r adds: [Greek: arsai gar to potisai],
as if it were of Grecian original.

[637] Marcellinus. l. 23. p. 287.

[638] [Greek: Arsene limne, hen kai Thonitin kalousi--esti de nitritis.]
Strabo. l. xi. p. 801.

[639] [Greek: Proton men ap' Arsinoes paratheonti ten dexian epeiron therma
pleiosin aulois ek petres hupseles eis thalattan dietheitai.] Agatharchides
de Rubro mari. p. 54.

[Greek: Eita allen polin Arsinoen; eita thermon hudaton ekbolas, pikron kai
halmuron.] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1114.]

[640] Some make Ephesus and Arsinoe to have been the same. See Scholia upon
Dionysius. v. 828.

[641] Strabo. l. l6. p. 1074. See Radicals. p. 50.

[642] Pliny. l. 6. c. 27. Euphraten praeclusere Orcheni: nec nisi Pasitigri
defertur ad mare.

[643] Ptolemy Geog.

Isidorus Characenus. Geog. Vet. vol. 2. p. 7.

[644] Cellarii Geog. vol. 2. p. 80.

[645] Strabo. l. 12. p. 868, 869. and l. 13. p. 929-932.

[Greek: Esti de epiphaneia tephrodes ton pedion].

Strabo supposes that the Campus Hyrcanus was so named from the Persians; as
also [Greek: Kurou pedion], near it; but they seem to have been so
denominated ab origine. The river Organ, which ran, into the Maeander from
the Campus Hyrcanus, was properly Ur-chan. Ancyra was An-cura, so named a
fonte Solis [Greek: kuros gar ho helios]. All the names throughout the
country have a correspondence: all relate either to the soil, or the
religion of the natives; and betray a great antiquity.

[646] Ptolemy. Geog. l. 2. c. 11.

[647] Mentioned in Pliny's Panegyric: and in Seneca; consolatio ad Helv. l.
6. Aristotle in Meteoris.

[648] Here was one of the fountains of the Danube. [Greek: Istros te gar
potamos arxamenos ek Kelton kai Purenes polios rheei, mesen schizon ten
Europen]. Herodotus. l. 2. c. 33.

[649] See Cluverii Germania.

[650] Beatus Rhenanus. Rerum Germanic. l. 3.

[651] It is called by the Swiss, Le Grand Brenner: by the other Germans,
Der gross Verner.

Mount Caenis, as we term it, is properly Mount Chen-Is, Mons Dei Vulcani. It
is called by the people of the country Monte Canise; and is part of the
Alpes Cottiae. Cluver. Ital. vol. 1. l. 1. c. 32. p. 337. Mons Geneber.
Jovij.

[652] See Marcellinus. l. 15. c. 10. p. 77. and the authors quoted by
Cluverius. Italia Antiqua above.

They are styled [Greek: Alpeis Skoutiai] by Procopius: Rerum Goth. l. 2.

Marcellinus thinks, that a king Cottius gave name to these Alps in the time
of Augustus, but Cottiu