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plint's katueal histoet. 
[Book VI. 
fennel, and from which water is extracted ; that drawn from 
those that are black is of a bitter taste, but that produced by 
the white ones is agreeable and good for drinking. He states 
also that a second island has the name of Junonia, but that 
it contains nothing beyond a small temple of stone : also that 
in its vicinity there is another, but smaller, island'''*' of the 
same name, and then another called Capraria, which is in- 
fested by multitudes of huge lizards. According to the same 
author, in sight of these islands is Mnguaria,"^^ which has re- 
ceived that name from its perpetual snows ; this island abounds 
also in fogs. The one next to it is Canaria it contains vast 
multitudes of dogs of very large size, two of which were 
brought home to Juba : there are some traces of buildings to be 
seen here. While all these islands abound in fruit and birds 
of every kind, this one produces in great numbers the date palm 
which bears the caryota, also pine nuts. Honey too abounds 
here, and in the rivers papyrus, and the fish called silurus,'^^ 
are found. These islands, however, are greatly annoyed by 
the putrefying bodies of monsters, which are constantly thrown 
up by the sea. 
CHAP, 38. — THE COMPAEATIVE DISTANCES OE PLACES ON THE 
FACE OF THE EAETH. 
Having now fully described the earth, both without'''* as 
well as within, it seems only proper that we should succinctly 
state the length and breadth of its various seas. 
(33.) Poly bins has stated, that in a straight line from the 
Straits of Gades to the mouth of the Mseotis, it is a distance of 
says that in Ferro there still grows a tree of this nature, known as the 
" holy tree/' 
Or the Lesser Junonia ; supposed to be the same as the modern Lan- 
zarote. 
"1 Or " Snow Island," the same as that previously called Invallis, the 
modern Teneriffe, with its snow-capped peak. 
So called from its canine inhabitants. 
As to the silurus, see B. ix. c. 17. 
'^^ Hardouin takes this to mean, both as to the continent, with the 
places there situate, and the seas, with the islands there found ; the con- 
tinent being the interior, and the seas the exterior part. It is much more 
likely, however, that his description of the interior of the earth is that 
given in the 2nd Book, while the account of the exterior is set forth in the 
geographical notices contained in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6t.h. 
