Borgys to Neſis, which includes the Herculean promontory, ſixty ſtadia. From Neſis to Maſaïtica ninety ſtadia. From Maſaïtica to the river Achæus, which ſeparates the Zicchi from the Sanichæ, ſixty ſtadia. Satchempax is the King of the Zicchi, and received his kingdom from You. From Achæus to the Herculean promontory, where there is a ſtation ſheltered from the North-Weſterly wind, called Thraſcias, and from the North-Eaſterly wind called Boreas, an hundred and eighty ſtadia. From thence to a place called ancient Lazica an hundred and twenty ſtadia. From hence to ancient Achaia an hundred and fifty ſtadia. From thence to the port of Pagræ three hundred and fifty ſtadia. From the port of Pagræ to the port of Hierus (or the ſacred port) an hundred and eighty ſtadia. From thence to Sindica three hundred ſtadia. From Sindica to the Boſporus, called Cimmerian, and to Panticapæum, a city of the Boſporus, five hundred and forty ſtadia. From Panticapæum to the river Tanais, which is ſaid to divide Europe from Aſia, ſixty ſtadia. This river burſts forth from the Palus Mæotis, and empties itſelf into the Euxine ſea. Æſchylus however, in the tragedy of Prometheus Delivered, makes the Phaſis the boundary between Europe and Aſia. He there introduces the Titans ſpeaking thus to Prometheus: "Hither are we come to ſee thy labours, O Prometheus! and the ſufferings which thou undergoeſt in conſequence of thy bonds:" and in ſpecifying how large a ſpace of ground they had paſſed over in their journey, they ſpeak of the Phaſis "as the twin-born offspring of the earth, and the great boundary of Europe and Aſia." The circuit of the Palus Mæotis is ſaid to be about nine thouſand ſtadia. From Panticapæum to a village called Cazeca, ſituated upon the ſea, four hundred and twenty ſtadia. From Cazeca to Theodoſia, a deſerted city, two hundred and eighty ſtadia. This was formerly an Ionian Greek
