Vol. III. MifcelUnea Curiofa. 429 



. A farther Argument (but not of equal force 

 with the former becaufe of the modernnefs of 

 the Author, who writ above 250 Years after) 

 may be drawn from the words of Dion Cajfius,^ 

 where he fays oi)t^v nm "^esiyj't '^^^<^<j'o^^ ItI-' 

 P&}<Ti -^f cfcpg)to//i^w^ that after his firft Anchoriitg 

 he Saird about a Promontory to the place 

 where he Landed : Now there are no other 

 Promontories on all that Coaft but the Souths 

 Foreland and Dengymfs *, the latter of which 

 it could not be, becaufe C^/^rfays he SaiFd 

 but 8 Miles, and the Nefs it felf is about 10 

 Miles from the South and neareft end of the 

 ChdkrCUffs by the Town of Hlth ; and to 

 have gone round that Point to the other fide^ 

 the diftance muffc have been much greater* 

 So that the Promontory fpoken of by B^on^ 

 muft needs* be the Somh-Foreland^ and C^far 

 niufl; Anchor near over againfi: Dover ^ from 

 whence Sailing 8 Miles, he would double a 

 Head-land and come to the Dovons:^ which 

 is fuch a Coaft as he defcribes in one place 

 by afertum ac planum littus^ and in his ^th 

 Book by molle ac apertum littus. As to Dions 

 word ei^ TivdyYii what I have already faid 

 about it feems fufficient to prove that he 

 means no more than the Waters edg ; and 

 the Etymologifis derive it from riyfeo madefacio^ 

 becaufe the wafli and breach of the Sea does 

 always keep it wet. And this word'T-^^rs- 

 vAy\) is ufed by Polybius for the Sea Oufe ; 

 and in another place he Ipeaks of the diffi- 

 culty of Landing at the mouth of a River, 



^ict^ TivctydiS"^ TTcies^oVj oh limofurn accejfum^ fo 

 that it is not to be doubted that it ought to 

 be rendred in this place^ ad vadum maris 



rather 



