Beyond these limits, either by sea or by land, geographical knowledge must be sought by discovery or followed along the lines of dim report.
Most of these explorers have been chosen for some definite new discovery, some addition to the world's geographical knowledge, or some great feat of endurance which may serve to brace us to fresh effort as a nation famous for our seamen.
This map gives a remarkably clear and interesting view of geographical knowledge in the first half of the sixteenth century.
As geographical knowledge increased, map-makers were compelled to put Brandon's Isle farther and farther away from Ireland, until here we find it off the coast of Africa and near the Equator.
My geographical knowledgeof that country would have been wanting in its most important particular.
Reports from experts used to come to me containing every description of geographical knowledge.
But the point I would wish to make is that my geographical knowledge of Kashmir would have been incomplete--and I would have been wanting in knowledge of its most valuable characteristic--if I had had no knowledge of its beauty.
And in the decline of the old Empire, while Constantine and Justinian are said to receive and exchange embassies with the Court of China, there is no real extension of geographical knowledge or outlook.
In Arabia progress has been slower, although the surveys carried out by Colonel Wahab in connexion with the boundary determined in the Aden hinterland added more exact geographical knowledge within a limited area.
Coronado's search for the "Seven Cities of Cibola" not only added greatly to geographical knowledge of the Southwest, but also resulted in the extension of Spanish dominion over this part of the American continent.
In this way the Northmen were led to make those remarkable explorations in the Atlantic Ocean and the polar seas which added so greatly to geographical knowledge.
Among these were the expansion of geographical knowledge, resulting from the discovery of the New World, and the revolt against the Papacy, known as the Protestant Reformation.
Herodotus has been celebrated as the father of history; he may with equal justice be styled the father of geographical knowledge: he flourished about 474 years before Christ.
Greeks, from the earliest records to the era of Herodotus, the father of geographical knowledge.
Considered in this point of view, it must unquestionably be regarded as the greatest accession to the general stock of geographical knowledge, which was ever yet made by any single traveller.
Here this formula ends; the return voyage and the later adventures of the pair were fantastically told as geographical knowledge increased, after the home of Medea had been located at Aia in Colchis, at the east of the Euxine.
The region of legend expands with the expansion of geographical knowledge.
When they are called for in the following questions, the object is to test the pupil's geographical knowledge.
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