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pliny's kattjeal history. [Book III 
montory of Leucopetra^ at a distance of fifteen miles ; after 
which come the Locri^, who take their surname from the 
promontory of Zephyrium^, being distant from the river 
Silarus 803 miles. 
At this spot ends the first great Gulf of Europe ; the 
seas in which bear the following names : — That from 
which it takes its rise is called the Atlantic, by some the 
G-reat Atlantic, the entrance of which is, by the Greeks, 
called Porthmos, by us the Straits of Gades. After its 
entrance, as far as it washes the coasts of Spain, it is called 
the Hispanian Sea, though some give it the name of the 
Iberian or Balearic^ Sea. Where it faces the province of 
Gallia Narbonensis it has the name of the Gallic, and after 
that, of the Ligurian, Sea. From Liguria to the island of 
Sicily, it is called the Tuscan Sea, the same which is called 
by some of the Greeks the Notian^, by others the Tyrrhe- 
nian, while many of our people call it the Lower Sea. 
Beyond Sicily, as far as the country of the Salentini, it is 
styled by Polybius the Ausonian Sea, Eratosthenes how- 
ever gives to the whole expanse that lies between the inlet 
of the ocean and the island of Sardinia, the name of the 
Sardoan Sea ; thence to Sicily, the Tyrrhenian ; thence to 
Crete, the Sicilian ; and beyond that island, the Cretan Sea. 
CHAP. 11. — SIXTY-EOTJR ISLAIS^DS, AMOKa WHICH ABE THE 
BALE ARES. 
The first islands that we meet with in all these seas are 
^00 stadia. It produced the pitch for which Bruttiran was so celebrated. 
Its site still has the name of Sila. 
^ Or Wliite Kock, now Capo dell' Armi. It forms the extremity of 
the Apennine Chain. 
2 The site of the city of Locri is supposed to have been that of the 
present Motta di Burzano. 
3 He says that they were called Epizephyrii, from the promontory of 
Zephyrium, now the Capo di Burzano ; but according to others, they 
had this name only because their colony lay to the west of their native 
Greece. Strabo says that it was founded by the Locri Ozolse, and not 
the Opuntii, as most authors have stated. 
^ This expression is explained by a reference to the end of the rirst 
Chapter of the present Book. 
^ CaUed by some the Canal de Baleares. 
® Or Southern Sea. 
