Excerpt from The Edinburgh Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary, Vol. 1 of 6: Containing a Description of the Various Countries, Kingdoms, States, Cities, Towns, Mountains, &C. Of the World; An Account of the Government, Customs, and Religion, of the Inhabitants; The Boundaries and Natural Productions of Each Country, &C., &C Beyond thiscircle, which bounded the areerot'thesun, it was difficult for the early cosmographer to form even a conjecture. The ideas usually attached to the ulterior regions were those of darkness and chaos, which, being banished from the earth, main tained, undisturbed, in those frightful regions, their ancient eni pire. At the extremity of the west, of the north, and of the east, an hnaginary people was placed, called the Cimtnerians, who were never enlightened by the enlivening presence of the sun. 1 Thisterminationofthe worldin darknessaceords withthe natural impressions of the human mind, and continued long to be a prevailing delusion. The Arabian geographers gave to their cirenmambient ocean the appellation of the Sea of Darkness and several of the early European navigators, in exploring unknown seas, when the atmosphere assumed an peet of peculiar obscurity, stopped, under the apprehension that they were 11n the dark boundaries ofexistence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.