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... formed of two distinct Branches , the one from Abys- sinia , the other from the South of Darfoor - Reports of Ptolemy , Edrisi , and Abulfeda - Error of the two latter , in deriving the Niger from the Nile - Extent of the African ...
... formed of two distinct Branches , the one from Abys- sinia , the other from the South of Darfoor - Reports of Ptolemy , Edrisi , and Abulfeda - Error of the two latter , in deriving the Niger from the Nile - Extent of the African ...
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... formed ; and probably descended from thence , to a lower situation , as it encroached on the sea , or rather as it became habitable . He also informs us , that Asia terminates at Egypt , Melp . 39 ; and that Libya begins where Egypt ...
... formed ; and probably descended from thence , to a lower situation , as it encroached on the sea , or rather as it became habitable . He also informs us , that Asia terminates at Egypt , Melp . 39 ; and that Libya begins where Egypt ...
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... formed long before the time of Herodotus . Our Author seems to have known the general extent of Africa in this direction , as will be shewn in the sequel ; but as the investigation is so closely connected with the particular geography ...
... formed long before the time of Herodotus . Our Author seems to have known the general extent of Africa in this direction , as will be shewn in the sequel ; but as the investigation is so closely connected with the particular geography ...
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... formed any part of the comparatively straight coast , which is found between the Capes of Cantin and Geer , when the characteristic distinction of Soloeis seems to have been prominency , beyond the line of the coast to the northward of ...
... formed any part of the comparatively straight coast , which is found between the Capes of Cantin and Geer , when the characteristic distinction of Soloeis seems to have been prominency , beyond the line of the coast to the northward of ...
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... formed very erroneous calculations of them 2 . But this does not , in the present case , destroy the harmony of the positions , in respect of each other , so far , as to prevent them from being recognised , by means of the general ...
... formed very erroneous calculations of them 2 . But this does not , in the present case , destroy the harmony of the positions , in respect of each other , so far , as to prevent them from being recognised , by means of the general ...
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Abulfeda Al Wahat Alexandria allows alluvions Ammon amongst ancient Antonine Itinerary appears Arabian Augela Author Bahnasa branch Browne Bubastis Cairo canal Canopic Cape Verde caravan Cerné coast of Africa continent course Cyrene D'Anville degrees Delta described Desert distance dotus doubt east Edrisi Egypt Egyptian Euterpe extended Fezzan formed Gambia Garamantes geography Greater Oasis Greater Syrtis gulf Heliopolis Herodotus Heroopolis island Itinerary journies Jupiter lake lake Tritonis land latitude latter Lesser Oasis Lesser Syrtis Libya Lotophagi lotus Mediterranean Melp Memphis miles modern mountains Nasamones navigation Necho Niebuhr Nile Oases Oasis Parætonium Pelusiac Pelusium Pliny Pococke position probably promontory Ptolemy reckoned Red sea remarked respecting river sailing sand Santariah says Scylax Seewa Senegal ships shore situated Soloeis southward speaks stadia Strabo Suez supposed Syrtes temple Thebes tion tract Tritonis voyage western whilst wind
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Página 81 - Arabia. Contiguous to it is a mountain which stretches towards Memphis, and contains quarries of stone. Commencing at the foot of this, it extends from west to east, through a considerable tract of country, and where a mountain opens to the south, is discharged into the Arabian Gulf." " In the prosecution of this work, under
Página 347 - with which they decorate the SHRINE of Minerva : the vests, however, of the African Minervas, are made of skin, and the fringe hanging from the JEgis is not composed of ' " They have (says the Historian, Melp. c. 180,) an annual festival in honour of Minerva, in which the young women, dividing themselves into two separate
Página 331 - for our Goodwin Sand possesses much Or 'tis a sea with shallows bank'd around, Or 'tis a broken land with waters drown'd ; Here shores advanced o'er Neptune's rule we find, And there an inland ocean lags behind. Perhaps, in distant ages, 'twill be found,
Página 126 - saw some heaps of rubbish, but much greater about Metrahenny, and a great number of grottos cut in the opposite hills, &c.—I observed also a large bank to the southward of Metrahenny, running towards Sakkara," &c. P. 40. " I saw near Sakkara a sort of wood of the
Página 347 - It is pretended that Minerva was the daughter of Neptune, and the divinity of the lake Tritonis." (Melp. 180.) " The Machlyes at the lake Tritonis, have an annual festival in honour of Minerva." (Ib. 180.) tribes separated by the lake, are the
Página 348 - serpents, but of leather; in every other respect the dress is the same : it appears by the very name, that the robe of the statues of Minerva was borrowed from Africa. The women of this country wear below their garments
Página 245 - (Euterpe, 42.) with salt." And p. 26, " After the rains, the ground in the neighbourhood of Siwa is covered with salt for many weeks." " The complexion of the people is generally darker than that of the Egyptians. Their dialect is also different— among those whose costume was discernible, it approaches nearer to that of the Arabs of the Desert, than of the Egyptians or Moors
Página 121 - as long as the flood continues, vessels do not confine themselves to the channel of the river, but traverse the fields and plains. They who go from Naucratis to Memphis, pass by
Página 81 - thousand Egyptians perished. He at length desisted from his undertaking, being admonished by an oracle, that all his labour would turn to the advantage of a barbarian.
Página 81 - Psammitichus had a son, whose name was Necos, by whom he was succeeded in his authority. This prince first commenced that canal leading to the Red sea, which Darius, King of Persia, afterwards continued. The length of this canal is equal to a four days' voyage, and is wide enough to admit two triremes abreast. The water enters it from the Nile, a little above the city