The stadia employed by Herodotus in the description of the Euxine, the Bosphorus, &c., (l.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.] [Footnote 16: The oblique distance between Sestus and Abydus was thirty stadia.

The improbable tale of Hero and Leander is exposed by M.
Mahudel, but is defended on the authority of poets and medals by M.
de la Nauze.

See the Academie des Inscriptions, tom.vii.Hist.p.

74.
elem.p.240.