A Treatise on the Comparative Geography of Western Asia: Accompanied with an Atlas of Maps, Volume 1 |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abulfeda Adrianople agree Ailah Ain-al-Koom Aleppo allows Amasia Amol ancient Anguri Antonine Itinerary appears Arabic miles Asia Minor Astrabad authorities Bagdad Barghiri Basrah Baulus bearing British miles Brusa camels caravan Carmichael's Caspian Sea celestial observation chart coast construction course D'Anville Damascus degree difference direct distance ditto Diyarbekir east eastward Edrisi Erzerum Euphrates Euxine farsangs former Geogr geography given gives gulf Hamadan Hauran Hems Ibn Haukel Irwan Ispahan Itinerary Jaurkoi Jondi Sabur journeys Karahissar Kaswin Kisariah Kuniyah Kusra Shirin Kutahiah latitude lines of distance longitude Lydia Maraga mean Meletyah Mesjid miles direct Mosul mountains Mysia Nasebin nearly Niebuhr Orfah Oriental Tables Palmyra parallel Phrygia position Provadia Racca Rahabah reckoned remarked reports Resafa Reshd respect river road route Russian map Rutchuk Sardis Shiraz Shumla Siwas Smyrna stades Strabo Syria taken tance Teflis Tehran Temnus thence Thevenot tion travellers whole Woodroffe Zuat
Popular passages
Page lxiii - His tour of observation extended from the Mediterranean on the west, to the Euphrates on the east, and...
Page 347 - It would appear that the tract which contains the sources of the Western Euphrates, the Aras, the Iris, and Eastern Halys, is altogether the highest part of this region, since it separates the eastern and western waters, the whole way across from Cilicia to Moschica." Is the last mentioned name the same as the modern Moosh ? Aud is not " Moschica" the same as " Mesheck
Page xliii - Whilst these detached services were in progress, I was on horseback from the rising, to the setting of the sun...
Page 19 - ... Journal. Over the sections which have been worked out and tested against the most recent maps, his survey does him great credit. He evidently took immense trouble to ascertain the rate of movement of the camel caravan. Rennell compliments him on his perseverance, and on the result attained. He says, " Mr. Carmichael's whole line of bearing, by compass, about 720 British miles (by road 750 nearly) coincided with the bearing line given by the celestial observations . . . " f It is interesting to...
Page 86 - Damascus ; and in such a situation as to make it likely to be the Theman of Eusebius, 15 MP.
Page 352 - the colour of the water of the Phasis resembled that of water impregnated with lead or tin ; that is, it may be concluded of a bluish cast.
Page 105 - It will be necessary, in this place, to say a few words respecting the longitude of Trabezon. M. de Beauchamp's observation of longitude at Trabezon, recorded in theMem.Egyptienne, Vol. ii. gives 39° 3?
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Treatise on the Comparative Geography of Western Asia: Accompanied with an Atlas of Maps, Volume 1 Volume 1 of A Treatise on the Comparative Geography of Western Asia, James Rennell A Treatise on the Comparative Geography of Western Asia: Accompanied with an Atlas of Maps, James Rennell |
| Author | James Rennell |
| Publisher | C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1831 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Mar 31, 2006 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |