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Rh for a ea voyage. We hould oberve further, that the Periplus of Arrian is not the hitory of one voyage executed by the narrator,as that of Nearchus, and others. It conits of three eparate voyages, or expeditions of dicovery, and these perhaps executed by different persons, and at coniderable intervals,

The firt of thee, in the order of his relation, is the report of his own voyage along the coast from Trapezus to Diocurias, or Sebatopolis; a City situated upon the Northern part of the Eatern extremity of the Euxine ea, lying in Latitude 43° 18′ nearly, and in Longitude East from; the Canaries about 60°. This was evidently performed by Arrian himelf in peron, and eems to be the mot correct of any.

The next diviion of the Periplus comprehends the account of the ditance of the places from one another, which lie upon the Southern coat of the Euxine sea, from Byzantium to Trapezus, Whether these are put down from the personal experience of the Author, is not acertained. Mr. Dodwell thinks that they might be the result of his own examination in his journey from Byzantium, when he went to take possession of his government of Cappadocia; and this conjecture is not improbable. This part of the Periplus is more correct than the one remaining to be poken of; but lets so, I think, than the former. It is however a valuable performance.

The third and lat part of the Periplus contains an account of the distances between the places that lie on the coat of the Euxine ea,