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over it was effected by means of a rope ferry ^^u^' 
with a barge. As soon as we landed upon the •— v — ' 
the eastern side, we received the fallacious 
congratulations of the ferrymen, upon having 
escaped the territory of the rebels: but this 
was only true as far as it related to those 
who burned Fairy; the country eastward being 
infested bv other predatory bands. The Hebrls tlc 
formerly divided theCicoxEsfrom the Apsynthi. 
Rivers, as natural boundaries, long maintain a 
distinction between inhabitants of the same 
country : no lapse of time has annihilated the 
distinction between the Trasteverini and the 
natives of the opposite side of the Tiber. This 
great maritime plain, watered by the Hebrus, was 
antiently called Doriscus, from a regal citadel Plain of 
• T)oriscui. 
of that name, used as a bulwark by Darius, m 
his war with the Scythians*. A small part of 
it, that which intervenes between the pro- 
montory Serrium, and the river, was rendered 
famous by the review and master of the army of 
Xerxes, who here numbered his forces, previous to 
(4) 'O Ss Ao^lffxo} iffTi TtJ! Q^fiixni atyiaXo; rt xoCi triSliv ftiya. "ita Ss avnu 
fill vroTafili fiiyaf "'Efi^o;, iv <tu TsT^a; rt \o'iifiiii<TO pieuriXriiay, touto to oh 
Ao^lffKot xixXnrai, xat Yli^riiaf <^^ev^v iy avru Karirrnxn vvo Aaoitov i\ ixiiiou 
TsiJ ;^g«»si/ ETt/ T£ It) Ixv^a; ivreartviro, Herodot. Vib. vn. c, 59, p. 402. 
ed. Gronov. 
