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Deucalion reigned over all Thessaly, and inhabited Cyne, 

 a city of Locris, Strabo, 660, 651: he had two sons, Am- 

 phyction, and Hellen. Amphyction reigned over that part 

 of Thessaly, that lay near Thermopylae, Par. Marbles, and 

 Pausan. 815; and Hellen, over that part called Phthiotis, 

 Strabo, 587. Amphyction is celebrated for having formed 

 a council, consisting of deputies from all the Grecian 

 states or communities, existing in his time; that is, accord- 

 ing to the Parian Marbles, an. 1521. These were, the 

 lonians, Phthiotaj, -» rt ' 



Dolopes, Dorians, k 



*Thessalians, Malienses, \ Pausan. 815. 



jEnians, Phocians, \ 



Magnetes, Locri Epicmenides,>' 

 This account of the different states, represented in the 

 Amphyctionic council, is of much importance to our pre- 

 sent enquiry; for by it we find, 



1?*' That the tribes therein mentioned, and they alone, 

 formed the really Greek population, at that period; to the 

 exclusion of the Peloponnesians, who were then Pelasgi or 

 Danai; and of the Boeotians, who were Cadmeans. 



2J'y. That the Athenians were then called lonians; and, 

 consequently, could not have been so called from Jon, 

 the grandson of Hellen, (as Herodot. Lib. VIH. §. 44, 

 and most of the Greek historians, imagined; not knowing 

 the true reason of that denomination;) for Jon was not 



then 

 * From Thessaliotitis, a district of Thessaly. See TArcher, 564. 



