Histories

The +Dnestr (river), Europe Tyras and the Hypanis draw near together in the Alazones' country; after that they flow apart, the intervening space growing wider.

The fourth is the Borysthenes river. This is the next greatest after the Ister, and the most productive, in our judgment, not only of the Scythian but of all rivers, except the Egyptian Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile, with which no other river can be compared.

But of the rest, the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes is the most productive; it provides the finest and best-nurturing pasture lands for beasts, and the fish in it are beyond all in their excellence and abundance. Its water is most sweet to drink, flowing with a clear current, whereas the other rivers are turbid. There is excellent soil on its banks, and very rich grass where the land is not planted;

and self-formed crusts of salt abound at its mouth; it provides great spineless fish, called sturgeons, for salting, and many other wonderful things besides.