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no morethaAthreenations which juftly and by good rights may be called Greekes, tdwiCj the Q 

 Doriansjlonians, and /Eolians ; for all the reft are reputed barbarous.Vnto Amifumjthere joy- 

 ned the towneEupatoria, founded by KMithridaUs : and after that he was vanquifiicdjbo th to- 

 gether tooke the name of PompeiopoIiSi 



Chap, hi. 



^ Cappadom, 



IN Cappadocia, there is a cittie well within the land, called Archelais^ fituate upon the river 

 Halys: which CW//^Crf/5r the Emperor ereiled as a colonic, and peopled itwithRomane 

 fouldiers. There is befides atowne which the river Sarus runneth under : alfoNeo-caefarea^ j| 

 which Lycus palfeth by.and AmafiajWith the river Iris runing under it, within the country Ga- 

 zacena. Moreover, in the quarter called Golopena,thereftandSebaftiaandSebaftopolis, litde 

 townesindeedj howbcit comparable with thofe abovefaid . In the other part of Cappadocia^ 

 there is the cittie Melita, built by c^zcn^S emir amis, not farre from Euphrates : airo,Dio-C3e- 

 farea, Tyana, Caftabala, Magnopolis^Zela : and under the mountaine Arg^us5Mazaca, which 

 now is named Gsefarea. That part of Gappadocia which lie'th before Armenia the greacer,is 

 called Melitene.'that which bordereth upon GomagenejGs^iaonia-.uponPhrygiajGarfauritis : 

 HponSargaurafana,Gammaneura : and finally upon Galatia5lvlorimene. And there the rivec 

 Cappadoxfeperateth the one from theother.Of this river the GsppadocianstooknamC5whcr- 

 as beforetime they were called Leucofyri. As for the leflc Armenia, the river Lycus devideth it j 

 from Neo-G^fareabeforefaid. Within the countrey there runnrth alfo the great river Gerau- 

 nus. But on the coaft {ide,when you are paft the cittie Amy fum,you meet widi the towne Lyca- 

 ftum, and the river Ghadifia : and once paft them, you enter into the countrey Themi^Gyra. In 

 this quarter alfo you may fee theriver Iris, bringingdowne with it another river Lycus that run- 

 neth into it. And in the midland parts there is the citie Ziel3,ennoblsd for the overthrow of Tri- 

 arm, whom CCafar defeated with his whole armie. But in the coaft againe you fhall encounter 

 the river Tlicrmodon, which iflueth from before a caftle named Phanatoea, andpaileth befidc 

 the footof the mountaine Amazonius. In which place there ftood ibmetimeatowneof that 

 iiame,and other five, namely,Phamizonium, Themifcyra, Sotira,Amafia;,Gomana5atthispre- 

 fcnt called Manteium. 1^ 



Chap, iiii, 



'^The peopk of the regmThemifyrm, 



MOreovcr^in Pontus ye have the nations of the Genetas and the Ghalybes, together with 

 a towne of Cotyi. People befides called Tibareni, and Moflyni, who brand and marke 

 their bodie with bote fearing yrons. Alfo the nation of the Macrocephali,wiih the town 

 Cerafus,and the pore Gordul2C.Beyond which you come to a people named Bechires, andBu- 

 zcrijand to the river Melas. And fo forward to the quarter of the Macrones,Sideni,and fo to the 

 liver Sydenum,upon which is fituate the towne PoIemonium,diftant from Amiiiim 2 20 myles : L 

 where yeefhall find the riverslafonius andMelanthius;and atowne 80 miles from AmifumjCal- 

 led Pharnacea : the caftle and river of Tripolis. Item, Philocalia and Liviopolis without a river : 

 and laftly the imperiall and free cittie Trapezus^environned with an high mountaine, 100 miles 

 from Pharnacea. And being paft Trapezus, you enter into the countrey of the Armenocha- 

 lybesjand Armenia the greater: which are 30 myles afunder.But upon the coaft you fhail fee the 

 river Pyxites that runneth even before Trapezus: and beyond it the countrey of the Sanni Heni- 

 ochi. Moreoverjthe river AbfaruSjin the mouth whereof there is a caftle likewife fb named,fro:ri 

 Trapezus 1 50 miles.Behind the mountains of that quarter,you meet with the region Iberia: but 

 in the coaft thereof the Heniochi, Ampreutae and Lazi. The rivers Gampfeonyfis,Nogrus,Ba- 

 thys.When yee are once paft them,you come into the countrey of the Colchians, where ftan- ^ 

 deth the towne Matium, with the river Heracleum paffing under it, and a Promontorie of that 

 name,and laft of all, the moft renowned river of all PontuSjCalled Phafis. This river rifeth kom 

 out of the Mofchian mountaines, and for 38 miles and an halfe, is navigable, and bcareth any 

 great vcftels whatfocver. And then for a great way it carriethfmalkr bottomes,and hath over it 



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