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The Lesser SyrtesThe Gulf of Cabes. is about 1600 stadia in circumference. On either side of its mouth lie the islands of MeninxThe Island of Gerbi. and Kerkina.The Island of Kerkeni. The Greater SyrtesSidra, or Zalscho. is (according to Eratosthenes) 5000 stadia in circuit, and in depth 1800, from the HesperidesHesperides is the same city which the sovereigns of Alexandria afterwards called Berenice. It is the modern Bernic or Bengazi. to Automala,Automala appears to have been situated on the most northern point of the Greater Syrtes, on the confines of a small gulf, near to a place called Tine, or the Marsh. and the frontier which separates the Cyrenaic from the rest of Libya. According to others, its circumference is only 4000 stadia, its depth 1500 stadia, and the breadth at its mouth the same.
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The Sea of Sicily washes Italy, from the Strait of RhegiumNow Reggio, on the Strait of Messina, which was also sometimes called the Strait of Rhegium. to Locris,These were the Epizephyrian Locrians, or dwellers near the promontory of Zephyrium. They were situated towards the extremity of Italy, near Rhegium. Traces of their city are seen at Motta di Bourzano on the eastern coast of Ulterior Calabria. and also the eastern coast of Sicily from MesseneMessina. to SyracuseSyragusa. and Pachynus.Cape Passaro. On the eastern side it reaches to the promontories of Crete, surrounds the greater part of Peloponnesus, and fills the Gulf of Corinth.The Gulf of Lepanto. On the north it advances to the Iapygian Promontory,Cape Leuca or Finisterre. the mouth of the Ionian Gulf,The lower part of the Adriatic was designated the Ionian Gulf the southern parts of Epirus,The portion of Greece opposite Corfu. as far as the Ambracic Gulf,The Gulf of Arta. and the continuation of the coast which forms the Corinthian Gulf, near the Peloponnesus.
