To: blam
Whats’ with the dotted lines across Spain? There was no water route across spain in 325BC, was there?
The Midi canal wasn’t completed until the 17th century, IIRC.
Or do the dotted lines indicated Pytheas just crossed land the usual way?
5 posted on
04/14/2008 11:16:31 AM PDT by
chrisser
(Obama: panem et circenses)
To: chrisser
Looking at it I don’t understand why he would unnecessarily cross the Pyranees? Couldn’t he just have gone across Southern France to the Garonne river and then take a boat to Brittany, then to Britain, Isle of Man and elsewhere?
7 posted on
04/14/2008 11:25:35 AM PDT by
brooklyn dave
(Proud to be an Infidel)
To: chrisser
The lines crossing Spain are to far south. The Garonne River is north and in France.
8 posted on
04/14/2008 11:46:00 AM PDT by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: chrisser
Guessing that the Carthaginians were blocking the Straits of Gibraltar? Perhaps the overland leg was a way to avoid a sort of naval blockade or pirates?
16 posted on
04/14/2008 2:46:41 PM PDT by
Tallguy
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