Note 429 — ON AIRS, WATERS, AND PLACES.

I need scarcely remark that both the river and city of this name are very celebrated in ancient mythology and history. See in particular Apollonius Rhodius, with his learned Scholiast, Arg. II.; Strabo, xi.; Pliny, H. N., vi., 4; Procopius, Pers., ii., 29; Mela, i., 85; Arrian, periplus. The river takes its rise in the Caucasus, and terminates in the Black Sea. It is called Rion by the inhabitants, and the river and a city situated upon it are called Fache by the Turks. See Coray at this place, and Mannert., Geograph., iv., 394.