in Ancient Geography, the largest river of Sarmatia Europæa, thus described by Nicola, who copies verbatim from Herodotus: "It runs through a cognominal people, is the most pleasant of all the rivers in Scythia, and calmer than all of them in its course, and very agreeable to drink; it feeds very rich pastures, and produces large fish of the best flavour, and without bones; it comes a great way, rising from springs unknown; its course is a distance of 40 days, and to far is it navigable." It is now called the Dnieper or Neiper.