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more, ^note its breadth about 2000. ^note It is surrounded by the coast of Asia above mentioned, and by those of Greece from Sunium ^note northwards to the Thermaic Gulf ^note and the Gulfs of Macedonia, ^note and as far as the Thracian Chersonesus. ^note 22

Here too is the strait, seven stadia in length, which is between Sestos ^note and Abydos, ^note and through which the Aegaean and Hellespont communicate with another sea to the north, named the Propontis, ^note 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; ^note that of Asia, Carambis. ^note They are distant from each other about 2500 stadia. ^note The length of the western portion of this sea ^note from Byzantium to the outlets of the Dnieper is 3800 stadia, its breadth 2000. Here is situated the Island of Leuca. ^note 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 circumference 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 Carambis, the sinuosities of the shore are but trifling, so that it