TO INEADA IN TURKEY. 
399 
According to antient Poets, the souls of departed 
Heroes enjoyed there perpetual repose and 
felicity 4 . Festus Avienm 5 , although erroneous 
in his account of its situation, alludes to this 
part of its history in the following lines : 
“ Ora Borysthenii qu\ fluminis in mare vergunt, 
E regione procul spectabit culmina Leuces ; 
Leuce cana jugum, Leuce sedes animarum.” 
In the number of antient writers by whom this 
island is mentioned, several, as might be 
expected, had confused and even false notions 
of its position in the Euxine. Some of them 
describe it as being opposite either to the 
mouth of the Borysthenes or to that of the 
Ty ras ; others, as lying between those rivers. 
A few have confounded it with the neck of 
land lying between the mouth of the Borys- 
thenes and the Sinus Carcinites, formerly called 
the Dromus Achillis, and now Kilburnu. Arrian 
is the only author whose text may be recon- 
ciled with the true situation of the island : 
and next to his description, in point of accu- 
racy, is that given by his predecessor, Strabo ®. 
Its modern names are, I l an Adase, and 
(4) The Turks also believe the souls of men, after death, reside in the 
bodies of birds. 
(5) Festus Avienus , in Orbis Descriptione. 
(G) Strub. lib. viii. 
CHAP. 
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