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through the conveyance of soil by streams (as the 

 Echinades Islands when heaped up from the river 

 Achelous and the greater part of Egypt from the 

 Nile — the crossing from the island of Pharos to the 

 coast, if we believe Homer," having formerly taken 

 t\venty-four hours) or by the retirement of the sea 

 as once took place at Circei ; such a retirement is 

 also recorded to have occurred to a distance of 

 10,000 paces in the harbour of Ambracia, and to a 

 distance of 5,000 at the Athenian port of Piraeus ; 

 and at Ephesus, where once the sea used to wash up 

 to the temple of Diana. At all events if we believe 

 Herodotus,* there was sea above Memphis as far as 

 the mountains of Ethiopia and also towards the plains 

 of Arabia, and sea round Ilium, and over the whole 

 territory of Teuthras '^ and where the Maeander '^ 

 has spread prairie-land. 



LXXXVIII. New lands are also formcd in a.n- oiher 7ieu 

 other way, and suddenly emerge in a different sea, uwfs!"'^'"'^ 

 nature as it were balancing accounts with herself 

 and restoring in another place what an earthquake 

 has engulfed. 



LXXXIX. The famous islands of Delos and Emergence 

 Rhodes are recorded in history as having been born '* ""^■'' 

 from the sea long ago, and subsequently smaller 

 ones, Anaphe beyond Melos, Neae between Lemnos 

 and the Dardanelles, Halone between Lebedos and 

 Teos, Thera and Therasia among the Cyclades in the 

 4th year * of the 145th Olympiad ; also in the same 

 group Hiera, which is the same as Automate, 130 

 years later ; and 2 stades from Hiei-a, Thia 110 

 years later, in our age, on July 8 in the year^ of the 

 consulship of Marcus Junius Silanus and Lucius 

 Balbus, 



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