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those discharged by the river Phyrites'. Prom these streams 

 there accumulates a large quantity of slime, which vastly 

 increases the soil, and has added to the mainland the island 

 of Syrie^, M'hich now lies in the midst of its plains. In this 

 city is the fountain of Calippia^ and the temple of Diana, 

 which last is surrounded by two streams, each knoA\Ti by the 

 name of Selenus, and flowing from opposite directions. 



After leaving Ephesus there is another Mantium, belong- 

 ing to the Colophonians, and in the interior Colophon"* itself, 

 past which the river Halesus^ flows. After tliis we come to 

 the temple® of the Clarian Apollo, and Lebedos'^ : the city 

 of Notium'' once stood here. Next comes the Promontory 

 of Coryceium'-', and then Mount Mimas, which projects 150 

 miles into the sea, and as it approaches the mainland sinks 

 down into extensive plains. It was at this place that Alex- 

 ander the Grreat gave orders for the plain to be cut through, a 

 distance of seven miles and a half, for the purpose of joining 

 the two gulfs and making an island of Erythra?'" and Mimas. 



Smyrna to Ephesus, into which the Phyrites flows, and out of which it 

 conies a considerable stream. 



^ The Phjrites is a email river that is crossed on the road from Ephesus 

 to Smyrna, and joins the Cayster on the right bank ten or twelve miles 

 above Ayazaluk, near the site of Ephesus. 



2 See B. ii. c. 91. for further mention of this island. 



3 Said to be derived from the Greek, meaning " The beautiful (stream) 

 from Pion." 



^ One of the twelve Ionian cities of Asia, founded by Andrsemon. 

 Notium was its port. There do not seem to be any remains of either of 

 these places. 



5 Called also the Hales or Ales, and noted for the coolness of its 

 waters. 



* At Clarus, near Colophon. "\Mien Germnnicus was on his way to 

 the East, this oracle foretold to him his speedy death. Chandler is of 

 opinion that lie discovered the site of this place at Zille, where he found 

 a spring of water with marble steps to it, which he considers to have 

 been the sacred fountain. Others again suggest that these ruins may be 

 those of Notium. 



7 Its site was probably near the modem Ekklesia, but no traces of the 

 city itself arc to be found. 



8 Implying that in his time Notrum was not in existence, wliereas in 

 reality Notium superseded Old Colophon, of wliich it was the port, and 

 Was sometimes known as New Colophon. 



9 Now known as Cape Curco. 



10 The site of this place is now known as Ritri, on the south side of a 



