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Excerpt from The Life and Travels of Herodotus in the Fifth Century Before Christ, Vol. 2 of 2 The country itself may be described as a grass steppe, supplying good pasture for cattle and horses, and in its eastern quarter producing excellent wheat and all kinds of grain, together with great quantities of ax and hemp. It was, therefore, admirably adapted to the habits and requirements of a Tartar race. But the circumstances Which led to that great Tartar migration from the rich pas tures round the Sea of Aral to the Grass Steppe on the northern shore of the Euxine could not fail to excite the curiosity of the early philosophic traveller. The national traditions, however, which the Scythians themselves pre served, and those which prevailed amongst the Greek colonists on the shores of the Black Sea, were generally rejected by the more acute critics of olden time; and though we shall have occasion to produce them as speci mens of ancient historic myths, yet we would more par ticularly direct the reader's attention to the following account, which was the most generally received both by the Greeks and the other literary nations of the ancient world. 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.