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Thule

Please download and store this to preserve it for posterity. Thule is subtitled "The Phenican Trade Ways After The Norden Especially After The Bernsteinlande As The Travel Of The Pytheas Of Massilia." A significant work of reconstructive and creative scholarship by Professor Gustav Moritz Redslob [1803-1882] -- prompted by the ancient notion of "Thule" - a region in the farthest north of the globe. Thule came to signify a distant place, beyond the borders of the known. The first to write of this place was a Greek geographer and explorer Pytheas of Massalia -- who gave this farthest-north place its name. Pytheas made a voyage of exploration from his native Massalia [a Greek colony in his day, it is now Marseilles] heading north through Europe, in about 325 B.C. The importance of Pytheas' voyage is hard to overstate; he traveled around and visited a considerable part of what is now Great Britain. He is the first person on record to describe the Midnight Sun. Pytheas is also the first known scientific visitor and reporter of the arctic, polar ice, and the Germanic tribes. His account of the tides is the earliest known to suggest the moon as a cause for their production. And, not least

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