. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. to believe, that he viewed the earthas a sort of cone, or as a high mountain raised by its elevation above the abyss of made a vague division of the world into east, west, and north, he distributed it intofive zones, two temperate, one torrid, and two frigid. Only the first two were habitable; References to the Map of the World according to Eratosthenes. EUROPA. 2. Amisus 15. Patala AFRICA. 10. Berenice 1. Massilia 3. Sinnpe 16. Palibolhra 1. Lixus 11. Sye
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. to believe, that he viewed the earthas a sort of cone, or as a high mountain raised by its elevation above the abyss of made a vague division of the world into east, west, and north, he distributed it intofive zones, two temperate, one torrid, and two frigid. Only the first two were habitable; References to the Map of the World according to Eratosthenes. EUROPA. 2. Amisus 15. Patala AFRICA. 10. Berenice 1. Massilia 3. Sinnpe 16. Palibolhra 1. Lixus 11. Syene 2. RoTia 4. 2. Carthazo 12. Meroe 3. Athens 5. Ifsus Rivers. 3. Piolemaia 13. Ptolemaia 4. Byzantium 6. Thapsacus a Oxu9 4. Cyrene 14. Aduli 7. Ninus b Jaxartea 5. Berenice Rivers. 8. Susa c Phasig fi. Alexandria Rivers. a Rheniis 9. Babylon d EuphratCB 7. Canopug a Nilua b Borysthenes 10. Rhinocolura o Tisria 8. Pelusium b Astanuac Astaboras. c Tanaifl 11. iTIIana f Indus 9. Areinoe 12. Gnrra g Ganges ASIA. 13. Tinis Insula 1. Dioscuiias 14. Aiadus Insula 46 HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHY. F^g. a-SYSTEM OP MELA. Part. and that on the south was inaccessihle to man, on account of the torrid regions to tliis system, however, there was on that side another earth, inhabited by people,whom he calls Anlichthones, from their opposite position with respect to that part which weinhabit. The form and boundaries of the known and habitable earth are thus delineated:—The Mediterranean, with its branches of the Straits, the Euxine, and the Palus Mceotis; itsgreat tributaries, the Nile and the Tanais;—tliese combine, in his conception, to form thegrand line by which the universe is divided. The Mediterranean itself separates Europefrom Africa; and these continents are bounded on the east, the former by the Tanais, thelatter by the Nile; all beyond or to the east of these limits was Asia. {Fiff. 8.) In drawing the outline of Asia, Mela adheres very strictly to his
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