Note 67 — Chapter I · THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
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Meteor., II, 5. Pliny also thought that the polar and equatorial regions are uninhabitable, although he was aware of the fact that the northern boundary of the uninhabitable part of the equatorial regions must be well south of the Tropic of Cancer (Hist. nat., II, 68, 74, 76, 108). See also below, p. 377, note 172.