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 Oiap. 29.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTBIES, ETC. 459 (28.) The river Indus which rises in the mountains of the Cibyrata?^, receives sixty-five rivers which are constantly flowing, besides upwards of 100 mountain torrents. Here is the free town of Caunos^, then the town of Pyrnos"*, the port of Cressa*, from which the isLand of Khodes is distant twenty miles ; the place where Loryma formerly stood, the towns of Tisanusa^, Paridion'^, and Lar>Tnna^, the Gulf of Thymnias^, the Promontory of Aphrodisias^", the tov'n of Ilyda, the Gulf of Schoenus, and the district of Bubasus^^ There was formerly the town of Acanthus here, another N.N.E. of Makri, on the Gulf of Glaucus or Makri, at a place called Hoozoomlee, situate on an elevated plain. ' The same as the river Calbis of Strabo and Mela, at present the Dalamon Tehy, Quingi or Taas, having its sources in iIount Cadmus above Cibyra. It was said to have derived its name from an Indian, who had been thrown into it from an elephant. ^ Their district was Cibyratis, of which the chief city was Cibyra. This place, uniting with the towns of Balbura, Bubon, and (Enianda, had the name of Tetrapohs ; of which league Cibyra was the head, mus- tering 30,000 infantry and 2000 cavalry. The u-on foimd in this district was easily cut with a chisel or other sliarp tool. The site of this power- ful city has been ascertained to be at Horzoom, on the Horzoom Tchy, a branch of the Dalamon Tchy or Indus. The ruins are very extensive, and the theatre in fine preservation. 3 Placed by Strabo west of Calynda. The ancient descriptions of its locaHty vary, but the place now known as Kaiguez is said to denote its site. The Caunii are frequently mentioned in the Persian, Grecian, and Roman histories. It was noted for its dried figs, mentioned by Pliny in B. XV. c. 19. ^ Supposed by Mannert to be the Physcus of Strabo and the Phnscffi of Ptolemy. 5 Leake says that this harbour is now called Aplothika by the Greeks, and Porto Cavahcre by the Italians. He also says that on its western shore are the ruins of an Hellenic fortress and town, which are imdoubt- edly those of Loryma. fi It had a port of the same name. 7 Called Pandion by ]Iela, according to Parisot. ^ Parisot suggests that it is the same as Loryma previously mentioned. ' Like the Gulf of Schocnus, a portion probably of the i)orian Gidf, now the Gulf of Syme. '° The modem name of this promontory is not given by Hamilton, who sailed round it. It has been confounded with the Cynos Sema of Strabo, now Capo Velo. The site of Hyda or Hyde is unknown. '' There was a tovri of this name as well. Stephen of Byzantium tells us that it received its name from a shepherd who saved the life of Podalirius, when shipwrecked on the coast of Caria.