BOOK I 



(xiv) races towards the Scythian Ocean, (xv-xix) 

 Caspian and Hyrcanian Sea, Adiabene, Media, 

 Caspian Gates, races round Hyrcanian Sea, Scythian 

 races, (xx-xxxvi) regions towards the Eastern Sea, 

 China, India (Ganges, Indus), Taprobane, Arians and 

 adjoining races, voyages to India, Carmania, Persian 

 Gulf, Parthian kingdoms, Mesopotamia, Tigris, 

 Arabia, Gulf of Red Sea, Trogodyte country , Ethiopia, 

 Islands of Ethiopian Sea. (xxxvii) The Fortunate 

 Islands. (xxxviii f.) Lands compared by measure- 

 ments, division of lands into parallels and equal 

 shadows. Totals : 1195 towns ; 576 races, 115 

 famous rivers, 38 famous mountains, 108 islands, 95 

 extinct towns and races ; 2214 facts and investigations 

 and observations. 



Authorities : Marcus Agrippa, Marcus Varro, 

 Varro of Atax, Cornelius Nepos, Hyginus, Lucius 

 Vetus, Pomponius Mela, Domitius Corbulo, Licinius 

 Mucianus, Claudius Caesar, Arruntius, Sebosus, 

 Fabricius Tuscus, Titus Livy junior, Seneca, Nigidius. 

 Foreign authorities : King Juba, Hecataeus, Hella- 

 nicus, Damastes, Eudoxus, Dicaearchus, Baeto, 

 Timosthenes, Patrocles, Demodamas, CUtarchus, 

 Eratosthenes, Alexander the Great, Ephorus, Hip- 

 parchus, Panaetius, CalUmachus, Artemidorus, 

 ApoUodorus, Agathocles, Polybius, Timaeus of Sicily, 

 Alexander the Learned, Isidore, Amometus, Metro- 

 dorus, Posidonius, Onesicritus, Nearchus, Megas- 

 thenes, Diognetus, Aristocreon, Bion, DaUon, the 

 younger Simonides, BasiUs, Xenophon of Lamp- 

 sacus. 



Book VII. Contents: (ii f.) Ilemarkable racial bodily 

 configurations ; monstrous births. (iv— xi) Human 

 gcneration : periods of pregnancy fi'om 7 months to 



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