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Then Joppa,617 where the coast of Egypt, which at first stretches towards the east, makes a remarkable bend towards the north. In this place, according to some writers, Andromeda was exposed to the sea-monster. It is sufficiently elevated; it is said to command a view of Jerusalem, the capital of the Jews,618 who, when they descended to the sea, used this place as a naval arsenal. But the arsenals of robbers are the haunts of robbers. Carmel, and the forest, belonged to the Jews. The district was so populous that the neighbouring village Iamneia,619 and the settlements around, could furnish forty thousand soldiers.

Thence to Casium,620 near Pelusium, are little more than 1000 stadia, and 1300 to Pelusium itself.