Volume 1
The geography of Strabo / Literally translated, with notes. The first six books by H. C .Hamilton, esq., the remainder by W. Falconer.
- Strabo
- Date:
- 1854-1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The geography of Strabo / Literally translated, with notes. The first six books by H. C .Hamilton, esq., the remainder by W. Falconer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![rambis,' the promontory of the Paphlagonians. Criu-metopon and Carambis together form a strait cornpre.s»ed between them, and divide the Euxine into two parts. Carambis is distant from the city of the Chersonesus 2500 stadia, and from Criu-metopon much le.ss; for many persons who have sailed through the strait say, that they saw both promontories at once.2 In the mountainous district of the Tauri there is a hill called Trapezus,^ of the same name as the city,'* -«-hich is near Tibarania and Colchis. There is another hill also, the Kim- merium,® in the same mountainous district, for the Kimmerii were once sovereigns of the Bosporus, and hence the whole of the strait at the mouth of the [Palus] Mmotis is called the Kimraerian Bosporus. 4. After leaving the abov’e-mentioned mountainous district, is the city Theodosia, situated on a plain ; the soil is fertile, and there is a harbour capable of containing a hundred ves- sels. This formerly was the boundary of the territory of the Bosporians and of the Tauri. Then follows a fertile country extending to Panticapteum,® the capital of the Bosporians, which is situated at the mouth of the Palus Mmotis.^ Between Theodosia* and Panticapsum there is a tract of about 530 stadia in extent. The whole country is corn-producing; there are villages in it, and a city called Nymphreum, with a good harbour. Panticapmum is a hill inhabited all round for a circuit of 20 stadia. To the east it has a harbour, and docks capable of containing about tliirty vessels; there is also an acrojxilis. It was founded by the IVIilesians. Both this place and the neighbouring settlements on each side of the mouth of the Palus ]\Imotis were for a long period under the monarchical dynasty of Leucon, and Satyrus, and Pairisadcs, till the latter surrendered the sovereignty to Mithridates. They had the ‘ Capo Aia and Cape Kercmp. ^ The opposite coasts are not visible from the middle passape. ’ Tlie enpravinp in Pallas show.s it to be, as the name implies, a table mountain, now Tchadir-Dagli, or Tent Mountain. * Trebizond. ‘ The name seems to be preserved in that of one of the districts near the mountains, Kski-Krim. G. In Prince DemidofTs map it is called Staroi-Krime. “ Ixertch. ’ The Sea of .\zof. * C.alTa.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872556_0001_0490.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
