CONTENTS. OBSERVATIONS on some of the Articles in the Dic- tionary of Greek and Roman Geography by Various Writers, OBSERVATIONS ON SOME OF THE ARTICLES IN THE DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN GEOGRAPHY BY VARIOUS WRITERS, EDITED BY WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D. ÆGYPTUS, by W. B. D. THE author of this article expresses doubts as to the reality of the circumnavigation of Africa, stated by Herodotus to have been accomplished by some Phoenicians in the service of Neco king of Egypt, about the year 610 B.C. 'Among the greatest of the works of Neco," says w. B. D., "was the canal between the Nile and the Red Sea **** At his command also the Phoenicians undertook the circumnavigation of the African peninsula. The success of the enterprise is problematical, but, as Major Rennell in his essay on the geography of Herodotus has shown, by no means impossible" (i. p. 45). In the article' Libya,' the same writer says, with reference to the same question, "the improbability of this story is not by any means fully established " (ii. p. 177). In Dr. Smith's Dictionary of Bioraphy under the head Necho,' the circumnaviga B |