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Stoma^ and the Psilon-Stoma^. These mouths are each of 

 them so considerable, that for a distance of forty miles, it is 

 said, the saltness of the sea is quite overpowered, and the 

 water found to be fresh. 



CHAP, 25. DACIA, SAEMATIA. 



On setting out from this spot, all the nations met 

 Avith are iScytliian in general, though various races have 

 occupied the adjacent shores ; at one spot the Getse'*, by the 

 Eomans called Daci ; at another the Sarmatse, by the Greeks 

 called Sauromatae, and the Hamaxobii^ or Aorsi, a branch 

 of them ; tlien again the base-born Scythians and descend- 

 ants of slaves, or else the Troglodytae^ ; and then, after 

 them, the Alani^ and the Khoxalani, The higher^ parts 

 again, between the Danube and the Hercynian Forest^, as 

 far as the winter quarters of Pannonia at Carnuntum^, and 

 the borders of the Germans, are occupied by the Sarmatian 

 lazyges^", who inhabit the level .country and the plains, 



swarms of mosqvdtoes, -which were said at a certain tmie of the year to 

 migrate to the Palus Ma^otis. AccortUng to Bi'otier the present name 

 of tills island is Ilan Adasi, or Serpent Island. 



^ The " Xorthera Mouth " : near the town of Kiha. 



2 Or the " Narrow Mouth." 



3 Though Strabo distinguishes the Getce from the Daci, most of the 

 ancient writers, with Phny, speak of them as identical. It is not known, 

 however, why the Getse in later times assumed the name of Daci. 



* " Dwellers in waggons." These were a Sarmatian tribe who wan- 

 dered with their waggons along the banks of the Volga. The chief seats 

 of the Aorsi, who seem in reality to have been a distinct people from the 

 Ilamaxobii, was in the country between the Tanais, the Euxine, the 

 Caspian, and the Caucasus. 



5 " Dwellers in Caves." Tliis name appears to have been given to 

 various savage races in different parts of tlie world. 



^ There were races of the Alani in Asia on the Caucasus, and in Eu- 

 rope on the Ma'otis and the Euxine ; but their precise geograpliical 

 position is not clearly ascertained. 



7 The present Transylvania and Hungary. 



8 The name given in the age of Pliny to the range of mountains ex- 

 tending around Bohemia, and through Moravia into Hungary. 



' Its ruins are still to be seen on the south bank of tlie Danube near 

 Haimburg, between Deutsch-Altenburg and Pctronell. The Roman Ueet 

 of tlie Danube, with the 11th legion, was originally estabhshed there. 



^^ In Pliny's time this migratory tribe seems to have removed to the 



