[917] Strabo makes the distance too great between the two rivers Rhombites.
[918] Kertch.
[919] According to La Motraye, Achilleum corresponds to Adasbournout, but Du Theil quotes also the following passage from Peyssonel. According to Strabo, Achilleum must have been situated opposite Casau-dip, the ancient Parthenium on the point Tchochekha-Bournou (the pig’s head). But perhaps the ancients placed Achilleum near the entrance of the Euxine into the Palus Mæotis. Is not the fort of Achou, which is 8 leagues more to the east on the Palus Mæotis, the true Achilleum, the name being corrupted and abridged by the Tartars?
[920] The point Rubanova.
[921] Ada.
[922] Taman.
[923] C. Takli.
[924] Ak Tengis.
[925] Another branch of the Kuban.
[926] The Kuban, anciently also the Vardanus.