The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1833 |
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Side vi
... Strabo . - His Knowledge of the West . - The Tur detani in Spain . - Anthropophagi in Ireland . - The Sarmatians . - The Sinds or Indians on the Bosphorus . - The Sigyni . - The Gipsies . - Indians in Lycia . -Nations of the Caucasus ...
... Strabo . - His Knowledge of the West . - The Tur detani in Spain . - Anthropophagi in Ireland . - The Sarmatians . - The Sinds or Indians on the Bosphorus . - The Sigyni . - The Gipsies . - Indians in Lycia . -Nations of the Caucasus ...
Side 9
... Strabo , who was well versed in geography . The task will be as agreeable as it is essential to our purpose , to collect from the pages of the venerable poet the extent of his ac- quaintance with the surface of the earth . The ocean was ...
... Strabo , who was well versed in geography . The task will be as agreeable as it is essential to our purpose , to collect from the pages of the venerable poet the extent of his ac- quaintance with the surface of the earth . The ocean was ...
Side 23
... Strabo Sindi , and who formerly occupied the plains at the mouth of the Cuban . Having learned from Homer that lambs in Libya have horns at their birth , and seeing that sheep in Scythia remained hornless all their lives , he concluded ...
... Strabo Sindi , and who formerly occupied the plains at the mouth of the Cuban . Having learned from Homer that lambs in Libya have horns at their birth , and seeing that sheep in Scythia remained hornless all their lives , he concluded ...
Side 25
... Strabo among the number , while they drew their maps of the world in con- formity with arbitrary hypotheses , rejected the authority of Herodotus , and made the Caspian communicate with the northern ocean by a long channel half a mile ...
... Strabo among the number , while they drew their maps of the world in con- formity with arbitrary hypotheses , rejected the authority of Herodotus , and made the Caspian communicate with the northern ocean by a long channel half a mile ...
Side 56
... Strabo , who believed that the equator was unap- proachable , from its excessive heat , while citing the arguments of Posidonius of Rhodes , an advocate of the contrary opinion , relates , from that writer , the courageous efforts of an ...
... Strabo , who believed that the equator was unap- proachable , from its excessive heat , while citing the arguments of Posidonius of Rhodes , an advocate of the contrary opinion , relates , from that writer , the courageous efforts of an ...
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