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Lake. The remainder celebrated by Homer as Rhaesus, 

 Heptaporus, Caresus, and Rhodius, have no Vestiges remain- 

 ing. The Granicus floweth by a different Tract into the 

 Propontis. Yet there is at this Day a little City called 

 Scamandria; and one Mile and a half from the Port, the 

 Free City Ilium, from which proceedeth all that great Name, 

 Outside of this Gulf lieth the Coast Rhoetea, inhabited with 

 the Towns upon it, of Rhoeteum, Dardanium, and Arisbe. 

 There was also Acheleum, a Town near the Tomb of Achilles, 

 founded by the Mitylenei, and afterwards re-edified by the 

 Athenians, on the Bay Sigaeum, where his Fleet rode. There 

 also was Acantium, built by the Rhodians, in another Horn, 

 where Ajax was interred, thirty Stadia distant from Sigaeum, 

 and the very Station of his Fleet. Above ^Eolis and a part 

 of Troas, within the Continent, is the (Town) called Teu- 

 thrania, which the Mysi in old Time held. There springeth 

 Caicus, the River abovesaid. A large Country this is of it- 

 self, and especially when it was united to Mysia, and also so 

 called : containing in it Pioniae, Andera, Gale, Stabulum, 

 Conisium, Tegium, Balcea, Tiare, Teuthrania, Sarnaca, Hali- 

 serne", Lycide, Parthenium, Thymbre, Oxyopum, Lygda- 

 num, Apollonia : and Pergamus, the most illustrious City of 

 Asia by many Degrees ; through it passeth the River Selinus, 

 and Caetius runneth by it, issuing out of the Mountain Pin- 

 dasus. Not far from thence is Elea, which, as we have 

 said, standeth on the Shore. The Jurisdiction of this Tract 

 is named Pergamena. To it resort the Thyatyreni, Myg- 

 dones, Mossini, Bregmenteni, Hieracomitae, Perpereni, 

 Tyareni, Hierapolenses, Harmatapolitse, Attalenses, Pan- 

 taenses, Apollonidenses, and other Cities of little Honour. 

 Dardanium, a small Town, is threescore and ten Stadia dis- 

 tant from Rhoeteum. Eighteen Miles from thence is the 

 Promontory Trapeza, where first the Hellespont rusheth 

 along roughly. Eratosthenes saith, That the Nations of the 

 Solymi, Leleges, Bebrices, Colycantii, and Trepsedores, are 

 utterly perished from Asia. Isidorus reporteth the same of 

 the Arymei and Capretae, where Apamia was built by King 

 Seleucus, between Cilicia, Cappadocia, Cataonia, and Armenia. 



