The top of which mountaineswere perpendicularly equall eyther of them touching the azur’d skey.
Whosoeuer entereth in cannot come backe, but as you see yonder mountaines heere and there distributed, seuen circuits and the about goings distant one from another.
The largest mountaines barren lye And lightning feare, Though they appeare To bid defiance to the skie; Which in one houre W' have seene the opening earth devoure When in their height they proudest were.
The neighb'ring mountaines which you shall Wooe to oppresse you with their weight: Disdainefull will deny to fall, By a sad death to ease your fate.
The Tartars are men very white, good horsemen and archers, confining with China on that side where Pachin standeth, separated from thence by great mountaines that are bewixt these kingdomes.
Being asked the way, she answered that the first three daies the way lieth ouer certaine great mountaines and wildernesse, afterward people are met withall againe.
And because that vnto sundry places neere this riuer the mountaines doe approch, whence the people issuing downe do many times great harme, this order is taken at the entry into Quiacim shire.
On that side we kept at our first entry thereinto, trauayling not farre from the high mountaines we saw there.
In the residue of these mountaines standeth the prouince of Sian, the Laoyns countrey, Camboia, Campaa, and Cochinchina.
With his aire-cutting wings he measured wide, Ne did he leave the mountaines bare unseene, 155 Nor the ranke grassie fennes delights untride.
Wherefore if me thou deigne to serue and sew, 2 At thy commaund lo all these mountaines bee; Or if to thy great mind, or greedy vew 4 All these may not suffise, there shall to thee Ten times so much be numbred francke and free.
The place it selfe is hot, although the mountaines round about be cold.
They shewed them rich metals, and the mountaines also not farre off whereout they digged them.
This lake and Citie is enuironed also with great mountaines round about, which are in compasse aboue thirtie leagues, and the said Citie, and lake of standing water, doeth stand in a great plaine in the middest of it.
Besides this, I am to passe many leagues ouer mightie high mountaines which reach vp to the skyes, and ouer a Riuer, which at this present is so bigge and swollen, that it can in no place be waded ouer.
According as wee may see inMountaines that burn for so many continued ages, and hot Bathes.
From whence it will follow, that those mountaines must necessarily be at the least foure Italian miles in height.
I affirme that there are very high Mountaines in the Moone.
Orchards amongst the seven wonders, whereas here the Philosophers have made the Field and Seas, the Cities and Mountaines hanging.
Others would have them to be the figure of the mountaines here below represented there as in a looking-glasse.
You must know that there is not meerely one ranke of mountaines about the edge of the moone, but divers orders, one mountaine behind another, and so there is somewhat to hinder those void spaces which otherwise, perhaps, might appeare.
You must consider the height of the Mountaines is but very little, if you compare them to the length of their shadowes.
Ioseph by the influence of the Moone, he does presently exegetically iterate thẽ in blessing him with the chiefe things of the ancient Mountaines and lasting hils; you may also see the same expression used in Iacobs blessing of Ioseph.
And beyond the mountaines he couenanted to giue vnto them Turine with the appurtenances, the colledge of Gauoreth with the appurtenances, and all the fées which the earles of Canaues held of him, togither with the fealties and seruices.
The raging waues and foming surges of the sea came rowling like mountaines one after another, and ouerraked the waste of the shippe like a mightie riuer running ouer it, whereas in faire weather it was neere 20.
That part of the Countrey is al full of greatmountaines and hills, from whence came running downe the pleasant streames of sweete fresh running water.
There are many mountaineswhich shewe to haue mettals, although they went not vp to see it, for that the Indians be many, and very warlike people.
They shewed vnto them rich metalles, and the mountaines that were hard by whereas they did take it out.
These haue their name of the Castle Serponow, situate in the mountaines of Lucomoria, beyond the riuer Obi.
It is a very faire coast, and euen and plaine, and not full of mountaines nor rocks: you haue but shallow water of 6.
