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Rh Arrian oberves in this part of the work, that the Pontic ea was much les alt than the ea without the Hellepont, on account of the numerous rivers, which dicharge themelves into it. Strabo and other writers make the ame obervation, and acribe it to the ame caue. Modern accounts agree with ancient in this repect.

From the Phais to the Chariens go ftadia. This is the Chariius of Ptolemy, and, according to him, lies N. E. of the mouth of the Phais, with 15′ difference of latitude, equal to 17.4 Englih miles. It eems in the Ruian map to be about ten Greek miles, or 80 tadia, from the mouth of the Phais. In the Peutingerian Tables, only three miles are et down, as the ditance from the Phais to the Chariens, and 16 miles from the Chariens to the Chobus. Thee numbers are probably erroneous; but the whole ditance from the Phais to the Chobus is not o different from the one given by Arrian, as to make it probable that they ued a different calculation.

From the Chariens to the Chobus 90 tadia. According to ome modern maps, a place of the name of Copi till remains at the mouth of this river. From the Chobus to the Singamis 210 tadia. The Greek copy of Ptolemy makes the difference of latitude between the Chariitus and Siganeum to be 30 minutes, equal, as was then uppoed, to 300 tadia, which is exactly the ditance laid