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38 which occurs a little after, that they were able to ail with a wind at right angles to the hip's coure, or, as it is expreed in nautical language, "with the wind on the beam."

One of the veels was wrecked by the ea breaking over it, but the rigging and naval tores were preberved. He alo tells us, that they even craped off the wax, with which the tides were meared, which he and other writers repreent as one of the mot neceary articles in the fitting out hips. Wax was produced in great quantity in this country. Xenophon, Polybius , Pliny , and Diocorides , all mention the abundance of honey; and it appears from Pliny, that part of the tribute of thee countries was paid in wax , the ue of which in large quantities is, in ome degree, explained by this paage of Arrian. It may appear extraordinary that the ue of pitch for naval purpoes being then well known, it was not employed preferably to Wax, as being more adheive, tenacious and permanent. But it appears that both of them were in ue mixed together, for naval purpoes, into a compoition called Zopia. Soon