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44 to the Eat of Athenæ Ponticæ, which, in the latitude laid down by D'Anville, is equal to 67½69 [sic] Englih miles, or in the latitude, according to Ptolemy, to about 67 Englih miles. According to Arrian, it is 287 tadia, or nearly 33 Englih miles; o that thee computations differ coniderably. According to D'Anville, Aparus is but little to the North of Athenæ Ponticæ, o that the difference of longitude of thee two places carcely varies from their true ditance by ea. In the Peutingerian Tables Aparus is et down as 36 miles from Athenæ Ponticae. Pliny eems to ay, that Aparus was 150, or, as ome copies read, 140 miles from Trapezus. According to Arrian, it is 1000 tadia, or 125 Greek miles, or 114.465 Englih. miles. From Aparus to the Acampis 15 tadia. From the Acampis to the Bathys 75 tadia. This river is not, as far as I can find, mentioned by name by any other writer, except Pliny; but probably the Portus Altus fet down in the Peutingerian Tables, and which is nearly in the ame ituation, may be the place meant by Arrian. It appears to have been no unuual appellation, as a port o called (🇬🇷) in Africa, is mentioned by Ptolemy. From the Bathys to the Acinafis 90 tadia. This river eems to have derived its name from the Scythian Sword o called, which was worhipped as a deity. Whether its name was employed to denote the traight coure of the river, or to indicate that it was a acred