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Rh alludes, was that which took place at the games, which the Greeks celebrated at Trapezus, as a thankgiving for their reaching a Grecian city, and which were performed, as Xenophon informs us, on the declivity of a hill towards the ea. Hutchinon, in his Notes on this paage of Xenophon's Anabais, remarks, that the altars mentioned by Arrian might be the ame with thoe which erved as metæ, or goals, at the games above mentioned.

The firt place that Arrian's fleet reached on their voyage was Hyffus, a port at the mouth of a river, and a mall Roman military tation, at the ditance of 180 tadia (equal to 22.5 Greek miles, and to 20.6037 Englih) from Trapezus. In D'Anville's map Hyus is placed to the Eat of Trapezus, as we might expect it to be, from the direction of the intended voyage; but in the text of Ptolemy, it is put down as lying in 15′ of Longitude to the Wet of Trapezus, and is o laid down in the firt and third maps of Aia in Bertius's edition. It eems indeed omewhat extraordinary, that a place to the Wet of Trapezus hould lie in the way of Arnian's fleet, which were meant to proceed Eatward. But the maps, if they are to be truted, explain this difficulty, as Trapezus appears in them to be placed at the Southern extremity of a bay of ome depth, and Hyus is laid down at the Wetern extremity of the promontory, that forms the bay on that ide, and. might therefore erve as a tation, or rendezvous, where the hips might collect and put-out-again to ea when the wind erved; which convenience might, compenate for their deviating a little from their coure; Pliny eems to A-allude to this ituation of'Trapezus, when he decribes it as incloed by a-vat-mountain, (vato monte

clauum.