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Sea, and the line runs above Callatis, and through the Bos- 

 porus, the Borysthenes, Tomi, the back part of Thrace, the 

 Triballi, the remainder of Illyricum, the Adriatic Sea, Aquileia, 

 Altinum, Venetia, Vicetia, Patavium, Verona, Creniona, Ra- 

 venna, Ancona, Picenum, the Marsi, the Peligni, the Sabini, 

 Umbria, Ariminum, Bononia, Placentia, Mediolanum, all the 

 districts at the foot of the Apennines, and, beyond the Alps, 

 Gallia Aquitanica, Vienna, the Pyrenaean range, and Celti- 

 beria. A gnomon thirty-five feet in length here throws a 

 shadow of thirty-six feet, except in some parts of Venetia, 

 where the shadow just equals the length of the gnomon ; the 

 longest day is fifteen equinoctial hours, plus three-fifths of an 

 hour. 



Thus far we have set forth the results of observations made 

 by the ancients. The remaining part of the earth has been 

 divided, through the careful researches of those of more recent 

 times, by three additional parallels. The first runs from the 

 Tanais through the Mieotis and the country of the Sarmatae, 

 as far as the Borysthenes, and so through the Daci and part of 

 Germany, and the Gallic provinces, as far as the shores of the - 

 ocean, the longest day being sixteen hours. 



The second parallel runs through the country of the Hyper- 

 borei and the island of Britannia, the longest day being 

 seventeen hours in length. 



The last of all is the Scythian parallel, which runs from the 

 Riphaean range to Thule, in which, as we have already stated, 83 

 the year is divided into days and nights alternately, of six 

 months' duration. The same authors have also placed before 

 the first parallel, which we have here given, 83 two other parallels 

 or circles ; the first running through the island of Meroe and 

 the city of Ptolemais which was built on the Red Sea for 

 the chase of the elephant ; where the longest day is twelve 

 hours and a half in length ; and the second passing through 

 Syene in Egypt, in which the longest day is thirteen hours in 

 length. The same authors have also added half an hour to 

 each of the parallels, till they come to the last. 



Thus far on the Geography of the earth. 



STJMMAKY. Towns mentioned, eleven hundred and ninety- 

 four. Nations, five hundred and seventy- six. Noted rivers, 



82 B. iv. c. 26. M In p. 111. 



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