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Rh Roman dicipline in his time, and of its effects, which Marius had before experienced in the Cimbric war. Men who could undergo uch fatigues might well perform longer marches than thoe to which Mr. Rennel objects. But, fays Mr. R. the pace of 14½ miles was the mean ditance travelled by an Indian army. But that of Cyrus was not a tumultuary multitude of that kind. Xenophon himelf relates a remarkable intance how forward the principal perons among them were to expedite the march of the army by their peronal exertions. Cyrus himelf was the mot conummate general of the age in which he lived; he commanded forces raied in Greece, or in countries connected with it; he himelf admired and practied the Grecian dicipline; he promied himelf the empire of Peria, by the aid of the Greeks; and although a tragical accident put an end at once to his life and to his hopes, his allies, in the midt of an enemy's country, and ubject to every diadvantage, returned word in hand, in depite of all the efforts of their enemies, by a different road, and reached Greece in afety. Surely uch forces were as capable of a long march