BOOK VI

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AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST, OR FORMERLY EXISTED.

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1. The Euxine and the Maryandini 1

2. Paphlagonia 3

3. Cappadocia 6

4. The region of Themiscyra, and the nations therein 8

5. The region of Colica, the nations of the Achæi, and other nations in the same parts 11

6. The Cimmerian Bosporus 13

7. Lake Mæotis and the adjoining nations 14

8. The situation of Cappadocia 16

9. The Lesser and the Greater Armenia 17

10. The rivers Cyrus and Araxes 18

11. Albania, Iberia, and the adjoining nations 20

12. The passes of the Caucasus 21

13. The islands of the Euxine 22

14. Nations in the vicinity of the Scythian Ocean 23

15. The Caspian and Hyrcanian Sea 24

16. Adiabene 27

17. Media and the Caspian Gates 28

18. Nations situate around the Hyrcanian Sea 30

19. The nations of Scythia and the countries on the Eastern Ocean 33

20. The Seres 35

21. The nations of India 38

22. The Ganges 43

23. The Indus 46

24. Taprobane 51

25. The Ariani and the adjoining nations 56

26. Voyages to India 60

27. Carmania 66

28. The Persian and the Arabian Gulfs _ib._

29. The Parthian Empire 68

30. Mesopotamia 70

31. The Tigris 75

32. Arabia 82

33. The Gulfs of the Red Sea 91

34. Troglodytice 93

35. Æthiopia 97

36. Islands of the Æthiopian Sea 105

37. The Fortunate Islands 107

38. The comparative distances of places on the face of the earth 108

39. Division of the earth into parallels and shadows of equal length 110

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