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30 clauum) and the print in Tournefort's Travels eems to coincide with the account in Pliny. It mut however be owned, that the Peutingerian Tables place the port of Hyffus at the ditance of 24 miles to the Eat of Trapezus, which differs but little from that aigned by Arrian; from which indeed that of Ptolemy, in point of ditance, does not greatly vary, Ptolemy placing Trapezus in Longit. 70° 45′, Latit. 43° 6′; and Hyffi Portus in Longit. 70° 30',and Latit. 43° 20′; o that there is a difference of 15′ of Longitude, and 14′ of Latitude, which gives a ditance equal to about 20 Englih miles and a half, or 179 tadia and ome fraction beides, approaching very near to the computation of Arrian.,

From Hyffus to the river Ophis 90 tadia.

No river appears in the place aigned by Arrian either in Ptolemy, or in the modern maps; but a city is decribed by Ptolemy in this ituation, which is called in the Greek text, and Opius in the Latin tranlation. It is called in the maps in Ptolemy's Geography, Pityua, which is aid in the margin of the text to have been its ancient name; doubtles derived from the pine trees, which both ancient and modern accounts aure us grow o plentifully on this coat. The Word Ophis (uppoing, with Arrian, that it is a river) may imply, either that it flowed in a erpentine direction, or that its banks or neighbourhood were infeted with erpents. But perhaps the name of this river, or place, which oever it be, may admit of a different interpretation. The Word, the name given by Ptolemy, may imply a relation to the drug