Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . the North have been usually supposed to referto the inhabitants of Scythia and Sarmatia, and the hyperboreannations in general, though a later and more natural theory makesthem refer to the migratory shepherds and warriors of Cappa-docia, Phrygia, and Galatia. It thus appears that the primitiveIsraelites knew little beyond the limits of their own country,Egypt, and the regions lying between the Mediterranean, or theSea, and the Euphrates. A knowledge of the water
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . the North have been usually supposed to referto the inhabitants of Scythia and Sarmatia, and the hyperboreannations in general, though a later and more natural theory makesthem refer to the migratory shepherds and warriors of Cappa-docia, Phrygia, and Galatia. It thus appears that the primitiveIsraelites knew little beyond the limits of their own country,Egypt, and the regions lying between the Mediterranean, or theSea, and the Euphrates. A knowledge of the water, we havealready remarked, is essential to the formation of any correct andadequate idea of the shape and extent of the land. The Jewshad never ventured forth upon the sea for the discovery ofnew regions, and were, in consequence, ignorant even of that inwhich they dwelt. We shall find that the Greeks and Romans,whose maritime history we shall now briefly narrate, approachedthe truth in regard to the form and extent of the world, pre-cisely as their commerce expanded and their ambition for con-quest and colonization SUPPOSED FORM OF THE SHIP ARGO, (FROM AN ANCIENT BAS-RELIEF.) CHAPTER V. THE EARLY MARITIME HISTORY OF THE GREEKS THE EXPEDITION OF THE ARGO-NAUTS—THE VESSELS USED IN THE TROJAN WAR SHIP-BUILDING IN THE TIME OF HOMER—THE POETIC GEOGRAPHY OF THE GREEKS—THE PALACE OF THE SUN-THE MARVELS OF A VOYAGE OUT OF SIGHT OF LAND—THE GEOGRAPHY OFHESIOD—OF ANAXIMANDER—OF THALES, HERODOTUS, SOCRATES, AND ERATOS-THENES—THE GREAT OCEAN IS NAMED THE ATLANTIC. At what period the Greeks began to build vessels and to ven-ture upon the waters washing their coasts and girding theirnumerous archipelagoes, is not known: it is certain, at any rate,that the commencement of navigation with them, as with allother nations, must be referred to a time much anterior to theages of which we have any record. Long voyages are men-tioned as having taken place at periods so etfr
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