tioned by [1]Apollonius, and confirmed by the Scholiaſt to be a river of Bithynia. It is alſo mentioned by [2]Pliny and [3]Strabo.
From Pſilis to [4]Portus Calpes 210 ſtadia. This place is probably ſo called from its reſemblance in ſhape to a water-pot. The port is accurately deſcribed by [5]Xenophon, being, as he ſays, "ſituated in Aſiatic Thrace in the midway between [6] Heraclea and Byzantium. [7] A promontory runs out into the ſea, of which that part, which lies contiguous to the ſea, is a craggy rock; in height, where it is loweſt, not leſs than twenty fathoms. The neck of land, by which this promontory is joined to the continent, is about 400 feet in breadth, and the ſpace within the neck is ample enough to afford habitation for ten thouſand men. The port lies under the rock upon the weſtern ſhore, and cloſe to the ſea flows a ſpring, plentifully ſupplied with freſh water; this ſpring is commanded by the rock. This place affords great plenty of timber, particularly ſuch as is proper for ſhip-building, in great quantity and perfection, cloſe to the ſea"
Ptolemy makes it to lie in 25′ of longitude to the eaſtward of Pſilis, equal to about twenty-one Engliſh miles, or 183 ſtadia. This river is ſpecified by Apollonius to be [8]remarkable for its depth.
- ↑ Lib. ii. ver. 654.
- ↑ Lib. vi. c. 3.
- ↑ Lib. xii.
- ↑ Κάλπη· ὑδρία, τάμνος, Hefyſh. According to Steph. Byz. there was both a city and a port this name.
- ↑ Anabaſ. lib. vi.
- ↑ This agrees nearly with Arrian's computation. According to him,
From Byzantium to Heraclea is 1670 ſtadia.
From Byzantium to Calpe 870 ſtadia. - ↑ This is an exact deſcription of Gibraltar, (Calpe) with the diffiſrence of the proportions of ſize in its reſpective parts. Editor
- ↑ βαϑυρείοντα τε Κάλπιν. Argon. lib. ii. verſ 661.
