BOOK IV. XIII. 92-94 



XIII. In the Dardanelles there are no islands isiands o/ 

 that deserve mention belonging to Europe. There s^a "^ 

 are two in the Black Sea, 1| miles from the European 

 coast and 14 miles from the mouth of the straits, the 

 Fanari, called by others the Symplegades, these 

 being the islands about which there is the tradition 

 that they once clashed together : the story is due 

 to the fact that they are separated by so small a 

 gap that by persons entering the Black Sea 

 directly facing them they were seen as two, and 

 then when the line of sight became slightly oblique 

 they gave the appearance of coming together. On 

 this side of the Danube there is one of the islands " 

 called Apollonia, 80 miles from the Thracian 

 Bosphorus ; from this island Marcus Lucullus 

 brought the statue * of Apollo of the Capitol. We 

 have stated the places in the Delta of the Danube. § 79. 

 OfF the mouth of the Dnieper is the Island of 

 Achilles mentioned above, which also has the Greek § 83. 

 names of the White Island and Island of the Blest. 

 Modern investigation shows the position of this 

 island to be 140 miles from the Dnieper , 120 from 

 the Dniester, and 50 from the island of Peuce. It is 

 about 10 miles in circuit. The remaining islands in 

 the Gulf of Carcinites are Cephalonnesus, Spodusa 

 and Macra. Before we leave the Black Sea, we must 

 not omit the opinion held by many persons that all 

 the waters of the Mediterranean are derived from this 

 source, and not from the Straits of Gibraltar; the 

 reason that they give for this view is not an improbable 

 one — viz. that the tide is always flowing out of the 

 Black Sea and never ebbing in the other direction. 



Next we must leave the Black Sea to describe the isiandsof 



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nuter regions 01 Europe, and crossmg tne Kipaean ocean. 



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