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34 From the river Pychrus to the river Calus 30 tadia, From the river Calus to the river Rhizius 120 tadia.

A port of this name is put down in Ptolemy, probably the mouth of this river, which he places at only 10′, or about 100 tadia to the Eat of the Ophis, or rather of the place, which he calls Opius, or.

From the river Rhizius to the river Afeurus 30 tadia.

From the river Acurus to the river Adienus 60 tadia.

From the river Adienus to Athena: Ponticae 180 itadia.

Arrian makes the whole ditance from Trapezus to Athenæ Ponticac 720 tadia, equal to 90 Greek miles, or 82½ Englih miles. Its direction is nearly Eat. The Peutingerian Tables make this ditance to be 91 or 728 tadia, very near to the calculation of Arrian. It had its name, as Arrian ays, from a temple in the Grecian tyle, which was built there;, but the place appears to havebeen, even in his time, in a eerted tate, the catle being in ruins; and the whole was probably noticed here more for its name, than on any other account. This was the firt place the fleet touched at, being driven in by a violent tempet, which endangered them very much., He decribes it as preceded by a cloud uddenly ariing