Fishing in China, manner of, 648, 649
Fitch, voyage of, 591-593
Fitzjames, Captain, R. N., Report of the
navigation of the Euphrates (599 and A p p
e n d i x at.)
Flood, account of, by ancient writers, 3
, astronomy and astrology known before
the, 9, 10, 11, 20
, existence of Sabaism before the, 15
Florus, Gessius, his tyranny over the Jews,
416
Fortresses, sieges in ancient and modem
times, 395, 396
France, and invasion of the Moors, 458
Franks, invasion of Italy by the, 424, 425
settle ou the Rhine, 511
descended from the Trojans, 512
Frederic II. arrives in Palestine, 484
■t his treaty with the Muslims, 484
encourages Arabic literature, 561-563
French Levant Company, 594
Furrah, probably Phra, situation of, &c., 306
Gabse, or Bag®, on the Oxus, 316
Gabene, district of, part of Parsetacene, taken
by Eumenes, 386
Gabriel, A1 Mamun’s physician, and his
income, 462
Gadamolis, or Gadarlis, in Media, Antigo-
nus’ army winter at, 386
Gadara burnt by Vespasian, 417
Gadates, the Babylonian, deserts to Cyrus,
165
Gadelus, successor of Niul, 511
, his grandson proceeds to Spain and
Ireland, 511
Galatians or Gomer® from Gomer, 44
Galen’s medical system, 532
Galerius defeats the Persians, 430
Galilee, the campaign of the Romans under
Vespasian and Titus in, 417, 418
Gallienus opposes the Goths in Italy, 425
Gallipoli taken by the Turks under Urklan,
498
Gallus, defeat o f the Romans at, 414
, jElius, his expedition into southern
Arabia, 414, 415
, Csestus, sent by the Romans against
the Jews, 416
Gama, Vasco de, rounds the Cape of Good
Hope, 589
Gamala captured by Vespasian, 417
Gambia reached by the Carthaginians, 190
Ganges, or Gogra, source of, 369
Gangarid®, Alexander marches to conquer,
331
Garbia, or the North, and countries allotted
to Japhet’s descendants, 17 ,
Gardens, hanging, of Babylon, substructure
of, 615
Gargareis of Strabo the Armenians from
Themiscyra, 133
Gauls descended from Gomer, 44
of Duriorigum trade with B ritain, 576
Gaur Tagh (Infidel Mountain), supposed to
be Theches, 233
- reached by the 10,000, 232 ,
Gaugamela, village on the Bumadas, 287
, supposed to be Karmelis, on the
Khazir, 294
Gaza the southern limit of Canaan, 21
, the peculiar position of, 281
taken by storm, 282
, a . town of Sogdiana, taken by Alexander,
313
subjected by Antigouus, 389
, defeat of Demetrius by Ptolemy near,
390
taken by Salah-ed-din, 476
Gebal of the Ammonites, now Jubei'l, called
Byblus, 18
Gedaliah, governor left by Nebuchadnezzar’s
general over Judea, 159
his murder caused Judea to be laid
waste, 159
Gedrosi submit to Alexander, 307
Gedrosia, distress of Alexander’s army when
crossing the desert of, 343, 344
, Nearchus’ fleet reach, 347
Gelam, son and successor of Amassia, 42
, his territories and migrations, 42
succeeded by his son Harma, 42
Gelod or Chilod, Judith, 14-7 ( n o t e )
Gemeri on the Kara-su, probably the Gym-
nias of the 10,000 Greeks, 232
Genghis Khan, origin of the name of, 488
»early history and conquests of, 487-489
, his death and monument, 489,490
—, character of, 490
Genoa and her commercial prosperity, 587
Genoese commerce with India, 534
fleets assist the Spaniards against the
Moors 587
r trade, 586-588
-------------- with England, 590
vessels import Indian spices, 590
Genus and Genea, supposed to represent
Cain and his wife, 15
Geography, Edrisi’s, and other works on,
534, 535
Geometry derived from Egypt and the
east, 530
Georgia, nail-headed letters of, and Tibet,
33, 34
—— subjected by Mahmud Ghizni, 469
, Taimur’s campaign in, 494
added to the Turkish dominions, 501
Gergashites, Jebusites, &c., originate the
Berbers, 455
I Germa, B e i t , or house of bones, supposed
site of the battle of Arbela, 295
Gerostratus, king of Aradus, submits to
Alexander, 276
Gerrhseans, rafts used by, 635
Ghara, one of the names of the Sutlej, 370
joins the Chin&b, 371
Ghassan, Beni, descended from Kakl&n, 52
, the kingdom of, added to the Himy
a ri territory, 81
, foundation of the kingdom of, 449
Ghazan rebels against the Great Khdn, and
embraces the Muslim faith, 491
Ghizni, or Ghazne'fn, corresponds with the
