[460] Close by Aboukir.
[461] Cape S. Mahé.
[462] Ushant.
[463] The text has τὸ πλέον, but we have followed the suggestions of the commentators in reading τὸ μὴ πλέον.
[464] It is remarkable that this is the same idea which led Columbus to the discovery of America, and gave to the islands off that continent the name of the West Indies.
[465] We have followed Kramer in reading δι’ Ἄθηνῶν, instead of the διὰ θινῶν of former editions.
[466] The Nile being thought to separate Africa from Asia, and the Tanais, or Don, Europe.
[467] The Red Sea.
[468] The name of the mouth of the lake Sirbonis or Sebaket-Bardoil, which opens into the Mediterranean. A line drawn from this embouchure to the bottom of the Arabian Gulf, would give the boundary between Africa and Asia.
[469] Places in Attica.