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Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ldamys,i. e. of an oblong shape, the proportions being 77,800 stades inlength and 38,000 in breadth, but drawing to a ix)int at each end.In his descriptive geography, he added considerably to the know-ledge of the East, which Alexanders campaigns had then opened;m the est a few fresh names appear. The peculiar features in hismap are—the mistaken direction given to the British Isles ; the un-due easterly elongation of Africa below the Straits of Bab-«1-Mandeb ;the connexion between the Caspian Sea and the Xorthern Ocean; theOxus and Jaxartes flowing into that sea, and not into the Sea of Aral;the absence of the peninsula of Hindostan ; the Ister communi-cating with the Adriatic sea through one of its branches ; the omis-sion of the Bay of Biscay; the compression of the northern districtsof Europe and Asia ; and the total omission of the eastern half ofAsia and the southern half of Africa. He made numerous calcula-tions of distances, the correctness of which varies considerably, from
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48 THE WOELD AS KXOAYX TO THE GEOGEAPHERS. Bk. I. the circumstance of his having made his meridians of longitudeparallel to each other. His great work on geography is unfortunatelyonly known to us from the extracts preserved by Strabo and otherwaiters : it consisted of three books, the first of which contained areview of the progress of geography ; the second treated of mathe-matical, and the third of descriptive geography. Places, &c., of interest in Eratostlienes Geography. — In Europe, henotices the Spanish rivers Anas and Tagus, the promontory of Calpe,and the town of Tarraco ; off the coast of Gaul, a gioup of islands, ofwhich Uxisama represents TJshard; in Germany. Orkynia, or the Hercy-nian wood. In Africa, he is the first to notice the two tributaries of theiSTile, Ast§.pus and Astaboras; the Cinnamon coast, S. of the straits ofBab-el-Mandeb ; the iSTubians in the interior of Libya: the to\^Ti Lixusin Mauretania; and the rock Abylax, the later Abjda, opposite Calpe.Asia

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