On Some Disputed Questions of Ancient GeographyJohn Murray, 1857 - 128 էջ |
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... proved by the latest maps of the Moréa , the general circumference of which is 400 G. M. nearly , while that of the windings of the coast at a distance of two or three miles from the shore is about 520 G. M. , agreeing nearly 2 ÆGYPTUS .
... proved by the latest maps of the Moréa , the general circumference of which is 400 G. M. nearly , while that of the windings of the coast at a distance of two or three miles from the shore is about 520 G. M. , agreeing nearly 2 ÆGYPTUS .
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William Martin Leake. a voyage of about 110 days , seems alone to prove the impossibility of the circumnavigation of Africa as related by Herodotus , even without considering some circumstances , tending to give not a much lower but a ...
William Martin Leake. a voyage of about 110 days , seems alone to prove the impossibility of the circumnavigation of Africa as related by Herodotus , even without considering some circumstances , tending to give not a much lower but a ...
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... prove the possibility of the circumnavigation , insists upon the benefit which the Phoenicians might have derived from the monsoons on the eastern , and the trade - winds on the western side of Africa , and has pointed out the manner in ...
... prove the possibility of the circumnavigation , insists upon the benefit which the Phoenicians might have derived from the monsoons on the eastern , and the trade - winds on the western side of Africa , and has pointed out the manner in ...
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... proved to have stood at a small village named Paleáni , on the right bank of the emissary of the lake of Kiui - gez , so called from a village at the head of it . The ruins of Caunus consist of town walls , some of a very ancient style ...
... proved to have stood at a small village named Paleáni , on the right bank of the emissary of the lake of Kiui - gez , so called from a village at the head of it . The ruins of Caunus consist of town walls , some of a very ancient style ...
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... prove the panopos of Troy in the time of Homer himself . Later authorities , he re- marks , are agreed as to this fact , and he instances the orator Lycurgus , who says , " Who has not heard that Troy has remained uninhabited since it ...
... prove the panopos of Troy in the time of Homer himself . Later authorities , he re- marks , are agreed as to this fact , and he instances the orator Lycurgus , who says , " Who has not heard that Troy has remained uninhabited since it ...
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