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Excerpt from The Ocean: A General Account of the Science of the Sea
The early Greeks had a practical knowledge only of the enclosed Mediterranean, which they called Thalassa, but they had also some knowledge of what was called the great River of the Ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules, as well as of the Arabian Gulf, which was called the Erythraean Sea. They are said to have derived their information concerning this great outer ocean from the Phoenicians. Necho, an early Egyptian king, is reported to have ordered his Phoenician sailors to sail down the east coast of Africa.
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