1. _Northward_, on the shore of the Pontus Euxinus; PONTUS, under three different names. Its cities are, _Trapezus_, not far from which are the people called _Chalybes_ or _Chaldæi_; _Themiscyra_, a city on the river _Thermodon_, and famous for having been the abode of the Amazons. PAPHLAGONIA, BITHYNIA; the cities of which are, _Nicæa_, _Prusa_, _Nicomedia_, _Chalcedon_ opposite to Constantinople, and _Heraclea_.
2. _Westward_, going down by the shores of the Ægean sea; MYSIA, of which there are two. The LESSER, in which stood _Cyzicus_, _Lampsacus_, _Parium_, _Abydos_ opposite to Sestos, from which it is separated only by the Dardanelles; _Dardanum_, _Sigæum_, _Ilion_, or _Troy_; and almost on the opposite side, the little island of _Tenedos_. The rivers are, the _Æsepus_, the _Granicus_, and the _Simois_. Mount _Ida_. This region is sometimes called Phrygia Minor, of which _Troas_ is part.
The GREATER MYSIA. _Antandros_, _Trajanopolis_, _Adramyttium_, _Pergamus_. Opposite to this Mysia is the island of LESBOS; the cities of which are, _Methymna_, where the celebrated _Arion_ was born; and _Mitylene_, which has given to the whole island its modern name Metelin.
IONIA. _Smyrna_, _Clazomenæ_, _Teos_, _Lebedus_, _Colophon_, _Ephesus_, _Priene_, _Miletus_.
CARIA. _Laodicea_, _Antiochia_, _Magnesia_, _Alabanda_. The river _Mæander_.
Opposite to these four last countries, are the islands CHIOS, SAMOS, PATHMOS, COS; and lower, towards the south, RHODES.
LYCIA, the cities of which are, _Telmessus_, _Patara_. The river _Xanthus_. Here begins mount _Taurus_, which runs the whole length of Asia, and assumes different names, according to the several countries through which it passes.
CILICIA. _Seleucia_, _Corycium_, _Tarsus_, on the river _Cydnus_. Opposite to Cilicia is the island of _Cyprus_. The cities are, _Salamis_, _Amathus_, and _Paphos_.
4. _Along the banks of the Euphrates_, going up northward;
The LESSER ARMENIA. _Comana_, _Arabyza_, _Melitene_, _Satala_. The river _Melas_, which empties itself into the Euphrates.
CAPPADOCIA; the cities whereof are, _Neocæsarea_, _Comana Pontica_, _Sebastia_, _Sebastopolis_, _Diocæsarea_, _Cæsarea_, otherwise called _Mazaca_, and _Tyana_.