Note 13 — II. STRABO, MELA, PLINY, PTOLEMY.
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Ptolemy assumes the southernmost part of the old world to be in S. lat. 16° 20´ instead of S. lat. 34° 51´ 12´´ (Cape Agulhas). Already in 1800, G. G. Bredow (loc. cit.), recognising the imperfect graduation, had reduced Ptolemy’s N. lat. 57° to N. lat. 51° 15´, and N. lat. 62° to N. lat. 55° 15´.