Greek miles and a half. Strabo ſays, that Heraclea is diſtant 1500 ſtadia [1]from Chalcedony. This is probably too large a computation, as it meaſures only [2] 128 Engliſh miles, equal to 1118 ſtadia, on Arrowſmith's chart. Marcianus Heracleota ſays, that it is 1530 ſtadia from the [3] Fanum Jovis Urii to [4] Heraclea, and that it is only 1200 ſtadia in a direct line by ſea. The anonymous author of the Periplus of the Euxine ſea makes it to be 1550 ſtadia. Strabo ſays, that it is 500 ſtadia from the Sangarius to Heraclea. Arrian makes it 560. Arrowſmith's chart makes it to be little more than 35 Engliſh miles, or rather more than [5] 305 ſtadia.
From [6] Heraclea to Metroum 80 ſtadia. I do not find any mention of this place elſewhere. It was probably ſo called from being ſacred to Cybele, or from there being at the place a fane, or temple of that goddeſs, both of which were very numerous on this coaſt, as I before obſerved.
From Metroum to [7]Poſidæum 40 ſtadia. I find no account of this place in any author. It might be ſo called from a temple of Neptune.
- ↑ Pliny ſays, lib. vi. cap. 1. that Heraclea is 200 miles from the mouth of the Pontus, which is 1600 ſtadia. Arrian makes it 1550 ſtadia.
- ↑ Laurie and Whittle's charts make it 3° 30′ of longitude, which in lat. 41° amounts to about 166 Engliſh miles, or about 1450 ſtadia. Faden's map makes it 173 Engliſh miles, or 1511 ſtadia.
- ↑ Xenophon, in the Anabaſis, ſays, that a trireme galley would, in the ſpace of a very long day, ſail from Byzantium to Heraclea.
- ↑ Hercelea is ſaid by Ptolemy to be 4′ or 115 of a degree, to the weft of Alexandria.
- ↑ The chart publiſhed by Laurie makes it 54.5 Engliſh miles, or about 476 ſtadia.
- ↑ From Heraclea to Amaſtris is by Arrowſmith's chart 61 Engliſh miles; according to Laurie, 63.5; according to Citizen Beauchamp, 60′, or 69.5 Engliſh miles nearly.
- ↑ Marcianus Heracleota makes Poſidæum to be 100 ſtadia from Heraclea. Arrian makes it to be 120, as does the anonymous author of the Periplus of the Euxine ſea.
