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Scythia then, which is square in shape, and has two of its sides
reaching down to the sea, extends inland to the same distance that it
stretches along the coast, and is equal every way. For it is a ten
days' journey from the Ister to the Borysthenes, and ten more from
the Borysthenes to the Palus Maeotis, while the distance from the
coast inland to the country of the Melanchaeni, who dwell above
Scythia, is a journey of twenty days. I reckon the day's journey at
two hundred furlongs. Thus the two sides which run straight inland are
four thousand furlongs each, and the transverse sides at right angles
to these are also of the same length, which gives the full size of Scythia.
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