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'The Penetration of Arabia a record of the development of Western knowledge concerning the Arabian Peninsula with illustrations from drawings, photographs, and maps by J. G. Bartholomew.' [‎14] (41/496)

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14 ARABIA
Mariaba; 1 and the correspondence of that reported
two days' march to the Incense Land with the distance
which in fact separates the vale of Marib from the
uppermost valleys of Hadramaut, are almost conclu
sive that the Roman's goal was Yemen; and this is
accepted as the case by the only European traveller
who has been in both Marib and Nejran, the learned
Joseph Halevy, and by his follower, Glaser. Hcgra,
then, must not be placed anywhere near the site usually
found for Levkc, i. e., on the twenty-fifth parallel, and
in face of Myos Hormos; for no army could have
reached it in so little as sixty days from Nejran, march
ing nearly a thousand miles in such a land as Arabia;
but it must be understood to have been at Haura, the
port of inland Hejr, whence eleven days are not too
little or too much to allow for the voyage to Myos
Hormos.
The report of this campaign must have given much
precision to the vague contemporary views about west
ern Arabia, for it supplied a sound criterion of distance.
Now, for the first time, caravan hours could be com
pared with hours of Roman military marching. At the
same time the eastern side of the peninsula had become
better known, thanks to a maritime expedition, ascribed
by Pliny to " Epiphanes," probably King Antiochus IV
of Syria. Already the Graeco-Egyptian navigators
were venturing out of the Red Sea and coasting
towards India, along the south shore of the peninsula;
and presently Hippalus was to make the straight run
1 Pliny expressly identifies this with Gall us' Mariaba.

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The Penetration of Arabia a record of the development of Western knowledge concerning the Arabian Peninsula with illustrations from drawings, photographs, and maps by J. G. Bartholomew .

Publication Details: London, Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C.

Notes: In : Keltie (Sir, J.S.) The Story of Exploration, etc. 1903, etc. 8º.

Physical Description: xv, 359 p.

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