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Rh near to make it probable that this is the place meant by Arrian Scylax, as Well as Strabo, calls it the Sindic port.

From Sindica to Panticapæum 540 tadia. The ditance on the modern maps is about 74 miles, or rather more than 640 tadia. Panticapæum was the principal city of the Cimmerian Boporus, on the European ide, as Phanagoria was on the Aiatic. It was a colony of the Milelians , ituated on an eminence, 20 tadia in compas, with a port and a citadel to the eatward. It was in early times a free city, but fell afterwards under the power of Mithridates. It eems however to have been a free city in the time of Arrian. The mouth of the Tanais, where it empties itelf into the Black ea, through the Palus Mæotis, forms the Cimmerian Boporus, and in early times was counted to mark the boundary between Europe and Aia, as Arrian hews by his quotation from Æchylus.

The whole ditance from Diocurias to Panticapæum is, according to Arrian, 2890 tadia, equal to 331 Englih miles nearly. According to Arrowmith's chart, the rectilinear ditance is 251 Englih miles nearly, or about 2200 iiadia. The map of the country between the Black ea and the Capian makes it 236 miles, and Faden's map 243 Englih miles.

We now enter upon the European part of this voyage.

From Panticapæum to Cazeca 420 tadia. This is probably the place