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 | | Subject: Neither land, nor sea, nor air Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:13 pm | |
| - Wikipedia wrote:
- The Greek explorer Pytheas is the first to have written of Thule, doing so in his now lost work, On the Ocean, after his travels between 330 BC and 320 BC. He supposedly was sent out by the Greek city of Massaliato see where their trade-goods were coming from.[8]Descriptions of some of his discoveries have survived in the works of later, often skeptical, authors. Polybiusin his Histories (c. 140 BC), Book XXXIV, cites Pytheas as one "who has led many people into error by saying that he traversed the whole of Britain on foot, giving the island a circumference of forty thousand stades, and telling us also about Thule, those regions in which there was no longer any proper land nor sea nor air, but a sort of mixture of all three of the consistency of a jellyfish in which one can neither walk nor sail, holding everything together, so to speak."
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