are not only thofethree Regions ofCo/chts,Iberia,and Albania, but the Ca(pian Sea: on the Eaft thore ofwhich Sea; but not on the Weft, or on that pattwhich any way toucheth Armeni there are (indeed ja NationofSeythians(called AriaceSyetweene Iaxartus and facius;a,but whatarethefe Sey witnefleth. Nowthefe Scythians (faith hejcame fromthe Eaft, thians to any Ariace.ox Scythia Araxea,which Axwins placeth Scythians ofEurope 2 in Armenia, more thanthic ohT: 40 Thefift Argument ,The Vine mupt grew naturally weerethe place where the Arkerefled, O this ifwe adde the confidetation ofthis part of the Text, That Nou planted Gen.g.283 and Frente, and broug t from of Scythia, fitters an Oatree-nee notaword of Arm enia amo S,neithe3 r doth his fellow Frier dextra Colcbis, wai sohy Plancarpio( ng the Tertariaw ot 5é)> : cited by Viscentias in Lberis,atbanifyy Aelcri pace ofish )makeany mention ofArmenia; neyther doth Hayto in littas Byr~ menian nus,an At Dorne ofthe bloud oftho fe Kings (thongh afterwarda Monke )euer Cant mara pro~ ] d > : acknowff {i Ife fi ¢ : wesit Spocdip, 1CAR¢ | himfelfe s fora Tartarian,or ofthe sc thian 4,30. Races {toric at large,gathered : by Nicholaus Sebaedend (by ting ite that be writ Che ment the fifth)in the yeere x 397-publifhed. perce doth Mathias 4 peo Michon(a Canon and that trauaileda great part : Scythia withinthe Mountaine manus. Andthe fame Ma Plin, Mathias Michon farther affirmeth,that the Scythians (which Frier Anniuswould make Viftillus, Armenians)came not into Saramatia Afiatica it felfabouethree hundred anda few odde 4Vimeyard,we {hall find that thefruit ofthe Vine or Rayfin did not grow naturallyin that part of Armenia,wherethis Bering nibs Arke was {uppofed: forif the Vine wasa ftrangerin Jtalée nals ponte Ew- of Colch thevo, nceim xim ofCraconiain Polosig) & Sarmatian bot ne of Sarmatia LAfvatica, finde on paffe of Tartaria,Scythia.or Armenia any way within the ¢noman(whofe Trauailes are extant) th done: Prouing anddifprouing ™ ong others he burieththat ancient 44 recele , or Diwidna. And this learned Polowian doth in this %&-Herberpeins Lithuanians,Mufconians,and thofe adioyning, bounded onthe, Weft by the Riuer ofFif/z, the Nameperchance mif-printed iff for Viffala,.a River wh ich. patts Germ anieand c3 zeue caller Sarmatia : and for the Eaftborder henamcth Taveés,or Don. Sarmatia Affatica he cuttett } this River vi, P from Exrope by the fame Riuer ofTavais,and the Cafpian Sea,to.with-hold us NigerDig= it f;rom ftiet- fla Kimagea, chingfarther Eaft : this -4/ian Sarmatia being pait of that Scythia which Pzalowate cal- Pom.selayin leth Scythia intra Imaum montem fortbound the European Sarmatia. In Sarmatia ofEnrope are the Regions ofRuf sinus, from Scythe their King. But (ina word) wee mayfee his vanity, or rather (indeede) his falfhoodin citing this place. For Déoder#s,amoft approoued and diligent Author,be- gor Sace, and jetsthem in 130. degrees of longitude : and the Perfians (faith Heredee tus) call allthe Scythians , Sace which Pliay confirmeth: forin re{pect that thefe Sace (faith Pliny) are thenext Scythians tothe Perfians , therefore they. giue' all the reft that) name. Nowthat any Nation in W4rmenia can neighbour the Perfiams, thereis no man 103 vnan{werable experience, that there are nofuch Mountaines i# rerum natura ; and (indeed) the Heads and Fountaines ofthofe famous asin Scythia Saga renatum mortale genus, In Septhia on = " ‘3 oft o hee Free fore in the Proemeof his Commentary vpon Bere/us, ge 1 out the ade - "r age Prol.Afietah?. steooether inthe repetition of Cato his words, and writes , hommes im Scythia faluatus Gene.11.2. eat eieestometinee receiued opinion, That out ofthe Mountaines Riphai, and Hyperborei in Scythia, {prin (to wit, That in.Scythia mankinde was reftored a the gteat an ' 7 5 ro sa Nisus)and in part veterly deftroyeth his conceit of Arme » byadding a i; Berofil,t. of the Eiiftory of the World, $$ other Countries thither; iC 1s not prob able that it grew naturally in Armenia, being a farre colder Country. For Tyrrhe aus fir brought Vines into Frasceand Saturmus into Letiim : yeaatfuch times as Brennus and the Ganles inuaded Italie, there were few or no Vinesin France.For({aith Plutarch inthelife ofCamilus \the Gaules remai ned betweene the Pyrenai and the Alpes, S:ruins Aengids neere vnto the Semoues, where they. continued a long time, Which wasfirft brought them out of/talie; and after they vatill they drunke Wine, Extropivs. tafted thereof they hafted to inhabite chat Countrey,which brought forth fuch pleafan tfruit:{o as it appeareth;that the Plant of the Vinewas not naturall in France ,but from Jtalie broughtthither ; as by Satur ne from cl{e where into Italy. Nowitis man ifeft,that Noah trauailed notfarre to {eeke out the Vine.For the Planta. "on therofis remembred,before there was anycounfaile how to difpof e ofthe World amonghis children:andthe firft thing he did,was,to till the ground,& to plant a Vineyatd, after the Sacrifice and Thankefgining to God; and wherefoeucr the Arke ag ' there |