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Gerrhus, Hypanis, coming from different quarters : for 

 Gerrhus parteth the Basilides and Nomades. Hypanis 

 floweth through the Nomades and the Hyleans into Buges, 

 by a Channel made by Man's Hand, but in his natural 

 Channel into Coretus. The Region of Scythia is named 

 Sendica. But in Carcinites, Taurica beginneth : which in 

 Times past was environed with the Sea, where now there 

 lie Fields : afterwards it mounteth up with very great Hills. 

 Thirty People are in it : and of them 24 are within Land. 

 Six Towns, Orgocyni, Caraseni, Assyrani, Tractari, Archi- 

 lachitse, and Caliordi. The Crest of the Hill the Scytotauri 

 hold. They are shut in Westward by Cherronesus ; East- 

 ward by the Scythian Satarchi. In the Coast from Car- 

 cinites are these Towns : Taphrae, in the very Straits of the 

 Peninsula : then, Heraclea, Cherronesus, endowed with 

 Liberty by the Romans. Formerly it was called Megarice, 

 and is the most Elegant in all that Tract, as retaining the 

 Manners of the Greeks ; and it is encompassed with a Wall 

 of five Miles' extent. Then the Promontory Parthenium. 

 A City of the Tauri, Placia. The Harbour Symbolon : the 

 Promontory Criu-Metopon, over against Charambes, a Pro- 

 montory of Asia, running through the middle of Euxinus 

 for the space of 170 Miles : which is the cause especially 

 that maketh the Form abovesaid of a Scythian Bow. Near 

 to it are many Harbours and Lakes of the Tauri. The 

 Town Theodosia, distant from Criu-Metopon 122 Miles, and 

 from Cherronesus 165 Miles. Beyond, there have been 

 the Towns Cyte, Zephyrium, Acre, Nymphseum, and Dia. 

 And by far the strongest of them all remaineth still in the 

 very entrance of Bosphorus, namely, Panticapaeum of the 

 Milesians, from Theodosia 1035 Miles : but from Cim- 

 merum, a Town situated beyond the Strait, a Mile and a half, 

 as we have said. And this is all the Breadth there that 

 divideth Asia from Europe : and even that is for the most 

 part passable on Foot, when the Strait is frozen over. The 

 Breadth of Bosphorus Cimmerius is 12 Miles. It hath the 

 Towns Hermisium, Myrmecium ; and within it, the Island 

 Alopece. But through Mceotis, from the furthest part of 



