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the Ister to the Ocean, as amounting to 2000 Miles, and 

 400 less in Breadth, from the Deserts of Sarmatia to the 

 River Vistula : the Name of Scythae everywhere continually 

 runneth into Sarmatge and Germani. Neither hath that old 

 denomination remained in any others but those, who, as I 

 have said, live the furthest off of these Nations, almost 

 unknown to all other Men. But the Towns next to the 

 Ister are Oemniscos and ^Epolium : the Mountains Ma- 

 crocrennii : the noble River Tyra, giving Name to the Town, 

 whereas before time it was called Ophiusa. Within the same 

 is a spacious Island, inhabited by the Tyragetae. It is from 

 Pseudostomum, a Mouth of the Ister, 130 Miles. Soon 

 after are the Axiacae, named after the River : beyond whom 

 are the Crobyzi : the River Rhode : the Bay Sagaricus, and 

 the Port Ordesus. And, 120 Miles from Tyra, is the River 

 Borysthenes, and a Lake and Nation of that Name : 

 and a Town 15 Miles within from the Sea, called by the 

 ancient Names Olbropolis and Miletopolis. Again, on the 

 Shore, the Harbour of the Achaeans : the Island of Achilles, 

 famous for the Tomb of that Man. And from it 135 Miles, 

 is a Peninsula, lying out across in the Form of a Sword, 

 and called Dromos Achilleos, upon occasion of his Exercise 

 there : the Length of which Agrippa hath declared to be 80 

 Miles. All that Tract, the Taurisci, Scythae, and Sarmatae 

 inhabit. Then the woody Region gave the name to the Sea 

 Hylaeum, by which it is encircled. The Inhabitants are called 

 Enaecadloae. Beyond is the River Panticapes, which divideth 

 the Nomades and Georgi : and soon after, Acesinus. Some 

 say that Panticape, with Borysthenes, run together beneath 

 Olbia ; but the more exact name Hypanis : so much they 

 erred who have described it in a part of Asia. The Sea 

 retires with a very great Ebb, until it is distant from Moeotis 

 with an interval of five Miles, compassing a vast Space, and 

 many Nations. There is a Bay called Corcinites, and a 

 River Pacyris. Towns, Naubarura and Carcine. Behind 

 is the Lake Buges, let out into the Sea by a foss. And 

 (Buges) itself is disjoined from Coretus, a Bay of the Lake 

 Moeotis, by a rocky Back. It receiveth the Rivers Buges, 



