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further twenty. Of the others, that extending to Pachynus from Lilybaeum is the longer, while the shortest faces the Strait and Italy, extending from Pelorias to Pachynus, being about 1120 or 1130 stadia. Posidonius shows that the circumference is 4400 stadia, but in the Chorography the distances are declared to exceed the above numbers, being severally reckoned in miles. Thus from Cape Pelorias to Mylae, note 25 miles; from Mylae to Tyndaris, note 25; thence to Agathyrnum, note 30; from Agathyrnum to Alaesa, note
30; from Alaesa to Cephaloedium, note 30; these are but insignificant places; from Cephaloedium to the river Himera, note which runs through the midst of Sicily, 18; from thence to Panormus, note 35; [thence] to the Emporium note of the Aegestani, 32; leaving to Lilybaeum note a distance of 38; thence having doubled the Cape and coasting the adjacent side to Heracleum, note 75; and to the Emporium note

of the Agrigentini, 20; and to note Cama-

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