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The other starts from the country of the Persians, and stretches into
the Erythraean sea, containing first Persia, then Assyria, and
after Assyria, Arabia. It ends, that is to say, it is considered
to end, though it does not really come to a termination, at the
Arabian gulf - the gulf whereinto Darius conducted the canal which he
made from the Nile. Between Persia and Phoenicia lies a broad and
ample tract of country, after which the region I am describing skirts
our sea, stretching from Phoenicia along the coast of
Palestine-Syria till it comes to Egypt, where it terminates. This
entire tract contains but three nations. The whole of Asia west of
the country of the Persians is comprised in these two regions.
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