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Now these are the farthest regions of the world in Asia and Libya.
Of the extreme tracts of Europe towards the west I cannot speak with
any certainty; for I do not allow that there is any river, to which
the barbarians give the name of Eridanus, emptying itself into the
northern sea, whence (as the tale goes) amber is procured; nor do I
know of any islands called the Cassiterides (Tin Islands), whence
the tin comes which we use. For in the first place the name Eridanus
is manifestly not a barbarian word at all, but a Greek name, invented
by some poet or other; and secondly, though I have taken vast pains,
I have never been able to get an assurance from an eye-witness that
there is any sea on the further side of Europe. Nevertheless, tin
and amber do certainly come to us from the ends of the earth.
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