Chap. 92.] CHANGES ON THE EAETH's SUEEACE. 119 



consequence of another shock, a lake burst out, and that, by 

 a third, Prochytas was formed into an island, the neigh- 

 bouring moimtains being rolled away from it. 



CHAP 90. — LANDS WHICH HATE BEEN SEPARATED BY 

 THE SEA. 



In the ordinary coiu-se of things islands are also formed 

 by this means, the sea has torn Sicily from Italy \ Cyprus 

 from S^Tia, Euboea from Boeotia"-, Atalante and Macris^ 

 from Euboea, Besbycus from Bith^-nia, and Leucosia from 

 the promontory of the Sii^ens. 



CHAP. 91. (89.)— ISLANDS WHICH HATE BEEN UNITED TO 

 THE MAIN LAND. 



Again, islands are taken from the sea and added to the 

 main land ; Antissa'' to Lesbos, Zephyrium to Halicarnassus, 

 ^thusa to Myndus, Dromiscus and Perne to Miletus, Nar- 

 thecusa to the promontory of Partlienium. Hybanda, 

 which was formerly an island of Ionia, is now 200 stadia 

 distant from the sea. Syries is now become a part of 

 Ephesus, and, m the same neighbourhood, Derasidas and So- 

 phonia form part of ISIagnesia ; while Epidaurus and Oricum 

 are no longer islands^. 



CHAP. 92. (90.)— LANDS W^HICH HAVE BEEN TOTALLY 

 CHANGED INTO SEAS. 



The sea has totally carried off certain lands, and first of 



1 See Ovid, Metam. xv. 290, 291 ; also Seneca, Nat. Qurest. •^i-.Sa 



2 This event is mentioned by Tliucychdes, lib. 3, Smith's Trans, i. 293 ; 

 and by Diodorus, xii. 7, Bootii's Trans, p. 287, as tlie consequence ot an 

 earthquake ; but the separation was from Locris, not from Euboea. See 

 the remarks of Hardouin in Lcmaire, i. 415. 



3 It is somewhat uncertain to what island om- author apphed this 

 name ; see the'remarks of AL^xandre in Lcmahe. 



< See Ovid, Metam. xv. 287. 



s It is not improbable, from the situation and geological structure of 

 the places here enumerated, that many of the changes mentioned above 

 may have actually occurred- but there are few of them of which we have 

 any direct evidence. 



