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150 To Mr. Rennel's aertion, that there is no tetimony of the application of the Olympic itadium to itinerary purpoes by Herodotus, it may be replied, that there is as much tetimony as could be expected. It is decribed as a uperficial meaure by that writer, and its parts or ubdiviions particularied, and this but a few lines after be had pecified the extent of the lake Mœris, which he etimates at 3600 tadia, or 450 miles, in circumference, a pace which Mr. Rennel will urely allow to be ufficient to be accounted an itinerary computation. Now Herodotus never decribes any other tadium, or gives any reaon to think, that the one ued in computing the extent of the lake Mœris was of a different length from the one decribed jut: after. It is worth remarking, that Herodotus, at the beginning of the ame book, tells us, "that thoe who have but a mall portion of land, meaure it by the, or fathom; thoe who have more, meaure it by the tadium; thoe who have much, by the paraianga; and thoe who poes countries of great extent, by the choenus; the former of the two lat-mentioned meaures coniting of 30, and the latter of 60, tadia. Now the is mentioned as the next diviion to the tadium in both thee places, and of coure we have reaon to think that the ame tadium was meant in both.

In order to prove that Herodotus meant to expres a Radium maller than the Olympic, Mr. Rennel takes the ditance between Pia and Athens, which, he ays, ought, if the numbers be not corrupted, to be accounted deciive." This ditance was, according to Herodotus, fifteen tadia hort of 1500, or 1485 tadia; and this, he ays, agreed nearly with the one between Heliopolis in Egypt, and the ea. "The direct ditance," Mr. Rennel ays, is, "in D'Anville's map of Greece, 105 Greek miles." I have that