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OF THE EUXINE SEA
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hundred ſtadia. From Callantra to the port of the Carians a hundred and eighty ſtadia. The diſtrict ſurrounding this port is called Caria. From the port of the Carians to Tetriſias a hundred and twenty ſtadia. Thence to Bizus, a deſerted place, ſixty ſtadia. From Bizus to Dionyſopolis eighty ſtadia. From Dionyſopolis to Odeſſus, where there is a road for ſhips, two hundred ſtadia. From Odeſſus to the borders of Mount Hæmus, which range of mountains is extended even into Pontus, three hundred and ſixty ſtadia. From Hæmus to the city of Meſembria ninety ſtadia. Here there is a road for ſhips. From Meſembria to the city of Anchialus ſeventy ſtadia. From Anchialus to Apollonia a hundred and eighty ſtadia. Theſe are all of them Greek cities, which lie on the left hand of thoſe who ſail into the Euxine ſea. From Apollonia to Cherroneſus ſixty ſtadia. Here there is a road for ſhips. From Cherronefus to the fortreſs of Aulæon two hundred and fifty ſtadia. From Aulæon to Thynias a hundred and twenty ſtadia. From Thynias to Salmydeſſus two hundred ſtadia. Mention is made of this place by the elder Xenophon, who ſays, that the Grecian army, which he commanded himſelf, came ſo far in their march, when at the concluſion of the expedition he engaged his army in the ſervice of Seuthes the Thracian. The ſame writer has deſcribed at length the dangers that accrue to ſhips at this place, from want of a good harbour; that ſhips forced hither by ſtreſs of weather are apt to be loſt; and that the Thracians who live in the neighbourhood quarrel about the plunder of the wreck. From Salmydeſſus to Phrygia three hundred and thirty ſtadia. From Phrygia to the Cyanean iſlands three hundred and twenty ſtadia. Theſe are the Cyanean iſlands, which the Poets have deſcribed as having been formerly moveable, and liable to change their ſituation. Between theſe the Argo, the firſt ſhip on record, and which carried

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