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Excerpt from Pliny's Natural History, Vol. 2: In Thirty-Seven Books; A Translation on the Basis of That by Dr. Philemon Holland, Ed; 1601; With Critical and Explanatory Notes
Peloponnesus, called formerly Apia and Pelasgia, is a Peninsula, worthy to come behind no other Land for noble ness; lying between two Seas, zegeum and Ionium: like the Leaf ofa Plane Tree', in regard of the indented Creeks thereof: it beareth a circuit of 563 Miles, according to Isidorus. The same, if you comprise the Creeks, addeth almost as much more. The Straits whence it passeth is called Isthmos. In which Place the Seas above-named, bursting from various ways, from the North and the East, devour all the Breadth of it there: until, by the contrary running in of such Seas, the Sides on both hands being eaten away, and leaving a Space between, five Miles over, Hellas, with a narrow Neck, meeteth with Peloponnesus. The one Side thereof is called the Corinthian Gulf, the other, the Saronian. Lecheum on the one hand, and Cen chreae on the other, are the Bounds of the Straits: where such Ships as for their bigness cannot be conveyed over upon Waggons, make a great compass about with some Danger. For which cause, Demetrius the King, Ccesar the Dictator.
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