VI.] INTERESTING NOTICES IN IT. 121

other on the shores of the Euxine. The idea of an Adriatic
branch seems to have arisen from a confusion between the name
of the river and that of the tribe of Istri at the head of that sea,
whom in fact Scylax mentions in this connexion1. Again, on the
opposite side of the Mediterranean, the coast which lies between
Gyrene and Carthage — including the two Syrtes, the land of the
Lotophagi, and the lake Tritonis — is described with unusual
fulness and much interesting detail2. And generally, a com-
parison of the contents of this work with the notices of the same
coasts which are found in Herodotus suggests the conclusion,
that a great advance had been made in the knowledge of them
during the intervening period of less than a century.

1 § ao ; Mera S£ 'Ev^rous efoiv "Iffrpot. £0m, *at Trora^s "larpos. OUTOS 6
Trora/ws Kal ei$ ibv Tiforov
2 §§ 108—110.