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cording to that of Isidorus^ 9818 miles. Artemidorus adds 

 to this 491 miles, from (xades, going round by the Sacred 

 Promontory, to the promontory of Artabrum^, which is the 

 most projecting part of Spain. 



This measurement may be taken in two directions. From 

 the Granges, at its mouth, where it discharges itself into the 

 Eastern ocean, passing through India and Parthyene, to 

 Myriandrus^, a city of Syria, in the bay of Issus, is a di- 

 stance of 5215 miles "*. Thence, going directly by sea, by the 

 island of Cyprus, Patara in Lycia, Ehodes, and Astypala^a, 

 islands in the Carpathian sea, by Ta?narum in Laconia, 

 Lilybseum in Sicily and Calaris in Sardinia, is 2103 miles. 

 Thence to Gades is 1250 miles, making the whole distance 

 from the Eastern ocean 8568 miles*. 



The other way, which is more certain, is chiefly by land. 

 !Prom the Granges to the Euphrates is 5169 miles ; thence to 

 Mazaca, a town in Cappadocia, is 319 miles ; thence, through 

 Phrygia and Caria, to Ephesus is 415 miles ; from Ephesus, 

 across the ^gean sea to Delos, is 200 miles ; to the Isthmus 

 is 212y miles ; thence, first by land and afterwards by the 

 sea of Lechaeum and the gulf of Corinth, to Patrae in Pelopon- 

 nesus, 90 miles ; to the promontory of Leucate 87^ miles ; 

 as much more to Corc>Ta ; to the Acroceraunian mountains 

 132^, to Brundisium 87^, and to Eome 360 miles. To the 

 Alps, at the village of Scingomagum®, is 519 miles ; through 

 Gaul to Illiberis at the Pyrenees, 927 ; to the ocean and the 



* Isidorus was a native of Niceea ; he appears to have been a vrriter 

 on various topics in natural history, but not much estimated j see Har- 

 douin's Index Auct., in Lemaire, i. 194. 



2 The modem Cape St. Vincent and Cape Finisterre. 



3 This was a city on the Sinus Issicus, the present Grulf of Aiasso, 

 situated, according to Brotier, between the sites of the modem towns of 

 Scanderoon and Rosos. See Lemaire, i. 461. 



** Respecting this and the other distances mentioned in this chapter, I 

 may refer the reader to the remarks of Hardouin in Lemaire, i. 461. 



^ It is scarcely necessary to remark, that the calctdations of our author 

 do not indicate the real distance between the extreme points of the habi- 

 table parts of the globe, as known to the ancients, but the nvmiber of miles 

 which must be passed over by a traveller, in going from plaee to place ; 

 in the first instance, a considerable part of the way by sea, and, in the 

 second, almost entirely by land. 



6 It appears to be difficult to ascertain the identity of the place here 

 mentioned ; I may refer to the remarks of Hardouin and Brotier in Le- 

 maire, i. 464. 



