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... writers of antiquity are silent on the same head ? and , indeed , there seems good reason to be- lieve , that cinnamon was not grown in Ceylon so early as the second century . The island of Taprobane ( Ceylon ) has been described with ...
... writers of antiquity are silent on the same head ? and , indeed , there seems good reason to be- lieve , that cinnamon was not grown in Ceylon so early as the second century . The island of Taprobane ( Ceylon ) has been described with ...
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... writers were examined and freed from fable , but little advance- ment was made beyond them . The cautious temper re- sulting from the rapid influx of accurate information is strikingly manifest in the Roman writers . To Strabo we are ...
... writers were examined and freed from fable , but little advance- ment was made beyond them . The cautious temper re- sulting from the rapid influx of accurate information is strikingly manifest in the Roman writers . To Strabo we are ...
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... writers , but that required by the analogy of Greek and Persian forms . * Whenever the Scythians are mentioned in the pages of an ancient writer , they are sure to be celebrated for their singular piety as much as for their numbers and ...
... writers , but that required by the analogy of Greek and Persian forms . * Whenever the Scythians are mentioned in the pages of an ancient writer , they are sure to be celebrated for their singular piety as much as for their numbers and ...
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