Note (37) — Chapter V · OF THE ANCIENT PLACES ON THE SOUTHERN COAST OF ASIA MINOR.

It is equally evident that the Ghihún is the Pyramus, whose origin, like the Sarus⁠[281]⁠, was in Cappadocia, from whence it flowed through the Taurus; for the Pyramus was the next river eastward of the Sarus⁠[282]⁠; and at Mensís, the Ghihún flows within 20 miles of the Sihún at Adana, without any intermediate river of magnitude between them; from thence it winds to the east, and joins the sea in the middle of the Issic gulf. The Ghihún is larger than any other river in Cilicia, as Strabo describes the Pyramus, and it has deposited a large tract of alluvial land at its mouth, which, however, has not increased so rapidly as the ancients had predicted.