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A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…
A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Usher.A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Ussher.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1643
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thus Galen, having occasion to prescribe the use of Mysian Wine, declareth that he meant thereby, dnot that which was from the Mysia about the river Ister, but from that which is named the Hellespontian; which (saith he) is about our Asia, and conterminous unto Pergamus. For that the greater Mysia reached Southward unto the Pergamen Territory, and the ⟨p. 5⟩plain of Caïcus, is by cHerodotus and fStrabo in like sort testified: as it reached from thence Northward unto the Mountain Olympus; which from the Mysians was called gMoesius or Mysius, and the hMysians from it again received the surname of Olympeni. that which iPtolemy calleth the lesser Mysia (the chief City whereof was Cyzicus) reaching from that mountain westward unto the river Aesepus, and there joining with the Northern part of Epictetus or the lesser Phrygia.
Thus Galen, having occasion to prescribe the use of Mysian Wine, declareth that he meant thereby, dnot that which was from the Mysia about the river Ister, but from that which is named the Hellespontian; which (saith he) is about our Asia, and conterminous unto Pergamus. For that the greater Mysia reached Southward unto the Pergamen Territory, and the ⟨p. 5⟩plaine of Caïcus, is by cHerodotus and fStrabo in like sort testifyed: as it reached from thence Northward unto the Mountaine Olympus; which from the Mysians was called