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28 ame Latitude with Coniantinople, but about 10° 41′ 25″ more to the Eadward. This city had been in early times, and probably was even in thoe of Arrian, a place of great trade, and of coure much reort of hipping, and was alo the principal rendezvous of the Roman naval force on the Euxine ea. Both Arrian and Tournefort remark the abundance of materials and other necearies for hip-building, which were afforded the urrounding country; and navigation appeared to be their primary object. Arrian tells us, that the tatue of the Emperor Hadrian was contructed in an attitude pointing towards the ea, as the ource of their riches and properity. Goltzius has given two figures of Trapezuntine coins, one of which exhibits an anchor, and the other the prow of a hip, as emblems of naval indutry. This was the firt Greek city, which the army led by Xenophon reached in their retreat after the death of Gyms: and probably the view of the tea, to which Arrian here

alludes