PREFACE.

THE subject which is treated of in the present volume
has been already dealt with on a scale adapted to the
needs of advanced scholars by the late Sir E. H. Bunbury
in his History of Ancient Geography—a book equally con-
spicuous for learning and for judgement, and one which, it
may safely be affirmed, will not readily be superseded.
But the size of that comprehensive work unfits it for the
use of ordinary students, and its elaborate detail and
numerous digressiongpthough none of these are super-
fluous, tend to withdraw the mind of the reader from the
process of development of the story which it tells. For
these reasons it has been thought that a shorter and
simpler book on the same topic may be of service by
bringing out to view the more salient points which it
involves, and by rendering clearer the continuous progress
of the science from its early dawn in the Homeric period
to its fullest extension in the Augustan age. It is hoped
that in this way the interest of other than classical readers
may be enlisted in the subject—an interest which it
deserves on account of the variety of the questions with