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Rh Had he continued his voyage after ailing 80 miles, he might perhaps have gone as far in 16 hours as is mentioned by Xenophon, with no better ailors than thoe of the Greeks.

I am aware that in this tatement I vary coniderably from that of a gentleman, whoe knowledge and abilities I repecting and it is on that account incumbent on me to Rate my reaons for thus differing with him in opinion

Mr. Rennel thinks that 37 Greek miles is the mean ditance, which the hips of antiquity failed in the pace of one day. As this is much les than I have aigned, I hall take the liberty to examine the authorities he cites for what he alledges. The firt intance he adduces is that of Miltiades, who, as he ays, under favour of an eaterly wind, paed in a ingle day from Elæus, in the Cheronee of Thrace, to Lemnos. The ditance is 38 Greek miles only."

I am orry to remark everal inaccuracies in this hort account. The tory in Herodotus is as follows: "The Pelagians, who were in poeion of Lemnos, admonihed by the Pythian oracle to give atifaction to the Athenians, for ome injuries and cruelties which they had committed, and being required by the Atheians to urrender their iland, replied, that they would do o when the north wind hould carry a hip in one day from the nian