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84 60 tadia. From the mouth lat mentioned to the fifth mouth 120 tadia. Arrian makes only five mouths to the Danube, but Pliny and Ptolemy reckon ix. The names aigned by Pliny are, 1. Spireotoma; 2. Boreotoma; 3. Peudotoma; 4. Calotoma; 5. Naracotoma; 6. Peuce. . Pliny ays, that the fifth mouth was o called, "a congelatis et tupidis picibus, quarum ibi magna copia "reperitur." The ixth mouth is probably o called from the pine trees, which grow plentifully on all the ides of the Euxine ea; The names given by Ptolemy agree nearly with thoe of Pliny.

Arrian makes this ditance to be only 280 tadia, a wide difference from the computation of Ptolemy.

Arrowmith's chart, and that of Laurie and Whittle, make only four mouths of the Danube; but Faden's map makes them to be five, one of them a branch of one of the other mouths, and which