INDEX.

385

Spartel, Cape, 94, 103

Speculations, early, on Mathematical
Geography, 59, 60; on Physical
Geography, 60 foil.

Sphericity of the earth, arguments of
Aristotle and others in favour of,
167, 168

Sphragides of Eratosthenes, iSi

Stanley, Dean, on Pausanias' descrip-
tions, 355

Stephanus of Byzantium, 71; his
'Ethnica,' 363; etymological re-
marks in, 364

Strabo, his life and places of resi-
dence, 239, 240; extent of his
travels, 240—42; his philosophical
and political opinions, 242; date
and place of the composition of
his 'Geography,' 243; its compre-
hensiveness, 245; its artistic cha-
racter, 247; various estimates of it,
248, 249; its contents, 251 foil.;
on the advantages of the Mediter-
ranean, 3; on the Romans as geo-
graphers, 12; on the Cassiterides,
37; on the summit of Etna, 319
—Ği; on Mt. Argaeus, 321; on
the height of the Alps, 335

, Styx,waterfall of, described by Homer,
23; by Hesiod, 24

Suetonius Paullinus, his conquests in
Britain, 287; his crossing the Atlas,
291

Suiones, 290

Susa, occupied by Alexander, 129

Sutlej, river, not reached by Alex-
ander, 138

Suttee, custom of in India, 152

Sword-fish, capture of in the Straits
of Messina, 202

Syagrus, prom., 276

Sybaris, 51

Syene, close under the tropic, 100,172

Syracuse, 53

Syrtes, the, 121

Tacitus, his 'Germania,' 189; his
'Agricola,' 288, 351

Taenarum, ancient descriptions of the
grotto at, 356

Tamarus, river, 349

Tanais, river, regarded as the bound-
ary between Europe and Asia, 68;
mistakes concerning, 135, 136,158

Tanais, town of, 49

Taprobane, mentioned by Megasthe-
nes, 149; Pliny's account of, 272;

life of the inhabitants of, 273; its
size overestimated by Ptolemy, 345
Tarentum, foundation of, 44; its ad-
vantageous site and fisheries, 52
Tarsus, 126
Tartessus, origin of the name, 7; its
position in Southern Spain, 7;
visited by the Phocaeans, 54; by
Colaeus of Samos, 58; mentioned
by Hecataeus, 73
Tatta, 139
Tauric Chersonese, noticed by Hero-
dotus, 85; carefully described by
Strabo, 255
Tauromenium, 53
Taurus, mts., not mentioned by Hero-
dotus, 80; regarded as intersecting
the whole of Asia, 181; accurately
described by Strabo, 257
Teleboas, river, 116; its nearness to
the source of the Tigris, 116, 271
Telegraphy, Mountain, 331 foil.
1 Temple of the Winds' at Athens, 195
Ten Thousand, retreat of the, 112
foil.; their first view of the sea, 117
Thales, his views on the shape of the
earth, 60; on the inundation of the
Nile, 62
Thanet, Isle of, noticed by Solinus,
366
Thapsacus, 128, 305
Thebes, Egyptian, mentioned in Ho-
mer, 26
Theon Ocheraa, Mt, 108
Theophanes of Mytilene, feis descrip-
tion of the Caucasus, 220; of the
Iberi and Albani, 221—3: fttrabo's
chief authority for those regions,
Theophrastus, his * History of Plants,*
200
Thera, volcanic island of, n; erup-
tion of, 200
Thermopylae, water of, described by
Pausanias, 355
Thinae, 281
Thinge (Tangier), 74
This (China), 281
Thospites, lake, 267
Thrace, Herodotus' knowledge of, 84
Thucydides, mention of mountain
telegraphy in, 331
Thule, first mentioned by- Pytheas,
159; the arctic circle placed there,
159, 173; noticed by Dionysius
Periegetes, 285; seen by Agricola's
" 288