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Next is the island of Phocae (Seals),Sheduan. The Saspirene insula of Ptolemy. which has its name from those animals, which abound there. Near it is a promontory,Ras Mahomet, which terminates the south of the peninsula formed by the two bays, the Aelanitic running up to Petra, and that of Heroopolis running up to Suez. The meaning of Strabo seems to be, that this cape is in a direction due south of Petra and Palestine. which extends towards Petra, of the Arabians called Nabataei, and to the country of Palestine, to this [island] the Minaei,There is a wide difference of opinion among geographers with regard to the position of this important tribe in the modern map of Arabia. See Smith, art. Minaei. Gerrhaei, and all the neighbouring nations repair with loads of aromatics.
