2. According to the loose reckoning, that a ship could sail
with a fair wind 1000 stadia, or 125 miles, in the
revolution of a day and night, Diodorus Siculus computes ten
days from the Palus Maeotis to Rhodes, and four days from
Rhodes to Alexandria. The navigation of the Nile, from
Alexandria to Syene, under the tropic of Cancer, required,
as it was against the stream, ten days more. Diodor. Sicul.
tom. i. 1. iii. [c. 33] p. 200, edit. Wesseling. He might,
without much impropriety, measure the extreme heat from the
verge of the torrid zone; but he speaks of the Moeotis, in
the 47th degree of northern latitude, as if it lay within
the polar circle.