BOOK IV.] History of Nature. 15 



The Elevation of Haemus taketh six Miles : the Back and 

 declining thereof down to Ister, the Moesi, Getae, Aoti, 

 Gaudae, and Clariae, and under them the Arraei, Sarmatae, 

 whom they call Areatae, and Scythae : and about the Sea- 

 coast of Pontus, the Moriseni and Sithonii, from whom the 

 Poet Orpheus descended, do inhabit. Thus Ister boundeth 

 it on the North : in the East, Pontus and Propontus : South- 

 ward, the Sea Jgaeum, in the Coast of which, from Strymon, 

 stand Apollonia, CEstima, Neapolis, and Polis. Within, the 

 Colony of Philip; and 325 Miles from Dyrrhachium, Sco- 

 tusa, Topiris, and the Mouth of the River Nestus. The 

 Mountain Pangaeus, Heraclea, Olynthos Abdera, a free City; 

 the Marsh and Nation of the Bistoni. There stood the Town 

 Tinda, terrible for the Stables of the Horses of Diomedes. 

 Now there are the Diceae, Ismaron, the Place Parthenion, 

 Phalesina, Maronea, called Ortagurea before-time. The 

 Mountain Serrium and Zonae : then, the Place Doriscus, 

 able to receive 1 0,000 1 Men : for so there Xerxes numbered 

 over his Army. The Mouth of Hebrus : the Port of Stentor: 

 the free Town .ZEnea, with the Tomb of Polydorus ; the 

 Region, sometime, of the Cicones. From Doriscus, the 

 Coast bendeth to Macron -Tichos for 122 Miles. About 

 which Place the River Melas, from which the Bay taketh its 

 Name. Towns, Cypsella, Bisanthe, and that which is called 

 Macron-Tichos, whence stretching forth the Walls from Pro- 

 pontis to the Bay Melanes, between two Seas, it excludeth 

 Cherronesus as it runneth out. For Thracia, on one Side, 

 beginning at the Sea-coast of Pontus, where the River Ister 

 is discharged, hath in that Quarter the very beautiful Cities, 

 Istropolis of the Milesii, Tomi, and Calatis, which before 

 was called Acernetis. It had Heraclea and Bizon, which 

 was destroyed in a Chasm of the Earth ; now it hath Diony- 

 sopolis, formerly called Crunos. The River Ziras runneth by 

 it. All that Tract, the Scythians named Aroteres possessed. 

 Their Towns, Aphrodisius, Libistos, Ziger, Borcob&, Eu- 

 menia, Parthenopolis, Gerania, where it is reported were the 



1 Or 100,000. 



