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Now the only entrance into Egypt is by this desert: the country from
Phoenicia to the borders of the city Cadytis belongs to the people
called the Palaestine Syrians; from Cadytis, which it appears to me
is a city almost as large as Sardis, the marts upon the coast till you
reach Jenysus are the Arabian king's; after Jenysus the Syrians
again come in, and extend to Lake Serbonis, near the place where
Mount Casius juts out into the sea. At Lake Serbonis, where the
tale goes that Typhon hid himself, Egypt begins. Now the whole
tract between Jenysus on the one side, and Lake Serbonis and Mount
Casius on the other, and this is no small space, being as much as
three days' journey, is a dry desert without a drop of water.
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