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INDEX.

Cantion, prom., 156, 348
Cappadocia, absence of trees in, 258
Cardinal points, determined in Greece

by the winds, 41
Carmania, 140
Carpathians, the, first mentioned by

Ptolemy, 351
Carpis, 84
Carthage, its admirable position, 6;

compared to that of Sinope, 47
Carthage, New, described by Poly-

bius, 213; silver mines of, 210
Casius, Mt, ascended by Hadrian,

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Caspatyrus, 74, 101

Caspian Gates, 131
Caspian Sea, mentioned by Heca-
taeus, 73; regarded by Herodotus
as an inland sea, 81; also by Aris-
totle, 136; supposed by Alexander
to be the Palus Maeotis, 132 ; re-
garded as an inlet from the ocean,
136, 282; the error corrected by
Ptolemy, 345; revived at a later
period, 367

Cassiterides, islands, opinions as to
their situation, 37, 38; voyage of
Publius Crassus to, 38; their exist-
ence disbelieved by Herodotus, 80

Caste System in India, 151

' Catalogue of Ships' in Homer, geo-
graphical value of, 24

Cataracts of the Nile, described by
Herodotus, 92

Caucasus, called by Aeschylus the
highest of mountains, 68; described
by T&eophanes, 220; tribes of, 222;
crampons used, and tobogganing
practised in, 315

Cave-dwellers, in Arabia, 276

Caverns, described by Pausanias, 356

Celts, 79, 84, 191, 253; in North
Italy, 120

Cerne, island, 104, 105, 119, 283

Ceylon (see Taprobane)

Chalcedon, 50

Chalcidice, 49

Chalcis, its colonies in Thrace, 49;
in Italy, 50

Chandragupta, 148

Chersonese, Tauric, 85; accurately
described by Strabo, 255

Chersonesus, town of, 50

Chester, 287

China, 281

Chitral, traversed by Alexander, 137

Choaspes, river, 90

Chryse, 281, 285, 346
Cicero, on mountain scenery, 317
Cilician Gates, pass of the, crossed
by Alexander, 126
Cimbrian Promontory, 290
Cimmerian Bosporus, 82, 85
Cimmerians, the, in Homer, 30; their
inroad into Asia Minor, 84
Cinnamon Country, the, 147, 173
Cinyps, river, 94
Circumnavigation of Africa, 99
Climata, of Hipparchus, 175; of
Ptolemy, 343
Climate, Strabo'$ remarks on, 245
Climax, pass of, 126, 246
Clota, 350
Codanus Sinus, 289
Colchester, the first Roman colony in
Britain, 287
Coliacum, prom., 273
Colonies, the Greek, causes of the
establishment of, 43; qualifications
for the site of, 44, 51; early de-
velopment of, 44; geography pro-
moted by, 45; Delphic oracle
influential in founding, 66
Commagcne, 91, 257
Comorin, Cape, 273, 280
Continents, division of the world into,
67, i8ij their boundaries, 67, 68;
their names, 69; opinion of Hero-
dotus, 8 r, 82; the three compared
by Strabo, 253
Cophen, river, 137
Coptos, commercial station on the
Nile, 146; Roman road to, 305
Coral, between India and Ceylon,
Corbilo, 37
Corinth, its connexion with the
purple trade, 5
Corinth, Isthmus of, its importance
to Greece, 214
Corycian Cave, described by Pau-
sanias, 356
Cosmos Indicopleustes, 160
Cosmical beliefs of Herodotus, their
primitive character, 78
Cotton in India, noticed by Herodo-
tus, 92; in Greece, 357
Cottonara, 280
Crampons, used in the Caucasus, 315,
310
Crassus, Publius, his voyage to the
Cassiterides, 38
Cratertis, his return march from the
Indus, 139, 140