The Geographical System of Herodotus Examined and Explained (Volume 2) - Softcover

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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.1830 Excerpt: ... SECTION XVII. CONCERNING THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ, AND THE ANCIENT CANALS THAT UNITED THE TWO SEAS. The ancients mistaken in the breadth of the Isthmus of Suez, i,h" h they reckoned much too wide--Source of the error--Opinions of the ancient geographers severally--The moderns generally in the same error--The question determined by the difference of latitude--Construction of the geography of the Isthmus, and of the positions on which the lines of the canals depend--Arrangement of Pelusium, Heroopolis, and the head of the Arabian gulf, in respect of the Egyptian Babylon--Conjecture respecting the site of Heroopolis, or Heroum--Salhia the Sile of the Antonine Itinerary--Mount Casius--Pelusiac branch of the Nile, no longer exists, than as a periodical stream; and in a different line of course--Bubastis, at the head of the canal of Necho, placed--General idea of the courses of the ancient canals across the Isthmus--All drawn from the Nile, and not from the Mediterranean Sea--History of the different canals, according to Herodotus, Strabo, Diodorus, and Pliny--Doubts respecting the pefson who first completed the communication--Herodotus to be credited, when he reports that Necho began, and Darius completed it--Ptolemy Philadelphia probably renewed, and improved it--Investigation of the particular line of the first canal, from the Velusiac branch, to the Red Sea--Considerable traces remaining--The canal of Trajan, and of the Caliphs, no more than a branch added to the former one--Causes of the retreat of the Sea, from the head of the Arabian Gulf--Rise of the tide in it--Idea that the Red Sea was higher than the Mediterranean, perhaps founded--Descent of the different canals compared--Complete failure of the project of uniting, permanently, the tno Seas--The floods of ...