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PROPONTIS

Volume 3 · 53 words · 1771 Edition

or Sea of Marmora, divides Europe from Asia; having the Bosporus on the north-east, by which it has a communication with the Euxine sea; and the Hellespont on the south-west, by which it communicates with the Archipelago. It is one hundred and twenty miles long, and in some places upwards of forty broad.