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 | | On the opposite side, the province of Cilicia was terminated by the mountains of Syria: the inland country, separated from the Roman Asia by the river Halys, and from Armenia, by the Euphrates, had once formed the independent kingdom of Cappadocia. |
 | | In this place we may observe, that the northern shores of the Euxine, beyond Trebizond in Asia, and beyond the Danube in Europe, acknowledged the sovereignty of the emperors, and received at their hands, either tributary princes, or Roman garrisons. |
 | | The extent of the Mediterranean was reduced from 1160 to 860 Leagues by the accurate Delisle (Oeuvres de Fontenelle Tom vi p 301 dans son Eloge) Yet the maps of Delisle still remain erroneously large. |
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