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it as the limit of the Roman Sixteen Let. 3. Simmern, a former dukedom of Germany, now a department in the administrative district of Coblenz, west of the Rhine. Syria. Marchione 63; P. L. 1. 421, 448, 474; Brit. (1) 5. 4; Hirelings 5. 369; 11. 218; Hist. Defens. (4) 6. 83, 84; (7) 6. 128; Pro Se Defens. 6. 333; Doct. Christ. (2. 5) 2. 313. Palestine and the country north of it to the Taurus Mountains. Syrtis. P. L. 2. 939. The Syrtis Major and the Syrtis Minor are two gulfs in the region of Tripoli on the north coast of Africa, now known as the Gulfs of Sidra and Cabes. They are pictured by Lucan as follows When Nature gave the universe its form She left this region neither land nor sea; Not wholly shrunk, so that it should receive The ocean flood; nor firm enough to stand — Against its buffets all the pathle coast Lies in uncertain shape; the land by earth Is parted from the deep; on sandy banks The seas are broken, and from shoal to shoal The waves advance to sound upon the shore. Nature, in spite, thus left her work undone, {Pharsalia 9. 304-lL) Unfashioned to men’s use. The quicksands of the Syrtes were much dreaded in antiquity; in the account of the shipwreck of St. Paul we read that the sailors feared “lest they should fall into the quicksands.” (Acts 27. 17.) ch287.xhtml t 297