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From this circumstance it is obvious, that the journey had been hitherto confined to Casaria, or the Crimea, and that he had now reached the lines or isthmus of Precop. In the English translation of Hakluyt, this word is changed to Capthak, and in the collection of Harris to Capthai; it is probably the Kiptschak of the Russians. Of our Distresses, and of the Comanian funerals.
Otherwise called Sebastopolis, also Isguriah or Dioskurios. Forst. Hence Asper, the ordinary denomination of silver coin in moderns Turkey is evidently borrowed from the Greek. Now Precop.
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