The Mediterranean

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THE Mediterranean Sea, equally remarkable from its position in the midst of the most civilized nations, and its connexion with many memorable events in ancient and modern history, is that vast central gulf emphatically styled in the Sacred Scriptures the Great Sea; justly receiving that appellation, as being the largest assemblage of waters known to the earliest writers of those records: and indeed its importance was truly paramount among the ancients, as it was the grand key to both portions of the then known world.