territory of the Indi, 308
Ghizni reduced by Genghis Khan, 489
, commercial route through, 581
Ghor, El W6d£ and tribe of Amalekites,
from Amalek, son of Ham, 21
Ghoràb, Hisn, and Himyari inscriptions, 82
Giants’ Graves, structures called, near Sligo,
15
Gibraltar, the landing-place of the Moors
on their invasion of Spain, 457
Gihon river, name changed to Araxes, 2,41
—— (Jaxartes), the, crossed by Taimiir
on a bridge of boats, 493
Gingeni and others prove that rhyme came
from Arabia, 552
Girchala taken by Titus, 417
Goa, trade to, 592
Gobi or Kobi, desert of, 572
Gobryas, a Babylonian noble, who deserts
to Cyrus, 165
Godfrey of Bouillon establishes the Latin
kingdom of Jerusalem, 475
Godol Valley, the Greeks march along the,
234
Gold collected in Egypt, 617
Coast, and Carthaginian voyage to the,
190
Golden Horde, Tartar dynasty in the
Crimea, 491
Gomates, a Magian, usurps the throne of
Cambyses, 175
deposed and slain by Darius Hystaspes,
175,176
Gomerae, or Galatians, from Gomer, 44
Gomer’s followers, 38
Gomorrah and Sodom, Strabo’s account of
the formation, the lake, &c., 67, 68
Goods suitable for Asia Minor ( A p p e n d i x
N . )
tracked up the Tigris ( A p p e n d i x N . )
— pass through several hands in the
East 595 (and A p p e n d i x N . )
influx of, to Persia, 597
Goongroo river (or Piny a ri), 372
Gopher wood, 638
Górà, B à r i , or Bander Vikkar, 372
Gordian III. succeeds Alexander as emperor,
423
— —, his campaign against the Persians, 423,
424
—— is put to death, 424
, his monument at Dura, 424, 435 ^
Gordy®, or Gordyans, a tribe of Assyrians,
31
Goshen, or Geshen, land of, now Esh Shur-
kéyeh, 97
— , fertility of, 97, 98
Goths, or Get®, defeated by Alexander, 259
invade the Roman provinces in Europe,
424
invade Asia Minor, 426
Goukcha, lake of Sevan, so called, 42
— inhabitants called Siakans or Seunics,
42
Gelam descendant of Ha'ik, built towns,
&c., on the shores of, 42
Gounang-passaman, a mountain in Sumatra,
called Ophir, 126
VOL. II.
Granicus, battle of the, 264, 265
Granis river, station o f Nearchus’ fleet near,
354
Græcia Magna, the seat of philosophy, 540
Greece, the antediluvian idolatry, renewed
by Ham, 16
architecture from Egypt, 48
-, religion and philosophy of, carried
from Egypt to, 112, 515, 519, 526
, voyage of the Argonauts, 113, 114
, intercourse between, and the Black
Sea, &c., 119
, Darius’ first w ar with, 182
, result of the expedition sent under
Mardonius, 186, 187
, Darius sends heralds to demand earth
and water, 187
dies when about to march against,
188
prepares for war against Xerxes, 191,
197
, Artaxerxes’ campaign in, 199, 200
assists.the revolted Egyptians, 200
sends a force to support Cyrus, 204
, disunion among the states of, 246, 247
, first and second rescripts of Artaxerxes
to, 247, 248
—— sends reinforcements to Alexander, 334
acquires a knowledge of the east by
Alexander’s conquests, 379
connected w ith Central Asia through
Asia Minor, 514, 515
, philosophy and the sciences obtained
from the east, 515
-, sabaism the ancient religion of, 517
, Orpheus the supposed founder of the
religion and poetry of, 517
, knowledge from the east introduced
by Thales into, 519
, magism makes progress in, 527
Greek, Sanscrit, &c., from same primitive
tongue, 86
colonies in Lesser Asia, 540
— or Pelasgian navigators, 573
trade with central Asia, but commerce
by sea restricted, 573
colonies in the archipelago, 574
— — commerce chiefly confined to the
Mediterranean and Euxine, 574
—— commerce very limited before the time
of Xerxes, 574
Greeks, their origin from Javan, 44
, their first landing in Asia, 119
overthrown by Sennacherib, 141
— (the Ten Thousand) after the death of
Cyrus offer the crown to Ariæus, 218
- — resolve on fighting their way home,
218, 219
, route of, by the Tigris, 219
commence their retreat without supplies,
219
négociations with the Persians, 219,220
——— arrive at the Median wall, 220
—— cross the Tigris, and reach the rivers
Physcus and Opis, 221
pass the Lesser Zâb, and arrive a t the
villages of Parysatis, 222
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