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in the north and east than it actually possesses, make the land 
in this direction completely bounded by sea, and delineate two 
headlands projecting towards the north from the mainland. To 
these they give the names Promontorium Scythicum and Tahin, 
MAP OF THE WORLD AFTER FRA MAURO FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 
(From II niappamondo di Fra Mauro Camaldolese descritto ed illustrato da D. Placido Zurla, 
Venezia, 1806.) 
and they besides place in the neighbourhood of the north coast 
a large island to which they give the name that already occurs 
in Pliny, Insula Tazata, which reminds us, perhaps by an 
