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In Lycia, after leaving its promontory [Note], we come to the town of Simena, Mount Chimæra [Note], which sends forth flames by night, and the city of Hephæstium [Note], the heights above which are also frequently on fire. Here too formerly stood the city of Olympus [Note]; now we find the mountain places known as Gagæ [Note], Corydalla [Note], and Rhodiopolis [Note]. Near the sea is Limyra [Note] with a river of like name, into which the Arycandus
flows, Mount Masycites [Note], the state of Andriaca [Note], Myra [Note], the towns of Aperræ [Note] and Antiphellos [Note], formerly called Habessus, and in a corner Phellos [Note], after which comes Pyrra, and then the city of Xanthus [Note], fifteen miles from the sea, as also a river known by the same name. We then come to Patara [Note], formerly Pataros, and Sidyma, situate on a moun-
tain. Next comes the Promontory of Cragus [Note], and beyond it a gulf [Note], equal to the one that comes before it; upon it are Pinara [Note], and Telmessus [Note], the frontier town of Lycia.
Lycia formerly contained seventy towns, now it has but thirty-six. Of these, the most celebrated, besides those already mentioned, are Canas [Note], Candyba, so celebrated for the Œnian Grove, Podalia, Choma, past which the river Ædesa flows, Cyaneæ [Note], Ascandalis, Amelas, Noscopium, Tlos [Note], and Telandrus [Note]. It includes also in the interior the district of Cabalia, the three cities of which are Œnianda, Balbura [Note], and Bubon [Note].
On passing Telmessus we come to the Asiatic or Carpathian Sea, and the district which is properly called Asia. Agrippa has divided this region into two parts; one of which he has bounded on the east by Phrygia and Lycaonia, on the west by the Ægean Sea, on the south by the Egyptian Sea, and on the north by Paphlagonia, making its length to be 473 miles and its breadth 320. The other part he has bounded by the Lesser Armenia on the east, Phrygia, Lycaonia, and Pamphylia on the west, the province of Pontus on the north, and the Sea of Pamphylia on the south, making it 575 miles in length and 325 in breadth.
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