15. See an admirable dissertation of M. d'Anville upon the
Hellespont or Dardanelles, in the Memoires de l'Academie des
Inscriptions, tom. xxviii. p. 318-346. Yet even that
ingenious geographer is too fond of supposing new, and
perhaps imaginary measures, for the purpose of rendering
ancient writers as accurate as himself. The stadia employed
by Herodotus in the description of the Euxine, the
Bosphorus, etc. (1. iv. c. 85), must undoubtedly be all of
the same species; but it seems impossible to reconcile them
either with truth or with each other.