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"The harbour of Constantinople, which may be considered as an arm of the Bosphorus, obtained in a very remote period the denomination of the Golden Horn. The curve which it describes might be compared to the horn of a stag, or, as it should seem, with more propriety to that of an ox." Gib. c. 17; Strab. 1. x. Ion apud Plut. Herod. ix. 82. Plut. in Vit. Arist. Leader of ten men.
Plin. I. 6. c. 31. Plin. I. 4. c. 22. Eratosth. ap. Strab. I. 1. p. 26. Plin. I. 6. c. 29. The miles here used are three to the league; but the league of the text is nearly equal to four English miles, and the assumed distance of these two ports 140 of our miles E. Strab. I. 17. p. 560. Plin. I. 6. c. 29. Diod. Sic. I. 4. c. 4. Strab. I. 1. p. 26. Kings, I. 9. Chron. Herodot. Arist. de Mirand.
The Philosophers of the nineteenth century have fortunately rediscovered the Mermaid in the north of Scotland! Hitherto, wonderful things used to be confined to barbarous regions and ignorant ages. Arist. de Mirand. Strabo, I. 2. p. 68. Plin. I. 6. c. 29. Strabo, I. 17. p. 560, 561. Strab. I. 17. p. 549. Plin. I. 6. c. 23. Id. I. 12. c. 18. Id. I. 2. c. 67. Ziphilin. in vit. Traj.
Strab. 3, 5, 11; Plin. N.H. 2, 99, &c. Multum fluminum. Multum is the object of ferre, of which mare is the subject, as it is also of all the infinitives in the sentence. Fluminum is not rivers but currents among the islands along the shore. Nec littore tenus, etc.
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