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Thus far, therefore, the land is known; but beyond the bald-headed
men lies a region of which no one can give any exact account. Lofty
and precipitous mountains, which are never crossed, bar further
progress. The bald men say, but it does not seem to me credible,
that the people who live in these mountains have feet like goats; and
that after passing them you find another race of men, who sleep during
one half of the year. This latter statement appears to me quite
unworthy of credit. The region east of the bald-headed men is well
known to be inhabited by the Issedonians, but the tract that lies to
the north of these two nations is entirely unknown, except by the
accounts which they give of it.
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