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Stoma* and the Psilon-Stoma*. These mouths are each of 

 them so considerable, that for a distance of forty miles, it is 

 said, the saltness of the sea is quite overpowered, and the 

 water found to be fresh. 



CHAP. 25. — DACIA, BAEMATIA. 



On setting out from this spot, all the nations met 

 with are Scythian in general, though various races have 

 occupied the adjacent shores ; at one spot the Getee^, by the 

 Romans called l)aci ; at anotlier the Sarmatae, by the Greeks 

 called SauromatsB, and the Hamaxobii* or Aorsi, a branch 

 of them ; then again the base-born Scythians and descend- 

 ants of slaves, or else the Troglodytae* ; and then, after 

 them, the Alani^ and the Ehoxalani. The higher' parts 

 again, between the Danube and the Hercynian Forest^, as 

 far as the winter quarters of Pannonia at Carnuntum^, and 

 the borders of the Germans, are occupied by the Sarmatian 

 iazyges^", who inhabit the level country and the plains, 



Bwarm8 of mosquitoes, which were said at a certain tiaae of the year to 

 migrate to the Palus Mseotis. According to Brotier the present name 

 of tliis island is Ilan Adasi, or Serpent Island. 



1 The " Northern Mouth " : near the town of Kiha. 



« Or the " Narrow Mouth." 



3 Though Strabo distinguishes the Get«B from the Daci, most of the 

 ancient writers, with Pliny, speak of them as identical. It is not known, 

 however, why the Getce in later times assumed the name of Daci. 



* " Dwellers in waggons." These were a Sarmatian tribe who wan- 

 dered with their waggons along the banks of the Volga. The chief seats 

 of the Aorsi, who seem in reaUty to have been a distinct people from the 

 Hamaxobii, was in the country between the Tanais, the Euxine, the 

 Caspian, and the Caucasus. 



» " Dwellers in Caves." This name appears to have been given to 

 various savage races in different parts of the world. 



^ There were races of the Alani in Asia on the Caucasus, and in Eu- 

 rope on the Maeotis and the Euxine ; but their precise geographical 

 position is not clearly ascertained. 



7 The present Transylvania and Himgary. 



* The name given in the age of Pliny to the range of moimtains ex- 

 tending around Bohemia, and through Moravia into Hungary. 



' Its ruins are still to be seen on the south bank of the Danube near 

 Haimburg, between Deutsch-Altenbxirg and PetroneU. The Eoman fleet 

 of the Danube, with the 14th legion, was originally estabUshed there. 



^ In Pliny's time this migratory tribe seems to have removed to the 



