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Rh further; but this does not abridge his power of proceeding to a greater ditance in that pace of time. It hould alo be oberved, that, although the ditance between Attica and Lemnos is conider able, the Lemnians guarded their promie by retricting the voyage to be performed by a northerly wind.

Again, the ditance between Elmum and the nearet point of Lemnos is, by Mr. D'Anville's map, 420 Olympic tadia, or more than 52 Greek miles; and according to Mr. Rochette's map, at leat 4946 [sic] miles. Thee ditances approach much nearer to the calculation of Ptolemy than to that of Mr. Rennel; and indeed this intance proves nothing, as it does not appear that Miltiades might not have gone further, had he been o inclined.

Mr. Rennel next intances the fleet of Xerxes, which, he ays, failed from the Euripus to Phalerus, a port in Attica, in three days, which he ays is 06 Greek miles, or 32 Greek miles each day: The words of Herodotus are, "that Xerxes, after having viewed the dead bodies of the Lacedæmonians lain at Thermopylæ, paed over from Trachis to Hitiæa, and after three days tay ailed through the Euripus, and in three days arrived at Phalerus." The ditance from Hitiæa to Phalerus through the Euripusis, according to Mr. D'Anville, 179 Greek miles, and according to Mr. Rochette's map, 174 Greek miles; which gives, according to the lowet of thee calculations, 58 Greek miles for each day's ail, intead of 32, according to Mr. Rennel. If we conider the vat fleet which performed this voyage, and the narrow traits through which they failed, we may be jutly urprifed they were o expeditious. But a fleet of 1000 hips is no proper intance to prove how far hips in general may fail in a given time. The