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fi-otti Caucasium, in the island of Chios; a port, BieBtimicd 

 hy Herodotas, Lib. V. §. 53, and, consequently, art- Ioniitiii)f: 

 for the Chiana were admitted into the Ionian asseuafeRes^fljp 

 Pausanias attests^ p, 532; though he admits, that WlWii* 

 ignorant of the reason. But Apollodorus, Lil>. HI., c. ml 

 §. 6, expressly says,^ he was a native Athenian. It is: earr 

 tain, the aame^ Prometheus, was Avell known in Athena; 

 fer Godftts^ bad a son, called Prometheus, Pausan. 5i2a. 

 Hence, it folknvs, that Deucalion was also an Atkeniaiia. 

 He fled to Athens, during the flood, Parian Marbles, 

 epoch 4, and, probably, remained there; for he died, and 

 was buried there. Pausan. 43. 



Thessaly was, when invaded by Dieucaliou, possessed by 

 the Pelasgi, who came &om Peloponnesus, an. 1727, con- 

 ducted by Acheus, Phthius, and Pelasgus; from whom 

 th*ee districts of Thessaly were named, Dionys. HaUear. 

 p. 14. These Deucalion expelled, an. 1341, at the head of 

 aw apmy, composed of Leleges, Cmretes,^ and a multituda 

 of the inhabitants of the foot of Parnassus. The Curete^ 

 were Etoliaws; so called from Curium, a city of Etolia,- 

 Strabo, 657, 692. The Leleges, Strabo deems a collection 

 of various tribes of Lcucadians and Boeotians, who settled 

 ii* Locris, and joined Deucalion, p. 495, 496, and were 

 afterwards Called Locrians, Dionys. Halicar. 14, The inhar 

 bitattt» of the foot of Paraaesus must have been Phocians. 

 H^nce^ I conckule, that both Deucalion, and his army, 

 werb lonians, and mostly Hellenes; and thus the Hellenic 

 language supplanted tlie PeJEisgic, in Thessaly. ■ 



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