A Classical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Principal Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors and Intended to Elucidate All the Important Points Connected with the Geography, History, Biography, Mythology, and Fine Arts. Together with an Account of Coins, Weights, and Measures, with Tabular Values of the SameHarper, 1890 - 1451 |
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... miles east of Gadara ( Euseb . v . " Abeλ ' Auréλov ) . Ptolemy is supposed to refer to it under the name Abida , an error probably of copyists . ( Man- nert , 6 , 1 , 323 . ) — III . A city of Calesyria , now Belli- nas , in a ...
... miles east of Gadara ( Euseb . v . " Abeλ ' Auréλov ) . Ptolemy is supposed to refer to it under the name Abida , an error probably of copyists . ( Man- nert , 6 , 1 , 323 . ) — III . A city of Calesyria , now Belli- nas , in a ...
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... miles , and allowing for the lateral valleys stretch- ing out from the Delta , it is supposed that the portion of territory , at the present day , in Egypt , capable of cultivation , may amount to about 16,000 square miles , or , in ...
... miles , and allowing for the lateral valleys stretch- ing out from the Delta , it is supposed that the portion of territory , at the present day , in Egypt , capable of cultivation , may amount to about 16,000 square miles , or , in ...
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... miles in circumference at the base , and attains contagion as a distinct cause of fever , because , in this by a gradual ascent to the height of 10,954 feet above view of the matter , it is clearly referrible to some one the level of ...
... miles in circumference at the base , and attains contagion as a distinct cause of fever , because , in this by a gradual ascent to the height of 10,954 feet above view of the matter , it is clearly referrible to some one the level of ...
Strona 73
... miles from east to west . This measure , estima- mones by so many deserts , rivers , and mountains . - Inted in stadia of seven hundred to a degree , would seem the days of Strabo , the knowledge possessed by the to represent the length ...
... miles from east to west . This measure , estima- mones by so many deserts , rivers , and mountains . - Inted in stadia of seven hundred to a degree , would seem the days of Strabo , the knowledge possessed by the to represent the length ...
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... miles to the west of Pamplona , and as many Alba stretched , in a long street , between the upper part to the east of the Iberus . It was about two geograph- of the mountain and the lake , is still distinctly marked : ical miles ...
... miles to the west of Pamplona , and as many Alba stretched , in a long street , between the upper part to the east of the Iberus . It was about two geograph- of the mountain and the lake , is still distinctly marked : ical miles ...
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