The dawn of modern geographyA history of exploration and geographical science .. . lengthof the world; just as from the land of the Hyperboreans living behind the north wind, and from the Caspian, thatflows in from the Arctic waters, to the Southern Ocean andthe extremest coasts of Ethiopia, one may estimate thebreadth. The first will be found to be about four hundredstages; the second about two hundred.^ So that HolyScripture rightly tells us that the earth is twice as long asit is broad. » Malaya. But cf. Yule,Cathay, i. ^ That is, reckoning : 1. Thelength—from Sina to Persia, 150stage
The dawn of modern geographyA history of exploration and geographical science .. . lengthof the world; just as from the land of the Hyperboreans living behind the north wind, and from the Caspian, thatflows in from the Arctic waters, to the Southern Ocean andthe extremest coasts of Ethiopia, one may estimate thebreadth. The first will be found to be about four hundredstages; the second about two hundred.^ So that HolyScripture rightly tells us that the earth is twice as long asit is broad. » Malaya. But cf. Yule,Cathay, i. ^ That is, reckoning : 1. Thelength—from Sina to Persia, 150stages; fioni Persia to Roman Empire,at Nisi bis, 80 stages; from Nisibis toSeleucia, 13 stages ; from Seleucia toCadiz, more than 150 stages. 2. Thebreadth—from Northern Ocean to Byzantium,50 stages; from Byzantiumto Alexandria, 50 stages; from Alex-andria to the Cataracts, 30 stages;from the Cataracts to Axum, 30; fromAxum to the incense-bearing coastof Barbary, a district called Sasou,about 50. The Adule inscription(140-144) is made to confirm pp. 130-144 (Montf.).. THE PLANS OF COSMAS. V. The universe, according to Cosmas, with the Walls and arch of Heaven. Above,the Creator surveying His works. The rising and setting sun are moving round thegreat mountain in the north. IToface p. 290. VI.] THE HABITABLE WORLD AN OBLONG. 291 Cosmas then proceeds to describe the monument ofPtolemy Euergetes at Adule ^ and its vaunting inscrip-tions, which he thinks an additional proof of his belief thatthe breadth of earth is not more than two hundred thus, he concludes triumphantly, is Scripture confirmedby the most accurate travel; thus may we discount the liarswho babble of another southern zone beyond the centralregion of intolerable heat. Are not Greek and Roman andEgyptian history and modern observation at one with theVision of Daniel in establishing the truth ? The four extremes of the world, continues the geo-grapher, are occupied by four nations.^ In the East are
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