ber and ſize of which are beyond computation. We may bring as a proof of its freſhneſs, if any proof can be neceſſary reſpecting what is the object of our ſenſes, that all the people who live on its borders lead out their cattle to drink of the water of the ſea, which they willingly do; and experience has ſhewn that they thrive better with this than with freſh water. The colour of the water of the Phaſis reſembles that of water impregnated with lead or tin; but on ſtanding and depoſiting a ſediment, it becomes perfectly pure. It is even provided by the law, that thoſe who ſail into the Phaſis ſhould not import any foreign water into the country; but as ſoon as they enter the ſtream, it is ſignified to them, that they ſhould pour out what water is left in the ſhip; which if they neglect to do, the common opinion is that their future voyages will not be proſperous. The water of the Phaſis does not corrupt by keeping, but continues free from any taint of this kind for more than ten years. The only change that takes place is, that it becomes ſweeter than it was originally. The Statue of the Goddeſs Phaſiana is placed to the left of the entrance into the Phaſis; which Deity we may reaſonably conjecture, from her figure and appearance, to be the ſame with Rhea, as ſhe holds in her hands a cymbal, has lions under her throne, and is ſeated in the ſame manner as the Statue by Phidias in the temple of Cybele at Athens. An anchor, ſaid to be of the ſhip Argo, is ſhewn here; but as it is of iron, it does not ſeem to be ancient; it differs indeed both in ſize and ſhape from thoſe at prevent in uſe, but nevertheleſs appears to me to be of later date than the Argonautic period. They alſo ſhew there ſome fragments of an ancient ſtone anchor, which are more likely than the other to be the remains of the anchor of the Argo. No other monument is now to be found there of the fabulous hiſtory of Jaſon. The caſtle, in which four hundred ſe-
