Pontus

) The Sea of Azof, opening into the Black Sea on its north side. “Poole Maeotis” is a translation of the Latin pal us Mceotis. Milton refers to the sea as the “Tauric Pool” because it bounds on one side the Tauric Chersonese, the modern Crimea. Maes German (Guid-crue). Hist. Brit. (3) 5. 106. U her, in a pa age which Milton indicates in a note, writes as follows: ” In a field of Flints hire, near a town which the English call Mold, and the Welch Guid-cruc, this is said to have happened, on account of which the place has kept the name of Maes Garmon, which means the Field of German us. The army was baptized by this holy man in the Alyn, a little river which flows near.” {Britannica rum Ecclesia rum Anti quit ates, p. 333.) ch188.xhtml m 194