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called Cretic, Saronic, and Myrtoic. The remarkable passage in Aristot. de 

 Mundo, cap. iii. (pag. 393, Bekk.) relates merely to the sinuous form of the 

 coasts of the Mediterranean, and its effect on the inflowing ocean. 



( 152 ) p. 118. Kosmos, Bd. i. S. 253 and 454 (Engl. ed. Vol. i. p. 231, 

 Note 233). 



( 153 ) p. 119. Humboldt, Asie centrale, T. i. p. 6?. The two remarkable 

 passages of Strabo are the following : " Eratosthenes names three, and Poly- 

 bins five points of projecting land in which Europe terminates. The penin- 

 sulas named by Eratosthenes are, first, the one which extends to the pillars 

 of Hercules, to which Iberia belongs ; next, that which terminates at the 

 Sicilian straits, on which is Italy ; and thirdly, that which extends to Malea, 

 and contains all the nations between the Adriatic, the Euxine, and the 

 Tanais." (lib. ii. p. 109.) " We begin with Europe because it is of irregu- 

 lar form, and is the part of the world most favourable to the ennoblement 

 of men and of citizens. It is every where habitable, except some lands near 

 the Tanais, which are desert on account of the cold." (Lib. ii. pag. 126.) 



( 1M ) p. 119. Ukert, Geogr. der Griechen mid Romer, Th. i. Abth. 3, 

 S. 345348, and Th. ii. Abth. 1, S. 194 ; Johannes v. Muller, Werke, Bd. 

 i. S. 38 ; Humboldt, Examen critique, T. i. pp. 112 and 171 ; Otfried Muller, 

 Minyer, S. 64 ; and the same in a critical notice (only too kind) of my me- 

 moir on the Mythic Geography of the Greeks (Gott. gclehrte Anzeigen, 1838, 

 Bd. i. S. 372 and 383). I expressed myself generally thus : "En soulevant 

 des questions qui offriraient deja de 1'importance dans 1'interet des etudes 

 philologiques, je n'ai pu gagner sur moi de passer entitlement sous silence oe 

 qui appartient moins a la description du monde reel qu'au cycle de la geogra- 

 phic mythique. H en est de 1'espace comme du terns ; on ne sauroit traiter 

 1'histoire sous un point de vue philosophique, en ensevelissant dans un oubli 

 absolu les terns hero'iques. Les mythes des peuples, meles a 1'histoire et a la 

 geographic, ne sont pas en entier du domaine du monde ideal. Si le vague 

 est un de leurs traits distinctifs, si le symbole y couvre la realite d'un voile 

 plus ou moins epais, les mythes intimement lies entr'eux, n'en re'velent pas 

 moins la souche antique des premiers aper9us de cosmographie et de phy- 

 sique. Les faits de 1'histoire et de la geographic primitives ne sont pas seule- 

 ment d'ingenieuses fictions, les opinions qu'on s'est formees sur le monde 

 reel s'y refletent." The great investigator of antiquity, whom I have named, 

 whose early death on the soil of Greece, to which he devoted such profound 

 and varied research, has been universally lamented, thought, on the contrary, 

 hat, " in the poetic idea of the earth, such as it appears in Greek poetry, the 



