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OF THE GREEK STADIUM.
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  Paraſngas. Days journey. Stadia, according to D'Anville.
From Calus to Daradax 30 5 475
From Daradax to Thapſacus 15 3 930
From Thapſacus to Araxes 50 9  
From Araxes through Arabia 35 5
From Corſotæ to Pylee 90 13
Through Babylonia 12 3
  474 75 7665

Now 474 divided by 76 gives 6.2368, or almost ſix paraſangas and a quarter, for a day's journey, not five, as Mr. Rennel ſays. Again, 6.2368 multiplied by 30 gives 187.104 ſtadia for a day's march, which, if we count by Olympic ſtadia, is equal to 21.34 Engliſh miles. This meaſure of a day's march differs much from the computation of Mr. Rennel, who aſſigns 15 miles only; but it is more agreeable to the accounts we have from antiquity of ſuch military movements. But more of this preſently.

The fourth column in the foregoing table marks the diſtances between the ſtages mentioned in Xenophon, meaſured from the ſcale of Olympic ſtadia annexed to Mr. D'Anville's map of Aſia Minor. It is continued only from Sardis to Thapſacus, as the limits of the map did not afford an opportunity of purſuing it farther. The diſtance between every ſtage mentioned by Xenophon is not ſet down, as the ſeveral ſtages are not all marked in the map; but this makes little or no difference in the whole diſtance; and the coincidence of the numbers ſpecified by Xenophon with thoſe in D'Anville's map, is very remarkable. The diſtance between Sardis and Thapſacus was, according to Xenophon, 287 paraſangas; which, reckoning 30 ſtadia to a paraſanga, amounts to 8610 ſtadia. According to Mr. D'Anville's map, the ſum of the

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