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Page 192
... Stone Tower , and in Imaus itself , there was a òpμnthiov or station for the traders to the Seres ( bk . vi , ch . 13 ) . This may have been about Tashbaliq . Smith's Dict . of Gr . and Roman Geography , article Serica , states as a ...
... Stone Tower , and in Imaus itself , there was a òpμnthiov or station for the traders to the Seres ( bk . vi , ch . 13 ) . This may have been about Tashbaliq . Smith's Dict . of Gr . and Roman Geography , article Serica , states as a ...
Page 251
... stone which is good for the eyes , and a red stone which is good for the spleen ; also excellent indigo . They travelled forty days in this territory3 . Then they came to KALIB4 , in which there is a colony of the Arabs of Yemen , who ...
... stone which is good for the eyes , and a red stone which is good for the spleen ; also excellent indigo . They travelled forty days in this territory3 . Then they came to KALIB4 , in which there is a colony of the Arabs of Yemen , who ...
Page 294
... stone there . " They get their blocks of stone sometimes from a distance of two or three months ' journey , conveying them on carts that have some forty very high wheels with iron tires ; and these shall be drawn by five or six hundred ...
... stone there . " They get their blocks of stone sometimes from a distance of two or three months ' journey , conveying them on carts that have some forty very high wheels with iron tires ; and these shall be drawn by five or six hundred ...
Contents
Dedication and Preface | 1 |
late and then in the forms Thin Thinae Sinae | 8 |
the indication of the Chinese empire from the landward Inferior | 13 |
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