text: "[1] On the other hand he points out with accuracy the real direction which Ptolemy gave to the trade with India by Berenice and Coptos and the great works he constructed for the convenience of transporting goods from the Nile across the desert to the Red Sea; and it may be remarked that the Indian trade always kept this route or one similar until the discovery of that by the Cape of Good Hope--the great route of the merchants being either by Coptos and Berenice or by Coptos and Myos Hormos or at a later period by the Vicus Apollinis to Philotera