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now in Cherronesns. For there is another Isthmus of like 

 Straightness, of the same Name, and of equal Breadth. 

 On both Sides two Cities beautify the Shores, which they 

 hold in a Manner not unlike : Pactise from Propontis, and 

 Cardia from the Bay Melane : this taketh its Name from the 

 Appearance of the Place : and both, afterwards, were en- 

 closed within Lysimachia, three Miles from the long Walls 1 . 

 Cherronesus from Propontis had Tiristasis and Crithotes, 

 also Cissa, upon the River ^Egos : now it hath from the 

 Colony Apros 32 Miles ; Resistos, over against the Colony 

 Pariana. And Hellespontus, dividing Europe from Asia by 

 seven Stadia (as we have said), hath four Cities, opposite one 

 against another: in Europe, Calippolis and Sestos ; in Asia, 

 Lampsacum and Abydos. Then, is the Promontory of Cher- 

 ronesus, called Mastisia, opposite to Sigeum, in the crooked 

 Front whereof is Cynossema : for so is Hecuba s Tomb 

 named, the Station of the Achaei. The Tower and Shrine 

 of Protesilaus : and in the utmost Front of Cherronesus, 

 which is called ^Eolium, the Town Elasus. After it, as a 

 Man goeth to the Bay Melane, the Port Cselos, Panhormus, 

 and the above-named Cardia. The third Bay of Europe is in 

 this Manner shut in. Mountains of Thracia above those 

 before rehearsed, Edonus, Gigemorus, Meritus, and Melam- 

 phyllon ; Rivers falling into Hebrus, Bargus, and Suemus. 

 The Length of Macedonia, Thracia, and Hellespontus, is set 

 down before. Some make it 720 Miles. The Breadth is 380 

 Miles. The Sea jEgeum took that Name from a Rock, be- 

 tween Tenedos and Chios, more truly than from an Island 

 named MX, resembling a Goat, and therefore so called of the 

 Greeks ; which suddenly riseth out of the midst of the Sea. 

 The People that sail from Achaia to Andros, discover it on 

 the right Hand, dreadful and mischievous. Part of the 

 ./Egean Sea is given to Myrtoum, and is so called from a 

 little Island which sheweth itself to them that sail from 

 Gerestus to Macedonia, not far from Charystos in Eubcea. 

 The Romans comprehend all these Seas in two Names : 



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