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 128 HISTORY OF GREECE. into the sea. This enormity, though it occurred under the eyes of the generals, immediately before their departure from Kerasus, remained without inquiry or punishment, from the numbers con- cerned in it. Between Kerasus and Kotyora, there was not then (nor is there now any regular road. 1 This march cost the Cyreian army not less than ten days, by an inland track departing from the sea- shore, and through the mountains inhabited by the indigenous tribes Mosynoeki and Chalybes. The latter, celebrated for their iron works, were under dependence to the former. As the Mosy- noeki refused to grant a friendly passage across their territory, the army were compelled to fight their way through it as enemies, with the aid of one section of these people themselves ; which al- liance was procured for them by the Trapezuntine Timesitheos, who was proxenus of the Mosynoeki, and understood their lan- guage. The Greeks took the mountain fastnesses of this people, and plundered the wooden turrets which formed their abodes. Of their peculiar fashions Xenophon gives an interesting description, which I have not space to copy. 2 The territory of the Tibareni was more easy and accessible. This people met the Greeks with presents, and tendered a friendly passage. But the generals at first declined the presents, preferring to treat them as enemies J It was not without great difficulty that Mr. Kinneir obtained horses to travel from Kotyora to Kerasoun by land. The aga of the place told him that it was madness to think of travelling by land, and ordered a felucca for him ; but was at last prevailed on to furnish horses. There seems, indeed, to have been no regular or trodden road at all ; the hills approach close to the sea, and Mr. Kinneir " travelled the whole of the way along the shore alternately over a sandy beach and a high wooded bank. The hills at in- tervals jutting out into the sea, form capes and numerous little bays along the coast ; but the nature of the country was still the same, that is to say, Btudded with fine timber, flowers, and groves of cherry trees " (Travels in Asia Minor, p. 324). Kerasus is the indigenous country of the cherry tree, and the origin of its name. Professor Koch thinks, that the number of days' march given by Xeno phon (ten days) between Kerasus and Kotyora, is more than consists with the real distance, even if Kerasus be placed where Mr. Hamilton supposes. If the number be correctly stated, he supposes that the Greeks must ha<H halted somewhere (Zug der Zehn Tausend, p. 115, 116). 8 Xen. Arab, v, 5,3.