Now this is also usual, to translate a remarkable quality into a propriety, and where we admire an effect in one, to opinion there is not the like in any other. With these conceits do common apprehensions entertain the antidotal and wondrous condition of _Ireland_; conceiving only in that land an immunity from venemous creatures: but unto him that shall further enquire, the same will be affirmed of _Creta_, memorable in ancient stories, even unto fabulous causes, and benediction from the birth of _Jupiter_. The same is also found in _Ebusus_ or _Evisa_, an Island near _Majorca_ upon the coast of _Spain_. With these apprehensions do the eyes of neighbour Spectators behold _Ætna_, the flaming mountain in _Sicilia_; but Navigators tell us there is a burning mountain in Island, a more remarkable one in _Teneriffa_ of the _Canaries_, and many Vulcano's or fiery Hils elsewhere. Thus Crocodiles were thought to be peculiar unto _Nile_, and the opinion so possessed _Alexander_, that when he had discovered some in _Ganges_, he fell upon a conceit he had found the head of _Nilus_; but later discoveries affirm they are not only in _Asia_ and _Africa_, but very frequent in some rivers of _America_. Another opinion confineth its Inundation, and positively affirmeth, it constantly encreaseth the seventeenth day of June; wherein perhaps a larger form of speech were safer, then that which punctually prefixeth a constant day thereto. For this expression is different from that of the Ancients, as _Herodotus_, _Diodorus_, _Seneca_, etc. delivering only that it happeneth about the entrance of the Sun into Cancer; wherein they warily deliver themselves, and reserve a reasonable latitude. So when _Hippocrates_ saith, _Sub Cane et ante Canem difficiles sunt purgationes_: There is a latitude of days comprised therein; for under the Dog-star he containeth not only the day of its ascent, but many following, and some ten days preceeding. So _Aristotle_ delivers the affections of animals: with the wary terms of _Circa, et magna ex parte_: and when _Theodorus_ translateth that part of his, _Coeunt Thunni et Scombri mense Februario post Idus, pariunt Junio ante Nonas_: _Scaliger_ for _ante Nonas_, renders it _Junii initio_; because that exposition affordeth the latitude of divers days: For affirming it happeneth before the Nones, he alloweth but one day; that is the Calends; for in the _Roman_ account, the second day is the fourth of the Nones of June.