“A” General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World: Many of which are Now First Translated Into English, Volume 17Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme (etc.), 1814 - Voyages and travels |
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... some resemblance , by Ptolemy the Geographer , in the second cen- tury , and in the maps which accompany his work , faid to have been drawn in the fifth by Agathodemon . As to the Peutingerian Tables , which pretend to give itine ...
... some resemblance , by Ptolemy the Geographer , in the second cen- tury , and in the maps which accompany his work , faid to have been drawn in the fifth by Agathodemon . As to the Peutingerian Tables , which pretend to give itine ...
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... some ob- fervations on an important object , the various Routes to Hindoftan , a country which has always attracted the commerce of the world . One of the chief routes was that by Samarcand , and the river Oxus , which ran in its ...
... some ob- fervations on an important object , the various Routes to Hindoftan , a country which has always attracted the commerce of the world . One of the chief routes was that by Samarcand , and the river Oxus , which ran in its ...
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... some of these islands must approach to the western coast of Europe , the erroneous longitudes of Ptolemy having extended his Afia one - third more to the east than modern obfervation has afcertained . It includes alfo the extreme ...
... some of these islands must approach to the western coast of Europe , the erroneous longitudes of Ptolemy having extended his Afia one - third more to the east than modern obfervation has afcertained . It includes alfo the extreme ...
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... Some have one head with four faces ; others three heads on one neck ; others the head under the fhoulders ; or one upon another ; fome having four arms and others ten . That idol is reputed the handsomest which has the most arms : and ...
... Some have one head with four faces ; others three heads on one neck ; others the head under the fhoulders ; or one upon another ; fome having four arms and others ten . That idol is reputed the handsomest which has the most arms : and ...
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... Some exaggerations , therefore , will never injure the honeft fame of Polo , nor detract from the merit of the general mass of information , which , though unhap- pily restricted to less than a hundred small pages , is prodigious and ...
... Some exaggerations , therefore , will never injure the honeft fame of Polo , nor detract from the merit of the general mass of information , which , though unhap- pily restricted to less than a hundred small pages , is prodigious and ...
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