Note 526 — Chapter I
W. (William) Falconer translation
Perhaps it may aid the reader in realizing these different reasonings if we give a summary of them in figures.
Strabo supposes that Hipparchus, reckoning from the equator to the limits of the inhabited earth, 8,800 stadia
should have fixed the southern extremity of India more to the north by 4,000
and the northern extremity of India, according to the measures of Deimachus, still more to the north by 30,000
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Total 42,800
Now, Strabo adds, following Hipparchus, the northern shores of Keltica and the mouth of the Dnieper, are distant from the equator 34,000
Ierne, in a climate almost uninhabitable, was, according to Strabo’s own impression, situated to the north of Keltica 5,000
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39,000
Then, according to Hipparchus, the habitable latitudes would extend still farther than Ierne by 3,800
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Total 42,800
The great fertility of Bactriana, according to Strabo, appeared to be inconsistent with a position so far towards the north. In this he was correct.