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Rh of the Drillæ agree with that of Xenophon, ave that the latter ays nothing of their form of government. We ee by the threats, which Arrian exprees towards this people, the manner in which the Romans treated their refractory tributaries; which explains the reaon, why thee nations, when they gained the uperiority, as they did a tew centuries afterwards, retorted the ame ill uage on the Romans. The accounts of thee writers agree very well with thoe given of the modern predatory inhabitants of thee countries. It appears, that thee nations were tributary, and perhaps feudatory, to the Romans, and governed by princes nominated by the Emperors. The decription, which Arrian gives of the direction in which he proceeded in his coure by ea, is perfectly correct. As far as Aparus, he oberves, that their coure lay Eatward, and this place he coniders as the extremity of the Euxine ea towards that point; and this is true of it, as to what regards the Southern coat, or the right ide of the Pontus. From thence their coure lay Northward to the Chobus and the Singamis. At the latter place the hore began to verge a little to the Wetward, or what he calls the left ide of the Pontus, and continued in that direction to Atelephus and Diocurias, where his voyage terminated.

The View of mount Caucaus from Diocurias decribed by Arrian reembles that given by Apollonius Rhodius. I do not find that the ummit of mount Caucaus is called Strobilus by any other writer. It is undoubtedly o named from its reemblance in hape to a pine cone; and the plenty of trees of this kind in the urrounding country makes this more evident. Strabo mentions a moun-