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Identifier: encyclopaediaofg01murr (find matches)
Title: The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Murray, Hugh, 1779-1846 Wallace, William, 1768-1843 Bradford, T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel), 1802-1887
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard
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eems probable that there were successive editions, withsuch amendments and alterations as time suggested. It is a mere skeleton road-book, withnothing but the names of places and their distance from each other. The same may besaid of the Jerusalem Itinerary, exhibiting in great detail the route from Bordeaux to thatholy city. The Peutingerian Table (tlie Italian portion of which is exhibited in Fig. 9. p. 50.) is amore remarkable monument, and may be considered, probably, as a specimen of the paintedroads of the ancients. It forms a map of the world, constructed, however, on the mostnovel and peculiar principles. Its dimensions being twenty feet in length and one in breadth,an idea may be formed of the correctness with which the proportion of the different parts isexhibited. The high road which traversed the Roman empire iii the general direction ofeast and west is made the first meridian, and to this every other part is subjected. The ob- Voi, L 5 G 50 THE PEUTINGERIAN TABLE. Fio. 9.
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Book I. SECOND ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOL. 51 jects along this line are minutely and faithfully exhibited; of those lying to the north andsouth of it only some general notion can be conveyed: these are all represented, of course,most enormously extended in length and reduced in breadth. CHAPTER VI. SECOND ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOL. Alexandria by her contributions to geography supplied to a great extent the deficienciesof the Romans, who, amid the success with which they cultivated history and literature,never attained to any eminence in this science. That capital, even in its subject state,retained still the impulse received from the Ptolemies, and continued to be the second inmagnitude, and the foremost in learning, of all in the empire. In the second century therewas established, here and at Tyre, a geographical school, possessing more ample materialsand resources than any that had hitherto existed. To the conquests and itineraries of Alex-ander were now added those of Rome, which, extending in a

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