BOOK III. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS, AND GENERAL 
YIEWS 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. — Modem 
Geographers during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries* 
— Delisle and D' Anville. — RennelL 
There are few sciences, of which it is more 
curious to trace the origin and early progress, 
than that of geography. There is none to which 
the attention of mankind must have been earlier 
attracted, 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 its first state of glimmering 
