[2811] Placed by Forbiger near Lake Burmasaka, or near Islama.
[2812] The Dniester. The mountains of Macrocremnus, or the “Great Heights,” seem not to have been identified.
[2813] According to Hardouin, the modern name of this island is Tandra.
[2814] Now called the Teligul, east of the Tyra or Dniester.
[2815] Now called Sasik Beregen, according to Brotier.
[2816] The modern Gulf of Berezen, according to Brotier.
[2817] Probably the modern Okzakow.
[2818] The modern Dnieper. It also retains its ancient name of Borysthenes.
[2819] We learn from Strabo that the name of this town was Olbia, and that from being founded by the Milesians, it received the name of Miletopolis. According to Brotier, the modern Zapurouski occupies its site, between the mouths of the river Buzuluk.
[2820] This was adjacent to the strip of land called “Dromos Achilleos,” or the ‘race-course of Achilles.’ It is identified by geographers with the little island of Zmievoi or Oulan Adassi, the ‘Serpents Island.’ It was said that it was to this spot that Thetis transported the body of Achilles. By some it was made the abode of the shades of the blest, where Achilles and other heroes of fable were the judges of the dead.