[854] This is just the distance, says Gosselin, from the northern part of Rhodes to Alexandria, but the route, instead of being from north to south, as supposed by the ancients, is S. S. W.
[855] Tarsous.
[856] Samsoun.
[857] Themiscyra, a town of Cappadocia at the mouth of the Thermodon, (now the Termeh,) belonging to the kingdom of the Amazons. The territories around it bore the same name. The plain is now comprehended in the modern Djanik.
[858] Kizil-Irmak.
[859] Lit. the before-mentioned parts of the sea on either side.
[860] Asia Minor, or Anadoli.
[861] The Sidra of the moderns.
[862] Iskouriah.
[863] The Gulf of Aïas.