After 1950 Henriette Mertz, following Apollonius Rhodius'
scripts on Argonautica Book II, sailed over the east coasts of
S.America and across the Amazon, covered long distances on foot
in the Andes range in Perou, Bolibia and Colombia and then she
came to the conclusion that the Argonauts had sailed as far as
South America where gold was in plenty. According to her, the
Miletian geographers quite mistakenly placed Colchis in the
Euxinus Pontus where the ancient philologists sent off the
Argonauts to get the "Golden Fleece". As for the word "Bosporus"
-used by Apoll.Rhod. Book II-, I.Passas in his "Hellenic
Prehistory" says that it might not have been used as a
geographic location but as a term for the strait which the Argo
sailed through. The huge waves like mountains and the contrary
winds they were confronted with as soon as they came out of
Bosporus could not have occurred in the Euxinus Pontus which is
an inland sea. Perhaps some ancient copyists quite ignorant of
the fact that the Mediterranean had acces