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lonium 270; and from Poplonium to Cossa note near 800, or as
some say, 600. Polybius, however, says that there are not note in
all 1330. note Of these Luna is a city and harbour; it is named by
the Greeks, the harbour and city of Selene. note The city is not
large, but the harbour note is very fine and spacious, containing in
itself numerous harbours, all of them deep near the shore; it
is in fact an arsenal worthy of a nation holding dominion for
so long a time over so vast a sea. The harbour is surrounded
by lofty mountains, note from whence you may view the sea note
and Sardinia, and a great part of the coast on either side. Here
are quarries of marble, both white and marked with green, so
numerous and large, as to furnish tablets and columns of one
block; and most of the material for the fine works, both in
Rome and the other cities, is furnished from hence. The
transport of the marble is easy, as the quarries lie near to the
sea, and from the sea they are conveyed by the Tiber. Tyrrhenia likewise supplies most of the straightest and longest
planks for building, as they are brought direct from the
mountains to the river. Between Luna and Pisa flows the
Macra, note a division which many writers consider the true boundary of Tyrrhenia and Liguria. Pisa was founded by the
Pisatae of the Peloponnesus, who went under Nestor to the
expedition against Troy, but in their voyage home wandered
out of their course, some to Metapontium, note others to the Pisatis;
they were, however, all called Pylians. The city lies between
the two rivers Arno note and Aesar, note at their point of confluence;
the former of which, though very full, descends from Arretium note
not in one body, but divided into three; the second flows
