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 188 STRABO. BOOK. II, more, 1 its breadth about 2000. 2 It is surrounded by the coast of Asia above mentioned, and by those of Greece from Sunium 3 northwards to the Thermaic Gulf 4 and the Gulfs of Macedonia, 5 and as far as the Thracian Chersonesus. 6 22. Here too is the strait, seven stadia in length, which is be- tween Sestos 7 and Abydos, 8 and through which the JEgaean and Hellespont communicate with another sea to the north, named the Propontis, 9 and this again with another called the Euxine. This latter is, so to speak, a double sea, for towards its middle are two projecting promontories, one to the north, on the side of Europe, and the other opposite from the coast of Asia, which leave only a narrow passage between them, and thus form two great seas. The European promontory is named Criu-metopon ; 10 that of Asia, Carambis. 11 They are distant from each other about 2500 stadia.- 12 The length of the western portion of this sea 13 from Byzantium to the outlets of the Dnieper is 3800 stadia, its breadth 2000. Here is situated the Island of Leuca. 14 The eastern portion is oblong and terminates in the narrow recess in which Dioscurias is situated. In length it is 5000 stadia, or rather more, and in breadth about 3000. The entire cir- cumference of the Euxine is about 25,000 stadia. Some have compared the shape of its circumference to a Scythian bow when bent, the string representing the southern portions of the Euxine, (viz. the coast, from its mouth to the recess in which Dioscurias is situated ; for, with the exception of Ca- rambis, the sinuosities of the shore are but trifling, so that it I The distance from the southern coast of Crete to the northern shores of the ^Egaean is just 4200 stadia, or 120 marine leagues. This is just the distance from Cape Colonna to Rhodes. Cape Colonna. * The Gulf of Saloniki. Those of Kassandra, Monte-Santo, and Contessa. The peninsula of Gallipoli. Semenik, or according to others, Jalowa. 8 Maito, or according to others, Avido. 9 Sea of Marmora. 10 Karadje-Burun, the southern point of the Crimea. II Kerempi-Burun. 12 We should here read 1500 stadia. See French Translation, vol. i. p. 344, n. 3. 13 The Euxine. 14 Also called the Island of Achilles, and the Island of the Blessed, now Ilan-Adassi.