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LETTERS FROM 
Therefore, before I give you an account of 
our excursion to St. Paul’s Bay, I will insert 
a few arguments, which I have collected 
from various sources, in opposition to this 
opinion. The principal advocate in favour 
of Meleda, is that learned and indefatigable 
* inquirer, Jacob Bryant. He has been fol¬ 
lowed by Dr. Falconer, but I have never 
seen the observations of the latter writer, 
and I believe they are little more than 
a repetition of the arguments of Bry¬ 
ant. 
I have read these with the greatest atten¬ 
tion. The principal and most plausible 
argument is founded on this passage in the 
Acts, “ We were driven up and down in 
Adria ,” and Bryant contends that by this 
term* we must understand that portion of the 
Mediterranean only which is now called the 
Gulf of Venice, and which does not extend 
