. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . at its mouth withvery great rapidity is certain, from thetestimony of various writers besides He-rodotus. Thucydides (ii. 102), Scylax (Peripl. p. 31), and Strabo (i. p. 87),all speak in equally strong terms on thesubject. Thucydides even conjecturesthat in a sho
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . at its mouth withvery great rapidity is certain, from thetestimony of various writers besides He-rodotus. Thucydides (ii. 102), Scylax (Peripl. p. 31), and Strabo (i. p. 87),all speak in equally strong terms on thesubject. Thucydides even conjecturesthat in a short space of time all theEchinades would become portions ofthe continent. This prediction hasfailed ; and at present, owing probablyto the j)rojection of the coast and thesweep of the current round it, the ad-vance of the land is very slow and gra-dual. (Leake, iii. p. 570.) So far asappears, no island has been added tothe shore since the time of Leake indeed says that he couldonly find two heights in this vicinitywhich seemed to him to have once beenislands, viz., the peninsula of Kurtzohri(Strabos Artemita), and a small hillopposite Jetala; but it may be questi-oned whether the representation of Kie-pert (Blatt xiii.) does not give a trueridea of the actual growth of the Ian d.® The Greeks generally did not give. Map of the country about the mouth of the River Achelous, chiefly after Kiepert. —The dark lines m:uk the ancient coast and islands. 12 THE TWO PARALLEL GULFS. Book IT. I will here set down the dimensions. Starting from its inner-most recess, and using a row-boat, you take forty days to reachthe open main, Avliile you may cross the gulf at its widest partin the space of lialf a day. In this sea there is an ebb and flowof the tide every day.^ My ojiinion is, tliat Kgypt was formerlyvery much such a gulf as this—one gulf penetrated from the seatliat waslies Egypt on the north,^ and extended itself towardsEthio})ia; another entered from tlie souther
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