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 TO THE EMPEROR

CÆSAR ADRIAN AUGUSTUS,

ARRIAN WISHETH HEALTH AND PROSPERITY. E came in the coure of our voyage to Trapezus, a Greek city in a maritime ituation, a colony from Sinope, as we are informed by Xenophon, the celebrated Hitorian. We urveyed the Euxine ea with the greater pleaure, as we viewed it from the ame pot, whence both Xenophon and Yourelf had formerly oberved it. Two altars of rough tone are till tanding there; but, from the coarenes of the materials, the letters incribed upon them are inditinctly engraven, and the Incription itelf is incorrectly written, as is common among barbarous people. I determined therefore to erect altars of marble, and to engrave the Incription in well marked and ditinct characters. Your Statue, which tands there, has merit in the idea of the figure, and of the deign, as it repreents You pointing towards the ea; but it bears no reemblance to the Original, and the execution is in other repects but indifferent. Send therefore a Statue worthy to be called Yours, and of a imilar deign to the one which is there at preent, as