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inland seas also, the areas that we see submerged at 

 the present day , Acarnania covered by the Ambracian 

 Gulf, Achaeaby the Gulf of Corinth, Europe and Asia 

 by the Sea of Marmora and the Black Sea. Also the 

 sea has made the channels of Leucas," Antirrhium, 

 the Dardanelles and the two Bospori.^ 



XCIII. And to pass over bays and marshes, the CoUapseoj 

 earth is eaten up by herself. She has devoured the '^"'"'*""- 

 highest mountain in Caria, Cibotus, together with 

 the town of that name, Sipylus in Magnesia, and 

 previously the very celebrated city in the same 

 place that used to be called Tantahs, the territories 

 of Galene and Galame in Phoenicia with the cities 

 themselves, and the loftiest mountain range in 

 Ethiopia, Phegium — ^just as if the coasts also did not 

 treacherously encroach ! XCIV. The Black Sea 

 has stolen Pyrra and Antissa in the neighbourhood 

 of Lake Maeotis, the Gulf of Corinth Hehce and 

 Bura, traces of which are visible at the bottom of the 

 water. The sea suddenly snatched away more than 

 30,000 paces together with most of the human 

 beings from the Island of Ceos, and half the city of 

 Tyndaris in Sicily, and all the gap in the coast of 

 Italy, and similarly Eleusis in Boeotia. 



XCV. For let earthquakes not be mentioned, and Products of 

 every case where at least the tombs of cities survive, mlnerais, 

 and at the same time let us tell of the marvels of the aems, 



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earth rather than the crimes ot nature. And, 1 will 

 swear, not even the heavenly phenomena could 

 have been more difficult to recount : the wealth of 

 mines so varied, so opulent, so prolific, brought 

 to the surface in so many ages, although every day 

 all over the world so much devastation is wrought by 

 fires, collapse of buildings, shipwrecks, wars, frauds, 



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