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OF THE EUXINE SEA.
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Xenophon the elder has deſcribed at large the port and ſituation of Calpe, and informed us, that there is there a cool and pure ſpring, and woods of timber fit for building ſhips, and wild animals.

From the port of Calpe to Rhoe, a harbour for ſmall veſſels, twenty ſtadia. From Rhoe to Apollonia, a ſmall iſland at a little diſtance from the Continent, twenty ſtadia. In this ſmall iſland there is a port. From hence to Chelæ twenty ſtadia. From Chelæ to the place where the river Sangarius flows into the Pontus an hundred and eighty ſtadia. From thence to the mouths of the Hyppius an hundred and eighty ſtadia. From Hyppius to the mart of Lillium an hundred ſtadia. From Lillium to Elæum ſixty ſtadia. From Elæum to another mart called Cales an hundred and twenty ſtadia. From Cales to the river Lycus eighty ſtadia. From Lycus to Heraclea, a Dorian Greek city, a colony of the Megareans, twenty ſtadia. Here there is a harbour for ſhips. From Heraclea to a place called Metroum eighty ſtadia. From Metroum to Poſidæum forty ſtadia. From Poſidæum to the Tyndaridæ forty-five ſtadia. From the Tyndaridæ to Nymphæum fifteen ſtadia. From Nymphæum to the river Oxinas thirty ſtadia. From the river Oxinas to Sandaraca, a port for ſmall veſſels, ninety ſtadia. From Sandaraca to Crenides ſixty ſtadia. From Crenides to the mart of Pſylla thirty ſtadia. From Pſylla to Tios, an Ionian Greek city, ſituated on the ſea, and a colony of the Mileſians, ninety ſtadia. From Tios to the river Billæus twenty ſtadia. From Billæus to the river Parthenius an hundred ſtadia. The country ſo far is inhabited by the Thracian Bithynians, of whom Xenophon has made mention in his Memoirs, as the moſt warlike of the Aſiatics, and from whom the army of the Greeks ſuffered much, after the Arcadians had ſeparated themſelves from the other diviſion of the army, commanded by Chir-

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