Note 744 — BOOK II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS. (continued 2)

It is scarcely necessary to remark, that the calculations of our author do not indicate the real distance between the extreme points of the habitable parts of the globe, as known to the ancients, but the number of miles which must be passed over by a traveller, in going from place to place; in the first instance, a considerable part of the way by sea, and, in the second, almost entirely by land.