Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volume 29Royal Society of New Zealand., 1897 Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57. |
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Page 41 - Hercules into the northern sea, and so to return to Egypt. The Phoenicians, accordingly, setting out from the Red Sea, navigated the southern sea; when autumn came, they went ashore, and sowed the land, by whatever part of Libya they happened to be sailing, and waited for harvest; then having reaped the corn, they put to sea again. When two years had thus passed, in the third, having doubled the Pillars of Hercules, they arrived in Egypt, and related what to me does not seem credible, but may to...
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