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plikt's natuual histoet. 
[Book II. 
all, if we are to believe Plato \ for an immense space where 
the Atlantic ocean is now extended. More lately we see 
what has been produced by our inland sea ; Acarnania has 
been overwhelmed by the Ambracian gulf, Achaia by the 
Corinthian, Europe and Asia by the Propontis and Pontus. 
And besides these, the sea has rent asunder Leucas, Antir- 
rhium. the Hellespont, and tiie two Bosphori^. 
CHAP. 93. (91.) — LAMS WHICH HATE BEEIS" 
SWALLOWED UP. 
And not to speak of bays and gulfs, the earth feeds on 
itself; it has devoured the very high mountain of Cybotus, 
with the town of Curites ; also Sipylus in Magnesia^, and 
formerly, in the same place, a very celebrated city, which 
was called Tantalis ; also the land belonging to the cities 
Gralanis and Gamales in Phoenicia, together with the cities 
themselves ; also Phegium, the most lofty ridge in ^thiopia"^. 
JSTor are the shores of the sea more to be depended upon. 
CHAP. 94. (92.) — CITIES WHICH HAVE PEEK APSOBPED BY 
THE SEA. 
The sea near the Palus Mseotis has carried away Pyrrha 
and Antissa, also Elice and Bura^ in the gulf of Corinth, 
traces of which places are visible in the ocean. Erom the 
1 This celebrated narrative o:^ Plato is contained in his Timseus, Op. ix. 
p. 296, 297 ; it may be presumed that it was not altogether a fiction on 
the part of the author, but it is, at this time, impossible to determine 
what part of it was derived from ancient traditions and what from the 
fertile stores of his own imagination. It is referred to by various ancient 
writers, among others by Strabo. See also the remarks of Brotier in 
Lemaire, i. 416, 417. 
2 Many of these changes on the surface of the globe, and others men- 
tioned by our author in this part of his work, are alluded to by Ovid, in 
his beautiful abstract of the Pythagorean doctrine, Metam. xv. passim. 
3 See Aristotle, Meteor, ii. 8, and Strabo, i. For some account of the 
]~)laces mentioned in this chapter the reader may consult the notes of 
Hardouin in loco. 
Poinsinet, as I conceive correctly, makes the following clause the 
commencement of the next chapter. 
5 See Ovid, Metam. xv. 293-295 ; also the remarks of Hardouin ia 
Lemaire, i. 418. 
