:hap. 5.] ACCOTTNT OF COUNTRIES, ETC. H 



lerives its name from the river which flows at that spot into 

 he Phasis, and up to which place the Phasis is navigable for 

 arge vessels, as we have already^ mentioned. It receives also 

 ;ome other rivers, wonderful for their number and magnitude, 

 md among them the Glaucus.^ At the mouth of the Phasis, 

 it a distance of seventy miles from Absarus, are some islands, 

 .vhich, however, have no name. After passing this, we come 

 ;o another river, the Charieis,^ and the nation of the Salae, 

 )y the ancients called Phthirophagi,^ as also Suani.^ The 

 'iver Chobus^ flows from the Caucasus through the countr}^ of 

 ;he Suani. The river Rhoas comes next, then the region of 

 Ecrectice, the rivers Singames,^ Tarsuras,^° Astelephus,^^ Chry- 

 lorrhoas, the nation of the Absilae, the castle of Sebastopolis,^^ 

 me hundred miles distant from Phasis, the nation of the San- 

 ligae, the town of Cygnus,^^ and the river and town of Penius.^* 

 vVe then come to the tribes of the Heniochi,^^ who are dis- 

 tinguished by numerous names. 



7HAP. 5. (5) THE REGION OF COLIC A, THE NATIONS OF THE 



ACH^I, AND OTHER NATIONS IN THE SAME PARTS. 



3 In the previous page. 



* Now called the Tchorocsu. 



^ It is doubtful whether this is the same river as that mentioned by 

 Strabo under the name of Chares. D'Anville says that its modern name 

 is Enguri. 



^ Or "Feeders on Lice;" so called, according to Strabo, from the ex- 

 treme filthiness of their habits. 



7 There is a nation in this \acinity still called by a similar name. Pro- 

 fessor Pallas, who visited them, says that nothing can equal their dishonesty, 

 rapacity, and voracity. Parisot suggests that they are probably the 

 descendants of the Phthirophagi of Pliny. 



8 Now called the Khalira, according to D'Anville. 



' Now called the Hati-Scari, according to D'Anville. 



^^ Now the Okhum, according to D'Anville. 



*^ Now the Mosti-Skari, according to D'Anville. , 



^2 Still called Savastopoli, according to Hardouin. 



^3 This must not be confounded with the other place of the same name 

 mentioned in the present Chapter. See p. 10. 



^* Hermolaus suggests Pityus as the correct reading. 



^5 The Sanni Heniochi ; one of these nations has been already men- 

 tioned in the last page. 



1^ Inhabited anciently by the Coli, and constituting the northern portion 

 of ancient Colchis. 



