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pliity's katukal history. 
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3klilesians, and then Cromna,^* at whicli spot Cornelius I^epos also 
places the Heneti,'^^ from whom he would have us believe that 
the Veneti of Italy, who have a similar name, are descended. 
The city also of Sesamon, now called Amastris,^^ Mount 
Cj'-torus,^'' distant sixty- three miles from Tium, the towns of 
Cimolis^® and Stephane,^^ and the river Parthenius.^^ The 
promontory of Carambis,^^ which extends a great distance into 
the sea, is distant from the mouth of the Euxine three hundred 
and twenty-five miles, or, according to some writers, three 
hundred and fifty, being the same distance from the Cimmerian 
Bosporus, or, as some persons think, only three hundred and 
twelve miles. There was formerly also a town of the same 
name, and another near it called Armene ; we now find there 
the colony of Sinope,^^ distant from Mount Cy torus one hundred 
and sixty-four miles. We then come to the river Evarchus,^ 
2* It is mentioned by Homer, II. ii. 855, as situate on the coast of 
Papblagonia. 
^ Strabo also, in B. xii., says that these people afterwards established 
themselves in Thrace, and that gradually moving to the west, they finally 
settled in the Italian Venetia, which from them took its name. But in 
his Fourth Book he says that the Veneti of Italy owe their origin to the 
Gallic Veneti, who came from the neighbourhood known as the modern 
Vannes. 
26 This city, ninety stadia east of the river Parthenius, occupied a penin- 
sula, and on each side of the isthmus was a harbour. The original city, 
as here mentioned, seems to have had the name of Sesamus or Sesamum, 
and it is spoken of by that name in Homer, II. ii. 853, in conjunction 
with Cytorus. The territory of Amastris was famous for its growth of the 
best box-wood, which grew on Mount Cytorus. The present Amasra or 
Hanasserah occupies its site. 
27 See the last Note. 
28 Otherwise called Cinolis." There is a place called Kinla or 
Kinoglu in the maps, about half-way between Kerempeh and Sinope, which 
is the Kinuli of Abulfeda, and probably the Cirolis or Cimolis of the 
Greek geographers. 
29 The modern Estefan or Stefanos. 
3^ Now known by the name of Bartin, a corruption of its ancient ap- 
pellation. 
^1 It still retains its ancient appellation in its name of Cape Kerempeh : 
of the ancient town nothing is known. 
^2 Now called Sinope, or Sinoub. Some ruins of it are still to be seen. 
The modern town is but a poor place, and has probably greatly declined 
since the recent attack upon it by the Russian fleet. Diogenes, the Cynic 
philosopher, was a native of ancient Sinope. 
The boundary, according to Stephanus Byzantinus, also of the nations 
of Paphlagonia and Cappadocia. As Parisot remarks, this is an error, 
