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summit [of the cape] there is a look-out for thunnies. note From
this city there is an indistinct and distant view of Sardinia.
Cyrnus, note however, is nearer, being distant from Sardinia about
60 stadia. While Aethalia note is much nearer to the continent
than either, being distant therefrom only 300 note stadia, and the
same number from Cyrnus. Poplonium is the best starting-
place to any of the three mentioned islands. We ourselves observed them from the height of Poplonium, in which place
we saw certain mines which had been abandoned, we also saw
the craftsmen who work the iron brought from Aethalia; for
they cannot reduce it into bars in the furnaces on the island,
and it is therefore transferred direct from the mines to the
continent. There is another remarkable circumstance, that
the exhausted mines of the island in course of time are again refilled similarly to what they say takes place at the platamones note
in Rhodes, the marble-quarries in Paros, and the salt-mines
in India, mentioned by Clitarchus. Eratosthenes was therefore incorrect in saying that from the mainland you could
neither see Cyrnus nor Sardinia; and so was Artemidorus in
his assertion, that both these places lay in the high sea at a
distance of
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Strabo, Geography (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Str.].