[212] Prona seems rightly explained by Henry, sloping down towards the shore, ‘aperto’ unobstructed, as there was no longer any rock near which they had to keep. Both descriptions, as he expresses it, apply to “the very part over which the vessels had passed on their way outward, considered now in relation to their return.” But it has been suggested to me that ‘prona’ may mean shelving away from the rock.
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