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of Ten Days to Seleucia, and about as many to Babylon. 

 Euphrates is divided Fourscore and Three Miles from Zeug- 

 ma, about the Village Massice, and on the Left Side it 

 passeth into Mesopotamia, through Seleucia, it being poured 

 into the River Tigris as it runneth by : but on the right 

 Channel it passeth toward Babylon, formerly the Chief City 

 of Chaldsea ; and passing through the midst of it, as also of 

 another which they call Otris, it is drawn off into Marshes. 

 It riseth at certain Times after the manner of the Nilus, 

 but with a little difference ; for it overfloweth Mesopotamia 

 when the Sun is the 20th degree of Cancer, and beginneth 

 again to diminish when the Sun is past Leo, and is entered 

 into Virgo: so that in the 29th degree of Virgo, it is reduced 

 again. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



Cilicia, and the Nations adjoining, Isauricce, Homonades, 

 Pisidia, , Lycaonia, Pamphylia : the Mountain Taurus, 

 and Lycia. 



BUT we will return to the Coasts of Syria, to which 

 Cilicia is the nearest. The River Diaphanes, the Mountain 

 Crocodilus, Passages of the Mount Amanus : Rivers, Andri- 

 con, Pinarus, and Lycus, the Gulf Issicus. The Town Issa, 

 then the River Chlorns, the Free Town Mge, the River Pyra- 

 mus, and the Passages of Cilicia. The Towns Mallos and 

 Magarsos ; and within Tarsos, the Plains, Aleii ; the Towns, 

 Cassipolis and Mopsum, which is free, and standeth upon the 

 River Pyramus ; Thynos, Zephyrium, and Anchialae. The 

 Rivers Saros and Sydnus, which runneth through Tarsus, a 

 free City, far from the Sea : the Country Celenderitis, with 

 the Town. The Place called Nyraphaeum, and Soloe Cilicii, 

 now Pompeiopolis, Adana, Cibira, Pinara, Pedalie, Halix, 

 Arsinoe, Tabse, and Doron : and near the Sea ye shall find a 

 Town, an Harbour, and a Cave, all named Corycos. Soon 

 after, the River Calycadnus. The Promontory Sarpedon, 

 the Towns Olme and Mylse, the Promontory and Town of 

 Venus, nearest to which is the Isle of Cyprus. But in the 

 Mainland are the Towns Myanda, Ariemurium, Corace- 



