Asiatic Researches; Or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal,: For Inquiring Into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature, of Asia. ... Printed Verbatim from the Calcutta Edition..J. Sewell; Vernor and Hood; J. Cuthell; J. Walker; R. Lea; Lackington, Allen, and Company; Otridge and son; R. Faulder; and J. Scatcherd., 1807 |
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... Arrian , the true nard grew in abundance : for " the Phenicians , " he says , " collected " a plentiful store of it ; and so much of it was tram- pled under foot by the army , that a strong per- fume was diffused on all sides of them ...
... Arrian , the true nard grew in abundance : for " the Phenicians , " he says , " collected " a plentiful store of it ; and so much of it was tram- pled under foot by the army , that a strong per- fume was diffused on all sides of them ...
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... Arrian : but it may be argued , I think , more conclusively , that a plant , growing with great luxuriance in Gadrosia , or Macran , which the Doctor admits to be a maritime province of Persia , could not possibly be the same with a ...
... Arrian : but it may be argued , I think , more conclusively , that a plant , growing with great luxuriance in Gadrosia , or Macran , which the Doctor admits to be a maritime province of Persia , could not possibly be the same with a ...
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... Arrian himself expressly names the Indus as its known boundary . Let Gadrosis , however , be Macrán , and let Macrán be an Indian province , yet it never could have been a remote part of India in respect of Europe or Egypt , and ...
... Arrian himself expressly names the Indus as its known boundary . Let Gadrosis , however , be Macrán , and let Macrán be an Indian province , yet it never could have been a remote part of India in respect of Europe or Egypt , and ...
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... Arrian in truth was a mere compiler ; and his credit , even as a civil histo- rian , seems liable to so much doubt , that it cannot be safe to rely on him for any fact in the history of nature . " We cannot , " says the judicious and ...
... Arrian in truth was a mere compiler ; and his credit , even as a civil histo- rian , seems liable to so much doubt , that it cannot be safe to rely on him for any fact in the history of nature . " We cannot , " says the judicious and ...
Стр. 102
... Arrian was one and the same plant , it is wonder- ful that it ever should have been exported to Persia and Arabia , where it grew , we are told , in so great abundance . The nard of Arabia was , probably , the Andropogon Schananthus ...
... Arrian was one and the same plant , it is wonder- ful that it ever should have been exported to Persia and Arabia , where it grew , we are told , in so great abundance . The nard of Arabia was , probably , the Andropogon Schananthus ...
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