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Beyond these lands of both Scythias,European and Asiatic. towards the east, the summits of lofty wallsDoubtless including the famous Chinese Wall. form a circle and enclose the Seres,The Chinese. remarkable for the richness and extent of their country. On the west they are bounded by the Scythians, and on the north and the east they extend to a snowclad waste; on the south they reach India and the Ganges. There are mountains there, called Anniba, Nazavicium, Asmira, Emodon, and Opurocorra.
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Through this land, consisting of a plain of wide extent,For situ, structure, form, cf. Horace, Odes, iii. 30, 2, regalique situ pyramidum altius. As this meaning seems not to occur elsewhere, this may be a reminiscence; cf. bene numrnatum, xiv. 6, 12, note. surrounded on all sides by precipitous cliffs, two rivers of famous name, the Oechartis and the Bautis,The Selenga and the Hoang Ho. flow in a somewhat slow course. The nature of the various tracts is unlike, being now open and flat and now descending in gentle slopes; and therefore the land overflows in grain, flocks, and orchards.
