Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ast. A recent observer has given thefollowing account of them: There are two springs,the principal surrounded by a low wall ; here thepitch is seen bubbling up under the clear water,which is about a foot deep over the pitch itself, withwhich it comes out of the earth. The pitch-bubblesrise with the appearance of an India-rubber bottleuntil the air within bur-^ts, and the pitch falls backand runs off. It produces about three barrels a day,and can be used when mixed with pine-pitch, thoughin a pure state it is comparatively of no value. Theother spring i
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ast. A recent observer has given thefollowing account of them: There are two springs,the principal surrounded by a low wall ; here thepitch is seen bubbling up under the clear water,which is about a foot deep over the pitch itself, withwhich it comes out of the earth. The pitch-bubblesrise with the appearance of an India-rubber bottleuntil the air within bur-^ts, and the pitch falls backand runs off. It produces about three barrels a day,and can be used when mixed with pine-pitch, thoughin a pure state it is comparatively of no value. Theother spring is in an adjoining vineyard ; but thepitch dues not bubble up, and is in fiict only discern-ible by the ground having a burnt appearance, andby the feet adhering to the surface as one walksover it. The demand for the pitch of Zante isnow very small, vegetable pitch being preferable.(Bowen, in Murrays Handhooh for Greece, p. 93.) The existence of these pitch-wells, as well as ofnumerous hot springs, is a proof of the volcanic ZALECUS. 1333. COIN OF agency at work in tlie island ; to which it may beadded that earthquakes are frequent. Pliny mentions Mt. Elatus in Zacynthus ( MonsElatus ibi nobilis, Plin. /. c), probably Mt. Ukajm,which raises its curiously jagged summit to theheight of 1300 feet above the eastern extremity ofthe bay of Zante. (Dodwell, Tour throwjh Greece,vol. i. p. 83, seq.) ZADRACARTA. [Tagae.] ZAGATIS (Zd7oT(s), a coast river in the E. partof Pontus, discharging itself into the Eusiiie about7 stadia to the east of Athenae; probably the sameriver as the modern Sucka JJere. (Arrian, E. p. 17; Anon. Ferh^. P. E. y. 15.) [L. ZAGORUS, or ZAGURUM (Zdywpos, or Zdyu-pov, Marcian. p. 73 ; Za-yeipa, Ptol. v. 4. § 5; Za-yapa, Arrian, Peripl. P. E. p. 15 ; Zacoria, ), a town of Paphlagonia, on the coast of theEuxine, between Sinope and the mouth of the Halys,from the latter of which it was distant about 400stadia. [L. S.] ZAGRUS MONS (
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