xiii.] STRABO. 513 



absurdities mixed up with them, are founded in the first 

 instance on the accounts of eye-witnesses, which have passed 

 from mouth to mouth, from tribe to tribe, before they were 

 noted down. Still several centuries after the time of Herodotus, 

 when the Roman power had reached its highest point, little 

 more was known of the more remote parts of north Asia. While 

 Herodotus, in the two hundred and third chapter of his First 



MAP OF THE WORLD, SAID TO BE OF THE TENTH CENTURY. 



Found in a manuscript of the twelfth century in the Library at Turin. 

 (From Santarem's Atlas.) 



Book, says that "the Caspian is a sea by itself having no 

 communication with any other sea," Strabo, induced by evidence 

 furnished by the commander of a Greek fleet in that sea, states 

 (Book II, chapters i. and iv,) that the Caspian is a gulf of the 

 Northern Ocean, from which it is possible to sail to India, 

 Pliny the Elder {Historia Naturalis, Book VI, chapters xiii, 



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