Pontiew

See Po entesburg. See Pontiew. See 1. Pontus. Hist. Brit. (6) 5. 289. Ponthieu, a district of northern France, on the Channel. 1. Pontus (Pontic). P. L. 5. 340; P. R. 3. 36. A district of Asia Minor extending along the shore of the Black Sea from Colchis in the east to the River Halys in the west. Milton’s reference to the fruits of Pontus suggests the following in Strabo’s description of the region: “The country at the foot of the mountains produces so large an autumnal crop of spontaneous-grown wild fruits, of the vine, the pear, the apple, and hazel, that, in all seasons of the year, persons who go into the woods to cut timber gather them in large quantities; the fruit is found either yet hanging upon the trees or lying beneath a deep covering of fallen leaves thickly strewn upon the ground.” (12. 3. 15.) 2. 251