His Geography
Written In 721, A.D. 1321, Consists Of Tables Of The Latitudes And
Longitudes Of Places, In Imitation Of Ptolemy, With Descriptions, Under
The Title Of Takwin Al Boldan.
No fewer than five or six translations
have been made of this work, but by some accident or other none of these
have ever been published.
The only parts of this work that have been
printed are the tables of Send and Hend, or India, published in the
French collection of Voyages and Travels by Thevenot; and those of
Khowarazm or Karazm, Mawara'l-nahar, or Great Bukharia, and Arabia.
The two former were published in 1650, with a Latin translation by Dr
Greaves; and all the three by Hudson, in the third volume of the Lesser
Greek Geographers, in 1712; from which latter work this description of
the Red Sea is extracted, on purpose to illustrate the two preceding
journals, and to shew that there really is such a gulf on the coast of
Arabia as that mentioned by the ancients, that geographers may not be
misled by the mistake of Don Juan de Castro. In this edition, the words
inserted between parenthesis are added on purpose to accommodate the
names to the English orthography, or to make the description more
strictly conformable to the Arabic. The situations or geographical
positions are here thrown out of the text, to avoid embarrassment, and
formed into a table at the end. We cannot however warrant any of them,
as those which may have been settled by actual observation are not
distinguished from such as may not have had that advantage; which indeed
is the general fault of oriental tables of latitude and longitude.
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