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the northern part of Asiu to the surrounding ocean. The flumen Nilus 

 marks otï southern Asia. 



The following (fig. 21) is by Marino Sanuto (A.D. 1320). It is a 

 fair map of the country round the Mediterranean and Black seas. At 

 the end of the Black sea is the Eiver Tanais flowing from the Kiph»an 

 mountains. 



Fig. 21,— From Marino Sanuto, A.D, 1320. 



The next (fig. 22, p. 236) is from a Codex in the library of Eheiras, and 

 illustrates a manuscript of Pomponius Mela. The Tanais is seen there to- 

 be the dividing line at the north, as the Nile at the south. It is the 

 western boundary of Scythia, a name synonymous with Tartary. 



One of the most leai'ned men of his da}' was the Cardinal d'Ailly. 

 He wrote a book which was a great support to Columbus in his anxious 

 moments. It was printed in 1483, long after the author's death. The 

 map (fig. 23, p. 237) is his Imago Mundi, or map of the world. The word 

 "thanai"will be found across the parallel of France and Kome, and 

 Tanais is not a river but a region, and east of it are the Armenian moun- 

 tains and the Caspian sea. While such maps as these are found in the 

 more learned treatises, the general conception of the habitable world 

 was expressed in a concise form, in such popular manuals as existed, by 

 the diagram fig. 18, and this figure is so expressive of the views of the 



