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Beyond the Pelusiac Mouth is Arabia [Note], which extends to the Red Sea, and joins the Arabia known by the surname of Happy [Note], so famous for its perfumes and its wealth. This [Note] is called Arabia of the Catabanes [Note], the Esbonitæ [Note], and the Scenitæ [Note]; it is remarkable for its sterility, except in the parts where it joins up to Syria, and it has nothing remarkable in it except Mount Casius [Note]. The Arabian nations of the Canchlæi [Note] join these on the east, and, on the south the Cedrei [Note], both of which peoples are adjoining to the Nabatæi [Note]. The two gulfs of the Red Sea, where it borders upon
Egypt, are called the Heroöpolitic [Note] and the Ælanitic [Note]. Between the two towns of Ælana [Note] and Gaza [Note] upon our sea [Note] there is a distance of 150 miles. Agrippa says that Arsinoë [Note], a town on the Red Sea, is, by way of the desert, 125 miles from Pelusium. How different the characteristics impressed by nature upon two places separated by so small a distance!
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