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Topography of Carthagena
It stands about half-way down the coast of Iberia in
Description of New Carthage.
a gulf which faces south-west, running about
twenty stades inland, and about ten stades
broad at its entrance. The whole gulf is made
a harbour by the fact that an islandEscombrera (*skombrari/a). I must refer
my readers to Mr. Strachan-Davidson's appendix on The Site of the Spanish Carthage for a discussion of
these details. See above 2, 13; Livy, 26, 42. lies at its mouth and thus
makes the entrance channels on each side of it exceedingly
narrow. It breaks the force of the waves also, and the whole
gulf has thus smooth water, except when south-west winds
setting down the two channels raise a surf: with all other
winds it is perfectly calm, from being so nearly landlocked.
In the recess of the gulf a mountain juts out in the form of a
chersonese, and it is on this mountain that the city stands,
surrounded by the sea on the east and south, and on the
west by a lagoon extending so