the great degree of cold mentioned by Ovid and by Xenophon in this country, which might otherwiſe appear rather extraordinary in a latitude not exceeding 43 degrees. Salmydeſſus has ſomewhat of the old name prebſerved in Midiah, (Midjeh, Arrowſmith,) a place built on the ſame ſpot. Xenophon, in the paſſage alluded to in the text of Arrian, ſays, that many ſhips, upon their arrival in the Euxine ſea, ſtrike, and are driven aſhore, the coaſt being full of ſhoals, that run a conſiderable way into the ſea[1]. The Thracian's, who inhabit this coaſt, raiſe pillars, and every man plunders the wreck that is caſt upon his own coaſt. Salmydeſſſus is mentioned by Æſchylus in the Prometheus, with much the ſame character as is here aſcribed to it; but the place there meant is ſaid to be on the eaſtern ſide of the Propontis, and near to the river Thermodon.
From Salmydeſſus to Phrygia 330 ſtadia. This place is called Philea in Anonymi Periplus Maris Euxini, and Philias in the Peutingerian Tables. A place called Pliilin now ſtands on the ſame ſpot, which is in the modern maps nearly 40 Engliſh miles, or 349 ſtadia, from Salmydeiſſus.
From Phrygia to the Cyanean rocks 320 ſtadia. Theſe are now called Urek Tachi.
From the Cyanean rocks to the Fanum Jovis Urii[2] 40 ſtadia.
- ↑ In Arrowſmith's chart it is remarked, that this is the moſt dangerous place, where ſhipwreck is to be feared, being at the entrance of the Boſporus.
- ↑ Quid? ex æde jovis, religioſiſſimum ſimulacrum jovis Imperatoris, quem Græci Urion nommant, pulcherrime factum, nonne abſtuliſli?—Jovem autem Imperatorem quantohonore in ſuo templo ſuiſſe arbitramini? hinc colligere poteſtis, ſi recordari volueritia, quanta, religion ſuerit eadem ſpecie atque forma, ſignum illud, quod ex Macedonia captum in
