This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824* Excerpt: ...whose source has so long been sought in vain, as Browne clearly perceived. See the map of this learned traveller. Browne adds: "the opinion of several writers, and the information I had received from several experienced persons, having convinced me that the source described by Bruce was not that of the true Nile, it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824* Excerpt: ...whose source has so long been sought in vain, as Browne clearly perceived. See the map of this learned traveller. Browne adds: "the opinion of several writers, and the information I had received from several experienced persons, having convinced me that the source described by Bruce was not that of the true Nile, it appeared to me important to search for the source of the more western river." Bruce had very little acquaintance with the ancient writers, and his remarks on them are consequently very shallow. As to the moderns, he seems not to have heard of M. D'Anville's Dissertation on the sources of the Nile; and yet this dissertation is the most valuable tract that has yet appeared on the subject. It will be found in the Memoirs of the Academy of Belles Lettres, Vol. xxvi. page 46 and following. Kal 6 Xoyos Ovtu alpiet Reason thus requires it. I find no reason to regret having thus translated the Greek. Nevertheless, the passage may be rendered, 'and I am of this opinion;' Xoyos signifying sometimes in Herodotus, animus, ' 'voluntas.' 'Airofeperat o Ovaas ra kpia Kal parai 5, rt fiiv v Xoyos aipitt: " He who offers the sacrifice, carries away the flesh of the victim, and disposes of it according to his pleasure." Herodot. Book i. cxxxn. See also Book vi I. XII. 'ek T&v low tirpuv bpfiarai That it proceeds from the same points. The translators do not appear to me to have understood this passage, when they make Herodotus say that the course of the Nile is parallel to that of the Ister. Our historian only conjectures that these two rivers take their rise from the same poiuts of the compass; the Nile in the western part of Libya, and the Ister in the western part of Europe. Hvpiivris iroXcos Near the city of Pyrene. Many p...
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