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1 There appears to be some doubt respecting the history of the person here referred to: according to the account of Hardouin, Fabianus was a naturalist, who enjoyed a high repution; he lived in the time of Tiberius: see Lemaire, i. 188.
2 This would be a depth of 3125 yards, not very far short of two miles; see Adam's Rom. Antiq. p. 503.
3 "βαθέα Ponti;" Aristotle refers to this as one of those parts where the sea is unfathomable; Meteor. i. 13.
4 A distance of nearly nine and a half miles.
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