Major James Rennel And the Rise of Modern English Geography
Major James Rennel And the Rise of Modern English Geography
Markham Clements Robert
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Using these distances, Rennell placed Palibothra at Canouj, near the confluence of the Calini, or Kalli-nadi, and the Ganges. He did not doubt that some very large city stood in the position which PUny assigned to Palibothra, and inclined to think that this city was on the site of Patna, though he supposes the true Palibothra to be Canouj, which is below Patna and near the town of Barr, on the right bank of the Ganges. d'anville and rennell. 91 Now, the result of the most recent researches prov...es that D'Anville was quite wrong, and that Rennell had the correct clue in his hand and was very nearly right Mr. Waddell has, within the last few years, supplied conclusive evidence that the site of Pataliputra, the famous capital of the great Emperor Asoka, was at Patna. Rennell was the first to point out that the Son River, or one of its main branches, formerly joined the Ganges immedi- ately below the modem city of Patna. Mr, Waddell has shown that Pataliputra was on a site on the neck of land between the old course of the Son and the Ganges.
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