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self entering the mouth of the Don, and pro- 
ceeding up the river, to the distance of about 
ninety-nine miles 1 2 from its embouchure, and 
rather more than forty-six’ above the town of 
Tcherhask. Here he would find the Danaetz, 
falling into the Don by two mouths separated 
from each other by a distance of ten or 
twelve miles. But the people have, for time 
immemorial, entertained a notion, that, before 
the Danaetz reaches the sea, it leaves the Don 
again, and, taking a north-westerly direction, 
falls into the Pains Mteotis, to the north of all 
the other mouths of the Don. This northern- 
most mouth of the Don (represented in the 
annexed Map 3 ), owing to the river whose waters 
its channel is supposed peculiarly to contain, is 
called Danaetz, and, to express either its sluggish 
current or its lapse into the sea, Dead Danaetz. 
The Greeks, steering from the Crimea towards 
the mouths of the Don, and, as their custom 
was, keeping close to the shore 4 , entered first 
this northernmost mouth of the river. It bore 
then, as it does now, the name of Danaetz, 
Tdanaetz, or Tanaets ; it matters not which of 
( 1 ) One hundred anil forty versts. 
(2) Seventy versts. 
(3) See Fig. S3, in the Map of the Mouths of the Dim. 
(4) It ia still a mode of navigation in the Black Sea aud the Sett 
<tf Azof. 
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