This second volume is part of Pliny the Elder's encyclopedic survey of the natural world, in the nineteenth-century translation by John Bostock and H. T. Riley. The larger work ranges from geography and astronomy to plants, animals and minerals. It is valuable for listeners interested in Roman science and the history of ideas.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PLINY. TRANSLATED, WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE LATE JOHN BOSTOCK, M.D., F.R.S., AND H. T. RILEY, EǪǟ., B.A., LATE SCHOLAR OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCLV.
J. BILLING, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER, WOKING, SURREY.
CONTENTS. OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
BOOK VI. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST, OR FORMERLY EXISTED. CƒĵǙ. Page 1. The Euxine and the Maryandini 1 2. Paphlagonia 3 3. Cappadocia 6 4. The region of Themiscyra, and the nations therein 8 5. The region of Colica, the nations of the Achæi, and other nations in the same parts 11 6. The Cimmerian Bosporus 13 7. Lake Mæotis and the adjoining nations 14 8. The situation of Cappadocia 16 9. The Lesser and the Greater Armenia 17 10. The rivers Cyrus and Araxes 18 11. Albania, Iberia, and the adjoining nations 20 12. The passes of the Caucasus 21 13. The islands of the Euxine 22 14. Nations in the vicinity of the Scythian Ocean 23 15. The Caspian and Hyrcanian Sea 24 16. Adiabene 27 17. Media and the Caspian Gates 28 18. Nations situate around the Hyrcanian Sea 30 19. The nations of Scythia and the countries on the Eastern Ocean 33 20. The Seres 35 21. The nations of India 38 22. The Ganges 43 23. The Indus 46 24. Taprobane 51 25. The Ariani and the adjoining nations 56 26. Voyages to India 60
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