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The nature of their country, and the rivers by which it is
intersected, greatly favour this mode of resisting attacks. For the
land is level, well watered, and abounding in pasture; while the
rivers which traverse it are almost equal in number to the canals of
Egypt. Of these I shall only mention the most famous and such as are
navigable to some distance from the sea. They are, the Ister, which
has five mouths; the Tyras, the Hypanis, the Borysthenes, the
Panticapes, the Hypacyris, the Gerrhus, and the Tanais. The
courses of these streams I shall now proceed to describe.
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