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given to tlie sea that waslies its banks the name of tlie 
Hylsean Sea; its inhabitants are called Ena3cliadlie^ Be- 
yond them is the river Panticapes^, which separates the 
JSTomades^ and the Georgi, and after it the Acesinus'*. Some 
anthors say that the Panticapes flows into the Borysthenes 
below Olbia^. Others, who are more correct, say that it is 
the Hypanis^ : so great is the mistake made by those who 
have placed it^ in Asia. 
The sea rnns in here and forms a large gnlf ^, nntil there 
is only an intervening space ^ of five miles between it and the 
Lake Mseotis, its margin forming the sea-line of extensive 
tracts of land, and numerous nations ; it is known as the Grulf 
of Carcinites. Here we find the river Pacyris^^, the towns of 
!Navarum and Carcine^^ and behind it Lake Buges^^, which 
^ For Enoechadlse, Hardouin suggests that we should read Inde Si/lcei^ 
" hence the inhabitants are called by the name of Hyisei." 
2 The Panticapes is usually identified with the modern Somara, but 
perhaps without sufficient grounds. It is more probably the Kouskawoda. 
3 The Nomades or wandering, fi-om the Greorgi or agricultural Scy- 
thians-. 
^ The Acesinus does not appear to have been identified by modern 
geographers. ^ Above called Olbiopohs or Miletopohs. 
^ The Bog or Boug. Flowing parallel with the Borysthenes or 
Dnieper, it disLarged itself into the Euxine at the town of Olbia, at no 
great distance from the mouth of the Borysthenes. 
7 Probably meaning the mouth or point at which the river discharges 
itself into the sea. 
^ The modern Grulf of ISTegropoh or Perekop, on the west side of the 
Chersonesus Taurica or Crimea. 
9 Forming the present isthmus of Perekop, which divides the Sea of 
Perekop from the Sea of Azof. 
^0 Called by Herodotus Hypacyris, and by later writers Carcinites. It 
is generally supposed to be the same as the small stream now known as 
the Kalantchak. 
11 Hardouin says that the city of Carcine has still retained its name, 
but changed its site. More modern geographers however are of opinion 
that nothing can be determined with certainty as to its site. Of the site 
also of Navarum nothing seems to be known. 
12 Or Buces or Byce. This is really a gulf, almost enclosed, at the end 
of the Sea of Azof. Strabo gives a more full description of it under the 
name of the Sajpra Limne^ " the Putrid Lake," by which name it is still 
called, in Russian, Sibache or Sivache More. It is a vast lagoon, covered 
with water when an east wind blows the water of the Sea of Azof into it, 
but at other times a tract of sHme and mud, sending forth pestilential 
vapours. 
