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A7rcl<rot. &/] e<?i, tuv <$i izuyuv vi 
GtpofyoTyjg fj.a\i<gci c>£ tuv trvpJoaiti'ovTuv Tvegi to sc[acc Tvjg 
Maard^ £<ri, ujxoi^iviTcu ya g 0 cha7rXxg } u<ri kou 
•srviXov «i >ou, kgu o$o v. Strabo, L. 7. 
Thus is Ovid fupported in that very material and 
ftriking fad: of the ice being commonly ftrong enough 
to bear carriages. 
It now remains to compare this account of the fe- 
verity of the cold at Tomos, with that of more mo- 
dern travellers, who have either been at the fame place 
during the winter, orpafTed not very far diftant. 
Hubruquis, Marco Polo, Jean du Plan, Carpin, and 
Mandevilie, were all of them on the borders of the 
Euxine Sea, and proceeded many degrees Northward; 
and yet we do not hear of any complaint with regard 
to the cold. 
Bufbequius travelled from Buda to Conftantinople, 
in the midft of winter ; nor does he mention any in- 
convenience, or interruption, from froft or fnow. If 
it be faid that his way did not lye through Tomos (or 
Temefware), to this it may be anfwered, that he croff- 
ed the fame latitudes ; to which it may be added, that 
there was no Euxine Sea to mitigate the feverity of 
the cold. 
I mud likewife here make another obfervation, 
that it does not appear either from Ovid, who is fo 
very minute in every particular relative to this coun- 
try, or from any other traveller, that there are high 
mountains in the neighbourhood of Tomos. 
Tournefort was on the Black Sea, in the beginning 
of April, and dwells much upon the very fine weather 
during the time he continued upon it. Pie ob- 
serves, however, that, in the time of Conftantine, the 
{freight oppofite to Byzantium was frozen over; and 
