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. 1883 Excerpt: ...Professor Paley has well remarked that Hesiod names the principal river of Europe and the principal river of Ethiopia, but what the Professor means by ' the Celtic or northern division, ' as distinct from Europe, is not clear; nor can I think for a moment that Hesiod regarded the comparatively puny Phasis, however famous it might be as connected with the mythic expedition of the Argonauts, and as a boundary line between continents,1 as being the chief river of Asia. In short, strange as the opinion may appear, I am greatly inclined to believe that Hesiod did intend to name the (to him) chief river of Asia, and that he called it the Eridanus. 1 Hetiod, 192. s Vide sup. sec. V. a Hist, of Classical Gk. Lit. i. 111-12. 4 Hyginus, Poet. Astron. ii. 32. XVIII. Herodotos made great efforts to ascertain the source of the Nile, but in vain. The result of his investigations is as follows: 'The course of the Nile is known, not only throughout Egypt, but to the extent of four months' journey either by land or water above the Egyptian boundary. There the direction of the river is from west to east. Beyond, no one has any certain knowledge of its course.'J This statement of Herodotos that the direction of the Nile at the furthest known point is from west to east, probably assisted in giving rise to the very singular theory that the Nile and the Euphrates were in reality the same river. Pausanias states that both the Phliasians and Sikyonians affirmed that the water of the river As6pos, which falls into the Korinthian Gulf, was 'foreign and not belonging to the country' (to v8ap -r?v, /cat Ovk iyyupiov); and that it was in reality the river Maiandros which, falling into the sea near Miletos, cs JJeXoTrovvrjcrov e/secrat, Kal iroielv Top 'Ao-anov. Asopos is also a riv..