lliv NOTES. 



of Colseus of Samos is placed in 01. 31, according to Otfr. Mttller (Prolego. 

 mena zu einer wissenschaftlichen Mythologie) ; and in 01. 35, 1, or the year 

 640, according to Letroune's investigation (Essai sur les idees cosmo- 

 graphiques qui se rattachent an nora d' Atlas, p. 9). The epoch is, however, 

 dependent on the foundation of Gyrene, which Otfr. Miiller places be- 

 tween 01. 35 and 37 (Minyer, S. 344, Prolegomena, S. 63) ; for in the 

 time of Colseus (Herod, iv. 152), the way from Thera to Lybia was still un- 

 known. Zumpt places the foundation of Carthage in 8? 8, and that of Gades 

 in 1100 B.C. 



( 2 7 ) p. 146. According to the manner of the ancients (Strabo, lib. ii. p. 

 126,) I reckon (as indeed physical and geological views require) the whole 

 Euxine, together with the Mseotis, as forming part of the common basin of 

 the great " Interior Sea." 

 (S 08 ) p. 146. Herod, iv. 152. 



C 209 ) p. 146. Herod. . 163, where even the discovery of Tartessus is attri- 

 buted to the Phocajaus ; but according to Ukert (Geogr. der Griechen und 

 Komer, Th.L i.S. 40), the commercial enterprise of the Phocseans was seventy 

 years later than Colseus of Samos. 



(f 30 ) p. 146. According to a fragment of Phavorinus, the words (wKeoroy, 

 and therefore oryjjr also) are not Greek, but are borrowed from the barba- 

 rians (Spohn de Nicephor. Blemm. duobus opusculis, 1818, p. 23). My 

 brother thought that they were connected with the Sanscrit roots ogha and 

 ogh (see my Examen critique de 1'hist. de la Geogr. T. i. p. 33 and 182). 



( ai ) p. 147. Aristot. de Oslo, ii. 14 (p. 298, b, Bekk.) ; Meteor, ii. 5 

 (p. 362, Bekk.) Compare my Examen critique, T. i. p. 125 130. Seneca 

 ventures to say (Nat. Quasi in preefat. 11), contemnet curiosus spectator 

 domicilii (terrse) angustias. Quantum enim est quod ab ultimis littoribus 

 Hispauise usque ad Indos jacet ? Paucissimorum dierum spatium, si navem 

 suus ventus implevit (Examen critique, T. i. p. 158). 



C 212 ) p. 147. Strabo, lib. i. p. 65 and 118, Casaub. (Examen critique, T.i, 

 p. 152.) 



C 213 ) p. 147. In the Diaphragma (the dividing line of the Earth) of 

 Dicearchus, the elevation passes through the Taurus, the chains of Demavend 

 and Hindoo-koosh, the Kuen-liin of Northern Thibet, and the perpetually 

 now-clad cloud mountains of the Chinese provinces, Sse-tschuan and Kuang-si. 

 See my orographic researches on these lines of elevation in my Asie Centrale, 

 T. i. p. 104114, 118164 ; T. ii. p. 413 and 438. 



f 4 ) p. 148 Strabo, lib. iii. p. 173 (Examen. crit. T. iii. p. 98). 



