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Identifier: voyageofvegaroun00nord (find matches)
Title: The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Nordenskiöld, A. E. (Adolf Erik), 1832-1901 Leslie, Alexander
Subjects: Vega (Ship)
Publisher: New York, Macmillan and Co.
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MAP OF THE WORLD, SAID TO BE OF THE TENTH CENTURY. Found in a manuscript of the twelfth century in the Library at Turin.(From Santarems Atlas.) Book, says that the Caspian is a sea by itself having nocommunication with any other sea, Strabo, induced by evidencefurnished by the commander of a Greek fleet in that sea, states(Book II, chapters i. and iv,) that the Caspian is a gulf of theNorthern Ocean, from which it is possible to sail to India,Pliny the Elder (Historia Naturalis, Book VI, chapters xiii, L L
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CHAP. XIII.) MARCO POLO. 516 and xvii.) states that tlie north part of Asia is occupied byextensive deserts bounded on the north by the ScythianSea, that these deserts run out to a headland, PromontoriumScythicum, which is uninhabitable on account of snow. Thenthere is a land inhabited by man-eating Scythians, then deserts,then Scythians again, then deserts with wild animals to amountain ridge rising out of the sea, which is called Tahin. Thefirst people that are known beyond this are the Seri. Ptolemyand his successors again supposed, though perhaps not ignorantof the old statement that Africa had been circumnavigatedunder Pharaoh Necho, that the Indian Ocean was an inlandsea, everywhere surrounded by land, which united southernAfrica with the eastern part of Asia, an idea which was firstcompletely abandoned by the chartographers of the fifteenthcentury after the circumnavigation of Africa by Vasco DAGama. The knowledge of the geography of north Asia remained atthis point until Marco

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