BOOK II. Lxxxix. 203-xcn. 205 



Before our time also among the Aeolian Islands 

 near Ita]y, as well as near Crete, there emerged 

 from the sea one island 2500 paces long, with hot 

 springs, and another in the 3rd year" of Olympiad 

 163 in the bay of Tuscany, this one burning with a 

 violent blast of air ; and it is recorded that a great 

 quantity of fish were floating round it, and that 

 people who ate of them immediately expired. So 

 also the Monkey Islands are said to have risen in the 

 bay of Campania, and later one among them, Mouut 

 Epopos, is said to have suddenly shot up a great 

 flame and then to have been levelled vdth the 

 surface of the plain. In the same plain also a town 

 was sucked down into the depths, and another 

 earthquake caused a swamp to emerge, and another 

 overturned mountains and threw up the island of 

 Procida. 



XC. For another way also in which nature has Deiachmmi 

 made islands is when she tore Sicily away from "jrlnXwin. 

 Italy, C^^rus from Syria, Euboea from Boeotia, ia'id, 

 Atalantes and Macrias from Euboea, Besbicus from 

 Bithynia, Leucosia from the Sirens' Cape. XCI. 

 Again she has taken islands away from the sea and 

 joined them to the land — Antissa to Lesbos, Zephyrius 

 to Hahcarnassus, Aethusa to Myndus, Dromiscos 

 and Pernes to Miletus, Narthecusa to Cape Parthen- 

 ius. Hybanda, once an lonian island, is now 25 miles 

 distant from the sea, Ephesus has Syrie as part of 

 the mainland, and its neighbour Magnesia the 

 Derasides and Sapphonia. Epidaurus and Oricum 

 have ceased to be islands. 



XCII. Cases of land entirely stolen away by the Encrmch- 

 sea are, first of all (if we accept Plato's story *), the "'"" ''•^**"- 

 vast area covered by the Atlantic, and next, in the 



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