alludes, was that which took place at the games, which the Greeks celebrated at Trapezus, as a thankſgiving for their reaching a Grecian city, and which were performed, as Xenophon informs us, on the declivity of a hill towards the ſea. Hutchinſon, in his Notes on this paſſage of Xenophon's Anabaſis, remarks, that the altars mentioned by Arrian might be the ſame with thoſe which ſerved as metæ, or goals, at the games above mentioned.
The firſt place that Arrian's fleet reached on their voyage was Hyffus, a port at the mouth of a river, and a ſmall Roman military ſtation, at the diſtance of 180 ſtadia (equal to 22.5 Greek miles, and to 20.6037 Engliſh) from Trapezus. In D'Anville's map Hyſſus is placed to the Eaſt of Trapezus, as we might expect it to be, from the direction of the intended voyage; but in the text of Ptolemy, it is put down as lying in 15′ of Longitude to the Weſt of Trapezus, and is ſo laid down in the firſt and third maps of Aſia in Bertius's edition. It ſeems indeed ſomewhat extraordinary, that a place to the Weſt of Trapezus ſhould lie in the way of Arnian's fleet, which were meant to proceed Eaſtward. But the maps, if they are to be truſted, explain this difficulty, as Trapezus appears in them to be placed at the Southern extremity of a bay of ſome depth, and Hyſſus is laid down at the Weſtern extremity of the promontory, that forms the bay on that ſide, and. might therefore ſerve as a ſtation, or rendezvous, where the ſhips might collect and put-out-again to ſea when the wind ſerved; which convenience might, compenſate for their deviating a little from their courſe; Pliny[1] ſeems to A-allude to this ſituation of'Trapezus, when he deſcribes it as incloſed by a-vaſt-mountain, (vaſto monte
- ↑ Lib. vi. cap. 4.
