Footnotes
[7]
Pliny, lib. vi, cap. 16, and Strabo, lib. xi.
[10]
The authority of Patroclus is of great weight, as appears from a
passage in Strabo, lib. ii.
[11]
Pliny, lib. vi, cap. 17. See also Strabo, lib. xi, upon the passage by which
the merchandise was conveyed from the Phasis to the Cyrus.
[12]
There must have been very great changes in that country since
the time of Ptolemy, who gives us an account of so many rivers that
empty themselves into the east side of the Caspian Sea. In the Czar's
chart we find only the river of Astrabat: in that of M. Bathaisi there
is none at all.
[13]
See Jenkinson's account of this, in the "Collection of Voyages to
the North," vol. iv.
[14]
I am disposed to think that hence Lake Aral was formed.
[15]
Claudius Cæsar, in Pliny, lib. vi. 11.
[16]
He was slain by Ptolemy Ceraunus.
[17]
See Strabo, lib. xi.
[18]
They founded Tartessus, and made a settlement at Cadiz.
[19]
I Kings, 9. 26; II Chron., 8. 17.
[21]
Chapter 1 of this book.
[22]
The proportion between gold and silver, as settled in Europe,
may sometimes render it profitable to take gold instead of silver into
the East Indies; but the advantage is very trifling.
[23]
See Pliny, lib. vi, cap. 22, and Strabo, lib. xv.
[24]
They are mostly shallow; but Sicily has excellent ports.
[25]
I say the province of Holland; for the ports of Zealand are deep
enough.
[26]
That is, to compare magnitudes of the same kind, the action or
pressure of the fluid upon the ship will be to the resistance of the
same ship as, &c.
