594 days, the Borysthenes is known as flowing from the North Wind; but above this none can tell through what nations it flows: it is certain however that it runs through desert 595 to the land of the agricultural Scythians; for these Scythians dwell along its banks for a distance of ten days’ sail. Of this river alone and of the Nile I cannot tell where the sources are, nor, I think, can any of the Hellenes. When the Borysthenes comes near the sea in its course, the Hypanis mingles with it, running out into the same marsh; 596 and the space between these two rivers, which is as it were a beak of land, 597 is called the point of Hippoles, and in it is placed a temple of the Mother, 598 and opposite the temple upon the river Hypanis are settled the Borysthenites.