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Rh Soon after their etting fail from Athenæ Ponticæ, the North or North-Eat wind, he tells us, calmed the ea. This effect is much the ame as is acribed to it by other Eatern writers. Thus it is aid in the Book of Job, that "fair weather cometh out of the North," and in The Proverbs , "that the North Wind driveth away rain." Boreas is called by Homer or erenitatem inducens, in everal places. Hippocrates, who may be regarded much in the ame light with Homer, as an Oriental writer, oberves, that the North wind produces fair weather, and clears the air, and is on that account the mot healthy of all the Winds. We are next informed, that before noon they reached Aparus, having, as he lays, ailed more than five hundred tadia. There is ome difficulty repecting this account of the ditance. If it be meant of the whole ditance from Trapezus, is much too mall, indeed nearly by one half, as he himelf computes it to be an thouand tadia. If it be meant to mark the interval between Athenæ Ponticæ and Aparus, it is too great, as Arrian ays it is only 280 tadia. Perhaps he might mean, that, by the wind being contrary, they were driven o far out of their coure, that they were obliged to travere near double the real ditance between Aparus and Athenæ Ponticæ. At Aparus Arrian took a urvey of the fortifications, and reviewed the troops tationed there; which circumtance indicates, that he was one of the military governors, or Proprætors, nominated by the Emperor,