Chap. 2.] 
ACCOUNT OF COUNTIUES, ETC. 
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and after that a people of the Cappadocians, the towns of Ga- 
ziura^^ and Gazelum,^^ the river Halys,^^ which runs from the 
foot of Mount Taurus through Cataonia and Cappadocia, the 
towns of Gangre^^ and Carusa,^^ the free town of Amisus,^' 
distant from Sinope one hundred and thirty miles, and a gulf 
of the same name, of such vast extent as to make Asia assume 
the form of a peninsula, the isthmus of which is only some 
two hundred miles in breadth, or a little more, across to the 
gulf of Issus in Cilicia. In all this district there are, it is 
said, only three races that can rightly be termed Greeks, the 
Dorians, the lonians, and the ^olians, all the rest being of 
barbarian origin.*'^ To Amisus was joined the town of Eupa- 
toria,^^ founded by Mithridates: after his defeat they were 
both included under the name of Pompeiopolis. 
arising from the circumstance of a small tribe bearing tlie name of Cap- 
padocians, having settled on its banks, between whom and the Paphlago- 
nians it served as a limit. 
2^ On the river Iris. It was the ancient residence of the kings of 
Pontus, but in Strabo's time it was deserted. It has been suggested that 
the modern Azurnis occupies its site. 
25 In the north-west of Pontus, in a fertile plain between the rivers 
Halys and Amisus. It is also called Gadilon by Strabo. D'Anville 
makes it the modern Aladgiam ; while he calls Gaziura by the name of 
Guedes. 
2^ Now called the Kisil Irmak, or Red Piver. It has been remarked 
that Pliny, in making this river to come down from Mount Taurus and 
flow at once from south to north, appears to confound the Halys with one 
of its tributaries, now known as the Izchel Irmak. 
37 Its site is now called Kiengareh, Kangreh, or Changeri. This was 
a town of Paphlagonia, to the south of Mount Olgasys, at a distance of 
thirty-five miles from Pompeiopolis. 
3^ A commercial place to the south of Sinope, Its site is the modem 
Gherseh on the coast. 
3^ Now called Eski Samsun ; on the west side of the bay or gulf, an- 
ciently called Sinus Amisenus. According to Strabo, it was only 900 
stadia from Sinope, or 112| Eoman miles. The walls of the ancient city 
are to be seen on a promontory about a mile and a half from the modern 
town. 
He means the numerous indentations which run southward into the 
coast, from the headland of Sinope to a distance of about one degree to 
the south. 
On examining the map, we shall find that the distance is at least 300 
miles across to the gulf of Issus or Iskenderoon. 
Not speaking the Greek language. 
*3 A part of it only was added to Eupatoria ; and it was separated from 
tl^e rest by a wall, and probably contained a different population from that 
