[711] Mouse Harbour, or Harbour of Venus.
[712] Meleagrides.
[713] Bender-el-Kebir.
[714] Zemorget or Zamargat. The “Agathonis Insula” of Ptolemy.
[715] Ptolemy Philadelphus.
[716] About 12 feet.
[717] The whole of this description is so vague that it would be difficult to recognise the position of the places mentioned by Strabo without the assistance of scattered notices by other authors. The result of many comparisons leads me to fix upon 16° 58´ as about the latitude of Ptolemaïs Epitheras. Mount Taurus was 22 leagues higher up, and the harbour of the goddess Soteira 12 leagues beyond. Gossellin.
[718] Letronne translates Πτολεμαῒς πρὸς τῇ θήρᾳ as Ptolemaïs Epitheras; see c. iv. § 4.
[719] Tacazze, which however does not appear to have such a branch.
[720] These islands are to the north of Arkiko.