Chap. 92.] CHANGES ON THE EABTH's STJEEACE. 119 



consequence of another shock, a lake burst out, and that, by 

 a third, Prochytas was formed into an island, the neigh- 

 bouring mountains being rolled away from it. 



CHAP 90. — LANDS WHICH HAVE BEEN SEPARATED BY 

 THE SEA. 



In the ordinary course of things islands are also formed 

 by this means. The sea has torn Sicily from Italy \ Cyprus 

 from Syria, Eubcea from Boeotia^, Atalante and Macris^ 

 from Euboea, Besbycus from Bith^Tiia, and Leucosia from 

 the promontory of the Sirens. 



CHAP. 91. (89.) — ISLANDS WHICH HAVE BEEN UNITED TO 

 THE MAIN LAND. 



Again, islands are taken from the sea and added to the 

 main land ; Antissa^ to Lesbos, Zephyrium to Halicarnassus, 

 -^thusa to Myndus, Dromiscus and Perne to Miletus, Nar- 

 thecusa to the promontory of Parthenium. Hybanda, 

 which was formerly an island of Ionia, is now 200 stadia 

 distant from the sea. Syries is now become a part of 

 Ephesus, and, m the same neighbourhood, Derasidas and So- 

 ph onia form part of Magnesia ; while Epidaurus and Oricxim 

 are no longer islands^. 



CHAP. 92. (90.) — LANDS WHICH HAVE BEEN TOTALLY 

 CHANGED INTO SEAS. 



The sea has totally carried off certain lands, and first of 



^ See Ovid, Metam. xv. 290, 291 ; also Seneca, Nat. Qusest. vi. 29. 



2 Tliis event is mentioned by Thucydides, lib. 3, Smith's Trans, i. 293 ; 

 and by Diodorus, xii. 7, Booth's Trans, p. 287, as the consequence of an 

 earthquake ; but the separation was from Locris, not from Eubcea. See 

 the remarks of Hardouin in Lemaire, i. 415. 



3 It is somewhat uncertain to what island our author apphed this 

 name ; see the' remarks of Alexandre in Lemaire. 



< See Ovid, Metam. xv. 287. 



^ It is not improbable, from the situation and geological structure of 

 the places here enumerated, that many of the changes mentioned above 

 may have actually occurred* but there are few of them of which we have 

 any direct evidence. 



