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54 a mountain of this hape, which is oberved indeed to be the general form. of uch as have been volcanic, which might in early ages have been the cae with mount Caucaus. The Periplus now reverts to an account of the ditances of the everal places from one another, that lie between the Thracian Boporus and Trapezus.

From Byzantium to the temple of Jupiter Urius 120 tadia. This was ituated on the Aiiatic ide of the Thracian Boporus, and nearly on the point of land, which joins that trait on the Eatern ide, and the Euxine ea on the North. It might poibly be on the pot, where the Argonauts acrificed to the ame deity, by the advice of Phineus. Polybius ays, that the place bore the name of in his time, and that Jaon acrificed there to the twelve deities, a circumtance recognized by Apollonius. The Scholiat on Apollonius ays, the pot was o called in his time. Gyllius ays, that in his time it bore the name, and Tournefort mentions its being called Ioro, which he takes to be a corruption of , or poibly of Urii. The word is aid to be particularly applicable to ea-voyages. It is derived from, cauda, and ignifies, as we are informed by the Scholiat on Thucydides, a wind that blows on the hinder part, or tern, of the hip, and, by an eay accommodation, a fair or a properous wind. The Greeks, being defective in navigation, regarded that wind as the mot favourable, that blew directly towards the point aimed at, although they could fail with one more oblique, and even with the wind on the beam. The deity here mentioned eems to be the ame with the one, which is called in Apollonius,, or Jupiter humidus. Thus the Scholiat explains it. Perhaps Tournefort's ober