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14 and fifty tadia. From the acred mountain to Cordyla forty tadia. Here there is a port for hips. From Cordyla to Hermonaa forty-five tadia. Here alo is a port for hips. From Hermonaa to Trapezus ixty tadia. Here You are contructing a harbour, as there was formerly only a road or tation, where hips might ride in afety during the ummer eaon.

The ditances between the places that lie between Trapezus and Diocurias have been before et down, according to the intervals between the rivers. If thee eparate ditances between Trapezus and Diocurias, now called Sebatopolis, be collected, they will amount to two thouand two hundred and ixty tadia. This is the ditance, if you ail on the right hand from Byzantium to Diocurias, which place is the lat in the Roman territory to thoe who keep to the right hand ide in ailing into the Pontic ea. For as oon as I was informed of the death of Cotys, King of the Cimmerian Boporus, I took care that You hould be made acquainted with the navigation of this ea as far as the Boporus, that if You hould be inclined to interfere in the affairs of that country, You might execute your intentions with greater eae, by being acquainted with the navigation.

The firt port to be met with after quitting Diocurias is Pityus, at the ditance of three hundred and fifty tadia. From Pityus to Nitica is one hundred and fifty tadia. This was formerly inhabited by a Scythian nation, of whom Herodotus, who is apt to relate improbable tories, has made mention, and poken of them as eaters of lice; and indeed the ame opinion of them prevails in the preent age. From Nitica to the river Abacus is ninety tadia. From Abacus to Borgys an hundred and twenty tadia. From Borgys