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his travels in a work that has not survived; only excerpts remain, quoted or paraphrased by later authors, most familiarly in strabo 's geographica , [ ] pliny's natural history and passages in diodorus of sicily 's history . most of the ancients, including the first two just mentioned, refer to his
based on pytheas reported that britain is cold and subject to frosts, being "too much subject to the bear ", and not "under the arctic pole", as some translations say. [ ] the numerous population of natives, he says, live in thatched cottages, store their grain in subterranean caches and bake bread...
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