98 FROM THE COUNTRY OF THE CICONES, 
CHAP, historian'. The sources of the Tearus occur 
to the north of Constantinople, in the neighbour- 
hood of Kirk Iklisih ; and as the name of the 
river is still preserved in modern maps, with 
hardly any alteration ^ it were to be wished 
that some traveller would pay a visit to the 
spot. Herodotus relates, that the water of the 
Tearus was celebrated for its medicinal pro- 
perties'. There are other curious circumstances 
respecting the Hebrus, to which little attention 
has been paid. According to Plutarch, it once 
bore the name of Rhombus % and there grew 
upon its banks, perhaps the identical plant 
now constituting a principal part of the com- 
merce of the country; being then used, as 
(1) TEAPOrnOTAMOTKE^AAAI 
TAnPAPlSTONTEKAIKAAAISTON 
nAPEXONTAinANTHNnOTAMnNKAI 
EnATTASAniKETOEAATNnNEni 
2Kr©A2STPAT0NANHPAPI2T02TE 
KAIKAAAI2TO2nANTnNAN0PnnP.N 
AAPEI0S0T5TA2nE02nEP2EnNTE 
KAinA2H2TH2HnEIPOTBA2IAEr2 
(2) See Arrowsmith's Map of the Environs of Constantinople. I.oml. 
1801 & 1804, where it is called Dearadere. 
(3) Vide Herodotum, loco supradicto. 
(4) 'EauT-av 'ffi^f^i* tl; veretfiot 'POMBOX, »,- aa-' aliroZ "EBP02 u-rutt- 
(tdrh- Plutarch. At n\i\'. ^.\\. ToloscF, iGl5. 
