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Rh Borgys to Neis, which includes the Herculean promontory, ixty tadia. From Neis to Maaïtica ninety tadia. From Maaïtica to the river Achæus, which eparates the Zicchi from the Sanichæ, ixty tadia. SatchempaxStachemphax [sic] is the King of the Zicchi, and received his kingdom from You. From Achæus to the Herculean promontory, where there is a tation heltered from the North-Weterly wind, called Thracias, and from the North-Eaterly wind called Boreas, an hundred and eighty tadia. From thence to a place called ancient Lazica an hundred and twenty tadia. From hence to ancient Achaia an hundred and fifty tadia. From thence to the port of Pagræ three hundred and fifty tadia. From the port of Pagræ to the port of Hierus (or the acred port) an hundred and eighty tadia. From thence to Sindica three hundred tadia. From Sindica to the Boporus, called Cimmerian, and to Panticapæum, a city of the Boporus, five hundred and forty tadia. From Panticapæum to the river Tanais, which is aid to divide Europe from Aia, ixty tadia. This river burts forth from the Palus Mæotis, and empties itelf into the Euxine ea. Æchylus however, in the tragedy of Prometheus Delivered, makes the Phais the boundary between Europe and Aia. He there introduces the Titans peaking thus to Prometheus: "Hither are we come to ee thy labours, O Prometheus! and the ufferings which thou undergoet in conequence of thy bonds:" and in pecifying how large a pace of ground they had paed over in their journey, they peak of the Phais "as the twin-born offspring of the earth, and the great boundary of Europe and Aia." The circuit of the Palus Mæotis is aid to be about nine thouand tadia. From Panticapæum to a village called Cazeca, ituated upon the ea, four hundred and twenty tadia. From Cazeca to Theodoia, a deerted city, two hundred and eighty tadia. This was formerly an Ionian Greek city