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Side 25
... Asia is inhabited as far as India ; but farther to the east there is nothing but desert , and nobody is acquainted with it . " The peninsulas of Asia Minor and Arabia he makes much too VOL . I. 8 narrow ; an error in which he was ...
... Asia is inhabited as far as India ; but farther to the east there is nothing but desert , and nobody is acquainted with it . " The peninsulas of Asia Minor and Arabia he makes much too VOL . I. 8 narrow ; an error in which he was ...
Side 26
... Asia , " he tells us , " was discovered by Darius . That prince wishing to know into what part of the sea the river Indus falls , ( the only river besides the Nile in which crocodiles are found ) , sent intelligent men to examine its ...
... Asia , " he tells us , " was discovered by Darius . That prince wishing to know into what part of the sea the river Indus falls , ( the only river besides the Nile in which crocodiles are found ) , sent intelligent men to examine its ...
Side 31
... Asia . † Thus it makes its appearance in the names Tan - ais , or Don , D'ni - eper and D'niester ( upper and lower rivers ) , Dan - ube , Rha - danus , Rho - danus , and Eri - danus ( prob- ably distant river ) , from the Euxine to the ...
... Asia . † Thus it makes its appearance in the names Tan - ais , or Don , D'ni - eper and D'niester ( upper and lower rivers ) , Dan - ube , Rha - danus , Rho - danus , and Eri - danus ( prob- ably distant river ) , from the Euxine to the ...
Side 41
... Asia Minor , and perhaps Egypt , to study the diversities of cli- mate ; added much to the knowledge both of nature and of hu- man society . The increase of information favoured the specu- lative temper of the Greek philosophers ...
... Asia Minor , and perhaps Egypt , to study the diversities of cli- mate ; added much to the knowledge both of nature and of hu- man society . The increase of information favoured the specu- lative temper of the Greek philosophers ...
Side 42
... fu- ture conqueror of Asia . The spirit of the royal pupil corres- ponded with the intellectual eminence of the great teacher ; and the expedition of Alexander produced a greater revolution in 42 BOOK I. GEOGRAPHY OF THE ANCIENTS .
... fu- ture conqueror of Asia . The spirit of the royal pupil corres- ponded with the intellectual eminence of the great teacher ; and the expedition of Alexander produced a greater revolution in 42 BOOK I. GEOGRAPHY OF THE ANCIENTS .
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