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1 4. 6. 9 and 7. 1. 3.
2 Now the Lake of Constance; also called the Bodensee. Cp. 4. 3. 3 and 4. 6. 9.
3 The Untersee.
4 Cp. 4. 3. 3.
5 These figures, as they stand in the manuscripts, are, of course, relatively impossible, and Strabo could hardly have made such a glaring error. Meineke and others emend 300 to 500, leaving the 200 as it is; but on textual grounds, at least, 600 is far more probable. “Passage across” (in Strabo) means the usual boat-passage, but the terminal points of this passage are now unknown. According to W.A.B. Coolidge (Encyclopedia Brittanica, s.v. “Lake of Constance”) the length of the lake is now 46 1/2 miles (from Bregenz to Stein-am-Rhein), while its greatest width is 10 1/2 miles.
6 The forest of the Bohemians.
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