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IVe call attention to only a few of its noticeable features. First 

 of all, the accuracy of most of its latitudes is to be noted, some of them 

 being more accurate than those given by Gosselin, less than a hundred 



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years ago. Not only is the Mediterranean unduly elongated, but the 

 placing of the Sicilian Straits and Carthage on the same meridian, and 

 Alexandria and Rhodes on the same, necessitates much too great a 



