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southern parts owing to the exuberant veg-
etation.
For further references to similar efforts
of imagination the reader is referred to Sir
George Cornwall Lewis’s Historical Survey
of the Astronomy of the Ancients ; Lon-
don, 1862. His list of authorities is very
complete, but some of his conclusions are
doubtful. At p. 113 of that work he records
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