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Rh Burun, at preent. From Hieron Oros to Cordyla 40 tadia. The Peutingerian Tables make it to be 30 miles from Cordyla to Philocalea. Arrian reckons it to be 290 tadia, or 36¼ miles.

From Cordyla to Hermonaa 45 tadia. From Hermonaa to Trapezus 60 tadia. The Peutingerian Tables make it 15 miles from Trapezus to Cordyla. Arrian makes it 105 tadia, equal to rather more than 13 Greek miles.

Arrian here ums up the account of the ditances of the places from one another in his own voyage from Trapezus to Diocurias, and finds them to amount to 2260 tadia, which number correponds exactly with the eparate accounts of the ditances, and is an undeniable proof of the correctnes of the numbers pecified in the text.

The voyage from Diocurias to the Cimmerian Boporus was alo, I am inclined to think, performed by Arrian himelf in peron, on his hearing of the death of King Cotys; and was meant to facilitate any interference which the Roman Government might chooe to employ in the affairs of that country. This was profeedly his intention; but whether he executed it peronally, or not, is not clear.

The firt place mentioned in the voyage, northward from Diocurias, is Pityus, which lies rather to the north-wet of Diocurias, and is the firt ituation mentioned, Where the coat bends in any coniderable degree to the wetward, which circumtance is remarked by Strabo, When peaking of the direction of the coat.

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