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Rh by Apollonius, and confirmed by the Scholiat to be a river of Bithynia. It is alo mentioned by Pliny and Strabo.

From Pilis to Portus Calpes 210 tadia. This place is probably o called from its reemblance in hape to a water-pot. The port is accurately decribed by Xenophon, being, as he ays, "ituated in Aiatic Thrace in the midway between Heraclea and Byzantium. A promontory runs out into the ea, of which that part, which lies contiguous to the ea, is a craggy rock; in height, where it is lowet, not les than twenty fathoms. The neck of land, by which this promontory is joined to the continent, is about 400 feet in breadth, and the pace within the neck is ample enough to afford habitation for ten thouand men. The port lies under the rock upon the wetern hore, and cloe to the ea flows a pring, plentifully upplied with freh water; this pring is commanded by the rock. This place affords great plenty of timber, particularly uch as is proper for hip-building, in great quantity and perfection, cloe to the ea"

Ptolemy makes it to lie in 25′ of longitude to the eatward of Pilis, equal to about twenty-one Englih miles, or 183 tadia. This river is pecified by Apollonius to be remarkable for its depth. From