Kitap 12
3.15
Another river very similar to this, of the name of Iris,Jeschil Irmak. flowing from a place called Phanaroea,Tasch Owa. traverses the same plain. It has its sources in Pontus. Flowing westward through the city of Pontic Comana,Gumenek. and through Dazimonitis,Kas Owa. a fertile plain, it then turns to the north beside Gaziura,Turchal. an ancient seat of the kings, but now deserted; it then again returns to the east, where, uniting with the ScylaxTschoterlek Irmak. and other rivers, and taking its course beside the walls of my native place, Amaseia,Amasija. a very strongly fortified city, proceeds to Phanaroea. There when joined by the Lycus,Germeili Tschai. which rises in Armenia, it becomes the Iris. It then enters Themiscyra, and discharges itself into the Euxine. This plain, therefore, is well watered with dews, is constantly covered with herbage, and is capable of affording food to herds of cattle as well as to horses. The largest crops there consist of panic and millet, or rather they never fail, for the supply of water more than counteracts the effect of all drought; these people, therefore, never on any occasion experience a famine. The country at the foot of the mountains produces so large an autumnal crop of spontaneous-grown wild fruits, of the vine, the pear, the apple, and hazel, that, in all seasons of the year, persons who go into the woods to cut timber gather them in large quantities; the fruit is found either yet hanging upon the trees or lying beneath a deep covering of fallen leaves thickly strewed upon the ground. Wild animals of all kinds, which resort here on account of the abundance of food, are frequently hunted.
3.16
Next to Themiscyra is Sidene, a fertile plain, but not watered in the same manner by rivers as Themiscyra. It has strongholds on the sea-coast, as Side,At the mouth of the river Puleman. from which Sidene has its name, Chabaca and Phabda (Phauda).Fatsa? Amisene extends as far as this place.
