102 History of Nature. [Boot VI. 



CHAPTKH III. 

 Cappadocia. 



IK the interior of Cappadocia is a Colony founded bj 

 Claudius Ccesar, called Archelais, situated upon the River 

 Halys. The Town Comana, by which the (River) Saras 

 runneth : Neo-Caesarea, washed by the Lycas : and Amasia, 

 on the River Iris, in the Country Gazacena. In Colopena, 

 also, are Sebastia and Sebastopolis : little Towns, but equal 

 with those aboresaid. In the other part (of Cappadocia) is 

 the City Melita, built by Queen Semiramit, not far from the 

 Euphrates: also, Dio-Caesarea, Tyana, Castabala, Magno- 

 polis, Zela : and under the Mountain Argaeus, Mazaca, which 

 now is named Caesarea. That part of Cappadocia which lieth 

 before Armenia the Greater, is called Melitene : that which 

 bordereth upon Comagene, Cataonia: upon Phrygia, Gar- 

 sanritis : upon Sargaurasana, Cammanene : and upon Ga- 

 latia, Morimene. And there the River Cappadox separateth 

 the one from the other. From this River the Cappadocians 

 took their Name, having formerly been called Leucosyri. 

 The River Lycas divideth the above-named new Armenia 

 from Neo-Casarea. Within the Country there runneth also 

 the famous Cerannus. But on the Coast beyond Amysmn is 

 the Town Lycastum, and the River Chadisia : and still fur- 

 ther the Country Themiscyra. The River Iris, bringing 

 down the Lycus. In the midland Parts the City Ziela, 

 ennobled by the slaughter of Triarias, 1 ami the Victory of 

 C. Gesar. In the Coast the River Thermodon, which 

 issueth from before a Castle named Phanarcea, and passeth 



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defeated by the enemy, at the battle of Zida, with the km of 7000 of his 

 men. And at the same place, some years afterwards* Julius Cesar gained 

 an important victory over Pharnaees, the son of Mhhridatesy deprived 

 him of the kingdom of Pontns, and entirely mined his army. It ms on 

 this occiaion that Caesar, when describing the rapidity and despatch he 

 had employed in the victory, made use of the well-known sentence, 

 " Yeni, vidi, via," I came, I saw, I conquered. Wen. Ckb. 



