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ne2ir the embouchures of the Cydaris and Barhyses, chap. 
owing to the quantity of mud they deposit at . 
their junction'; whence it bore the expressive 
appellation of the Putrid Sea'*: and so am- Marddum 
biguous was the nature of the territory, that it 
pastured, at the same time, quadrupeds and^^^/ies*; 
the cattle and the deer of Thrace, and the Pela- 
mides of the Euxine". 
(3) For a full account of these rivers, almost uDDoticed elsewhere 
in geography, vide Gyllium, de Bosp. Thrac. lib ii. cap. 3. (" De 
Flumine Cydari et Barbvsa") npud Groiiov. Thesaur. Grac. Antiq. 
vol. W.p. 3128. L. Bat. I699. 
(4) "Locum {inquit Dionys. Byzant.) nuncupatuni Cameram, quem 
ante dixi fuisse ad radices sexti collis, excipit tattoo, Qa.y.aaaa^ id est> 
filarcidiun Mare, finis totius sinus." Ihid. lib. ii. c, 2. p. 3125, 
(5) " lu mediis paludihus, boum nutricibus, sunt prata uberes 
pistiones largientia, etiam cervis: hos Deus desi;^navit cum deductori- 
hus coloniae consilium petentibus, ubi conderent urbem, appellatum 
Byzantium, ita respondit : 
OX/sja/ ol Kiiitii ToXi* iiiiois eiitna'OVffiv, 
' AtTTiS 0o>}/«/>if vy^oi jrag ux^ov ffTOfia liovrou, 
"EdS ix^i'S' iXcc^ii Ti yofiov [ioirxeuffi tov avrav. 
Dioriys. Byzant. up, Gyll. de Bosph. Thrac. lib. ii. c. 2. 
(6) Pelamis was a name given to the fry of the Tunny (a variety of 
the genus Scomber) before it attained a year old. This kind of fry fre- 
quented the extremity of the 5mt«^^caw</Kj«, in such prodigious shoals, 
that the fishermen, according to Gyllius, used to fill their boats with 
a single draught of their nets. The Tunny is mentioned by Jristotle, 
as being the Pelamis after it is a year old. AaxoiJtn S' hiauru Jvai x^if- 
(iurigoi Tuv -rnXitfi'tlav. Aristot. {■tt^t Zuav) lib. vi. cap. 17. torn. I. p. 370- 
Paris, 1783. Pliny mentions its migration in the spring, and makes 
the same distinction of age between the Pelamis and the Tunny: 
*' LimoscE vera a luto Pelamides incipiunt vocari, et cum annuum 
excessere tempus, Thynni." (Hist. Nat. lib. ix. cap. 15. tom. I. p. 475. 
I J. Bat. 1635.) k\so,m \\\e thirty -third book he enumerates many 
sub-varieties of the Pelamis. (Vide cap. 11. lib. xxxiii. tom. HI. 
pp. 326,337.) 
