The sea is brief, cruel, and cloudy its stopping-off places are few and far between it is surrounded by a shore that is neither soft nor sandy it borders on the north winds and it is billowy and tempestuous, because it is not deep. However, because the shoreline recedes less on the opposite side than it does to the left or the right, it curves around with soft points until it makes narrow angles on both ends and is rounded very much like the shape of the Scythian bow. Here now the mighty Pontus opens out, and it extends to both the near and far sides in a long and straight line (except where there are promontories), even though the coast winds everywhere else. The divinity of the temple is Jupiter, its founder Jason. The name of the town is Calchedon, its principal founder Archias the Megarian. In the very jaws of this Bosphorus is a town, and at its mouth is a temple. This channel is the Thracian Bosphorus, as previously indicated. ยง 1.101 Next, the continents again lie rather close to one another, and the channel, where the sea narrows as it is about to enter the Pontus, separates Europe from Asia by five stades.
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