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Rh Miletus, the capital of Ionia, the great chool for atronomical and nautical intruction, and the prime ource from whence mot of the colonies of antiquity were derived, founded everal cities on the Euxine ea, and ome even on its mot remote hores. Among thee, were on the outhern coat, Sinope, Tios, Amifus, and Trapezus, and, according to Paterculus, even Byzantium and Cyzicus. On the eait, Diofcurias, the principal city in that neighbourhood. On the north, Panticapaeurn, Theodoia, and Olbia, and on the Weil, Itria and Apolloniania.

The European Greeks, as well as the Aiatic, founded cities on the ame ea. Heraclea Pontica was a colony from Megara, and Athens contributed to that ent to Amius. Apollonian in Ponto was built by emigrants from Corinth, or Corcyra. Amatris was of Greek original, and, according to Arrian, the whole of the cities on the weitern coat were Greek colonies

The commodities furnihed as articles of trade by the countries bordering on the Euxine ea were neither very numerous; nor of great value. Honey, wax, hides, proviions of all kinds, and materials for building or rigging hips, were the principal. It mutt not be omitted, that linen-cloth, both white and dyed, or painted, was an article of trade from this country to Greece in very early times.

But the Euxine ea itelf was the great ource of upply for their