Ghap. 4.] AGCOTJNT OF COUNTEIES, ETC. 3 



cephali/' the to-wn bf Cei-asus/' the port of Chordule, thtf 

 nations called the Bechires™ and the Buzeri, the river Mclas," 

 the people called the Macrones, and Sidene -with its rivei* 

 Sidenus,'^ hy which the town of Polemonium^' is washed, at a; 

 distance from Amisus of one hundred and twenty miles. We 

 next come to the rivers lasonius'* and Melanthius,"' and, at a 

 distance of eighty miles from Amisus, the town of Pharnacea,™ 

 the fortress and river of Tripolis f the fortress and river of 

 Philocalia, the fortress of Liviopolis, but not upon a river, and, 

 at a distance of one hundred miles from Pharnaoea, the free 

 city of Trapezus,*' shut in by a mountain of vast size. Be- 

 yond this town is the nation of the Armenochalybes*' and tho 



may Iiave been the ancestors of the Mongol tribes who still dwell in tents 

 similar to those mentioned by Mela'as used by the Mossyni. 



'" Or the " long-headed people." 



?' Its site is not improbably that of the modern Kheresoun, on the coast 

 of Asia Minor, and west of Trebjzond. Lucullus is said to have brought 

 thence the first cherry-trees planted in Enrope. 



"" It has been remarked, that Pliny's enumeration of names often rather 

 confuses than helps, and that it is difficult to say where he intends to place 

 the Bechires. "We may perhaps infer from M!ela that they were west of 

 Trapezus and east of the Thermodon. 



'• Now the Kara Su, or Black Eiver, still retaining its ancient appel- 

 lation. It rises in Cappadocia, in the chain of Mount Argaeus. 



'2 Still called by the same' name, according to Parisot, though some 

 times it is called the river of Vatisa. More recent authorities, however, 

 call it Poleman Chai. 



•^ On the coast of Pontus, built by king Polemon, perhaps the Second, 

 on the site of the older city of Side, at the mouth of the Sidenus. 



** Probably near the promontory of Jasonium, 130 stadia to the north- 

 east of Folemonium. It was believed to have received its name from 

 Jason the Argonaut having landed there. It still bears the name of 

 Jasoon, though more commonly called Bona or Vona. 



^ Sixty stadia, according to An-ian, from the town of Cotyoia. 



'^ Supposed to have stood on almost the same site as the modern Khe- 

 resoun or Kerasunda. It was built near, or, as some think, on the site of 

 Cerasus. 



^^ Still known by the name of Tireboli, on a river of the same name, th9 

 Tireboli Su. 



<*' Now called Tarabosan, Trabezun, or Trebizond. This place was 

 originally a colony of Sinope, after the loss of whose independence Tra- 

 pezus belonged, first to Lesser Armenia, and afterwards to the kingdom of 

 j?ontns. In the middle ages it was the seat of the so-called empire of 

 Trebizond. It is now the second commercial port of the Black Sea, rank- 

 ing next after Odessa. 



»' The " Ohalybes of Armenia." See p. 21. 



