Appendix A. 



equatoriul in the group of the Xfumhiio (properly Muhawura — "far seen") 

 and Viruiiga Mountains, altliough tliese are far less elevated than Ruwenzori. (-'•') 



NOTES, 



(') Tliis is the seventh cluiptcr of Book IV'. After iiidicatinsj; tlie geogra])liieal positions 

 of the two lakes sources of the Nile, it woiihl naturallv occur to Ptolemj to give that of the 

 more southern snowy mountains. But lie does not do so, and oulr speaks of them incidentally 

 in chapter 8 of the same book, where there is no further reference to the Egyptian river. 



(-) CooLEY, o^j. fit., pp. 77-78. 



(•*) H. KiEPERT, Lehrhiich der aite» Geoffraphie, p. 210, note 2. 



(■•) Geogr. Mit. 1892, LiUeraiur-Bcrivht, No. 49. 



(5) Meteor. Book I, chap. 13. 



(") HMoire de la Gi'ogra]>hi(', pp. 109 and 121 ; Le Xord de L'Afnqin.' duns 

 r Alii iqiiite g reeque et romaine, pp. 21 and 486. 



('') Malfatti, Scritti geografici ed etnografici, p. 454. 



(*) See in this connection tlic iiri])()rtant considerations devclupi-d l)v Ptolemy in 

 chaps. 4 and 6 of Book I. 



(') TJie defects of this metliod, and tlie serious errors committed l\v Ptolemy in 

 recasting and expanding tlie work of Marinus of Tyre,are excellently exhibited, with his usual 

 clearness and slirewdntss, liy Yiyiex de Saint-Maetix (Histoire de la Géographie, 

 pp. 200 and 201). On I'tnlciiiy's gcogniphic system specially valuable are the pages 

 devoted to this subject liy BrMirKV in liis Histori/ of Ancient Geographg (2nd edition, 

 Vol. II, pp. 54(j-579). 



('"j Very numerous instances of sncli niiiiiericMl n'ductions arc found in the Geographii, 

 and especially ni Book I. 



(") (30' 5'x6')x ;;=30 , 41Ó; 30 5'-3o , 419 = 0-,08n. 



('-) Pfol. Geogr., Book IV, chap. 7. lien- is tlic contlucncc of the rivers that flow from 

 the soutlu'rn lakes ; long. 60', lat. 2" N. 



('■') Sucli is also tiu' opinion of not a lc« modern geographers, amongst \\lioni I have 

 pleasure in nu'iitioning Dr. Fkmx BAin.iorx in one of liis learned dissertations jiublislicd in 

 1874, under the title, Uoctrina Ptotemaei ah injuria recent ionini rindicata, p. 31. 



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