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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK IV. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED., CHAP. 24.—THE HELLESPONT.—THE LAKE MÆOTIS. (search)
ed by the inhabitants of the Pontic Heraclea, or Heracleium, the site of which is unknown. See note9 to p. 333., a town of the Heracleotæ, 325; to PanticapæumNow Kertsch, in the Crimea. It derived its name from the river Panticapes; and was founded by the Milesians about B.C. 541. It was the residence of the Greek kings of Bosporus, and hence it was sometimes so called., by some called Bosporus, at the very extremity of the shores of Europe, 212 miles: the whole of which added together, makes 1337"Thirty-six" properly. miles. Agrippa makes the distance from Byzantium to the river Ister 560 miles, and from thence to Panticapæum, 635. Lake Mæotis, which receives the river Tanais as it flows from the Riphæan MountainsThe Tanais or Don does not rise in the Riphæan Mountains, or western branch of the Uralian chain, but on slightly elevated ground in the centre of European Russia., and forms the extreme boundary between Europe and Asia, is said to be 1406 miles in circumference; which howeve<