Page:Arrian's Voyage Round the Euxine Sea Translated.djvu/69

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.
DISSERTATION.
65

ſaying, that this epithet was applied on account of the box-tree growing there in great plenty. The name of Cytorus is partly preſerved in that of a village called Kitros, which is diſtant from Amaſtris, by the map, 25 Greek miles, or 200 ſtadia. Pliny ſays, that it is 64 miles from Tios to Cytorus, which is equal to 512 ſtadia, but, according to Arrian, it is only 420 ſtadia. Ptolemy makes it equal to 43.5 Engliſh miles, or 380 ſtadia, which calculation is nearer to Arrian than to Pliny.

From Cytorus to Ægialos 60 ſtadia. This place was, in later times, called Ἡωνσκόλις, which has the ſame ſignification with Ægialos, importing a place or city on the ſea-coaſt. This, as well as Cromna, Cytorus, and Erythinus, are mentioned both by Homer and Apollonius.

From Ægia1os to Thymena 90 ſtadia. This was formerly called Teuthrania, and ſeems to be the place now called Temeneh in Arrowſmith's chart.

From Thymena to Carambis 120 ſtadia. This diſtance meaſures on Arrowſmith's chart 13′ of latitude nearly, equal to about 131 ſtadia. Carambis is a promontory, now known by the name of Cape Piſello, or Comana, among the Greeks; but among the Turks it retains ſomewhat of its ancient appellation, being called Karempi Bouroun. It is the moſt northerly ſpot on the ſouthern ſhore of the Black ſea from the Fanum Jovis Urii to Apſarus; Two maps and one [1]chart of the Black ſea place this promontory in Lat. 41°

  1. D'Anville—Faden-Laurie and Whittle's ſays, chart. Ammianus Marcellinus, after Strabo, that the promontory Carambis is diſtant from the oppoſite one of Criumetopon in the
Taurica