prevails, which constitute the charm of society; and in their music and dancing is a liberty, which at first offends, and then seduces. They have added new charms to pleasure, and enriched their luxury by inventions. Numerous festivals occupy them at home, or attract them to the neighbouring cities, where the men appear in magnificent habits, and the women in all the elegance of female ornament, and with all the desire of pleasing.” St. Paul, in his way from Corinth to Jerusalem, passed through Miletus; and as he went by sea, and would not take Ephesus in his way, he caused the priests and bishops of the church of Ephesus to come to Miletus[11]. Miletus fell under subjection to the Romans, and became a considerable place under the Greek emperors. Then it fell under the scourge of the Turks; one of the sultans of which (A. D. 1175) sent twenty thousand men, with orders to lay waste the Roman imperial provinces, and bring him sand, water, and an oar. All the cities on the Mæander were then ruined: since which, little of the history of Miletus has been known. The Milesians early applied themselves to navigation; in the spirit of which they, in the process of time, planted not less than eighty colonies, in different parts of the world; and as we are ourselves so largely engaged in colonisation, perhaps an account of the colonies, sent out by the Milesians, may not be deemed uninteresting. COLONIES OF MILETUS. Cyzicum } Artace } Islands in the Propontis. Proconnesus } Miletopolis, in Mysia. ON THE COAST AND IN THE ENVIRONS OF THE HELLESPONT. Priapus. │ Pæsus. │ Arisba. Coloniæ. │ Lampsacus. │ Limnæ. Parium. │ Gargetta. │ Percote. Zaleia, at the foot of Mount Ida. Scepsis, on that mountain. NEAR MILETUS. Iasus. │ Latmos. │ Heraclea. ISLES SPORADES. Icaria. │ Leros. ON THE COASTS OF THE EUXINE (BLACK SEA). Heraclea. │ Sinope. │ Amisus. Chersonesus. │ Cotyorus. │ Cerasus. Tium. │ Sesamus. │ Trapezus. Cromna. IN COLCHIS. Phasis and Dioscorias. IN THRACE. Anthia. │ Thynius. │ Pactyes. Anchialus. │ Phinopolis. │ Cardia. Apollonia. │ Andrica. │ Deultum. Crithote. IN SCYTHIA. Odessus. │ Calatis. │ Tyras. Cruni. │ Touri. │ Borythranis. Istropolis. IN CHERSONESUS TAURICA. Theodosia. │ Panticapæum. Nymphæa. │ Myrnecion.