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50 At or near this temple, an anchor of iron was hewn, which was reported to have belonged to the hip Argo; which Arrian very jutly rejects as purious, ince anchors of tone only were in ue at that early period. The fragments of a tone anchor, which was reported to have belonged to the ame hip, are properly determined by him to be more probably genuine. Perhaps thee fragments might be the remains of the anchor, which the Argonauts brought from Cyzicus, where, as Apollonius tells us, they exchanged a mall tone anchor for a larger of the ame kind. It is remarkable that Apollonius notices, that the old anchor was laid up as a acred depoit in a temple at Cyzicus, as probably the fragments of the new were preberved in the time of Arrian in the temple of Cybele. The cattle at the mouth of the river appears to have been regularly fortified as a frontier place. He notices, that it was built of baked brick, a circumtance particularly mentioned to ditinguih it from un-dried brick, which formed the walls of many of the cities and in Aia Minor, and, as it hould eem, even in Greece. Xenophon oberves, that the wall of Media, which extended from the Euphrates to the Tigris, was built of burnt brick, in oppoition to raw brick. Herodotus notices, that the walls of Babylon were, in like manner, contructed of burnt bricks. Pauanias, peaking of the walls of Mantinea, which were detroyed by Ageipolis, who turned the tream of the river Ophis againt them, tells us, that they were, built of raw or crude bricks, which, he ays, diolved by water , as wax does by the fun. Arrian