In Pordoselene there is a public road one side of which the
weasel is found but not on the other. In Boeotia the mole is found
in great abundance in the neighbourhood of Orchomenus, but there are
none in Lebadia though it is in the immediate vicinity, and if a
mole be transported from the one district to the other it will
refuse to burrow in the soil. The hare cannot live in Ithaca if
introduced there; in fact it will be found dead, turned towards the
point of the beach where it was landed. The horseman-ant is not
found in Sicily; the croaking frog has only recently appeared in the
neighbourhood of Cyrene. In the whole of Libya there is neither wild
boar, nor stag, nor wild goat; and in India, according to Ctesias-no
very good authority, by the way-there are no swine, wild or tame,
but animals that are devoid of blood and such as go into hiding or
go torpid are all of immense size there. In the Euxine there are no
small molluscs nor testaceans, except a few here and there; but in the
Red Sea all the testaceans are exceedingly large. In Syria the sheep
have tails a cubit in breadth; the goats have ears a span and a palm
long, and some have ears that flap down to the ground; and the
cattle have humps on their shoulders, like the camel.
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