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INDEX.

Hibernia, Caesar's notice of, 231;

Ptolemy's account of, 351
Himalaya, its classical names, 149
Himera, 54

Hjmilco, his expedition, 36, 109
Hindostan, the peninsula of, known
to the author of the4 Periplus Maris
Erythraei,' 278; Ptolemy's error
about, 345
Hindu Rush, 124, 133; crossed by

Alexander, 134, 137
Hippalus, voyage of, 279
Hipparchus, his confidence in Py-
tneas, 155, 160; his Climata, 175 j
his method of determining longi-
tudes, 178
Hippopotami, 106
Historians of Alexander's expedition,

124

Historical Geography, the subjects it
treats of, 2; as found in Aristotle,
205; in Ephorus, 206; in Polybius,
208, 211; in Strabo, 246, 252
History of Geography, its import-
ance, z

Hogarth, Mr, 91
Homer, extravagant veneration of as

a geographical authority, 256
Homeric conception of the earth, 20
Homeric Poems, geography of the, 21
foil.; rumours of distant countries
in, 29; trade-routes implied in, 31;
foreign trees mentioned in, 40; ac-
curacy of local epithets in, 23
Honey, poisonous, affecting Xeno-
phon's and Pompey's soldiers, 118
Horace, on the pine-trees of Pontus,

46; on the site of Tarentum, 52
Hot springs in Greece, 11; described

by Pausanias, 355, 356
Hutnboldt, on the Sargasso Sea, in;
on the merits of Strabo's work, 249
Hydaspes, river, 138
Hyderabad, 138
Hydraotes, river, 138
Hypanis, river, 83
Hyperboreans, their offerings sent to

Delos, 32

Hyphasis, river, 138, 150
Hyrcani, subdued by Alexander, 132

lardanos, river in Crete, the same

name as Jordan, 5
Iberia (in Asia), described by Theo-

phanes, 220
Iberians, described by Posidonius,

304

Ichthypphagi, on the coast of Ge-
drosia, 142; on the coast of Arabia,
203
Icknield Street, 303
Ictis, island, 156
Ida, Mt, description of sunrise from,
3^3
Iliad, the inner geography of, 21—
24; outer geography of, 25; its
notices of the Aegean islands and
Asia Minor, 22; of Greece, 23
Imaus, mts., 149; in Ptolemy the
Altai chain, 352
India, known to Hecatacus, 73; He-
rodotus' account of, 92; ancient
administration of, 150; caste-system
in, 151; its southern projection
known to the author of the ' Peri-
plus Maris Erythraei,1 277—9;
wrongly represented by Ptolemy,
345
Indian Ocean, visited by Alexander,
139; supposed by Ptolemy to be
surrounded by land, 340; (see
Erythraean Sea)
Indians, life of the, 151; widow-
burning practised by, 152
Indus, river, crossed by Alexander
near Atak, 137; descended by
Alexander, 138; delta of, 138;
bore of, 139; Dionysius Periegetes,
description of, 286
Inlets from the Ocean, Si
Inundation of the Nile, various ex-
planations of, 62, 63
Ionian School, the, 14; their geo-
graphical speculations, 59, 60;
opinions as to the formation of the
Delta, 61
Iran, description of, 130
Isidore of Seville, 271, 365
Issedoncs, mentioned by Hecataeus,
73; by Herodotus, 88
Issus, battle of, 126
Ister, river, not mentioned in Homer,
25; correspondence to the Nile, 78,
79 ; course of according to Hero-
dotus, 79; supposed to divide into
two branches, 120; (see Danube)
Isthmus between the Euxine and the
Caspian, 68
Isthmus of Suez, 68
Istri, tribe of, mentioned by Scylax,
X2I
Ithaca, inaccurately described in the
Odyssey, 24
Itineraries, Roman; two kinds of,