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Rh up 562½ tadia, or 70 Greek miles, or nearly 64¼ Englih miles. Saythen, 64.326: 660:: 69.5:713.09, which is not far from Mr. Rennel's concluion, though not founded on his calculations.

Let us now ee how the account will tand, according to his own computation. 51.28 Engl. m.=56 Greek m.:660:: 69.5:817.22; very different from Mr. Rennel's calculation of 707 to a degree.

As to what Mr. Rennel ays repecting the ditance being by the Theodoian or Peutingerian Tables 61 I anwer, that I have thee now before me, in Bertius's edition of Ptolemy's Geography, and find that there are two roads' put down from Olympia to Lacedæmon, one the more direct by Melæna, the other following for a coniderable part of it the ea coat. The more direct road has the ditances marked on it no farther than from Olympia to Melaena, which lat place is et down as 12 miles from Olympia, which, by Mr. D'Anville's map, appears to be nearly the true ditance; but no farther pecifications are to be found for the remainder of the way.

The road by the coat is as follows; with the ditances as marked in the tables, and thoe meaured in a trajght line in Mr. D'Anville's map of Greece. From