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rivers Eurymedon', which flows past Aspendus, and Catar- 

 ractes"^, near to which is Lymesus; also the towns of 

 Olbia^, and Phaselis^ the last on this coast. 



CHAP. 27. — MOUNT TATJEUS. 



Adjoining to Paniphylia is the Sea of Lycia and the coun- 

 try of Lycia^ itsell', where the chain of Taurus, coming from 

 the eastern shores, terminates the vast Gulf' by the Promon- 

 tory of Chelidonium". Of immense extent, and separating 

 nations innumerable, after taking its first rise at the Indian 

 Sea', it branches off to the north on the right-hand side, 

 and on the left towards the south. Then taking a direction 

 towards the west, it would cut through the middle of Asia, 

 were it not that the seas check it in its triumphant career 

 along the land. It accordingly strikes off in a northerly 

 direction, and forming an arc, occupies an immense tract of 

 country, nature, designedly as it were, every now and then 

 throwing seas in the way to oppose its career ; here the Sea 

 of Phoenicia, there the Sea of Pontus, in this direction the 

 Caspian and Hyrcaniau^, and then, opposite to them, the 

 Lalte Ma?otis. Although somewhat curtailed by these ob- 

 stacles, it still winds along between them, and makes its 



* Now knowTi as the Kapri-Su. 



' Now called Duden-Su. It descends the mountains of Taurus in a 

 great broken waterfall, whence its name. 



3 Probably occupying the site of the modem Atalieh or Satalieh. 



■* On the borders of Lycia and Pamphyha, at the foot of Mount 

 Solyma. Its ruins now bear the name of Tekrova. 



5 It was inclosed by Caria and Pamphylia on the west and east, and 

 on the north by the district of Cibyrates in Phrygia. 



6 The Gulf of SataHeh or Adalia. 



7 Still known as Cape Khelidonia or Cameroso. 



* Parisot remarks here, " Pliny describes on this occasion, with an 

 exactness very remarkable for his time, the chain of mountains which 

 runs tlirough the part of Asia known to the ancients, although it is evident 

 that he confines the extent of them within much too small a compass." 



* The Caspian and the Hyrcanian Seas are generally looked upon as 

 identical, but we find them again distinguished by Pliny in B, vi. e. 13, 

 where he says that this inland sea commences to be called the Caspian 

 after you have passed the river Cyrus (or Kur), and that the Caspii hve 

 near it ; and in C. 16, that it is called the Hyrcanian Sea, from the Hyr- 

 cani who Hve along its shores. The western side would therefore in 

 strictness be called the Caspian, and the eastern the Hyrcanian Sea. 



