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rivers Eurymedon^ wliich flows past Aspendus, and Catar- 
ractes^, near to which is Lyrnesus : also the towns of 
Olbia^, and Phaselis^, the last on this coast. 
CHAP. 27. MOOTT TAUEUS. 
Adjoining to Paniphylia is the Sea of Lycia and the coun- 
try of Lycia^ itself, where the chain of Taurus, coming froiif 
the eastern shores, terminates the vast Grulf ^ by the Promon- 
tory of Chelidonium'. Of immense extent, and separating 
nations innumerable, after taking its first rise at the Indian 
Sea^, it branches off to the north on the right-hand side, 
and on the left towards the south. Then taking a direction 
towards the west, it would cut through the middle of Asia, 
were it not that the seas check it in its triumphant career 
along the land. It accordingly strikes off in a northerly 
direction, and forming an arc, occupies an immense tract of 
country, nature, designedly as it were, every now and then 
throwing seas in the way to oppose its career ; here the Sea 
of Phoenicia, there the Sea of Pontus, in this direction the 
Caspian and Hyrcanian^, and then, opposite to them, the 
Lake Mseotis. Although somewhat curtailed by these ob- 
stacles, it still winds along between them, and makes its 
1 Now known as the Kapri-Su. 
2 Now called Duden-Su. It descends the mountains of Taurus in a 
great broken waterfall, whence its name. 
3 Probably occupying the site of the modern AtaHeli or Satalieh. 
On the borders of Lycia and PamphyUa, at the foot of Mount 
Solyma. Its ruins now bear the name of Tekrova. 
^ It was inclosed by Caria and PamphyHa on the west and east, and 
on the north by the district of Cibyrates in Phrygia. 
6 The Grulf of SataUeh or Adaha. 
7 Still known as Cape Khelidonia or Cameroso. 
s Parisot remarks here, *' PHny describes on this occasion, with an 
exactness very remarkable for his time, the chain of mountains which 
runs through the part of Asia known to the ancients, although it is evident 
that he confines the extent of them within much too small a compass." 
9 The Caspian and the Hyrcanian Seas are generally looked upon as 
identical, but we find them again distinguished by Pluiy in B. vi. c. 13, 
where he says that this inland sea commences to be called ihe Caspian 
after you have passed the river Cyrus (or Kur), and that the Caspii Hve 
near it ; and in C. 16, that it is called the Hyrcanian Sea, from the Hyr- 
cani who hve along its shores. The western side would therefore in 
strictness be called the Caspian, and the eastern the Hyrcanian Sea. 
