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Obigene, a part of Lycaonia. Rivers there are in it, beside 

 those beforenamed, Sangariura and Gall as, from which the 

 Priests of the Mother of the Gods were named. Now to 

 speak of what remains ori the Sea-coast : inward from Cios 

 is Prusa within Bithynia ; founded by Annibal beneath 

 Olympus. From Prusa to Nicaea, five-and-twenty Miles ; 

 the Lake Ascanius lying between. Then Nicsea, in the out- 

 most part of the Gulf Ascanium, which before was called 

 Olbia : also to another Prusa, under the Mountain Hippius. 

 There were Pythopolis, Parthenopolis, and Choryphanta. 

 Now there are upon the Sea-side the Rivers, ^Esius, Bryazon, 

 Plataneus, Areus, Siros, Gendos, named also Chrysorrhoas. 

 The Promontory on which stood the Town Megaricum. Then 

 the Gulf which was called Craspedites ; because that Town 

 stood as it were in a Fold of it. There was also the Town 

 Astacum, from which the Bay took the Name of Astacenus. 

 There was also the Town Libyssa, where now rernaineth 

 nothing but the Tomb of Annibal. In the inmost part of 

 the Gulf is the very handsome Town of Bithynia, called 

 Nicomedia. The Promontory Leucatas which encloseth the 

 Bay of Astarenus, is from Nicomedia forty-two Miles and 

 a half. Being past this Bay, the opposite Shores approach- 

 ing together, the Straits reach as far as to the Thracian Bos- 

 phorus. Upon these Straits standeth the Free (City) Chalce- 

 don, seventy-two Miles and a half from Nicomedia. Formerly 

 it was called Procerastis : then, Compusa : afterwards, the 

 City of the Blind ; because they who founded it were so 

 ignorant as not to give a preference to a Place seven Stadia 

 from Byzantium, so much more favourable in every respect. 

 But within-land, in Bithynia, is the Colony Apamena : also, 

 the Agrippenses, Juliopolitse, and they of Bithynium. The 

 Rivers, Syrium, Lapsias, Pharmicas, Alces, Crynis, Lylaeus, 

 Scopius, Hieras, which parteth Bithynia from Galatia. Be- 

 yond Chalcedon, stood Chrysopolis : then, Nicopolis, of 

 which the Gulf still retaineth the Name : wherein is the 

 Port of Amycus : the Promontory Naulochum : Estia, 

 wherein is the Temple of Neptune; and the Bosphorus, 

 half-a-mile over, which now again parteth Asia from Europe. 



