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 BRIDGE AND FORTIFICATION. 4GiJ little distance below the point where the wall touched the river south of the city, was the bridge. 1 a communication of great importance for the whole country, which connected the territory of Amphip- C) uTtol.aSuv EK TroTO/iov f 7rora/zw, TrepiQavTJ f ftahaaffuv TE Kal /TrEtpov u 'O Kahfaytyvpof TTora/ibf Srpjyzwr, Euripicl. Rhesus, 346. I annex a plan which will convey some idea of the hill of Amphipolis and the circumjacent territory : compare the plan in Colonel Leake, Trav- els in Northern Greece, vol. iii, ch. xxv, p. 191, and that from Mr. Hawkins, which is annexed to the third volume of Dr. Arnold's Thucydides, com- bined with a Dissertation which appears in the second volume of the same work, p. 450. See also the remarks in Kutzcn, De Atheniensium imperio circa Strymonem, ch. ii, pp. 18-21 ; Wcissenborn, Beitrage zur genaueren Erforschung der alt-griechischen Geschichte, pp. 152-156: Cousine'iy, Voyage dans la Mace'doine, vol. i, ch. iv, p. 124, seq. Colonel Leake supposes the ancient bridge to have been at the same point of the river as the modern bridge ; that is, north of Amphipolis, and a little westward of the corner of the lake. On this point I differ from him, and have placed it, with Dr. Arnold, near the southeastern end of the reach of the Strymon, which flows round Amphipolis. But there is another circumstance, in which Col. Leake's narrative corrects a material error in Dr. Arnold's Dissertation. Colonel Leake particularly notices the high ridge which connects the hill of Amphipolis with Mount Pangaeus to the eastward (pp. 182, 183, 191-194), whereas Dr. Arnold represents them as separated by a deep ravine (p. 451) : upon which latter supposition the whole account of Kleon's march and survey appears to me unintel- ligible. The epithet which Thucydides gives to Amphipolis, " conspicuous both towards the sea and towards the land," which occasions some perplexity to the commentators, appears to me one of obvious propriety. Amphipoli was indeed situated on a hill ; so were many other towns : but its peculiar- ity was, that on three sides it had no wall to interrupt the eye of the spec- tator: one of those sides was towards the sea. Kutzen and Cousine'ry make the long wall to be the segment of a curvo highly bent, touching the river at both ends. But I agree with Weissen- born that this is inadmissible ; and that the words " long wall " imply something near a straight direction. 'Afreet <5e rd Tro/Uu/za nvU'ov T% diafiuasuc : see a ncte a few pages ago npon these words. This does not necessarily imply that the bridge was at any considerable distance from the extreme point where the long wall touched the river to the south : but this latter point was a good way off from the town properly so called, which occupied the higher slope of the hill. We are not to suppose that the wholt space between the long wall and the river was covered by buildings. VOL. vi. 20* 30oc.