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they were employed in maintaining peace and concord among 
the confederated ftates, by oppofing fuch injuries as they mu- 
tually committed again{t each other ; by determining fuch dif- 
putes as might arife between neighbouring people, with relation 
to their boundaries, poffeflions, privileges, claims, jurifdi@tions, 
&c.; by concerting fuch meafures as they deemed neceflary for 
maintaining the general confederacy. They endeavoured to 
‘protect the weaker {tates from the oppreffion of the more power- 
ful ; to determine the caufes and nature of complaints ; to re- 
drefs public grievances of every defcription, and to promote 
every project that might conduce towards advancing the public 
weal, tranquillity and profperity. In fhort, all public differences 
among the confederates, whether relating to matters of peace, 
of war, or of religion, fell under the cognizance of this vene- 
rable court. Its decifions were figned by the high-prieft of 
Delphi, after which they were received with the deepeft vene- 
ration, and engraved upon pillars of marble, in order to be 
preferved as authentic monuments. We meet with frequent 
inftances of the power of this court in the Grecian hiftory. 
Even the Pheenicians, the very people among whom it was firft 
ereéted, felt, in latter times, the dreadful effects of its power 
and refentment. 
WE are affured, that the cantons affociated in the Amphic- 
tyonic league were twelve in number, and yet no author that I 
have had an opportunity of confulting mentions more than 
eleven. The reafon, I believe, is this: The name of the Hel- 
lenes, who were originally at the head of the aflociation, was, 
in procefs of time, abforbed by that of the Theffalians. Ac- 
cording to Escui1Nes, the confederacy confifted of the Thef- 
falians, the Boeotians, the Dorians, the lonians or inhabitants 
of Attica, the Perrhebians, the Magrietes, the Locrians, the 
Oeteans, the Phthiotes, the Maleans, and the Phoceans. Har- 
POCRATION names likewife eleven; the Dorians, the Ionians, 
the Perrhebians, the Boeotians, the Magnetes, the Acheans, the 
3 Maleans, 
