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Statius Sebosus has given the voyage along the coast 

 from the Gorgons' Islands past Mount Atlas tothe Isles 

 of the Ladies of the West as forty days' sail and from 

 those islands to the Horn of the West as one day 's sail. 

 Nor is there less uncertainty with regard to the report 

 of the islands of Mauretania : it is only known for 

 certain that a few were discovered by Juba ofF the 

 coast of the Autololes, in which hc had estabUshed a 

 dyeing industrj' that used Gaetuhan pur])le. 



XXXVII. Some people think that beyond the The 

 islands of Mauretania Ue the Isles of BUss,"* and f^and^!^ 

 also some others of which Sebosus before mentioned 

 gives not only the niimber but also the distances, 

 reporting that Junonia* is 750 miles from Cadiz, and 

 that PluviaUa"^ and Capraria "^ are the same distance 

 west from Junonia ; that in PluviaUa there is no 

 water except what is suppUed by rain ; tliat the 

 Isles of Bliss are 250 miles W.N.W. from these, to 

 the left hand of Mauretania, and that one is called 

 InvalUs ^ from its undulating surface nnd the other 

 Planasia/ from its conformation,? InvalUs measuring 

 300 miles round ; and that on it trees grow to a 

 height of 140 ft. About the Isles of Bliss Juba has 

 ascertained the following facts : they lie in a south- 

 westerly direction, at a distance of 625 miles' sail 

 from the Purple Islands,'' provided that a course 

 be laid north of due west for 250 miles and then 

 east for 375 miles ; that the first island reached is 

 called Ombrios,' and there are no traces of buildings 

 upon it, but it has a pool surrounded by mountains, 

 and trees resembling the giant fennel, from which 

 water is extracted, the black oncs giving a bitter 

 fluid and those of brighter colour a juice that is 

 agreeable to drink ; that the second island is called 



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