The Greatest Empires & Civilizations of the Ancient East: Egypt, Babylon, The Kings of Israel and Judah, Assyria, Media, Chaldea, Persia, Parthia & Sasanian Empire. George Rawlinson

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СКАЧАТЬ the Pinus canariensis.]

      9110 [ Pliny, H. N. vi. 32, sub fin.]

      9111 [ Pliny, l.s.c. The breed is now extinct.]

      9112 [ The savagery of the ancient inhabitants of the mainland is strongly marked in the narrative of Hanno (Periplus, passim).]

      9113 [ As Heeren (As. Nat. ii. 71, 75, 239).]

      9114 [ Ezek. xxvii. 15, 20, 23.]

      9115 [ See 1 Kings x. 22; 2 Chr. ix. 21.]

      9116 [ 1 Kings ix. 26, 27.]

      9117 [ Ibid. x. 11; 2 Chr. ix. 10.]

      9118 [ Gen. x. 29. Compare Twistleton, in Dr. Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, vol. ii. ad voc. OPHIR.]

      9119 [ Ps. lxxii. 15; Ezek. xxvii. 22; Strab. xvi. 4, § 18; Diod. Sic. ii. 50.]

      9120 [ Ezel. l.s.c.; Strab. xvi. 4, § 20.]

      9121 [ There are no sufficient data for determining what tree is intended by the almug or algum tree. The theory which identifies it with the “sandal-wood” of India has respectable authority in its favour, but cannot rise beyond the rank of a conjecture.]

      9122 [ If Scylax of Cadyanda could sail, in the reign of Darius Hystaspis, from the mouth of the Indus to the Gulf of Suez (Herod. iv. 44), there could have been no great difficulty in the Phoenicians accomplishing the same voyage in the opposite direction some centuries earlier.]

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      101 [ Diod. Sic. v. 35, § 2.]

      102 [ Brugsch, History of Egypt, i. 65; Birch, Ancient Egypt, p. 65.]

      103 [ Deut. viii. 7-9.]

      104 [ Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 2:—“In Cypro proma æris inventio.” The story went, that Cinryas, the Paphian king, who gave Agamemnon his breastplate of steel, gold, and tin (Hom. Il. xii. 25), invented the manufacture of copper, and also invented the tongs, the hammer, the lever, and the anvil (Plin. H. N. vii. 56, § 195).]

      105 [ Strab. xiv. 6, § 5; Steph. Byz. ad voc. Ταμασός.]

      106 [ See the Dictionary of Gk. and Rom. Geography, i. 729.]

      107 [ Ross, Inselnreise, iv. 157, 161.]

      108 [ Plin. H. N. l.s.c.]

      109 [ Herod. vi. 47.]

      1010 [ Plin. H. N. vi. 56; Strab. xiv. 5, § 28.]

      1011 [ See the description of Thasos in the Géographie Universelle, i. 142.]

      1012 [ Herod. vii. 112; Aristot. De Ausc. Mir. § 42; Thuc. iv. 105; Diod. Sic. xvi. 8; App. Bell. Civ. iv. 105; Justin, viii. 3; Plin. H. N. vii. 56, &c.]

      1013 [ Col. Leake speaks of one silver mine as still being worked (Northern Greece, iii. 161).]

      1014 [ Perrot et Chipiez, Hist. de l’Art, iv. 99.]

      1015 [ Ibid. p. 100, note.]

      1016 [ Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 4, § 21.]

      1017 [ Ibid. xxxiii. 4, § 23.]

      1018 [ Diod. Sic. v. 35, § 1.]

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