198 ALEXANDER'S MARCH. 



The route of the army from Xanthus we are 

 enabled to trace from our knowledge of the 

 features of the country, and take it to have been 

 by the mountain plain of Almalee, through the 

 valley of Arycanda down to the plain of Limyra. 

 For in the depth of winter, the season in which 

 he marched through it, no other line is open or 

 practicable. As the Termessians, who were 

 hostile to him, possessed the passes from Milyas 

 into the Pamphylian plain, he was of necessity 

 obliged to adopt this mountainous and circuitous 

 route to reach it, — a line of march which, how- 

 ever, would have been far more difficult than the 

 former, had the inhabitants opposed his progress, 

 instead of receiving him with open arms, as their 

 friend and deliverer. Of the situation of the 

 Pisidian fort taken by him, we can form no con- 

 jecture, having seen no remains near Phaselis to 

 correspond with such a position. The historian, 

 in his twenty-seventh chapter, continues to de- 

 scribe the course of the army from Phaselis to the 

 Pamphylian plain. It proceeded in two divisions. 

 The king in person led one coastwards through the 

 sea, according to Plutarch, by the straits called the 

 " Ladders," (an appellation very appropriate,) to 

 the coast at the foot of Mount Climax seawards, 



