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82 From Tamyraca to the Otium Paludis 300 tadia. The marh here alluded to is formed by the peninula of Dromos Achillisrunning parallel with the ihore to the wetward.

From the Otium Paludis to Æona 380 tadia. From Æona to the Borythenes 150 tadia. Arrian mentions Olbia, which lies on the wetern ide of the Borythenes, near its mouth, which was a Greek city, and in the time of Strabo a place of great trade, and an emporium for manufactures. It was alo called Borythenes, and eems to have been ituated nearly where Ockzakow now tands.

From the Borythenes to a deert iland 60 tadia. From the deert iland to Odeus 80 tadia. This is called Odeus, or Ordeus, by Ptolemy, and is decribed by him as lying on the river Axiacus, which does not diagree with the ituation aigned by Arrian.

From Odeus to the Portus Itrianorum 250 tadia. From the Portus Itrianorum to the Portus Iiacorum 50 tadia. From the Portus Iiacorum to the Pilon Os Itri 1200 tadia. The intermediate country was deert, and without a a name. This mouth, as the name implied, was the mallet of the mouths of the Danube, and eems now to be nearly choaked up. It is called Kilia-Bogai in Arrowmiths chart, and lies in Lat. 45° 28′, and in Long. eat from Greenwich, 29° 15′, and from Ferro 47° 0′ 50″.

From the Os Pilon to the econd mouth of the Danube 60 tadia. Some of the modern maps mark out five mouths of the Danube; but Arrowmith's chart notices four only. The econd mouth is called