. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. ^ through these and other channels, reachhis knowledge. It is not surprising that the cnide delineation of the exterior coasts ofEurope under the Strabonic system should have been materially amended; that Spain 5* 54 THE WORLD ACCORDING TO PTOLEMY. Fig. Book I. PTOLEMY—EUROPE. 55 should have now a southern, and Gaul a western coast; and that the Bay of Biscay shouldappear clearly under the appellations of the Cantahrian Ocean and the Aquitanian Sea. Inregard to Bri
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. ^ through these and other channels, reachhis knowledge. It is not surprising that the cnide delineation of the exterior coasts ofEurope under the Strabonic system should have been materially amended; that Spain 5* 54 THE WORLD ACCORDING TO PTOLEMY. Fig. Book I. PTOLEMY—EUROPE. 55 should have now a southern, and Gaul a western coast; and that the Bay of Biscay shouldappear clearly under the appellations of the Cantahrian Ocean and the Aquitanian Sea. Inregard to Britain, also, or, at least, England, a great reform had been effected. Its coast,alter passing the promontory of Kent, bends inward toward the estuary of the Thames,called here Idumanus. Still more decided, on the opposite side, is tlie Sabrina esh(ariv7n(the estuary of the Severn), a very appropriate appellation for the Bristol Ciiannel. Theprojection of Wales, and its entire outline, appears then drawn in a very unexceptionablemanner. With regard to Ireland, Ptolemy has not been able wholly to shake off the errone-ous impressions of the first Alexandrian school, according to which that country lay to tlienorth of Britain. He makes it west, indeed, but at the same time greatly too far north, itssouthern coast being on a line with that of Lancashire, or, at least, with the
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