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(28.) The river Indus ', which rises in the mountains of 

 the Cibyratae^, receives sixty-live rivers which are constantly 

 flowing, besides upwards of 100 mountain torrents. Here 

 is the free town of Caunos^, then the town of Pymos*, the 

 port of Cressa*, from which the island of Rhodes is distant 

 twenty miles ; the place where Loryma formerly stood, the 

 towns of Tisanusa , Paridion', and Larymna*, the Gulf of 

 Thymnias", tlie Promontory of Aphrodisias^", the town of 

 Hyda, the Gulf of Schoentis, and tne district of Bubasus". 

 There was formerly the town of Acanthus here, another 



N.N.E. of Malcri, on the Gulf of Glaucus or Makri, at a place called 

 Hoozoomlee, situate on an elevated plain. 



' The same as the river Calbis of Strabo and Mela, at present the 

 Dalamon Tchy, Quingi or Taas, having its sources in Mount Cadmus 

 above Cibyra. It was said to have derived itp name from an Indian, who 

 had been tlu*own into it from an elephant. 



^ Their district was Cibyratis, of which the chief city was Cibyra. 

 This place, uniting with the towns of Balbura, Bubon, and (Enianda, 

 had the name of Tetrapohs ; of which league Cibyra was the head, mus- 

 tering 30,000 infantry and 2000 cavalry. The iron found in this district 

 was easily cut with a chisel or other sharp tool. The site of this power- 

 ful city has been ascertainecJ to be at Horzoom, on the Horzoom Tchy, 

 a branch of the Dalamon Tchy or Indus. The ruins are very extensive, 

 and the theatre in fine preservation. 



' Placed by Strabo west of Calynda. The ancient descriptions of its 

 locality vary, but the pl6ce now known as Kaiguez is said to denote its 

 site. The Caunii are frequently mentioned in the Persian, Grecian, and 

 Roman histories. It was noted for its dried figs, mentioned by Pliny in 

 B. XV. c. 19. 



^ Supposed by Mannert to be the Physcus of Strabo and the Phuscse 

 of Ptolemy. 



5 Leake says that this harbour is now called Aplothika by the Greeks, 

 and Porto Cavahere by the Itahans. He also says that on its western 

 shore are the ruins of an Hellenic fortress and towTi, which are undoubt- 

 edly those of Loryma. 



* It had a port of the same name. 



7 Called Pandion by Mela, according to Parisot. 



^ Parisot suggests that it is the same as Loryma previously mentioned. 



' Like the Gulf of Schoenus, a portion probably of the Dorian Gul^ 

 now the Gulf of Syme. 



^^ The modem name of this promontory is not given by Hamilton, who 

 sailed round it. It has been confoimded with the Cynos Sema of Strabo, 

 now Cape Velo. The site of Hyda or Hyde is unknown. 



" There was a town of this name as well. Stephen of Byzantium 

 tells us that it received its name from a shepherd who saved the life of 

 PodaliriuB, when shipwrecked on the coast of Caria. 



