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days.The cities were situated on a high plateau sheltered by mountains from theSahara, with abundance of pasture-land and never-failing springs of water. We are told that its great product was a plant called silphium, whichgrew nowhere else, and which supplied food and drugs, while its dried fibres… … Gyrene—Entrance to the Fountain of Apollo. harvest went on for eight months of the year. The colony was rich in oil,vines, and every known fruit. No wonder that the place flourished, and eventually the peoj^le grewrich and luxurious. They had no enemies but locusts for many years, tillthe Persians…
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