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Paces: and another in the third Year of the 143rd Olympiad, 

 within the Tuscan Gulf, which latter burned with a violent 

 Wind. It is recorded, also, that when a great Multitude of 

 Fishes floated about it, those Persons died presently that 

 fed thereof. So they report, that in the Campain Gulf the 

 Pithecusae Islands appeared. And soon after, the Mountain 

 Epopos in them (at which Time there suddenly shone out a 

 flaming Fire from it) was laid level with the plain Country. 

 Within the same, also, there was a Town swallowed up by 

 the deep Sea ; and in another Earthquake there appeared a 

 standing Pool : but in another, by the Fall of some Moun- 

 tains, there grew the Island Prochyta: for after this Manner, 

 also, Nature hath formed Islands. Thus, she disjoined Sicily 

 from Italy, Cyprus from Syria, Euboea from Bceotia, Ata- 

 lante and Macris from Euboea, Besbycus from Bithynia, 

 Leucostia from the Promontory of the Syrenes 1 . 



CHAPTER LXXXIX. 

 What Islands became joined to the Main. 



AGAIN, she hath taken Islands from the Sea, and joined 

 them to the Main Land ; as, for Instance, Antissa to Lesbos, 

 Zephyria to Halicarnassus, Aethusa to Myndus, Dromiscos 

 and Pern to Miletus, and Narthecusa to the Promontory 

 Parthenius. Hybanda, once an Island of Ionia, is now dis- 

 tant from the Sea 200 Stadia. As for Syria, Ephesus hath it 

 now in the midland Parts far from the Sea. So Magnesia, 

 neighbour to it, hath Derasitas and Sophonia. Epidaurus 

 and Oricum have ceased to be Islands. 



CHAPTER XC. 

 What Lands have been turned wholly into Sea. 



NATURE hath altogether taken away some Lands ; the 

 chief of which was where now is the Atlantic Sea, but which 



1 To this may be added, Britain from France. But, in truth, to dis- 

 ruptions of this kind we owe, for the most part, the present distribution of 

 the geography of the world. Wern. Club. 



