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THE BEGINNINGS OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE.
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We call attention to only a few of its noticeable features. First of all, the accuracy of most of its latitudes is to be noted, some of them being more accurate than those given by Gosselin, less than a hundred
- Erratum—Parallel of Hellespont, marked Byzantium and vice versa.
years ago. Not only is the Mediterranean unduly elongated, but the placing of the Sicilian Straits and Carthage on the same meridian, and Alexandria and Rhodes on the same, necessitates much too great a
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