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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6)
CHAP. 105. (102.)—WHERE THE SEA IS THE DEEPEST.
Fabianus638 informs us that the greatest depth of the sea is 15 stadia639. We learn from others, that in the Euxine, opposite to the nation of the Coraxi, at what is called the Depths of the Euxine640, about 300 stadia641 from the main land, the sea is immensely deep, no bottom having been found.