TO THE CAPITAL OF THE BANNAT. 
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III. 
observed among the Antients, in speaking of the chap. 
Danube. It bore this appellation from its source 
as far as the Cataracts; but all those parts of the 
river in the vicinity of the Get^, below the 
Cataracts as far as the Euxine, were denomina- 
ted Ister" . The Maros is here a very conside- 
rable river : we saw many commercial barges ; 
some sailing down, others working against its 
rapid torrent. The Maros on the north, the Ti- 
biscus on the west, the Danube on the south, and 
a small river, called the Tcherna, on the east, 
inclose the Bannat of Temeswar within so regular 
a boundary, that its form is rhomho'idal; the 
town of Temeswar being* in the centre. 
Maros. 
Danube. 
The Bannat is also further bounded, upon the 
east, by the great ridge of the JValachian moun- 
(6) Kai yaf rsZ feirttfioZ ra fiir atu xa) rrolt raTf irtfyai; fii^n, f^^ZV *"■" 
Hxret^azTut, AANOTBION tr^aftiyi^iutif, a fiaXtrra itx rut Aaxw ^iftrai' tu 
5i KKTu ftixZ' '■'^ Tlotreu, rk nti viu; Tlrxt, «aX»?tf'(» 'l-TPO^. Srrabnii . 
Geog. lib. Tii. p. 439. «1. Oxon. 
