The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1833 |
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Side vi
... Taprobane . - Thought that India might be reached by the West 34 CHAP . V. THE GREEKS CONTINUED . Expedition of Alexander . - Policy of that Conqueror . - Enters India . - Resolves to explore the Persian Gulf . The March down the Indus ...
... Taprobane . - Thought that India might be reached by the West 34 CHAP . V. THE GREEKS CONTINUED . Expedition of Alexander . - Policy of that Conqueror . - Enters India . - Resolves to explore the Persian Gulf . The March down the Indus ...
Side 34
... Taprobane . - Thought that India might be reached by the West . THE progress of geographical knowledge depends more on the general intercourse subsisting between nations than on the exertions of individual travellers . Such an ...
... Taprobane . - Thought that India might be reached by the West . THE progress of geographical knowledge depends more on the general intercourse subsisting between nations than on the exertions of individual travellers . Such an ...
Side 42
... Taprobane beyond India , or Phe- bol in the Arabian sea . Here we have a proof of his extensive information in this early mention of Taprobane or Ceylon , and Phebol , which is generally supposed to be Madagascar ; but which , as ...
... Taprobane beyond India , or Phe- bol in the Arabian sea . Here we have a proof of his extensive information in this early mention of Taprobane or Ceylon , and Phebol , which is generally supposed to be Madagascar ; but which , as ...
Side 43
... Taprobane or Ceylon variously described.- Accounts of the Ancients reconciled . - The Names of that Island . - Com- merce between Egypt and the East . - Geography flourished in the commer- cial City of Alexandria . - Eratosthenes ...
... Taprobane or Ceylon variously described.- Accounts of the Ancients reconciled . - The Names of that Island . - Com- merce between Egypt and the East . - Geography flourished in the commer- cial City of Alexandria . - Eratosthenes ...
Side 51
... Taprobane , or Ceylon ; and the dimensions which he assigned to that island were much nearer the truth than those of Ptolemy , 400 years later , when it was annually visited by fleets from Egypt . He remarked , that it was rich in gold ...
... Taprobane , or Ceylon ; and the dimensions which he assigned to that island were much nearer the truth than those of Ptolemy , 400 years later , when it was annually visited by fleets from Egypt . He remarked , that it was rich in gold ...
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