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with this People. Some think that it was first founded by 

 Amphitus and Telchius, who had the charge of the Chariots 

 of Castor and Pollux .- 1 for certain it is, that the fierce Nation 

 of the Heniochi are from them descended. Being past 

 Dioscurias, there is the Town Heraclium, which from Sebas- 

 topolis is 80 Miles distant. The Achaei, Mardi, and Car- 

 cetae : after them the Serri, and Cephalotomi. Far within 

 that Tract stood the very wealthy Town Pitius, which by the 

 Heniochians was plundered. On the back part thereof 

 inhabit the Epageritse, a People of the Sarmatae, upon the 

 tops of the Caucasus : after which the Sauromatae. Hither 

 had fled King Mithridates in the time of Prince Claudius, 

 and he made report that the Thali dwell thereby, and border 

 Eastward upon the very opening of the Caspian Sea: which 

 becometh Dry when the Sea ebbeth. But on the Coast 

 near to the Cercetae is the River Icarusa, with a Town and 

 River called Hierum, 136 Miles from Heracleum. Then 

 come ye to the Promontory Cronea, in the steep Ridge 

 of which the Toretae inhabit. The City Sindica, 67 Miles 

 from Hierum : the River Sceaceriges. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Mceotis and the Bosphorus Cimmerius. 



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FROM the above-said River to the Entrance of the Cim- 

 merian Bosphorus is 88 Miles and a half. But the Length 

 of the Peninsula itself, which stretcheth out between the 

 Lakes Pontus and Moeotis is not above 87 Miles, and the 

 Breadth in no place less than two Acres of Land. They call 

 it Eione. The very Coasts of the Bosphorus, both of Asia 

 and Europe, are curved towards the Moeolis. The Towns in 



1 There is frequently occasion to remark, that Pliny speaks of the 

 deities of his country, as if it was an acknowledged fact that they were 

 once living men. -ZEolus, Hercules, and even Jupiter, are so regarded ; 

 and as he speaks of the impiety of this opinion, b. vii. c. 47, when applied 

 to some particular cases, we are at liberty to believe that his regard for 

 the established heathenism of his country was exceedingly slight. 

 Wern. Club. 



