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so far to the south as Malta by two or three 
hundred miles. 
Such, no doubt, were the confined limits 
assigned to the Adriatic by many ancient 
geographers; but even those authorities 
quoted by Bryant differ from each other 
considerably in the exact boundary they 
have fixed for this sea. By some it was 
considered to comprehend the greater por¬ 
tion of the Ionian Gulf, and one authority 
states, that it was included between Italy 
and the opposite coast of Greece. Bryant 
allows that the limits assigned to the Adriatic 
have varied at different periods. And as a 
complete refutation of this learned man’s 
grand argument, it has been proved from 
Ptolemy, Strabo, and others, that the Adriatic 
Sea was sometimes allowed to include the 
whole of the space between Italy, Greece, 
and Africa. 
