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All the aforesaid country is exceedingly cold: for eight months of every year there is unbearable frost, and during these you do not make mud by pouring out water but by lighting a fire; the sea freezes, as does all the Kerchenskiy Proliv [36.650,45.250] (strait), EuropeCimmerian Bosporus; and the Scythians living on this side of the trench lead armies over the ice, and drive their wagons across to the land of the +Sindi [24.666,58.4] (inhabited place), lost & found/Estonia, Estonia, EuropeSindi.
All the aforesaid country is exceedingly cold: for eight months of every year there is unbearable frost, and during these you do not make mud by pouring out water but by lighting a fire; the sea freezes, as does all the Kerchenskiy Proliv [36.650,45.250] (strait), EuropeCimmerian Bosporus; and the Scythians living on this side of the trench lead armies over the ice, and drive their wagons across to the land of the +Sindi [24.666,58.4] (inhabited place), lost & found/Estonia, Estonia, EuropeSindi.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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