TO THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS. 
slaves, and horses.” He supposed its castle chap. 
stood where the Autients placed their Patrceus ; 
and “ two eminences,” says he, “ which are 
named The point of the island, may have been 
their Achilleum Promontorium* This seems 
sufficient to prove that here was the situation of 
Cimmerium, stationed, as Pliny mentions, “ ultimo 
in ostio .” It had formerly, observes the same 
geographer, the name of Cerberion. Pallas re- 
marks 4 5 * * , that Temrook may probably have been 
the Cimhricus of Strabo. From this place Motraye 
began his journey, when he discovered, in so 
remarkable a manner, the ruins of a Greek city 
lu Circassia, seeming, from an inscription he found 
there, to have been Apaturus. All that we 
can collect from the obscurity involving this part 
of his narrative, is, that, leaving Temrooh, he 
turned to the right, and, crossing a river, called 
by the Tahtars The Great Water (probably the 
kuban), arrived, after a journey of one hundred 
and ten hours 8 , at those ruins : also, that they 
were situate in a mountainous country ; for he 
observes, that the Tahtars of the mountains 
were not so civil as those of the plains. It 
follows, therefore, that Pliny is not speaking of 
(4) Ibid. 
(5) Travels through the Southern Provinces, &c. vol. II. p. 315. 
Th^' e< ^ tor Oie Oxford Strata makes it five days and six hours. 
18 is evidently a mistake, as will appear by consulting the text. 
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