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DISSERTATION.

In the Peutingerian Tables it ſeems to be 32 m. p. equal to 256 ſtadia. Cedrenus the hiſtorian ſays, that in the eighteenth year of the Emperor Juſtinian, A. D. 544, the ſea inundated the cities of Dionyſopolis and Odeiſſus.

From Odeſſus to the foot of Mount Heemus[1], 360 ſtadia. This place is called Meſembria by Strabo, and in the Peutingerian Tables. In the latter the diſtance is ſet down as 43 miles, equal to 344 ſtadia, not very different from Arrian's calculation. Arrian, however, places Meſembria farther on towards Apollonian.

From the foot of Mount Hæmus to Meſembria 90 ſtadia. This place retains, in ſome degree, its ancient name, being called Mſfeure, Miſeuria, or Miſeurin.

From Meſembria to Anchialus[2] 70 ſtadia. This diſtance is ſet down in the Peutingerian Tables at 12 miles, or 96 ſtadia.

From Anchialus to Apollonian 180 ſtadia. The Peutingerian Tables count this diſtance to be 18 miles, or 144 ſtadia. Laurie and Whittle's chart makes it to be about 14 Engliſh miles, or 112 ſtadia. Arrowſmith's chart does not make it to be ſo much.

Strabo accounts the diſtance from Callatis to Apollonian to be 1300 ſtadia. Arrian makes it to be 1340, a remarkable coincidence, which argues ſtrongly, that the ſtadia uſed by Arrian and Strabo were the ſame. The Peutingerian Tables reckon it at 153 miles,

  1. Now called Emireh Burun.
  2. Anchialus id ſtill called Akkilli. In Arrowſmith's chart it ſeems to be called Akliman.