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The mode in which these distances have been measured is the following.
In a long day a vessel generally accomplishes about seventy thousand
fathoms, in the night sixty thousand. Now from the mouth of the
Pontus to the river Phasis, which is the extreme length of this sea,
is a voyage of nine days and eight nights, which makes the distance one
million one hundred and ten thousand fathoms, or eleven thousand one
hundred furlongs. Again, from Sindica, to Themiscyra on the river
Thermodon, where the Pontus is wider than at any other place, is a
sail of three days and two nights; which makes three hundred and thirty
thousand fathoms, or three thousand three hundred furlongs. Such is
the plan on which I have measured the Pontus, the Bosphorus, and
the Hellespont, and such is the account which I have to give of
them. The Pontus has also a lake belonging to it, not very much
inferior to itself in size. The waters of this lake run into the
Pontus: it is called the Maeotis, and also the Mother of the Pontus.
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