Chap. 92.] 
CHAJfGES Olil THE EARTH'S SUEEACE. 
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consequence of another shock, a lake burst out, and that, b j 
a third, Prochytas was formed into an island, the neigh- 
bouring mountains being rolled away from it. 
CHAP, 90. — LAMS WHICH HAYE BEEN SEPABATED 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, Euboea from Boeotia^, Atalante and Macris^ 
from Euboea, Besbycus from Bithynia, and Leucosia from 
the promontory of the Sirens. 
CHAP. 91. (89.) — ISLANDS WHICH HAYE 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, 
-^Lthusa 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- 
phonia form part of Magnesia ; while Epidaurus and Oricum 
are no longer islands \ 
CHAP. 92. (90.) — LANDS WHICH HAYE 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 This event is mentioned by Thucydides, lib. 3, Smith's Trans, i. 293 ; 
and by Diodoms, xii. 7, Booth's Trans, p. 287, as the consequence of an 
earthquake ; but the separation vi^as from Locris, not from Euboea. See 
the remarks of Hardouin in Lemaire, i. 415. 
3 It is somewhat uncertain to v^hat island our author appHed this 
name ; see the*remarks of Alexandre in Lemaire. 
4 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 fevr of them of which we have 
any direct evidence. 
