Histories

Beyond Heliopolis [31.333,30.1] (deserted settlement), Cairo, Urban, Egypt, Africa Heliopolis, there is no great distance—in Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, that is:[*](w(s ei)=nai ai)gu/ptou; so much of the Nile valley being outside Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt. But it is possible that the words may mean “no great distance, for Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt,” i.e. no great distance relatively to the size of the country.) the narrow land has a length of only fourteen days' journey up the river. Between the aforesaid mountain ranges, the land is level, and where the plain is narrowest it seemed to me that there were no more than thirty miles between the Arabian mountains and those that are called Libyan. Beyond this Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt is a wide land again. Such is the nature of this country.

From Heliopolis [31.333,30.1] (deserted settlement), Cairo, Urban, Egypt, Africa Heliopolis to Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaThebes is nine days' journey by river, and the distance is six hundred and eight miles, or eighty-one schoeni.

This, then, is a full statement of all the distances in Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt: the seaboard is four hundred and fifty miles long; and I will now declare the distance inland from the sea to Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaThebes : it is seven hundred and sixty-five miles. And between Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaThebes and the city called Elephantine there are two hundred and twenty-five miles.