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Rh of the Phais, was the uual centre and reort of the dometic trade of the country. But the emporium of the Indian trade was, according to Strabo, a city, called Phais, ituated on the river of the ame name.

From the Phais, Strabo tells us, that it was but two or three days ail to Amius, or to Sinope, from both of which cities the Eat Indian goods were dipered over Europe and Aia Minor; and this trade contributed, no doubt, to the aggrandizement of both thoe cities.

Hippocrates oberves, that the country adjacent to the Phais was, in his time, interected with canals, which the inhabitants ued for the purpoes of inland navigation. He alo peaks of emporia in that country, but whether for the dometic produce, or for foreign commodities, does not appear: the commodities imported were, I preume, much the ame as what the Europan nations now receive from the Eat Indies. Cotton manufactures, pearls , and