[2791] Now called Hazrali Bogasi, according to Brotier. It is called by Ptolemy the Narakian Mouth.
[2792] Or the “Beautiful Mouth.” Now Susie Bogasi, according to Brotier.
[2793] Or the “False Mouth”: now the Sulina Bogasi, the principal mouth of the Danube, so maltreated by its Russian guardians.
[2794] Or the “Passage of the Gnats,” so called from being the resort of swarms of mosquitoes, which were said at a certain time of the year to migrate to the Palus Mæotis. According to Brotier the present name of this island is Ilan Adasi, or Serpent Island.
[2795] The “Northern Mouth”: near the town of Kilia.
[2796] Or the “Narrow Mouth.”
[2797] Though Strabo distinguishes the Getæ from the Daci, most of the ancient writers, with Pliny, speak of them as identical. It is not known, however, why the Getæ in later times assumed the name of Daci.
[2798] “Dwellers in waggons.” These were a Sarmatian tribe who wandered with their waggons along the banks of the Volga. The chief seats of the Aorsi, who seem in reality to have been a distinct people from the Hamaxobii, was in the country between the Tanais, the Euxine, the Caspian, and the Caucasus.
[2799] “Dwellers in Caves.” This name appears to have been given to various savage races in different parts of the world.
[2800] There were races of the Alani in Asia on the Caucasus, and in Europe on the Mæotis and the Euxine; but their precise geographical position is not clearly ascertained.