438 THROUGH THE THRACIAN BOSPORUS, 
CI ' I VP - The antiquities of the Thracian Bosporus have 
— r—> been noticed in a cursory manner by many 
ties. travellers. The Abbe Barthelemy, in his Travels 
of Anacharsis, has upon this subject been 
particularly deficient, considering the extent of 
his resources, and the importance of the dis- 
cussion to the work he had undertaken 1 2 . By 
ascertaining the nature of the worship, and the 
antiquity of the temples, founded by the earliest 
inhabitants of the Bosporus upon its shores, 
some notion might be formed of the sera when 
the channel itself was laid open. Formaleoni , 
.whose writings have been before cited, has en- 
tered somewhat diffusely into the inquiry ; and 
a reference to his Work 4 will be useful to those 
who seek for information in this respect. 
Temple of Tournefort considers the situation of the castles 
c’«C« nd upon the European and Asiatic sides of the 
ctiied ace Strait as marking the sites of the antient lanes 
of Jupiter Serapis and of Jupiter Urius, called by 
Strabo, respectively, the Temples of the Byzan- 
tines, and of the Chalcedonians 3 . The latter 
seems to have been the sanctuary which was 
held in supreme veneration : the district in 
which it stood being called, by way of eminence, 
TO TEPON. This appellation is noticed by 
(1) Voyage d * Anacharse, tom. I. 
(2) Hist. Philos, et Polit. du Comm. &c. dans la Mer Noire. 
(3) Strabon . Geogr. lib. vu. p. 463. ed. Oxon . 
