6/43 274) supposes this river to be an eastern affluent of the Volga, the Kama, which, from the color of its waters, might be called black. M.Abel Remusat (Recherchea sur les Langues Tartares, vol.i.p. 320) and M.St.Martin (vol.ix. 373) consider it the Volga, which is called Atel or Etel by all the Turkish tribes. It is called Attilas by Menander, and Ettilia by the monk Ruysbreek (1253.) See Klaproth, Tabl.Hist.p.247.This geography is much more clear and simple than that adopted by Gibbon from De Guignes, or suggested from Bell .-- M.] [Footnote 32: Theophylact, l.vii.c.7, 8. |