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Next to the Sea of Sicily, are the Cretan, Saronic,The Gulf of Engia. and Myrtoan Seas, comprised between Crete, Argia,A district of the Peloponnesus. and Attica.A part of the modern Livadia. Their greatest breadth, measured from Attica, is 1200 stadia, and their length not quite double the distance. Within are included the Islands of Cythera,Cerigo. Calauria,Poro, or Poros, near the little Island of Damala, and connected to it by a sand-bank. Aegina,Egina or Engia. Salamis,Koluri. and certain of the Cyclades.Islands surrounding Delos. Adjacent to these are the Aegaean Sea,Egio-Pelago. the Gulf of Melas,The Gulf of Saros. the Hellespont,The Dardanelles. the Icarian and Carpathian Seas,The sea surrounding the Islands of Icaria and Carpathos, now Nikaria and Scarpanto. as far as Rhodes, Crete, Cnidus, and the commencement of Asia. [In these seas] are the Cyclades, the Sporades, and the islands opposite Caria, Ionia, and Aeolia, as far as the Troad, namely, Cos,Stanko. Samos,Samo. Chios,Skio. Lesbos,Mytileni. and Tenedos;Tenedo likewise on the Grecian side as far as Macedonia and the borders of Thrace, Euboea,Egripo, or Negropont. Scyros,Skyro. Peparethus,Probably Piperi; others suppose it to be Skopelo or Pelagonesi. Lemnos,Stalimene. Thasos,Thaso. Imbros,Imbro. Samothracia,Samothraki. and numerous others, of which it is our intention to speak in detail. The length of this sea is about 4000 stadia, or rather more,The distance from the southern coast of Crete to the northern shores of the Aegaean is just 4200 stadia, or 120 marine leagues. its breadth about 2000.This is just the distance from Cape Colonna to Rhodes. It is surrounded by the coast of Asia above mentioned, and by those of Greece from SuniumCape Colonna. northwards to the Thermaic GulfThe Gulf of Saloniki. and the Gulfs of Macedonia,Those of Kassandra, Monte-Santo, and Contessa. and as far as the Thracian Chersonesus.The peninsula of Gallipoli.
