105. Chap. 105. (102.)-Where The Sea Is The Deepest.

CHAP. 105. (102.)—WHERE THE SEA IS THE DEEPEST.

Fabianus[1] informs us that the greatest depth of the sea is 15 stadia[2]. We learn from others, that in the Euxine, opposite to the nation of the Coraxi, at what is called the Depths of the Euxine[3]. about 300 stadia[4] from the main land, the sea is immensely deep, no bottom having been found.

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. "Baqe/a 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.