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Rh Halmydeus, or Salmydeius, had, I upect, a imilar derivation. Cordyla, a place o called, which lies near Trapezus, exprees by its name a mall or young tunny; and Strabo tells us, as I have before noticed, that thee fih caught o far to the eatward as Trapezus are all mall. Farther to the wetward lies Thynias, an iland that, I uppoe, took its name from thee fih, it lying to the wet of Heraclea; at which place, Ælian tells us, the fih are in great perfection, as they improve when they approach the Thracian Boporus, and do not acquire the name of Thynni, or, until they are grown to be large, the finall and middle-ized being called Pelamides.

The city of Thynias, in the neighbourhood of Salmydeus, had its name alo, I prefume, from thee fih, it being within a moderate ditance of the Boporus, their great reort, both when they leave and 'when they enter the Euxine ea.

But the great advantage, which the Euxine ea poeed in point of trade, was its erving as a means of conveyance of the commodities of the Eat to Europe. This appears to me to have been the mot ancient method, and much prior to the communication acros the Arabian gulph, to the Red ea and Alexandria. It was indeed tedious and circuitous, but the deire of poeing Indian commodities overcame all obtacles. Pliny relates, from Varro, that Pompey, when proecuting the war againt Mithridates, dicovered the coure of this trade. The