ftff4 iVt'ii' Puhlttatloni. 



labours of an Ortelius, a Cluverius, a Cellarlus, aD'AnviIle, 

 as highly beneficial alike to learning and to fcience. We 

 have been pleafed with the refearches of Saint Croix and of 

 Vincent. We are grateful for the inftruftion which Mr. 

 Rennell has already given concerning the antient geography 

 of India. And we open, with eager curiofity and fefpeft, 

 this new volume, in which he attempts to illuftrate the geo- 

 graphy of the father of profane hiftory. 



This, it feems, is but a part of a great work on antient 

 geography, upon which Mr. Rennell's leifure has been for 

 feveral years employed. We doubt not but the favourable 

 reception of the prefent volume will encourage him to give 

 the remainder of his labours on this plan, with as little delay 

 as poffible, to the public. 



He begins with fome prefatory matter on the general cha- 

 ra6ler of Herodotus as a geographer and hillorian: that 

 Herodotus meant to produce in his work an univerfal hif- 

 tory : that he vifited in perfon as wide a range as poffible of 

 the inhabited world, and, in regard to what he could not per- 

 fonally vifit, ufed the utmoft diligence of inquiry : that his 

 work faithfully reprefents the bell truth of hiftory which 

 could in that age be known : that it was the ignorance alone 

 of the Romans which led them to impeach his veracity: 

 that modern inveftigations have tended continually to vindi- 

 cate, even in minute particulars, the truth of his narrative; 

 are the chief fafts which Mr. Rennell here ftatcs. 



The length of the Grecian ftadium, and efpecially of that 

 of Herodotus, next engages the refearches of Mr. Rennell. 

 He afcertains the length of the ftadium employed by Hero- 

 dotus in his ftatements of diftance, to have been the y^^ part 

 of a geographical degree; that of Xenophon, j~', that of 

 Eratofthenes, y-~ ; that of Strabo, the fame ; that of Pliny, 

 y^T j that of Nearchus, y~ and 4 ; the mean ftadium of the 

 antients, y4sj "t" b'^S^: Englifli feet. The pace, in the mea- 

 furements of the antients, he juftly ftates at five feet. 



Herodotus's geography of Europe is next examined in the 

 progrefs of this work. The Mediterranean Sea, and its Eu- 

 ropean coafls, were evidently well known to this hiftorian. 

 He knew a little^ and bxil a little, of the weftern fhores of 



Europe. 



