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 KYME. 191 upon rocky mountain-sites, so inaccessible to attack that the in- habitants were enabled, even during the height of the Persian power, to maintain constantly a substantial independence. 1 Elcea, situated at the mouth of the river Ka'ikus, became in later times the port of the strong and flourishing city of Pergamus; while Pitana, the northernmost of the twelve, was placed between the mouth of the Ka'ikus and the lofty promontory of Kane, which closes in the Elceitic gulf to the northward. A small town Kante, close to that promontory is said to have once existed. 3 It has already been stated that the legend ascribes the origin of these colonies to a certain special event called the JEolic emi gration, of which chronologers profess to know the precise date, telling us how many years it happened after the Trojan war, con- siderably before the Ionic emigration. 3 That the -ZEolic as well as Ionic inhabitants of Asia were emigrants from Greece, we may reasonably believe, but as to the time or circumstances of their emigration we can pretend to no certain knowledge. The name of the town Larissa, and perhaps that of Magnesia on Mount 1 Xenoph. Hellen. iv, 8, 5. The rhetor Aristeides (Orat. Sacr. xxvii, p. 347, p. 535 D.) describes in detail his journey from Smyrna to Pergamus, crossing the Hernias, and passing through Larissa, Kyme, Myrina, Gryneium, Elsea. He seems not to have passed through Temnos, at least he does not name it: moreover, we know from Pausanias (v, 13, 3) that Temnos was on the north bank of the Hermus. In the best maps of this district it is placed, erroneously, both on the south bank, and as if it were on the high road from Smyrna to Kyme. We may infer from another passage of Aristeides (Or. xlviii, p. 351, p. 4GS D.) that Larissa was nearer to the mouth of the Her- mus than the maps appear to place it According to Strabo (xiii, p. 622), it would seem that Larissa was on the south bank of the Hermus j but the better testimony of Aristeides proves the contrary; Skylax (c. 94) does not name Temnos, which seems to indicate that its territory was at some distance from the sea. The investigations of modern travellers have, as yet, thrown little light upon the situation of Temnos or of the other JEolic towns : sec Arundei Discoveries in Asia Minor, vol. ii, pp. 292-298. 2 Pliny, II. N. v, 30. 3 Strabo, xiii, pp. 582-621, compared with Pseudo- Herodotus, Vit. Homer, c. 1-38, who says that Lesbos was occupied by the -ZEolians one hundred and thirty years after the Trojan war : Kyme, twenty years after Lesbos ; Smyrna, eighteen years after Kyme. The chronological statements of different writers arc collected it Mr Clinton's Fast Ilcllen. c. 5, pp. 104. 105.