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rid zone, and which crosses the Cinnamon Country. note We have
proved that the regions not more than 5000 stadia north of
Keltica, as far as Ierne, note are scarcely habitable, but their reasoning leads to the conclusion that there is another circle fitted
for the habitation of man, although 3800 stadia north of Ierne. note
And that Bactra is still farther north than the mouth of the
Caspian or Hyrcanian Sea, which is distant about 6000 stadia
from the recess of the Caspian and the mountains of Armenia
and Media, and which appears to be the most northerly point
of the whole coast as far as India, with a sea navigable to
India all the way, as Patrocles, who had the government of
these regions, affirms. Now Bactriana stretches 1000 stadia
farther north. Beyond this the Scythians occupy a much
larger territory, bounded by the Northern Ocean: here they
dwell, though to be sure theirs is a nomade life. But we ask
how they could exist here at all, supposing even Bactra to be
beyond the limits of the habitable globe. The distance from
the Caucasus to the Northern Sea through Bactra would be
