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a distance of 555 miles ; Agi'ippa, however, increases the 

 length by sixty miles. The distance thence to JNIacronTichos, 

 or the Long Wall, previously mentioned, is 150 miles ; and, 

 from it to the extremity of the Chersonesus, 126. 



On leadiig the Bosporus we come to the Grulf of Cas- 

 tlienes\ and two harbours, the one called the Old Men's 

 Haven, and the other the Women's Haven. Next comes 

 the promontory of Chrysoceras'^, upon which is the town of 

 Byzantium^, a free state, formerly called Lygos, distant from 

 Dyrrhachium 711 miles, — so great being the space of land 

 that intervenes between tlie Ach'iatic Sea and the Propontis. 

 AV^e next come to the rivers Bathynias and Pydaras"*, or 

 Athyras, and the towns of Selymbria* and Perinthus^, which 

 join the mainland by a neck only 200 feet in width. In the 

 interior are Bizya", a citadel of the kings of Thrace, and hated 

 by the swallows, in consequence of the sacrilegious crime 

 of Tereus*^ ; the district called Csenica^, and the colony of 

 Flaviopclis, where formerly stood a town called Cfela. Then, 

 at a distance of fifty miles from Bizya, we come to the colony 

 of Apros, distant from Philippi 180 miles. Upon the coast 

 is the river Erginus^"; here formerly stood the town of 

 Ganos^^ ; and Lysimachia^" in the Chersonesus is being now 

 gradually deserted. 



At this spot there is another isthmus", similar in name 

 to the other ^^j and of about equal width ; and, in a manner 



^ Between Galata and Fanar, according to Brotier. 



2 Or Golden Horn ; still known by that name. 



3 The site of the pi-esent Constantinople. 



4 These rivers do not appear to have been identified. 



5 The present Sihvri occupies its site. 



6 All important town of Tlu'ace. Eski Erckli stands on its site. 



7 Now Yizia, or Viza. 



" He alludes to the poetical story of Tereus, king of Thrace, Progne, 

 and Philomela. Aldrovandus suggests that the real cause of the absence 

 of the swallow is the great prevalence hero of northern winds, to wliich 

 they have an aversion. 



^ So called probably from the Thracian tribe of the Cffinici, or Cfsni. 



^^ Now called Erkene, a tributary of llie llebrus. 



^^ All that is known of it is, that it is mentioned as a fortress on tho 

 Propontis. ^^ llexamila now occupies its site. 



^2 The isthmus or neck of the Peninsula of Galhpoh,or the Dardanelles. 



^•* That of Corinth. They are both about live miles wide at the nar- 

 rowest part. 



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