The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus (1634)
Pliny, the Elder, Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, tr · London, A. Islip · leaf 113
twomountainesfet asfrontiers and ramplers to keepe allin: namely y Abilafor Africke, Calpe for Europe, the utmofl end ofHerciijes Labours, For which caufe, the inhabitants of thofe parts call them,The two pillars of thatGod and doe verily beleeve, that by certainedraines and ditches digged within… … Plinies Naturall Hiftork, ChAP. Is ^ ofEurcpe. Ndfirftj as touching Europejthcnourccofnhat people which is the cod-qiierourof all nations 5 and bcfides, of all lands by many degrees moflbeautifull: which may for right good caufc^ have made not the thirdportion ofthecarthjbut the one halfe (dividing…
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