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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
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in Ethiopia. The Bosporus mentioned in this part of hercourse is the so-called Indian Bosporus, at the spot where Asia andAfrica were supposed to be contiguous at their southern extremities.The Arimaspi of the north are transplanted to this district. From theIndian Bosporus lo reached the river ^Ethiops, probably the upperpart of the Xile, and descended that river by the cataracts down to the Delta. A considerable advance was made in the knowledge ofeastern countries, as might be expected from the historical events ofthe poets time. We have notice in Asia of the Indians, Susa, Cissia,Babylon, Ecbatana, Bactria, Syria, and Tyre ; and in EgyjDt, of thecataracts, the Delta, and the towns Memphis and Canopus. § 8. In the vriitings of-Pindar (b.c. 522-442) the same views stillprevail; he recognises the three continents, and seems to make thePhasis and the Xile the divisions. Cyrene in Africa, Gadeira inSpain, Cyme in Italy, and various Greek towns in Sicily, are firstnoticed in his poems.
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iVlap of the World, according to Hecatgeus. CHAPTEE. III. THE WORLD AS KXOWX TO THE GREEK HISTORIANS § 1. Causes which led to advanced knowledge : commerce and coloniza-tion : voyages of discovery ; intellectual activity; historical events.§ 2. Hecatgeus. § 3. Herodotus ; his life and travels. § 4. Hischaracter as a geographer. § 5. General views as to the earthsform, &c. § 6. Physical features. § 7. Political divisions andtopopjraphy. § 8. Xenophon : the Anabasis. § 9. Ctesias. § 10.Alexander the Great. §11. Extent of his discoveries. §12. Arrian:histories of Alexanders life. § 1. Geographical knowledge made immense progress during theceiitm-ies that elapsed between Homer the first of the poets, andHerodotus the first of the historians. Xor was it confined simply to the increased extent of the earths surface laid open to civilization :contemporaneously with this there sprung a spirit of scientific 24 THE AYORLD OF THE GEEEK HISTOEIA>s^S. Book I. inquiry, which, not

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