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8 men are tationed, eems to me very trong by ituation, and conveniently ituated for the protection of thoe that ail upon the river. It was urrounded with a ditch and a double wall, each of them very broad. The walls were formerly of earth, and the towers of wood; but at preent both the wall and the towers are built of baked brick, the foundations of which are ecurely laid, and the whole furnihed with warlike engines, and, in hort, o fortified in every repect, as to afford no acces to the Barbarians, nor to expoe thoe who defend it to the danger of a iege. But as it is adviable that the port hould be rendered afe for ea-faring people, and that other places hould be ecured which lie without the walls of the catle, and are inhabited by people who are now exempted from military ervice, or by perons engaged in commerce, I thought proper to carry from the double ditch, that urrounds the wall, another ditch, as far as the river, which may include both the harbour, and the buildings, that lie beyond the walls of the fortifications.

Leaving the Phais we paed by the Chariens, a navigable river, at the ditance of ninety tadia from the Phais. From the Chariens we ailed to the Chobus, which is ninety tadia ditant from the Chariens. We here went into the harbour; but for what caues, and what buines we tranacted there, the Latin letters will explain. Proceeding from the Chobus we ailed by the Singamis, a navigable river, at the ditance from the Chobus of two hundred and ten stadia at the utmot. Next to the Singamis, and at the distance of one hundred and ninety stadia, lies the river Taruras. From the Taruras to the Hippus is one hundred and fifty tadia. From Hippus to Atelephus is thirty tadia. In our coure from the Chobus we paed by Atelephus, and