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 Chap. 92.] CHANGES ON THE EAETH's SUEEACE. 119 consequence of another shock, a lake burst out, and that, by a third, Prochytas was formed into an island, the neigh- bouring moimtains being rolled away from it. CHAP 90. — LANDS WHICH HATE BEEN SEPARATED BY THE SEA. In the ordinary coiu-se of things islands are also formed by this means, the sea has torn Sicily from Italy Cyprus from S^Tia, Euboea from Boeotia"-, Atalante and Macris^ from Euboea, Besbycus from Bith^-nia, and Leucosia from the promontory of the Sii^ens. CHAP. 91. (89.)— ISLANDS WHICH HATE BEEN UNITED TO THE MAIN LAND. Again, islands are taken from the sea and added to the main land ; Antissa'' to Lesbos, Zephyrium to Halicarnassus, ^thusa to Myndus, Dromiscus and Perne to Miletus, Nar- thecusa to the promontory of Parthenium. Hybanda, which was formerly an island of Ionia, is now 200 stadia distant from the sea. Syries is now become a part of Ephesus, and, m the same neighbourhood, Derasidas and So- phonia form part of ISIagnesia ; while Epidaurus and Oricum are no longer islands^. CHAP. 92. (90.)— LANDS W^HICH HAVE BEEN TOTALLY CHANGED INTO SEAS. The sea has totally carried off certain lands, and first of 1 See Ovid, Metam. xv. 290, 291 ; also Seneca, Nat. Qurest. •^i-.Sa 2 This event is mentioned by Tliucychdes, lib. 3, Smith's Trans, i. 293 ; and by Diodorus, xii. 7, Bootii's Trans, p. 287, as the consequence ot an earthquake ; but the separation was from Locris, not from Euboea. See the remarks of Hardouin in Lcmaire, i. 415. 3 It is somewhat uncertain to what island om- author apphed this name ; see the'remarks of AL^xandre in Lcmahe. < See Ovid, Metam. xv. 287. s It is not improbable, from the situation and geological structure of the places here enumerated, that many of the changes mentioned above may have actually occurred- but there are few of them of which we have any direct evidence.