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was also the town of Notium — , Cape Cyrenaeum, 

 and Mount Mimas which projects 150 miles into the 

 sea and slopes do-\vTi into the plains adjoining. It 

 was here that Alexander the Great had given orders 

 for a canal 7^ miles long to be cut across the level 

 ground in question so as to join the two bays and to 

 make an island of Erythrae with Mimas. Near 

 Erythrae were formerly the towns of Pteleon, Helos 

 and Dorion, and there is now the river Aleon, 

 Cor\'naeum the promontory of Mimas, Clazomenae, 

 and Parthenie and Hippi, which were called the 

 Chytrophoria when they were islands ; these 

 Alexander also ordered to be joined to the mainland 

 by a causeway a quarter of a niile in length. Places 

 in the interior that exist no longer were Daphnus 

 and Hermesta and Sipylum previously called Tantahs, 

 the capital of Maeonia, situated where there is now 

 the marsh named Sale ; ArchaeopoHs which replaced 

 Sipylus has also perished, and later Colpe which 

 replaced Archaeopolis and Libade which replaced 

 Colpe. 



On retuming thence to the coast, at a distance of 

 12 miles we come to Smyrna, founded by an Amazon 

 and restored by Alexander; it is refreshed by the 

 river Meles which rises not far off. The most famous 

 niountains of Asia mostly He in this district : Mastusia 

 behind Smyrna and Termes," joining on to the 

 roots of Olympus, ends, and is followed by Mount 

 Draco, Draco by Tmolus, Tmolus by Cadmus, and 

 that range by Taurus. After Smyrna the river 

 Hermus forms level plains* to whicli it gives its name. 

 It rises at the Phrygian city-state of Dorylaus, and 

 has many tributary rivers, among them the Phryx 

 which forms the frontier between the race to which 



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