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Rh without any marks of dibelief of their exitence; and it is aid, that ome modern avages reemble the ancient, and their counterpart monkies, in being fond of this beatly viand. Arrian might certainly have pared his cenure of Herodotus, as he owns, that what that Hitorian relates was the common opinion in his own time.

From Nitica to the river Abacus 90 tadia. This river probably belonged to the Abagi before mentioned.

From the Abacus to the river Borgys 120 tadia. From the Borgys to the Nefis 60 tadia. Arrian ays, that here was the promontory Herculeum. If there be no mitake here, there was another place of the ame name about 300 tadia to the northward.

From Neis to Maætica 90 tadia. From Maætica to the Achæus 60 tadia. Arrian oberves, that this river eparates the nation of the Zicchi from that of the Sanigæ, and that Satchempax was king of the Zicchi, and nominated by Hadrian, which hews that the Romans interfered in the nomination of kings beyond the limits of their own acknowledged territories.

From the Achæus to Promontorium Herculis 150 tadia. From Promontorium Herculis to another promontory 180 tadia. From the other promontory to ancient Lazica 120 tadia. The Lazi were the old inhabitants of this country, according to Procopius, and changed their name into that of Colchi. Thee people were in ome meaure ubject: to Rome, as Julius Capitolinus tells us, that Antoninus