“And forthwith Iesus gaue them leaue. And the vncleane spirits went out, and entred into the swine, and the herd ranne violently downe a steepe place into the sea (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
Mr 5:13 A steep place. The declivity at the base of the mountain at Gersa is almost perpendicular.