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70 Tables is placed to the eat of the Halys. Ptolemy, as well as Arrian, places it to the wet of that river.

From Zagora to the river Halys 300 tadia. This river takes its name, as Strabo tells us, from the beds of fobil alt, through which it flows. Tournefort oberves, in confirmation hereof, that "all the country is full of foil alt, which is found even in the great roads, and arable grounds." Arrian's account of the rie of this river to the eatward, rather than to the outh, is confirmed by Tournefort, who alo bears tetimony to the accuracy of Strabo, who ays, that it ries in the greater Cappadocia, where it flows towards the wet, and then winds towards the north, through Galatia and Paphlagonia. The. maps of Ptolemy mark its coure in much the ame way. It mut however be acknowledged, in favour of Herodotus, who gives the account, which is here corrected by Arrian, that its coure is, for a coniderable pace, from the outhward. D'Anville's map makes two rivers of this name, which, in their coure, unite. One of thee, according to him, ries near the borders of Cilicia, not far from the Cydnus, and nearly outh of the mouth of the Halys. Xenophon ays, that it was (not far from the mouth, I uppoe) two tadia, or 1208¼ feet, in breadth; but perhaps this may not be a correct account, as it is in a peech intended to magnify the difficulties of the paage. This river is mentioned by Apollonius, and by Valerius Flaccus.

From the river Halys to Nauiathmos 30 tadia. From Nautathmos to Conopæum 50 tadia. This was a lake, probably o called from the multitude of infects which it produced. From