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mint's liTATURAL HISTOBT. 
[Book y. 
Near Erythrse formerly stood tlie towns of Pteleon, Helos, 
and Dorion; we now find the river Aleon, Corynseum, a 
Promontory of Mount Mimas, Clazomense^ Parthenie^, and 
Hippi^, known by the name of Chytrophoria, when it 
formed a group of islands ; these were united to the con- 
tinent by the same Alexander, by means of a causeway^ two 
stadia in length. In the interior, the cities of Daphnus, 
Hermesia, and Sipylum^, formerly called Tantalis, and the 
capital of Mseonia, where Lake Sale now stands, are now 
no longer in existence : Archseopolis too, which succeeded 
Sipylum, has perished, and in their turns Colpe and Libade, 
which succeeded it. 
On returning thence^ towards the coast, at a distance of 
twelve miles we find Smyrna^, originally founded by an 
Amazon [of that name], and rebuilt by Alexander ; it is re- 
freshed by the river Meles, which rises not far ofi". Through 
this district run what may almost be called the most famous 
mountains of Asia, Mastusia in the rear of Smyrna, and 
Termetis^, joining the foot of Olympus. Termetis is joined 
small peninsula, which projects into the bay of Erythrse. The ruins are 
considerable. 
1 On the south side of the bay of Smyrna. In Strabo's time this city 
appears to have been removed from Chytrium, its original site. Chandler 
found traces of the city near Yourla, from which he came to the conclu- 
sion that the place was, very small and mconsiderable. 
2 According to Nicander, this was a mountain of the territory of Cla- 
zomenae, almost surrounded by sea. 
3 Or " the Horses," originally four islands close to the mainland, off 
Clazomense. 
^ This was probably the same causeway that was observed by Chandler 
in the neighbourhood of Yourla, the site of ancient Clazomenge. 
^ See B. ii. c. 91, where he speaks of tliis place as being swallowed up 
in the earth. 
6 From Clazomense. 
7 Now called Izmir by the Turks, Smyrna by the western nations of 
Europe ; the only one of the great cities on the western coast of Asia 
Minor that has survived to the present day. This place stood at the 
head of the cities that claimed to be the birth-place of Homer ; and the 
poet was worshipped here for a hero or demi-god in a magnificent build- 
ing called the Homereum. There are but few remains of the ancient 
city : the modern one is the greatest commercial city of the Levant. 
8 Hardouin takes this to be the name of a town, but Ortehus and 
Pinetus seem to be more correc^ in thinking it to be the name of a 
mountain. 
