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124 day and a night) cannot be uppoed all of them to correpond with meaurement, as the time conumed in ome coating voyages mut; be longer than in others, on account of the hores and currents, and often of the irregularity of the winds that blow off the land.

Let us however, ubject to uch allowance as may be made for thee interruptions, examine ome of the ditances which he pecies.

The firt ditance he mentions is that which extends acros the Straits of Gibraltar, which he accounts one day's fail. This ditance is much les than 500 tadia; but on account of the current, which always ets trongly through the Straits into the Mediterranean, it might have taken up o much time with hips of uch imperfect contruction and management.

The next ditance he mentions is from Gades to the Pillars of Hercules, which he reckons as one day's ail. This correponds well with the pace, it being very nearly 500 tadia.

From the mouth of the Rhone to Antium, or, as Cluwferius reads, to the Arnus, is counted four days and four nights ail. If the Arnus be the genuine reading, the coating ditance is about 2400 tadia, or 600 in twenty-four hours, or a day and night. If Antium be the right reading, the ditance approaches nearer to the allotment of Ptolemy, it being nearly 4000 tadia, which accords with the calculation.

Another ditance, which he pecifies, is from Sardinia to the coat of