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discharges itself by a channel into the sea. This Buges is 
separated by a ridge of rocks ^ from Coretus, a gulf in the 
Lake Mseotis ; it receives the rivers Buges ^, Grerrus^, and 
Hypacaris"^, which approach it from regions that lie in 
various directions. Eor the Gerrus separates the Basilidse 
from the Nomades, the Hypacaris flows through the No- 
mades and the Hylsei, by an artificial channel into Lake 
Buges, and by its natural one into the Gulf of Coretus : 
this region bears the name of Scythia Sindice. 
At the river Carcinites, Scythia Taurica^ begins, which 
was once covered by the sea, where we now see level 
plains extended on every side : beyond this the land rises into 
mountains of great elevation. The peoples here are thirty 
in number, of which twenty-three dwell in the interior, six 
of the cities being inhabited by the Orgocyni, the Chara- 
ceni^, the Lagyrani, the Tractari, the Arsilachitse, and the 
Caliordi. The Scythotauri possess the range of mountains : 
on the west they are bounded by the Chersonesus, and on 
the east by the Scythian Satarchse''. On the shore, after 
we leave Carcinites, we find the following towns ; Ta- 
phrse^, situate on the very isthmus of the peninsula, and 
then ELeraclea Chersonesus^, to which its freedom has been 
granted by the Eomans. This place was formerly called 
^ It is rather a ridge of sand, that almost separates it from the waters 
of the gulf. 
2 This river has not been identified by modern geographers. 
^ According to Herodotus the Grerrhns or Gerrus fell into the Hypa- 
caris ; which must be understood to be, not the Kalantchak, but the 
Outlouk. It is probably now represented by the Moloschnijawoda, 
which forms a shallow lake or marsh at its mouth. 
^ It is most probable that the Pacyris, mentioned above, the Hypa- 
caris, and the Carcinites, were various names for the same river, gene- 
rally supposed, as stated above, to be the small stream of Kalantchak. 
^ JSTow the Crimea. 
^ It does not appear that the site of any of these cities has been iden- 
tified. Charax was a general name for a fortified town. 
7 Mentioned again by Pliny in B. vi. c. 7. Solinus says that in order 
to repel avarice, the Satarchse prohibited the use of gold and silver. 
^ On the site of the modern Perekop, more commonly called Orkapi. 
^ Or Chersonesus of the Heracleans. The town of Kosleve or Eupa-' 
toria is supposed to stand on its site. 
After the conquest of Mithridates, when the whole of these regions 
fell into the hands of the Romans. 
