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TO THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS. 
to point out a passage in all Mr. Bryant's learned rl T T , A 1 ' 
dissertations, so reprehensible, and so contrary 1 * ' 
to the evident matter of fact, as that in which 
this subject is introduced. Having afforded an 
engraved representation 6 7 * of sepulchres, exactly 
similar to those excavated in the rocks of Asia 
Minor, exhibiting inscriptions which decidedly 
prove the purport of their construction, he 
nevertheless exerted his extraordinary erudition 
to establish an erroneous opinion of their real 
history. 
Sienna 7 seems to correspond with the Cepvs Cepor 
of Strabo ", and Cepce Milesiorum of Pliny 9 . The 
Milesian sepulchres found there in such abun- 
dance may probably still further confirm this 
position: but in order to elucidate the text of 
either of these authors, reference should be 
made to better maps than have hitherto been 
published. No less than three antient bridges of 
(6) Bryant's Mythology, vol. I. p.224. 4to.edit. London , 1774. 
(7) Sienna is the name of this place, as pronounced by the Tcherno - 
niorsJii Cossacks; but they are constantly changing the appellation of 
the different places in the country, and we know not what name it had 
among the TulUars . 
(«) Lib.ii. p.723. ed. Oxon. It is written Cepi in the Latin trans- 
lation; and in the Greek text, . K5r«i; but, according to the Notes, 
some MSS. read ol Knroi. We have written it as it is authorised by the 
edition of Pliny we chanced to have with us, as well as by Pomponius 
Mela , and by Diodorus Siculus. 
(9) Hist. Nat. lib. vi. c. 6 . 
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