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Remarks on the Voyage and Periplus of Scylax. 181 
Abyle, one of. the Pillars of Hercules. He mentions the nations 
and tribes who occupied these coasts and the adjacent territories, 
enumerates the rivers and some of the cities in those parts, and 
ascertains the course of each day’s sailing, computing it at 800 
stadia. Dodwell, in a learned and ingenious dissertation, has en- 
deavoured to shew that this Scylax is not the Scylax of Herodotus, 
who performed the wonderful voyage above discussed, but one who 
must have been contemporaneous with Polybius, (See Hudson’s 
Minor Geographers, Vol. 1.) : 
The Baron de Saint Croix, in a dissertation-read before the Aca- 
demy of Inscriptions, defends the Periplus which bears the name 
of Scylax, as the genuine work of Scylax of Caryanda. Gronovius 
is of the same opinion as Saint Croix, as also Rennel. Dr. Vin- 
cent, on the contrary, denies its authenticity, and maintains it to 
be a spurious production. One strong objection urged by Vincent 
is, that mention is made in the Periplus, of Dardanus, Rhetium, 
and Ilium, whereas there is great doubt whether Rhetium existed 
in the time of the real Scylax. It is very strange that if the Peri- 
plus be the real work of Scylax of Caryanda, that no mention either 
ef his own wonderful voyage down the Indus, or of India itself, is. 
made in it. One would have thought that these would have made 
part of the Periplus. It is besides still more wonderful, that in 
addition to his voyage from the highest navigable point of the In- 
dus to the Indian Ocean, and across that very ocean to Ras-al-Had, 
and thence to Bab-al-Mandab, coasting the S. E. coast of Arabia 
in his way to that strait, and then sailing up the whole of the Red 
Sea, till he arrived at Suez, he should also have circumnavigated 
the whole of the Mediterranean and Euxine Seas, together with 
the Palus Mzotis, and even also have coasted the shores of the At- 
lantic from the Pillars of Hercules to the island of Cerne, (the mo- 
dern Arguin,) near Cape Blanco, a point more than 10° W. and 
15° S. of the Straits of Gibraltar. 
If all these nautical facts were really done by the same indivi- 
dual, Scylax of Caryanda, he must have been the most extraordi- 
nary navigator of antiquity, and that at a time too when the Greeks 
did not know the line of coast from Delos to Ionia, and. believed 
the distance to be as great from the Isle of Egina to that of Samos, 
as from the former to the Pillars of Hercules. Iam therefore dis- 
posed to think that the Periplus of Scylax is not the production of 
Scylax of Caryanda, or indeed of any individual navigator, but a 
compilation made up from the various journals of different naviga- 
tors, who had at different times coasted the shores of the seas there- 
in mentioned, under his name, to gain credit to the work, and that 
it was published long posterior to the age of Herodotus. In that 
Periplus, as above stated, a day’s sailing is estimated at 800 stadia, 
and in another part of the same work, the distance from Canopus, 
(Abukir,) to the Pillars of Hercules, is stated to be 75} day’s sail. 
Now the space intercepted between these two points, does not ex- 
ceed 2400 geographical miles, or 32 such miles daily : whereas, by 
