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Chap. 9.], then the Phlegræan Plains, and the Marsh of Acherusia in the vicinity of Cumæ.

Again, on the coast we have Neapolis, also a colony of the Chalcidians, and called Parthenope from the tomb there of one of the Sirens, Herculaneum , Pompeii , from which Mount Vesuvius may be seen at no great distance, and which is watered by the river Sarnus ; the territory of Nuceria, and, at the distance of nine miles from the sea, the town of that name , and then Surrentum , with the Promontory of Minerva , formerly the abode of the Sirens. The distance thence by sea to Circeii is seventy-eight miles. This