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discliarges itself by a cliannel into tlie sea. This Biiges is 

 separated by a ridge of rocks ^ from Coretus, a gulf iu the 

 Lake M^eotis ; it receives the rivers Buges'^, Gerriis^, and 

 Hvj^acaris^ wliich approach it from regions that lie in 

 various directions. For the Gerrus separates the Basilidse 

 from the Xomades, the Ilypacaris flows through the Xo- 

 mades and the Hyla}i, by an artificial channel into Lake 

 Buges, and by its natiu^al one into the Gulf of Coretus : 

 this region bears the name of Scythia Sindice. 



At the river Carcinites, Scythia Taurica^ begins, which 

 was once covered by the sea, where we now see level 

 plains extended on every side : beyond this the land rises into 

 mountains of great elevation. The peoples here are thirty 

 in nimiber, of wliich twenty-three dwell in the interior, six 

 of the cities being inhabited by the Orgocyni, the Chara- 

 ceni^, the Lagyrani, the Tractari, the Arsilachitae, and the 

 Caliordi. The Scythotam^i possess the range of moimtains : 

 on the west they are boimded by the Chersonesus, and on 

 the east by the Scythian Satarchse''. On the sliore, after 

 we leave Carcinites, we find the folloAving towns ; Ta- 

 phrae^, situate on the very isthmus of the peninsula, and 

 then ITeraclea Chersonesus^, to which its freedom has been 

 granted'" by the Eomans. This place was formerly called 



^ It is rather a ridge of sand, that almost separates it from the waters 

 of the gulf. 



2 This river has not been identified by modem geographers. 



3 According to Herodotus the Gerrhus or GeiTus fell into the Hypa- 

 caris ; whicli must be understood to be, not the Kalantchak, but the 

 Outlouk. It is probably now represented by the Moloschnijawoda, 

 which forms a shallow lake or marsh at its mouth. 



^ It is most probable that the Pacyris, mentioned above, the Hypa- 

 caris, and the Careuiites, were various names for the same river, gene- 

 rally supposed, as stated above, to be the small stream of Kalantchak. 



* Now the Crimea. 



^ It does not appear that the site of any of these cities has been iden- 

 tified. Cliarax was a general name for a fortified towni. 



7 Mentioned again by Pliny in B.vi. c. 7. Sohnus says that in order 

 to repel avarice, the Satarclux' prohibited the use of gold and silver. 



8 On the site of the modern Perekop, more commonly ealletl Orkapi. 

 ^ Or Chersonesus of the Ileraoleans. The town of Jvosleve or Eupa- 



toria is supposed to stand on its site. 



^" After the conquest of Mithridatcs, when the whole of these regions 

 fell into the hands of the Romans. 



