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“From this Peninsula, they say, the sea parted with puissant waves, and ent’ering tore Samátra’s noble island, wont to be joined to the Main as seen by men of yore.
’Twas callèd Chersonèse, and such degree it gained by earth that yielded golden ore, they gave a golden ep’ithet to the ground: Some be who fancy Ophir here was found.