The riuer Cossin falleth out of the mountaines of Lucomoria: In the mouth of this is a castle, whither from the springs of the great riuer Cossin, is two moneths viage.
The mountaines about the riuer of Petzora are called Semnoy Poyas, or Cingulus mundi, that is, the girdle of the world, or of the earth.
I haue passed ouer the mountainesof Libanus to Damasco, and trauelled through Samaria, Galile, Philistine or Palestine, vnto Ierusalem, and so through all the Holy land.
But the mountaines on that part where they encamped themselues, were of adamant, and therefore they drew vnto them their arrowes, and weapons of iron.
Beyond the said mountaines towards the North there is a most beautifull wood growing on a plaine ful of fountaines and freshets.
And the nature of the place is such, that it is subiect diuersely to diuers windes, according to the sundry situation of the great Alps and mountaines there, euery mountaine causing a seuerall blast, and parrie, after the maner of a Leuant.
This done, we retyred our companies not seeing any thing here worth further discouerie, the countrey seeming barren and full of ragged mountaines and in most parts couered with snow.
All along the coast lie very high mountains covered with snow, except in such places, where through the steepenes of the mountaines of force it must needs fall.
How a Pilot may deale, being inuironed with mountaines of yce in the frozen sea.
Lakes or pooles of fresh water, both on the tops of mountaines and in the valies.
For besides these alreadie recounted and infinite moe, the mountaines generally make shew of minerall substance: Iron very common, lead, and somewhere copper.
And hauing by this meanes at length put their enemies to flight, they occupyed the cleare place for a prettie season among sundry mountaines and Alpes of yce.
For to saile into this hauen you must bring the two highestmountaines one ouer the other, leauing sixe small Islands on your right hand, and so you may enter in vpon 30.
On these mountaines which we passed grow great quantity of gall trees, which are somewhat like our okes, but lesser and more crooked: on the best tree a man shall not finde aboue a pound of galles.
Stratcluid, he came to the mountaines of Snowdon, where he pitched his field.
It is needlesse to speake of the height of the mountaines that I passed ouer, and of the danger thereof, it is so wel knowen already to the world: the heigth of them is marueilous, and I was the space of sixe dayes in passing them.
And they say that as yet there is heard vpon the mountaines a litle drumme, which while the Carouan passeth, neuer ceaseth sounding.
This citie is inuironed about with exceeding high and barren mountaines, and in the plaine betweene the sayde mountaines and the citie are many pleasant gardens, where groweth great abundaunce of figges, grapes, apples, and melons.
They lade also great store of Carrobi: for all the countrey thereabout adioning, and all the mountaines are full of Carrobi trees, they lade also cotton wooll there.
Wherefore in this ship wee departed from thence in the night, without making any prouision of our water: and wee were in that shippe foure hundreth and odde men: [Sidenote: The mountaines of Zerzeline.
And in this countrey there was a certeine man called Senex de monte, who round about two mountaines had built a wall to inclose the sayd mountaines.
We stayed at Bethlem that night, and the next day we went from thence to the mountaines of Iudea, which are about eight miles from Ierusalem, where are the ruines of an olde monasterie.
And as whole hilles and mountaines may burne, euen so may a litle fire be kindled in the earth, and yet wander very large.
Help vs to sing that be her faithful swains Row: O she alone the shepheards Queen, Cho: Her Flocke that leades, The goddesse of these medes, These mountaines and these plaines.
Though in the vtmost Peake, A while we doe remaine, Amongst the Mountaines bleake Expos'd to Sleet and Raine, No Sport our Houres shall breake, To exercise our Vaine.
I first vpon the Mountaines hie, Built Altars to thy name; And grau'd it on the Rocks thereby, To propogate thy fame.
The Bright Colatina, that of hils mountaines Is Goddesse, and hath keeping first Her Nimphes, the cleere Oreades wils saluting the T'attend thee from thy sleeping.
So trauailing in barren and craggie mountaines for the space of foure dayes, wee came by a small Towne of the Turkes called Chiernisa, being the 14.
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