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Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol. 1 (of 2)

Note 32 — Chapter V · GEOGRAPHICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL.

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Captain Guillain (vol. i. 121—139, et passim) contends, and with much show of reason, that the Periplus was written after the days of Ptolemy (A.D. 139 and A.D. 161). ‘Tant de lacunes dans l’œuvre du grand géographe grec, ne semblent-elles pas assigner à son travail une place toute naturelle entre les écrits de Marin de Tyr et le Périple?’

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