BOOK III. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS, AND GENERAL 
VIEWS OF AFRICA. 
CHAPTER L 
HISTORICAL VIEW OF GEOGRAPHICAL SYSTEMS 
FORMED RELATING TO AFRICA. 
Errors of early Geography. — System of Herodotus. — EratoS' 
thenes and Strabo. — Ptolemy.— -The Arabians. — Modern 
Geographers during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centu- 
ries, — -Delisle and D'Anmlle. — RennelL 
There are few sciences, of which it is more cu- 
rious to trace the origin and early progress, than 
that of geography. There is none to which the 
attention of mankind must have been earlier at- 
tracted, none more constantly pursued, and none 
which includes a greater variety both of moral and 
physical elements. Few sciences, therefore, are so 
well calculated to illustrate the difficult and devious 
course, by which the human mind proceeds from 
