INDEX.

387

of Cyzicus, 189; of Polybius, 209;
of Hippalus, 279

Wady Draa, 105

Wall-map of Agrippa, 236

Walls of Hadrian and Antonine in
Britain, 288

Wanderings of Ulysses, their myth-
ical character, 27

Watling Street, 303

Were-wolf superstition among the
Neuri, 86

Western Horn, in Africa, 106

Whales, encounter of Nearchus' ves-
sels with, 143

Winds, the, as known to Homer, 4!;
character of in Greece, 4[^divi-
sions of, 193; schemes of Aristotle
and Timosthenes, 194; periodical,

195
Wonders, pseudo-Aristotelian treatise

on, H2

World, the habitable, division of
into continents, 67—9; shape of,
181; compared by Strabo to the
Greek chlamys, 251; measurement
of the length and breadth of by
Eratosthenes, 172,173; by Ptolemy,
341-3

Wroxeter, 303

Xanthus, the historian, 60

Xenagoras, his measurement of the
height of Olympus, 336

Xenophon, 98; his 'Anabasis,' 113;
his retreat from Cunaxa to Ar-
menia, 115; across Armenia, n6
—118; mention of mountain tele-
graphy by, 332

Yorke, Mr V. W.t on the fortresses
of the Upper Euphrates Valley,
299

Zabatus (Zab), river, 90, 129

Zagrus, Mt., 130

Zanzibar, 275

Zaradrus, river, 138, 150

Zerafshan, river. 135

Zeugma, over the Euphrates, 305

Zeus Ammon, ^Alexander's visit to

the temple ot 128
Zones, theory of, taught by Par-

menides, 60, 170; Aristotle's view

of, 179, i8oj Virgil's description

of,. 180

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