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discharges itself by a channel into the sea. This-Buges is 

 separated by a ridge of rocks ^ from Coretus, a gulf in the 

 Lake Majotis ; it receives the rivers Buges-, Germs', and 

 Hypacaris'', which approach it from regions that lie in 

 various directions. For the Gerrus separates the Basilidae 

 from the Nomades, the Hypacaris flows through the No- 

 mades and the Hylaei, by an artificial channel into Lake 

 Buges, and by its natural one into the Gulf of Coretus : 

 this region bears the name of Scythia Siudice. 



At the river Carcinites, Scythia Taurica* begins, which 

 was once covered by the sea, where we now see level 

 plains extended on every side : beyond this the land rises into 

 mountains of great elevation. The peoples here are thirty 

 in number, of which tAventy-three dwell in the interior, six 

 of the cities being inhabited by the Orgocyni, the Chara- 

 ceni'', the Lagyrani, the Tractari, the Arsilachitse, and the 

 Caliordi. The Scythotauri possess the range of mountains : 

 on the west they are bounded by the Chersonesus, and on 

 the east by the Scythian Satarchae'. On the shore, after 

 we leave Carcinites, we find the following towns; Ta- 

 phraB^, situate on the very isthmus of the peninsula, and 

 then Heraclea Chersonesus', to which its freedom has been 

 granted'" by the Eomans. This place was formerly called 



* It is rather a ridge of sand, that almost separates it from the waters 

 of the gulf. 



2 This river has not been identified by modem geographers. 



3 According to Herodotus the Grerrhus or Gerrus fell into the Hypa- 

 caris ; which must be understood to be, not the Kalantchak, but the 

 Outlouk. It is probably now represented by the Moloschnijawoda, 

 which forms a shallow lake or marsh at its mouth. 



* It is most probable that the Pacyris, mentioned above, the Hypa- 

 caris, and the Carcinites, were various names for the same river, gene- 

 rally supposed, as stated above, to be the small stream of Kalantchak. 



* Now the Crimea. 



^ It does not appear that the site of any of these cities has been iden- 

 tified. Charax was a general name for a fortified town. 



' Mentioned again by Pliny in B. vi. c. 7. Solinus says that in order 

 to repel avarice, the Satarchae prohibited the use of gold and silver. 



* On the site of the modem Perekop, more commonly called Orkapi. 

 ^ Or Chersonesus of the Heraeleans. The town of Kosleve or Eupa- 



toria is siipposed to stand on its site. 



^" After the conquest of Mithridates, when the whole of these regions 

 fell into the hands of the Eomans. 



