The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . e following oi^inion. In theupper parts of this country it snows continually, but, as is natural,less in summer than in winter. And whoever has seen snowfalling thick near him will know what I mean. For snow re-sembles feathers, and on account of the winter being so severethe northern j)arts of this continent cannot be inhabited. Ibelieve then that the Scythians and their neighbours calledsnow feathers, on account of the resemblance between is what is s
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . e following oi^inion. In theupper parts of this country it snows continually, but, as is natural,less in summer than in winter. And whoever has seen snowfalling thick near him will know what I mean. For snow re-sembles feathers, and on account of the winter being so severethe northern j)arts of this continent cannot be inhabited. Ibelieve then that the Scythians and their neighbours calledsnow feathers, on account of the resemblance between is what is stated regarding the most remote regions. These and other similar statements, notwithstanding the xiii.] STRABO. 513 absurdities mixed up with them, are founded in the firstinstance on the accounts of eye-witnesses, which have passedfrom mouth to mouth, from tribe to tribe, before they werenoted down. Still several centuries after the time of Herodotus,when the Roman power had reached its highest point, littlemore was known of the more remote parts of north Asia. WhileHerodotus, in the two hundred and third chapter of his First. MAP OF THE WORLD, SAID TO BE OF THE TENTH CENTURY. Found in a manuscript of the twelfth century in the Library at Turin.(From Santarems Atlas.) Book, says that the Caspian is a sea by itself having nocommunication with any other sea, Strabo, induced by evidencefurnished by the commander of a Greek fleet in that sea, states(Book II, chapters i. and iv,) that the Caspian is a gulf of theNorthern Ocean, from which it is possible to sail to India,Pliny the Elder {Historia Naturalis, Book VI, chapters xiii, L L
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