Messina, STRAIT OF (Lat. Mancurtinum fretum, or Fretum Siculum), separates Italy from Sicily, is 24 miles in length, and varies from 2½ to 14 miles in breadth. Since 1879 a scheme for making a railway tunnel under the strait has been under discussion, but as yet it has come to no practical result. See SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS.
Messina, STRAIT OF
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