The island of Utopia is two hundred miles across in the middle part where it is widest, and nowhere much narrower than this except toward the two ends, where it gradually tapers.These ends, curved round as if completing a circle five hundred miles in circumference, make the island crescent-shaped, like a new moon. Between the horns of the crescent, which are about eleven miles apart, the sea enters and spreads into a broad bay. Being sheltered from the wind by the surrounding land, the bay is not rough, but placid and smooth instead, like a big lake.