Chap. 5.] ACCOnra OT COTJNTBIBB, ETC. 11 



derives its name from the river ■whicli flows at that spot into 

 the Phasis, and.up to which place the Phasis is navigable for 

 large vessels, as we have already' mentioned. It receives also 

 some other rivers, wonderful for their number and magnitude, 

 and among them the Glaucus.'' At the mouth of the Phasis^ 

 at a distance of seventy miles from ii.bsarus, are some islands, 

 which, however, have no name. 'After passing this, we come 

 to another river, the Charieis,* and the nation of the Salse, 

 by the ancients called Phthirophagi,' as also Suani.' The 

 river Chobus" flows from the Caucasus through the country Of 

 the Suani. The river Bhoas comes next, then the region of 

 Ecrectice, the rivers Singames,' Tarsuras," Astelephus," Chry- 

 sorrhoas, the nation of the Absilse, the castle of Sebastopolis," 

 one hundred miles distant from Phasis, the nation of the San- 

 nigae, the town of Cygnus," and the river and town of Penius." 

 "We then come to the tribes of the Heniochi," who are dis- 

 tinguished by numerous names, 



CHAP. 5. (6) THE KEGlOir OV COLICA, THE NATIONS OF THE 



ACHJEI, AND OTHEK NATIONS IN THE SAME PAHTS. 



Below this lies the region of Pontus known as CoUca," in 



' In the preTious page. 



* Now cdled the Tcnorocsu. 



^ It is doubtful whether this is the same river as that mentioned by 

 Strabo under the name of Chares. D'Anville says that its modern name 

 is Enguri. 



• Or "Feeders on Lice;" so called, according to Strabo, from the ex- 

 treme iilthinesB of their habits. 



' There is a nation in this vicinity still called by a similar name. Pro- 

 fessor Pallas, who visited them, says that nothing can equal their dishonesty, 

 rapacity, and voracity. Parisot suggests that they are probably the 

 descendants of the Fbthirophagi of Pliny. 



' Now called the Ehalira, according to D'Anville. 



° Now called the Hati-Scari, according to D'Anville. 



'" Now the Okhum, according to D'Anville. 



'' Now the Mosti-Skari, according to D'Anville. 



1' Still called Savastopoli, according to Hardouin. 



•3 This must not be confounded with the other place of the same name 

 mentioned in the present Chapter. See p. 10. 



" Hermolaus suggests Pityus as the correct reading. 



1' The Sanni Heniochi ; one of these nations has been already men- 

 tioned in the last page. 



1° Inhabited anciently by the Coli, and constituting the northern portion 

 of ancient Colchis. 



