equal to 598 Engliſh miles, and 46′ 24″ of time. In this calculation the error of Ptolemy is of an oppoſite kind to the former, as he places the mouth of the Phafis, compared with the Pharos of Alexandria, 146 Engliſh miles nearly too far to the Weſtward. From Apſarus to the Phaſis is, according to [1] Pliny, 75, or, as ſome copies read, 70 miles, equal to 600, or 560 ſtadia. D'Anville agrees nearly with Arrian. The Ruſſian map makes it 54 Engliſh miles, or about 470 ſtadia.
[2]Strabo ſays, it is 1400 ſtadia from Trapezus to the Phaſis. Arrian makes it 1450 ſtadia, which agrees nearly with Strabo. The diſtance between the Bathys and the Phaſis is, according to Arrian, 360 iizadia. The map of the country between the Black ſea and the Caſpian makes it 375 ſtadia, differing but little from Arrian.
D'Anville's map agrees nearly herewith. Arrian ſays, that the water of the Phaſis is lighter in the balance, and more changeable in colour, than any water, with which he was acquainted. It may probably be ſoft, as being moſtly rain water, which is alſo light. It is however, according to [3] Hippocrates, a ſluggiſh and almoſt ſtagnant river, and its water not at all coinciding with the character given of it by Arrian. Itfurther appears from Hippocrates that the water of the Phaſis is ſubject to become putrid from its [4] ſtagnation, and the warmth of the ſun; and that thoſe, who drink it, are liable to [5] diſeaſes from
- ↑ Plin, lib, vi, cap, 4.
- ↑ P. 548. Paris ed.
- ↑ Αὐτός τε ὁ Φάσις στασιμώτατος πάντων τῶν ποταμῶν καὶ ῥέων ἠπιώτατα. Hippocrat. de Aer. Aq. et Loc. §83. Ed. Coray à Paris, 1800
- ↑ Τὰ δὲ ὕδατα, θερμὰ καὶ στάσιμα πίνουσιν, ὑπό τε τοῦ ἡλίου σηπόμενα, καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν ὄμβρων ἐπαυξανόμενα. Ibid.
- ↑ Τὴν τε χροιὴν ὠχρὴν ἔχουσι, ὥσπερ ὑπὸ ἱκτέρου ἐχόμενοι. §. 84. Pindar calls them Κόλχοισιν κελαινώπεσσι Pyth. iv. Stoph. 10. verſ 377. Ed Heyne.
