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midsummer and the same number of days after 

 midsummer shadows contract to nothing an hour 

 before noon, and during the rest of the day fall to the 

 south, while all the other days of the year they fall 

 to the north ; on the other hand at the first Berenice 

 mentioned above," on the actual day of the summer 

 solstice the shadow disappcars altogether an hour 

 before noon, but nothing else unusual is observed — 

 this place is 602|^ miles from Ptolemais. The phen- 

 omenon is extremely remarkable, and the topic is 

 one involving infinitely profound research,'' it being 

 here that the structure of the world was discovered, 

 because Eratosthenes derived from it the idea of 

 working out the earth's dimensions by the certain 

 method of noting the shadows. 



Next come the Azanian Sea, the cape whose name n.e. A/nca. 

 some writers give as Hippalas, Lake Mandalum, 

 Colocasitis Island, and out at sea a number of islands 

 containing a large quantity of turtle. The town of 

 Sacae, the island of Daphnis, Freemen's Town,"^ 

 founded by slaves from Egypt who had run aMay 

 from their masters. Here is very large trading 

 centre of the Cave-dwellers and also the Ethiopians 

 — it is two days' sail from Ptolemais ; they bring 

 into it a large quantity of ivory, rhinoceros horns, 

 hippopotamus hides, tortoise shell, apes and slaves. 

 Beyond the Ploughmen Ethiopians are the islands 

 called the Isles of AHaeos, and also Bacchias and 

 Antibaccliias, and Soldiers' Island. Next there is a 

 bay in the coast of Ethiopia that has not been 

 explored, which is surprising, in view of the fact 

 that traders ransack morc remote districts ; and a 

 cape on which is a sj)ring named Cucios, resorted 

 to by seafarers ; and further on, Port of Isis, ten 



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