INDEX.

381

Mountains of the Moon, 352

Miillenhoff, on the early trade-route
through Gaul, 33; on Pytheas'
visit to the Tanais, 158; his de-
preciation of Strabo, 249

Mtiller, Dr C., on the voyage of
Hanno, 105; on the Periplus of
Scylax, 119

Mungp Park, on burning grass in
Africa, 107

Murad-Su (Eastern Euphrates), 116

Mush, plain of, n6, 271

Musiris, 279

Mussendum, Cape, 142, 277

"Mutterrecht," practised by the Isse-
dones, 88

Myos Hormos, commercial station at,
146, 274; Roman road to, 305

Namnadius, river, 277

Napata, 224, 292

Narbo, a commercial centre in the

time of Hecataeus, 73; seat of a

Roman colony, 228
Nasamones, expedition of the, 96;

victory of Domitian over, 282
Naucratis, 57
Naxos, in Sicily, 53
Neapolis, its favourable position, 51;

a centre of Hellenic culture, 51,

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Nearchus, voyage of, 140, 141—3
Necho, circumnavigation of Africa
ordered by, 99 j Nile and Red Sea
Canal commenced by, 146
Nelcynda, 278, 270, 281
Nerbudda, bore of the, 277
Neuri, were-wolf superstition among

the, 86
Niger, river, 97, 291; not the Nigir

of Ptolemy, 353

Nile, the river Aegyptus of Homer,
26; interest awakened by its strange
features, 61; absence of tributaries,
61; derived from the Ocean stream,
63; regarded as the boundary be-
tween Asia and Africa, 68, 82; its
correspondence to the Ister, 78, 79;
its two branches unnoticed by He-
rodotus, 93; increased knowledge
of it through the Ptolemies, 147;
expedition of Petronius on, ,224;
Nero's expedition to, 291; marshy
region of, 292; its sources in two
lakes, 352
Northern Europe, long days and

T.

nights of referred to in Homer, 30;
first explored by Pytheas, 153
Northern races, vaguely known to
Homer, 25
Northern Sea, disbelieved by Hero-
dotus, 80; Pytheas' account of,
158; navigated by Drusus, 232
Oases, the, described by Herodotus,
96; the Oasis of Ammon visited by
Alexander the Great, 128; com-
pared by Strabo to the spots on a
leopard's skin, 248
Oceanus, the (river, parent of waters,
201- encircling the earth, 20; origin
of this idea, 21; in the far south,
29; in the far north, 30 j the Nile
derived from it, 63
Ocelis, 280
Odyssey, the inner geography of, 22,
24; outer geography of, 26—29
Oenotrian tribes, akin to the Greeks,
52
Oestrymnides, islands, 36, no, 156
Olbia, 48; Herodotus' residence at,
35
Olympia, described by Pausanias, 358
Olympus, Mt, measurement of the
height of, 336
Onesicritus, companion of Alexander,
124; his description of the banyan
tree, 139
Opone, 275
Orcades, islands, Agricola's expe-
dition to, 288 *
Orcas, prom., 156, 350 ^
Organa, island, 142
Ormuz, 142; mentioned in (Paradise
Lost,' 142
Orosius, his 'Historiae,'366; its geo-
graphical section, 366; its popu-
larity in the middle ages, 360
Osismii, 156
Ostimii, 156
Ovid, his description of the eruption
of Methana, 198
Oxus, river, crossed by Alexander,
134; its modern and ancient courses,
134; trade route along, 134, 266
Pachynus, prom., dreaded by Greek
sailors, 53
Paestum, 51
Palaesimundus, capital of Taprobane,
373
Palestine, described by Pliny, 265
Palibothra, on the Ganges, 148
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