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ara, which gives name to a tribe, 
Jay near to the northern Bautisus, 
and eastward from its source; on 
the Olanmuren river, therefore, 
and probably in Koshotey. Rho- 
soche lay much farther east in the 
same latitude. 1 know not where 
to seek it. Pakiana and Abragana 
were both on the banks of the 
northern Bautisus and in Koshotey. 
Togara and Daxata were both in 
the middle of the province Shiensi, 
and probably near the Fiva-ho; for 
all these places were in a south-east 
line towards the bend of the Ban- 
tisus, and towards Sera, the me- 
tropolis. Orosana lay near the 
source of the southern Bautisus, or 
the Haramuren. Ottorzkorra along 
the course of the same river near 
its easterly bend, and to the north 
of the distri€t to which and to 
whose inhabitants it gives its name. 
olana was more eastward: I kaow 
not where. 
Sera, the capital, was at some 
distance from the south bend of the 
Bautieus. If Prolemeus means, 
by this south fxzgor;, the conti- 
guous river Hoa-ho, this Sera can 
be no other than Singan-fu, which 
is at some distance from its south- 
ern evolution :—but, if be knew of 
the bow of the Hoang-ho, it must 
be placed more eastward at Honan. 
The first seems to be more proba. 
ble, as Prolemews appears ignorant 
pf the eastern course of the river, 
and may well have mistaken a part 
of the Hoa-ho for a continyation 
of his Bautisus; and also as Sin- 
an-fu is named as a former metro. 
polis of the north-west parts of 
China, Sera was the easternmost 
resort of the merchants ; and be. 
yond it Proleawevs knows nothing’ 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 170% 
Historical Account of Sculpture. Fram 
Falconer’s Chvantl gical Tables; 
beginning with the Reigu of Save 
‘mon, and ending with the Dearie 
of Alexander the Great. 
ALL the ancient writers have 
agreed in dividing it into two pe. 
riods, the latter of which begins 
with the age of Phidias. Strabo 
ascertains these ages very exactly, 
tho’ rather foreign to his subject ; 
for, in describing the temples of 
Ephesus, there are some which he 
calls ancient, and in these were 
dexaia Ecove antique wooden figures. 
In the other temples, built, é 
de rot; Usecor, in after-times, he trans. 
gresses trom his usual form, and 
descrives three statues in particu- 
lar, which were probably of the 
age of Phidias and Scopas, Pliny 
and Pausanias abound in examples 
of this division of the periods. 
The former, when discoursing of 
Myron, says, ** capillum non e- 
mendatius fecisse quam rudis auti- 
guitas. instituisset.”” This rudis 
antiquitas’* means what is termed. 
the age of Dedalus and his scho. 
lars, who improved but little on the 
models brought fromEgypt. Haw- 
ever, as we have some dates in 
Pliny, which fix the progression of 
this art with tolerable accuracy, 
we shall briefly touch on the his- 
tary cf this peziod irom the earliest 
times; though the vague, and 
nearly fabulous relations of De- 
daius form some embarrassment In 
fixing the commencement of thig 
ara. Diodorus Siculus and Pane 
sanias agree in supposing there was: 
an artigt of that name who worked 
for Minos in Crete, and built a 
jabyrinth at Gnossus, of which na 
vestige was left in the time of 
Augustus. Homer, in his 18th 
Lad, does mention a Aatdyres wha 
fowneds 
