next to which it standeth.
CHAPTER XL
Arabia.
BEYOND the Pelusiac Mouth is Arabia, bordering on the
Red Sea : and that Arabia, so rich and odoriferous, and renowned
with the Surname of Happy. This Desert Arabia is
possessed by the Catabanes, Esbonitae, and Scenite Arabians :
barren, except where it toucheth the Confines of Syria, and,
setting aside the Mountain Casius, nothing memorable. This
Region is joined to the Arabians, Canchlei on the East Side,
and to the Cedrsei Southward ; and they both are joined
afterwards with the Nabathsei. Moreover, two Bays there
be, one Bay is called that of Heroopoliticus, and the other,
Elaniticus : in the Red Sea, bordering on Egypt, 150 Miles
distant, between two Towns, Elana and Gaza, which is in our
[Mediterranean] Sea. Agrippa counteth from Pelusium to
Arsinoe, a Town upon the Red Sea, through the Deserts, an
hundred and five-and-twenty Miles. So small a Way lieth
between things of such Difference in Nature.