The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates: Collected from the Original Journal Preserved by Arrian, and Illustrated by Authorities Ancient and Modern ...

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T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1797 - 530页
 

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第i页 - THE VOYAGE OF NEARCHUS FROM THE INDUS TO THE EUPHRATES, • ' ' COLLECTED FROM THE ORIGINAL JOURNAL PRESERVED BY ARRIAN, AND ILLUSTRATED BY AUTHORITIES ANCIENT AND MODERN; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST NAVIGATION ATTEMPTED BY EUROPEANS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN.
第271页 - Nearchus ; the confequences derived from the difcoveries of both are equally important, and the commerce with the Eaft Indies upon a level with that of America: but if the communication fixed at Alexandria is the origin...
第264页 - ... much short of 10,000 stadia. The people, as their name imports, live upon fish. Few of them, however, are fishermen, and what fish they obtain they owe mostly to the tide at whose reflux they catch them with nets made for this purpose. These nets are generally about 2 stadia long, and are composed of the bark (or fibres) of the palm, which they twine into cord in the same way as the fibres of flax are twined. When the sea recedes, hardly any fish are found among the dry sands, but they abound...
第267页 - Guttar, they were furprifed by obferving the fea thrown up to a great height in the air, as if it were carried up by a whirlwind. The people were alarmed, and inquired of their pilot what might be the caufe of the phenomenon; he informed them, that it proceeded from the blowing of the whale, and that it was the practice of the creature as he fported in the fea. His report by no means quieted their alarm ; they flopped rowing from aftonifhment, and the oars fell from their hands.
第267页 - Nearchus fays, that on the morning he was off Kyiza or Guttar, they were furprifed by obferving the fea thrown up to a great height in the air, as if it were carried up by a whirlwind. The people were alarmed, and inquired of their pilot what might be the...
第311页 - ... was natural to inquire after the army, and where it was now encamped. An answer was given to their inquiry; but still they were neither recognized by the party, nor was any question asked in return. Just as they were separating from each other, "Assuredly...
第273页 - If fo, their perfons might be fei?ed, provided there were any record of a market to point out where they were difpofed of; but the whole teftimony which can be collected, amounts in no degree to a proof of a navigation, like that of Nearchus from India to Perfia ; and as this is the principal link in the future chain of communication with Europe, the merit of examining it feems wholly due to him as the original undertaker. I am not ignorant of a much longer voyage in this very direction imputed to...
第271页 - ... no pilot but fuch as they might cafually pick up on their courfe ; no certainty that this fea was ever navigated before, or even navigable ; and no refources fuch as the moderns have, without number, in their arms, their inftruments, their experience, and the accumulated acquifilions of knowledge, whether practical or theoretical.
第265页 - ... the coast; and, when the flesh is rotted off, they take the bones, making planks and doors of such as are flat, and beams or rafters of the ribs or jaw-bones; and many of these monsters are found fifty yards in length. Strabo confirms...

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