The Geography System of Herodotus Examined and Explained, by a Comparison with Those of Other Ancient Authors, and with Modern Geography ...C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1830 |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... regarded as founded on the calculations of seamen ; but those seamen must have referred to some particular standard , and commonly sailed too near the land , to be much deceived in their distance . They even knew how to calculate ...
... regarded as founded on the calculations of seamen ; but those seamen must have referred to some particular standard , and commonly sailed too near the land , to be much deceived in their distance . They even knew how to calculate ...
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... regarded as Scythians all those situ- ated to the eastward of the Celts ; lib . v . c . 2. We shall have to remark the same of Pliny . 2 Clio , 167. They first settled in the Enussæan Islands ad- jacent to Chios ; thence they proceeded ...
... regarded as Scythians all those situ- ated to the eastward of the Celts ; lib . v . c . 2. We shall have to remark the same of Pliny . 2 Clio , 167. They first settled in the Enussæan Islands ad- jacent to Chios ; thence they proceeded ...
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... regarded as a Scythian nation ; but subse- quent writers have almost universally reckoned them such . So that the proper Scythians of Herodotus , were those at the Euxine ; and those of succeeding writers , at the Caspian ( or rather ...
... regarded as a Scythian nation ; but subse- quent writers have almost universally reckoned them such . So that the proper Scythians of Herodotus , were those at the Euxine ; and those of succeeding writers , at the Caspian ( or rather ...
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... regarded as the ancient beds of rivers ; of which more in the sequel . He passed two of them between Bender and Otchakow ; and on the way to the second , he says , 66 we saw the sun appear on the horizon of these plains , as mariners do ...
... regarded as the ancient beds of rivers ; of which more in the sequel . He passed two of them between Bender and Otchakow ; and on the way to the second , he says , 66 we saw the sun appear on the horizon of these plains , as mariners do ...
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