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156 the ditances, which he decribes in Aiia Minor, may afford more atifactory information. Mr. Rennel tells us, that "Xenophon's ordinary march was 150 tadia daily, which both he and Herodotus accounts to be equal to five paraangas.” The proper way, I apprehend, of computing the march of Xenophon's army, is to take that part of it where they marched over ground with which they were acquainted; not where they were haraed and purued by the enemy. I would therefore elect the account of their march from Sardis to Babylon, a pace where the ditances were meaured, and more to be depended on than thoe which occurred when they were travering backwards and forwards deerts, and other difficult and dangerous paths, with which they were totally unacquainted.

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