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places a river here, and there is one in modern maps in this place, called Kaba-Sakal. A place nearly in this ſituation, of the name of Bylæum, is to be found in the Peutingerian Tables.

From Elæum to Cales Emporium 120 ſtadia. There is in D'Anville's map a river of the name of Cales. If ſo, the port, or emporium, was probably formed by its mouth.

From Cales to the river Lycus 80 ſtadia. This river is mentioned by [1]Apollonius, by Scylax, and by Xenophon; the latter of whom ſays, it was near Heraclea, and 200 feet wide.

From the Lycus to Heraclea 20 ſtadia. Heraclea was a Greek colony, ſaid to be founded by the Argive Hercules. Strabo aſcribes it to the Mileſians, and Arrian and Xenophon to the Megareans. There is in Goltzius a plate of a coin of Heraclea, exhibiting a figure crowned with towers, and bearing a cornucopia filled with fruits, indicator of the plenty of proviſions, with which it was furniſhed. Strabo and Xenophon, as well as Arrian, notice Heraclea as a haven for ſhips, and it was at one time a conſiderable naval power, but was deſtroyed by Cotta, in the Mithridates war. It appears from Tournefort to have had no natural harbour, but a mole only, which is now, in ruins. Its preſent name is Penderachi, or Elegri, both of which are perhaps corruptions of the ancient name.

It is ſet down in the Peutingerian Tables at the diſtance of only 38 miles from the Hippus. Arrian makes it 380 ſtadia, or

  1. Lib. ii. verſ 726.
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