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Rh that Armenia, Media, Colchis, Iberia, the whole coat of the Euxine ea, the Propontis, and the Hellepont, were full of heroic monuments bf this expedition. It is indeed omewhat extraordinary that any of thee hould have remained even to the time of Strabo, ince he tells us, that they were indutriouly detroyed by Alexander's Generals, from a ridiculous jealouy, left the ame of Jaon might outrival that of their mailer. Parmenio, as Strabo tells us, detroyed one of this kind at Abdera.

This account is confirmed by Jutin, who alo ays, that nearly the whole of the Eat paid divine honours to Jaon as to their founder, and that the jealouy of Parmenio prompted him to detroy everal of the temples erected in honour of Jaon.

Tacitus oberves, that the Iberians and Albanians, nations almot barbarous, retained notwithtanding, even in his time, the tradition repecting Jaon, and the Argonautic expedition. Thee are facts which cannot be forged, and aford arguments of the authenticity of the hitory much uperior to any, that can be urged againt: it from its eeming improbability and aburdity, things of which we are at preent very incompetent judges, conidering the difference of our age, climate, and manners, and alo the obcure and mutilated accounts, which we have of thoe remote ages. But hould