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The greater portion, then, of this country of which I have spoken was land deposited for the Egyptians as the priests told me, and I myself formed the same judgment; all that lies between the ranges of mountains above Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Memphis to which I have referred seemed to me to have once been a gulf of the sea, just as the country about Troy [26.25,39.95] (deserted settlement), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Ilion and Teuthrania and Ephesus [27.316,37.916] (deserted settlement), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Ephesus and the plain of the Buyukmenderes Nehri [27.183,37.466] (river), Turkey, Asia Maeander , to compare these small things with great.
The greater portion, then, of this country of which I have spoken was land deposited for the Egyptians as the priests told me, and I myself formed the same judgment; all that lies between the ranges of mountains above Mit Rahina [31.25,29.85] (inhabited place), Giza, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Memphis to which I have referred seemed to me to have once been a gulf of the sea, just as the country about Troy [26.25,39.95] (deserted settlement), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Ilion and Teuthrania and Ephesus [27.316,37.916] (deserted settlement), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Ephesus and the plain of the Buyukmenderes Nehri [27.183,37.466] (river), Turkey, Asia Maeander , to compare these small things with great.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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