. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ^ mountain Theches would be the rauge between the sources ofthe Euphrates {Kara-suX and the Tcherouk: in the latter, it would be 228 • COLCHIS. Book II. more to the eastward, between Batoun and Trehizond. Arrived atTrapezum, Trehizond, they followed the line of coast, partly by landand partly by sea, back to their native The Caucasus. Y.—Colchis, Iberia, Albania, Sarmatia. § 16. Colchis lay along the eastern coast of the Euxine, from thePhasis in the S. to the Corax in the ]: on t
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ^ mountain Theches would be the rauge between the sources ofthe Euphrates {Kara-suX and the Tcherouk: in the latter, it would be 228 • COLCHIS. Book II. more to the eastward, between Batoun and Trehizond. Arrived atTrapezum, Trehizond, they followed the line of coast, partly by landand partly by sea, back to their native The Caucasus. Y.—Colchis, Iberia, Albania, Sarmatia. § 16. Colchis lay along the eastern coast of the Euxine, from thePhasis in the S. to the Corax in the ]: on the N. it wasbounded by Caucasns, on the E. by Iberia, and on the S. by Ar-menia. It answers to the modern provinces of Mivgrelia and partof Ahhasia. The chief mountain range is Caucasus, which in thispart of its course approaches close to the shores of the Euxine : littlewas known of this extensive range by the ancients : it was thefabled scene of the sufferings of Prometheus,^ and supplied the poetswith a picture of wild and desolate sceneryThe chief river ofColchis was the Phasis in the S.; numerous lesser streams pour « Caucasiasque refert volucres, furtumque Promethei. YiEG. Ucl. vi. 42. 9 Duris genuit te cautibus horrens Caucasus. i^* ^66. Sive per Syrtes iter gestuosas,Sive facturus per inhospitalem Caucasum. Hor. Carm. i. 22, 5. Chap. XII. TOWNS — HISTORY ~ IBERIA. 229 do^^Ti from the Caucasus to the Euxine.
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