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42 hould we preume to declare all hitory fabulous, or unfounded, in which the events did not exactly coincide with our ideas of probability, we hould expoe our own pride and narrownes of entiment, which cannot ubmit to credit any thing, but uch as we can exactly reconcile to uch principles, as we may premie as neceary to truth.

The hitory of the Cruades, an expedition almot as unaccountable as that of Jaon, undertaken by a et of military adventurers, in an age nearly as rude and as warlike as that of the Argonauts, is diguied in the proe accounts We have of it, with as much imagery as the poem of Apollonius Rhodius, and little les incredible. Yet we do not therefore quetion the exitence of Peter the Hermit, of Godfrey of Bouillon, or of Raymond of Touloue; or deny, that uch perons conducted armies into Paletine, and actually founded a kingdom there, which ubited for more than two centuries.

But to return to the ubject.

From Athenæ Ponticæ to the river Prytanis 40 tadia. This is marked as a river in D'Anville, but is not o pecified in Arrian, although I think it is implied. Here was a palace of King Anchialus, probably the one mentioned afterwards by Arrian, as King of the Heniochi. From Prytanis to the river Pyxites 90 tadia. This river