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THE

GEOGRAPHY OF HERODOTUS

EXAMINED, &c.

SECTION I.

Preliminary Observations-The Geography of HERODOTUS not intended for a System, but to explain a History-he regarded the whole habitable Earth, as one Continent-his Character for Veracity, on the Increase-has suffered most, through his Readers' Neglect of distinguishing what the Author saw, from what he only heard-was ignorant of abstract Science; and did not believe that the Earth was globular:—but is respectable as a Historian, Geographer, and Moralist-a great Traveller-his Geography consists more in relative Positions, than actual Distances, and Dimensions-Scope of his geographical Knowledge.

As the writings of Herodotus furnish the earliest record of history, among the heathen authors whose works have reached us, so they also furnish the earliest known system of geography, as far as it goes'. It may therefore be worth while to examine

1 The late PRINCIPAL ROBERTSON, whose memory the Author venerates, as he esteemed him living, has the following remark, at the opening of his last work, the Disquisition concerning ancient India. What he there says respecting history, is equally applicable to geography.

"Whoever attempts to trace the operations of men in remote

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