BOOK II. cxii. 243-245 



Syrian city of Myriandrus situated on the Gulf of 

 Scanderoou 5,215, from there by the shortest sea-route 

 to the Island of Cyprus, from Patara in Lycia to 

 Rhodes, to the island of Astypalaea in the Carpathian 

 Sea, to Taenarus in Laconia, Lilybaeum in Sicily, 

 CaraUs in Sardinia, 213, thence to Cadiz 1,250, the 

 total distance from the Eastern Sea making 8,568. 

 Another route, wliich is more certain, extends 

 mainly overland from the Ganges to the river 

 Euphrates 5,169, thence to Mazaca in Cappadocia 

 244, thence through Phrygia and Caria to Ephesus 

 499, from Ephesus across the Aegean Sea to Delos 

 200, to the Isthmus 202 1, thence by land and the 

 Alcyonian Sea and the Gulf of Corinth to Patras in 

 the Peloponnese 1025, to Leucas 87^, to Corfu 

 ditto, to Acroceraunia 82i, to Brindisi 87|, to 

 Rome 360, across the AIps to the village of Suze 518, 

 through France to the Pyrenees at Granada 456, 

 to the Ocean and the coast of Spain 832, across to 

 Cadiz 7^ — which figures by Artemidorus's calculation 

 make 8,995 miles. 



But the breadth of the earth from the south point to andfrom 

 the north is calculated by Isidorus as less by about ^gli'}^^ 

 one half, 5,462 miles, showing how much the heat has 

 abstracted on one side and the cold on the other. 

 As a matter of fact I do not think that there is this 

 reduction in the earth, or that it is not the shape of a 

 globe, but that the uninhabitable parts on either 

 side have not been explored. This measurement 

 runs from the coast of the Ethiopic Ocean, where 

 habitation just begins, to Meroe 705 miles, thence 

 to Alexandria, 1,250, Rhodes 584, Cnidus 86|, Cos 25, 



' Mayhoff (ab add. RackJiam) : fere minoro. 

 * id add. Rackham. 



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