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they were employed in maintaining peace and concord among- 

 the confederated ftates, by oppoung fuch injuries as they mu- 

 tually committed againfl each other ; by determining fuch dif- 

 putes as might arife between neighbouring people, with relation 

 to their boundaries, poffeffions, privileges, claims, jurifdictions, 

 &c. ; by concerting fuch meafures as they deemed neceflary for 

 maintaining the general confederacy. They endeavoured to 

 protect the weaker ftates 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 ligned 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 Phoenicians, the very people among whom it was firft 

 erected, 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 affociation, was, 

 in procefs of time, abforbed by that of the Theffalians. Ac- 

 cording to ^Eschines, the confederacy confifted of the Thef- 

 falians, the Boeotians, the Dorians, the Ionians or inhabitants 

 of Attica, the Perrhaebians, 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, 



