consequence of another shock, a lake burst out, and that, by a third, Prochytas was formed into an island, the neigh- bouring moimtains being rolled away from it.
CHAP 90.—LANDS WHICH HATE BEEN SEPARATED BY THE SEA.
In the ordinary course of things islands are also formed by this means, the sea has torn Sicily from Italy[1], Cyprus from Syria, Euboœa from Bœotia[2], Atalante and Macris[3] from Eubœa, Besbycus from Bith^-nia, and Leucosia from the promontory of the Sirens.
CHAP. 91. (89.)— ISLANDS WHICH HATE BEEN UNITED TO THE MAIN LAND.
Again, islands are taken from the sea and added to the main land; Antissa[4] to Lesbos, Zephyrium to Halicarnassus, Æthusa to Myndus, Dromiscus and Perne to Miletus, Narthecusa to the promontory of Parthenium. Hybanda, which was formerly an island of Ionia, is now 200 stadia distant from the sea. Syries is now become a part of Ephesus, and, m the same neighbourhood, Derasidas and Sophonia form part of Magnesia ; while Epidaurus and Oricum are no longer islands[5].
CHAP. 92. (90.)— LANDS WHICH HAVE BEEN TOTALLY CHANGED INTO SEAS.
The sea has totally carried off certain lands, and first of
- ↑ See Ovid, Metam. xv. 290, 291; also Seneca, Nat. Quæst. vi. 29.
- ↑ This event is mentioned by Tliucychdes, lib. 3, Smith's Trans, i. 293 ; and by Diodorus, xii. 7, Bootii's Trans, p. 287, as the consequence ot an earthquake; but the separation was from Locris, not from Euboea. See the remarks of Hardouin in Lemaire, i. 415.
- ↑ It is somewhat uncertain to what island our author applied this name; see the remarks of Alxandre in Lemaire.
- ↑ See Ovid, Metam. xv. 287.
- ↑ It is not improbable, from the situation and geological structure of the places here enumerated, that many of the changes mentioned above may have actually occurred, but there are few of them of which we have any direct evidence.
