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The agreement between modern and ancient computation is here very remarkable; but I upect that the road, to which Pauanias alludes, was more circuitous than the common allowance of will account for

Let us now examine ame of the ditances of which we may be uppoed to have more accurate accounts, and which Herodotus himelf is aid to have meaured. He ays, that the length of the Boporus is 120 tadia. According to the large map of the Propontis, it meaures 16 Englih miles; and, according to Mr. Arrowmith's chart, 13° = 15 Englih miles. If we take the medium of thee two computations, we may ay, 15.5: 120:: 69.5:538 nearly.

We know not indeed the points between which Herodotus formed his menfurations; but they could not be far from thoe here