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Title: A classical atlas, to illustrate ancient geography : comprised in twenty-five maps, showing the various divisions of the world as known to the ancients, composed from the most authentic sources : with an index of the ancient and modern names
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Findlay, Alexander G
Subjects: Classical geography Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London : William Tegg & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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U ITALY, «th rti. CDJA( I VI i OUNTRU S.feju PE1 TING) ■ ale ; of i . I \L1 I > , o in, itedaboi I INTRODUCTION. *i portion of the study of ordinary readers, are here mentioned to show to what aids we are indebted forthe perfection of our representations. A very important branch of ancient geography are the measures made use of in those times ; and itis necessary to the proper understanding of many of the narratives that they should be noticed. Thestadium was the principal measure of distance in ancient Greece and her colonies. Its true length hasbeen the subject of much dispute : we will give the chief arguments that have been used in thiscontroversy. If we deduce it from the present measurements of distances given by ancient writers, we shallarrive at very different results ; and to make these discordances in some measure coincide, it hasbeen usually considered that there were stadia of different lengths in use in different ages and indifferent regions. But

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