INDEX. 



CXXX1X 



Position- value" in numeration, discussions as to the place or places, and as to 

 the manner in which it originated, p. 164, 227 ; Note 359. 



Polo, Marco, his travels, and their influence, p. 254, 255 ; Notes 393396. 



Pompeii, remains of landscape paintings found in, p. 77. 



Poussin, Caspar and Nicolas, p. 81, 86, 87. 



Psalms, descriptions of nature in the, p. 45, 46. 



Ptolemaeus, Claudius, his geography, p. 189192, 268, 269. His optical experi- 

 ments, p. 182, 193 ; Note 283. 



Ptolemies, epoch of the sovereignty of the, in Egypt, and its influence,?. 166177; 

 Notes 255-276. 



Quotations from 



Anghiera, p. 262 ; Note 408. 



An old Anglo-Saxon poem, Note 55. 



Arago, Note 484. 



Aristotle, p. 14, 15 (extract preserved 



by Cicero), 150, 151, 160. 

 Barros, p. 242. 

 Basil, p. 26, 27. 

 Boiardo, Note 82. 

 Brewster, Notes 496, 508. 

 Calderon, p. 61. 

 Camoens, p. 58. 

 Cardanus, Note 409. 

 Chrysostom, p. 29. 

 Cicero, p. 18 ; Note 309. 

 Claudian, p. 199. 

 Colonna (Vittoria), Note 82. 

 Colon Fernando, Note 438. 

 Columbus, p. 55, 56, 278, 296; Note 



410. 

 Copernicus, p. 306, 307 ; Notes 457, 



465, 466. 



Ctesias, Note 186. 

 Dante, Notes 3, 7881. 

 Ercilla, Note 96. 

 Euripides, p. 11. 

 Firdusi, Note 129. 

 Frederic II. (Emperor), Note 338 

 Galileo, Notes 484, 523. 

 Galle, Note 450, 474. 

 Gassendi, Notes 464, 474. 

 Gilbert (William), Notes 432, 528. 

 Goethe, p. 73 ; Note 60. 

 Goldstucker (Theodor), Note 62. 

 Gregory of Nyssa, p. 28, 29. 

 Grimm (Jacob andWilhelm),p. 32,36. 

 Gudrun, poem of, p. 33. 

 Homer, p. 9. 



Humboldt (Alexander von) 



Asie Centrale, Note 204. 



Examen Critique, Notes 449, 457. 



Prolegomena, Note 143. 



Mythic Geography of the Greeks, 

 Note 154. 



Voyage aux Regions e'quinoxiales, 

 Note 373. 



(Wilhelm von), p. 228. 

 Huygens, Note 503. 

 Kepler, p. 317 ; Note 477. 

 Jacquet, Note 393. 

 Ideler, p. 162 ; Note 248. 

 Job (book of), p. 47. 

 Isabella (Queen), letter to Columbus, 



Note 454. 

 Laplace, Note 495. 

 Las Casas, Note 457. 

 Lassen, p. 37, 38 ; Note 231. 

 Lepsius, p. 122, 123, 127 ; Note 146. 

 Lieu-tscheu (Chinese writer), p. 97. 

 Pliny the elder, p. 196; Note 231, 



285 



Muller (Otfried), p. 77 ; Note 154. 

 Osiander, Note 464. 

 Pindar, p. 10. 

 Plato, p. 117; Note 146. 

 Pliny the elder, p. 196; Notes 231, 235. 



. younger, p. 197 ; Note 38. 

 Psalms, p. 45, 46. 

 Schiller, p. 6. 

 Seneca, Notes 36, 37, 211. 

 Simplicius, Note 467. 

 Sophocles, p. 11. 



Spanish romantic ballads, Note 97. 

 Strabo, p. 128, 136, 188, 189 ; Note 153. 

 Tasso, p. 241. 



