. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . the revival of letters; andthe hading features are so dearly marked by naturethat they could not tail to be recognised. But theearlier description!! by Fazello, Bonanni, and Mira-bella. are of little value. Cluverius, as usual, bi-tted the Bubject with learning and diligence;and the ground has been carefully examined byseveral modem travellers. An excellent survey ofit was also made by British engineers in 1808; andthe research- ! canied on by the duke of Sens di Falco, and by a commission ap-piinted by the Neapolitan government in 1839 havethrown co
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . the revival of letters; andthe hading features are so dearly marked by naturethat they could not tail to be recognised. But theearlier description!! by Fazello, Bonanni, and Mira-bella. are of little value. Cluverius, as usual, bi-tted the Bubject with learning and diligence;and the ground has been carefully examined byseveral modem travellers. An excellent survey ofit was also made by British engineers in 1808; andthe research- ! canied on by the duke of Sens di Falco, and by a commission ap-piinted by the Neapolitan government in 1839 havethrown considerable light upon the extant remainsof antiquity, as well as upon some points of the to-pography. have been discussed in a separatememoir by the architect employed, the whole subject has been fully invest]with constant reference to the ancient authors, in anelaborate and excellent memoir by Col. Leake. Theabove article is based mainly upon the researches ofthe last author, and the local details given in the. SYRIA. 1069 work of the duke of di Falco, the fourthvolume of which is devoted wholly to the antiquitiesof Syracuse, (Fazell. de Reb. Sic. iv. 1; Bonanni, Antiche Siraeute, 2 vols. fbl. Palermo, 1717;Mirabella, Dichtorazione deUa Pianta dell anticheStracuse. reprinted with the preceding work: i. 12: I la, i p 175—202; Smyths Sicily, pp. 162—17G; Swinburne, Travelsin the Tiro Sicilies, vol. ii. pp. 318—-J46; Hoare,Classicid Tmir. vol. ii. pp. 140 — 17ti; Leake,Xotes on Syracuse, in the Transactions i4; Serra di Falco, Antichita delta Sicilia, vol. iv;Cavallari, Zur Topographie von Syrahts. 8vo. Giit-1845.) [E. II. B.] STBAS1 UK \K (^vpaaTpvv,), PeripL M. E. ; Ptol vii. 1. § 2), a district of ancient India,near and about the mouths of the Indus. Therecan be no doubt that it is represented by the modem: tnin, fir a long time the seat of a powerfulnation. Surashtra means in Sanscrit
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