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rivers Eurymedon', which flows past Aspendus, and Catar- 

 ractes^, near to which is Lyrnesus : also the towns of 

 Olbia^, and Phaselis^ the last on this coast. 



CHAP. 27. — MOUNT TAUEUS. 



Adjoining to Painphylia is the Sea of Lycia and the conn- 

 try of Lycia^ itself, where the chain of Taurus, coming from 

 the eastern shores, terminates the vast Gulf ^ by the Promon- 

 tory of Chelidonium''. Of immense extent, and separating 

 nations innumerable, after taking its first rise at tlie Indian 

 Sea^, it branches off to the north on the right-hand side, 

 and on the left towards the south. Then taking a direction 

 towards tlie west, it would cut through the middle of Asia, 

 were it not that the seas check it in its triumphant career 

 along the land. It accordingly strikes off in a northerly 

 direction, and forming an arc, occupies an immense tract of 

 country, nature, designedl}^ as it were, every now and then 

 throwing seas in the way to oppose its career ; here the Sea 

 of Phoenicia, there the Sea of Pontus, in tliis direction the 

 Caspian and Hyrcanian^, and then, opposite to them, the 

 Lake Mfeotis. Altliough somewhat curtailed by tliese ob- 

 stacles, it still winds along between them, and makes its 



1 Now known as the Kapri-Su. 



' Now called Dudon-Su. It descends the mountains of Taurus in a 

 great broken waterfall, whence its name. 



3 Probably occupying the site of the modern Atalieh or Satalieh. 



■* On the borders of Lycia and Pamphyha, at the foot of Mount 

 Solyma. Its ruins now bear the name of Tekrova. 



5 It was inclosed by Coria and Pamphylia on the west and cast, and 

 on tlie north by the district of Ciby rates in Phrygia. 



6 The Gulf of Sataheh or Adalia. 



7 Still kno\\-n as Cape Khelidonia or Cameroso. 



8 Parisot remarks here, " Phny describes on this occasion, witli an 

 exactness vei-y remarkable for his time, the chain of mountains which 

 runs through the partof Asia known to the ancients, although it is evitlent 

 that he confines the extent of them within much too small a compass." 



^ The Caspian and the Ilyrcanian Seas are generally looked upon as 

 identical, but we find them again distinguished by Pliny in B.vi. c. 13, 

 where he says that this inland sea commences to be called ihe Caspian 

 after you have passed the river Cyrus (or Kiir), and that the Cas]iii live 

 near it ; and in C. IG, that it is called the Jli/rcanian Sea, from the ilyr- 

 cani who live along its shores. The western side would therefore in 

 strictness be called the Caspian, and the eastern the Ui/rcanian Sea. 



