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and Pyramus. It is remarkable that
Strabo, in his twelfth book, describes
both the Sarus and Carmalus as rising
in Cataonia, and as discharging them-
selves into the Cilician sea; yet he omits
them in the details of Cilicia, as if they
had merged into some other river: and
Abulfeda, a comparatively modern geo-
grapher, distinctly asserts, that the Sarus
unites with the Jyhan (Pyramus) between
Adana and the sea.

Between those two rivers, the shore
projects into a long sandy spit, occa-
sioned by similar causes, and somewhat
similar in appearance to the Lissan
el Kahpeh. 1 have already ventured
some reasons for supposing that point
to have been the antient Zephvrium ;*
and on similar grounds it might be sug-
gested that this low and exposed point
is the second Zephyrium of Strabo.
The order of his names, indeed, mili-
tates against this idea, as he places it to

* See Chapter XI.