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6 In ailing from Athenæ; we paed by Prytanis, a palace of Anchialus, which is ditant from Athenæ forty tadia.

The river Pyxites is ditant from Prytanis ninety tadia.

The ditance from Pyxites to Archabis is alo ninety tadia.

From Archabis to Aparus ixty tadia.

When we et ail from Aparus, we paed by the river Acampis in the night, at the ditance of fifteen tadia from Aparus. The river Bathys is eventy-five tadia ditant from the Acampis.

From the Bathys to the Acinais ninety tadia.

From the Acinais to the Iis ninety tadia. The Acampis and the Iis are both of them navigable rivers, from whoe mouths iue trong morning breezes.

Sailing from the mouth of the Iis, we paed by the Mogrus, which alo is a navigable river, and at the ditance of ninety tadia from the Iis. We then entered the Phais, which is ditant from the Mogrus ninety tadia. The water of this river is lighter in the balance, and more changeable in its colour, than any with which I am acquainted. Any peron may atisfy himelf of the uperior lightnes of this water by weighing it, or by oberving that it floats on the urface of the ea without mingling with it. In the ame manner Homer ays, that the water of the river Titareius floats upon the urface of the Peneus:

The water of the Phais, if you take it from the urface, is freh; but if any one lets down a jar deep into the tream, he finds the water brackih. It mut however be oberved, that the Pontic ea is much les alt than the ea without the Hellepont, on account of the rivers which dicharge themelves into the former, the ber