Histories

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.

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, AfricaMemphis 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, AsiaIlion 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.

For of the rivers that brought down the stuff to make these lands, there is none worthy to be compared for greatness with even one of the mouths of the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile, and the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile has five mouths.

There are also other rivers, not so great as the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile, that have had great effects; I could rehearse their names, but principal among them is the Achelous, which, flowing through Akarnania (region (general)), Aitolia and Akarnania, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeAcarnania and emptying into the sea, has already made half of the Echinades Islands mainland.