Note 45 — CHAP. XVII. ARZ-ROUM TO AMASIA.
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This is possibly a part of the celebrated Comana Pontica, which is placed upon the Iris, the modern Tozzan Irmak.—See D’Anville’s Geogr. Ancienne 1768. tom. ii. p. 38.
The Christians of the country pointed out to Tavernier some excavations in this district, as the retreats of St. John Chrysostom. Tom. i. p. 13.