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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6)

Note 806 — BOOK III. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED. INTRODUCTION.

John Bostock translation

The fable was that they originally formed one mountain, which was torn asunder by Hercules, or as Pliny says, “dug through.”

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