14 
pltnt's natural histobt. 
[Book VI. 
Euxine and Lake Mseotis, is not more than sixty- seven 
miles and a half, and the width across never less than two 
jagera it has the name of Eion.^^ The shores of the Bos- 
porus then take a curve both on the side of Europe and of 
Asia, thus forming the Mseotis. The towns at the entrance of 
the Bosporus are, first Hermonassa,^^ next Cepi,^^ founded by 
the Milesians, and then Stratoclia and Phanagoria,^^ and the 
almost deserted town of Apaturos,^^ and, at the extremity of 
the mouth, Cimmerium,**^ which was formerly called Cerberion. 
(7.) We then come to Lake Maeotis, which has been akeady 
mentioned in the description of Europe. 
CHAP. 7. LAKE M^OTIS AND THE ADJOINING NATIONS. 
After passing Cimmerium, the coast*^ is inhabited by the 
Mseotici, the Yali, the Serbi,^^ the Arrechi, the Zingi, and the 
Psessi. We then come to the river Tanais,^^ which discharges 
2* The ju(/erum was 100 Grecian or 104 Roman feet in length. 
2^ Signifying in Greek the sea-shore." 
36 Lying between Singa and Phanagoria. Rennell fixes it at the open- 
ing of the lake into which the Kouban flows. 
^"^ Or the "gardens," from the Greek kyittol. A town of the Cimme- 
rian Bosporus, founded by the Milesians, Dr. Clarke identifies the mo- 
dern Sienna with it, and the curious Milesian sculptures found there con- 
firm the supposition. 
38 Its ruins are supposed to be those near Taman, on the eastern side 
of the Straits of Kafl'a. It was the great emporium for all the traffic be- 
tween the coasts of the Palus Maeotis and the countries on the south of the 
Caucasus, and was chosen by the kings of Bosporus as their capital in Asia. 
A town of the Sindte ; it possessed, like Phanagoria, a celebrated 
temple of Aphrodite Apaturos, or Venus ^* the Deceiver," whence probably 
its name. 
Clarke identifies it with the modern Temruk, but Forbiger with 
Eskikrimm. 
*i See B. iv. c. 24. 
*2 That lying on the east of the Sea of Azof. It seems impossible to 
identify the spot inhabited by each of these savage tribes. Hardouin says 
that the modern name of that inhabited by the Maeotici is Coumania. 
^3 Parisot suggests that this tribe afterwards emigrated to the west, 
andafter establishing themselves in Macedonia, finally gave its name to mo^ 
dern Servia. He remarks, that most of these names appear to have been 
greatly mutilated, through the ignorance or carelessness of the transcribers, 
no two of the manuscripts agreeing as to the mode in which they should 
be spelt. 
Of Don. It flows into the Sea of Azof by two larger mouths and 
