The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1833 |
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Side vi
... visited by Cæsar . - Its Population . - The Romans reach the Baltic . - The Cimbri.- Scandinavia and Norway mentioned by Pliny . - Tacitus names the Swedes . -The Arimphæi . - Grand Characteristics of the Northern Nations vi CONTENTS .
... visited by Cæsar . - Its Population . - The Romans reach the Baltic . - The Cimbri.- Scandinavia and Norway mentioned by Pliny . - Tacitus names the Swedes . -The Arimphæi . - Grand Characteristics of the Northern Nations vi CONTENTS .
Side vii
... Pliny's Account . - Antiquity of Trade in the Eastern Seas . - Pirate Nations of the East . - Productions of the Moluccas mentioned by Plautus . - Early Commerce of the Phoenicians examined.- . Tin brought to Egypt from India . - The ...
... Pliny's Account . - Antiquity of Trade in the Eastern Seas . - Pirate Nations of the East . - Productions of the Moluccas mentioned by Plautus . - Early Commerce of the Phoenicians examined.- . Tin brought to Egypt from India . - The ...
Side 26
William Desborough Cooley. narrow ; an error in which he was followed by Pliny , who compares the peninsula of Arabia to that of Italy . Among the tributaries of the Persian empire , Herodotus enumerates the Parthians , Chorasmians , the ...
William Desborough Cooley. narrow ; an error in which he was followed by Pliny , who compares the peninsula of Arabia to that of Italy . Among the tributaries of the Persian empire , Herodotus enumerates the Parthians , Chorasmians , the ...
Side 37
... Pliny ) to mean Ireland , an ancient native appellation of which was Muic . The description of a country situated six days ' sail within Albion , suits better with Ireland than with the Scilly islands . As to the account of tin being ...
... Pliny ) to mean Ireland , an ancient native appellation of which was Muic . The description of a country situated six days ' sail within Albion , suits better with Ireland than with the Scilly islands . As to the account of tin being ...
Side 49
... , in South Bahar , who left , however , their name to the great capital of their dominions . Pliny informs us that the city Palibothra , as he VOL . I. 5 calls it , far exceeded in wealth and magnitude the CHAP . V. 49 THE GREEKS .
... , in South Bahar , who left , however , their name to the great capital of their dominions . Pliny informs us that the city Palibothra , as he VOL . I. 5 calls it , far exceeded in wealth and magnitude the CHAP . V. 49 THE GREEKS .
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