4 PLINTHS NATURAL HISTORY. [Book VI. 



Milesians, and then Cromna, 24 at which spot Cornelius Nepos also 

 places the Heneti, 25 from whom he would have us believe that 

 the Veneti of Italy, who have a similar name, are descended. 

 The city also of Sesamon, now called Amastris, 26 Mount 

 Cy torus, 27 distant sixty- three miles from Tium, the towns of 

 Cimolis 28 and Stephane, 29 and the river Parthenius. 30 The 

 promontory of Carambis, 31 'which extends a great distance into 

 the sea, is distant from the mouth of the Euxine three hundred 

 and twenty-five miles, or, according to some writers, three 

 hundred and fifty, being the same distance from the Cimmerian 

 Bosporus, or, as some persons think, only three hundred and 

 twelve miles. There was formerly also a town of the same 

 name, and another near it called Armene ; we now find there 

 the colony of Sinope, 32 distant from Mount Cytorus one hundred 

 and sixty-four miles. "We then come to the river Evarchus, 33 



24 It is mentioned by Homer, II. ii. 855, as situate on the coast of 

 Paphlagonia. 



26 Strabo also, in B. xii., says that these people afterwards established 

 themselves in Thrace, and that gradually moving to the west, they finally 

 settled in the Italian Venetia, which from them took its name. But in 

 his Fourth Book he says that the Veneti of Italy owe their origin to the 

 Gallic Veneti, who came from the neighbourhood known as the modern 

 Vannes. 



26 This city, ninety stadia east of the river Parthenius, occupied a penin^- 

 aula, and on each side of the isthmus was a harbour. The original city, 

 as here mentioned, seems to have had the name of Sesamus or Sesamum, 

 and it is spoken of by that name in Homer, II. ii. 853, in conjunction 

 with Cytorus. The territory of Amastris was famous for its growth of the 

 best box-wood, which grew on Mount Cytorus. The present Amasra or 

 Hanasserah occupies its site. 



27 See the last Note. 



28 Otherwise called " Cinolis." There is a place called Kinla or 

 Kinoglu in the maps, about half-way between Kerempeh and Sinope, which 

 is the Kinuli of Abulfeda, and probably the Cirolis or Cimolis of the 

 Greek geographers. 



29 The modern Estefan or Stefanos, 



30 Now known by the name of Bartin, a corruption of its ancient ap- 

 pellation. 



31 It still retains its ancient appellation in its name of Cape Kerempeh : 

 of the ancient town nothing is known. 



^ 3 - Now called Sinope, or Sinoub. Some ruins of it are still to be seen. 

 The modern town is but a poor place, and has probably greatly declined 

 since the recent attack upon it by the Russian fleet. Diogenes, the Cynic 

 philosopher, was a native of ancient Sinope. 



13 The boundary, according to Stephanus Byzantinus, also of the nations 

 of Paphlagonia and Cappadocia. As Parisot remarks, this is an error, 



