BOOK VI. XXXVII. 204-xxxviii. 207 



Junonia, and that there is a small temple on it built 

 of only a single stone ; and that in its neighbourhood 

 there is a smaller island of the same name, and then 

 Capraria, which swarms with \arge Uzards ; and 

 that in view from these islands is Ninguaria, so 

 named from its perpetual snow, and wrapped in 

 cloud ; and next to it one named Canaria, from its 

 multitude of dogs of a huge size (two of these were 

 brought back for Juba). He said that in this 

 island there are traces of buildings ; that while they 

 all have an abundant supply of fruit and of birds of 

 every kind, Canaria also abounds in pahn-groves 

 bearing dates, and in conifers ; that in addition to 

 this there is a large supply of honey, and also papyrus 

 grows in the rivers, and sheat-fish ; and that these 

 islands are plagued Nvith the rotting carcases of 

 monstrous creatures that are constantly being cast 

 ashore by the sea. 



XXXVIII. And now that we have fully described DimensioTis 

 the outer and inner regions of the earth, it seems andliraits. 

 proper to give a succinct account of the dimensions 

 of its various bodies of water. 



According to Polybius the distance in a straight 

 line from the Straits of Gibraltar to the outlet of the 

 Sea of Azov is .3437^ miles, and the distance from 

 the same starting point due eastward to Sicily 1250 

 miles, to Crete 375 miles, to Rhodes 187i miles, to the 

 Swallow Islands the same, to Cyprus 225 miles, and 

 from Cyprus to Seleukeh Pieria in Syria 115 miles 

 — which figures added together make a total of 

 2340 miles. Agrippa calculates the same distance in 

 a straight Une from the Straits of Gibraltar to the 

 Gulf of Scanderoon at 3440 miles, in which calcu- 

 lation I suspect there is a numerical error, as he has 



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