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by Arsinoe he called Ptolemseus. Within a little of this 

 Place there is a small Town named Aennum, for which 

 some write Philotera. Beyond them are the Azarei : wild 

 Arabians from Marriages of the Trogloditse. The Islands 

 Sapyrene and Scytala: and within a little, Deserts, unto 

 Myros-hormos, where is the Fountain called Tadnos; the 

 Mountain Eos ; the Island Lambe, many Harbours ; and 

 Berenice, a Town bearing the Name of the Mother of Phila- 

 delphus ; to which there is a Way lying from Coptos, as we 

 have said : the Arabians called Autei, and Gnebadei. Tro- 

 gloditice, which the Ancients called Michoe, and others 

 Midoe : the Mountain Pentedactylos. Certain Islands called 

 Stenae-de'irae ; and others no fewer in number, named Halon- 

 nesi : Cardamine, and Topazos, which gave the Name to the 

 precious Stone. A Bay full of Islands, of which that which 

 is called Mareu is well supplied with Water : another, called 

 Eratonos, is altogether Dry. There were Governors there 

 under the King. Within-land inhabit the Candei, whom 

 they call Ophiophagi, because they are accustomed to feed 

 on Serpents; and in truth there is no other Region that 

 breeds them more than this. Juba, who seemeth to have 

 very diligently searched into these things, hath omitted in 

 this Tract (unless there be some fault in his Original), to 

 speak of a second Berenice, which is denominated Pan- 

 chrysos ; as also of a third called Epidires, renowned for its 

 Situation ; for it stands upon a Neck of Land running a long 

 way, where the Mouth of the Red Sea is not above Four 

 Miles and a Half from Arabia. There is the Island Cytis, 

 itself producing Topazes. Beyond this are Woods, where 

 Ptolemceus, surnamed Philadelphus, built a City for Hunt- 

 ing the Elephant, near the Lake Monoleus, and named it 

 Epitheras. This is the Region mentioned by me in the 

 Second Book; wherein for Forty-five Days before Mid- 

 Summer, and as many after, at the Sixth Hour of the Day, 

 no Shadows are to be seen : which being past, all the Day 

 after they fall into the South ; and on other Days they fall 

 to the North ; whereas, in Berenice, which we mentioned 

 first, on the very Day of the Solstice, at the Sixth Hour, the 



