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 4^8 flint's NATUEAL HISTOEY. [Book T. Cale, Stabulum, Conisium, Teium, Balcea Tiare, Teuthranie, Sarnaca, Haliserne, Lycide, Parthenium,Thymbre,Oxyopum' Lygdamiim, Apollonia, and Pergamum^, by far the most fa- mous city in Asia, and through which the river Selinus runs ; the Cetius, which rises in Mount Pindasus, flowing before it. Not far from it is Elaea, which we have mentioned^ as situate on the sea-shore. The jurisdiction of this district is called that of Pergamus ; to it resort the Thyatireni^ the Mosyni, the Mygdones^, the Bregmeni, the Hierocometc^^, the Perpereni, the Tiareni, the Hierolophienses, the Her- mocapelitse, the Attalenses^, the Panteenses, the Apolloni- dienses, and some other states unknown to fame. The little town of Dardanum^ is distant from Ehoeteum seventy stadia. Eighteen miles thence is the Promontory of Trapeza^, from which spot the Hellespont first commences its course.' Eratosthenes tells us that in Asia there have perished the nations of the Solymi^", the Leleges'^ the Bebryces^^^ the ' A town on the Propontis, according to Stephanus. The sites of most of the jDlaces here mentioned are utterly unknown. 2 Also caUed Pergama or Pergamus. Its ruins are to be seen at the modern Pergamo or Bergamo. It was the capital of the kingdom of Pergamus, and situate in the Teuthranian district of Mysia on the northern bank of the river Caicus. Under its kmgs, its hbrarV almost equalled that of Alexandi-ia, and the formation of it gave rise to the in- vention of parchjnent, as a writhig material, which was thence caUed tharta Pergamena. Tliis city was an early seat of Christianity, and is one of the seven chm-ches of Asia to whom the Apocalyptic Epistles are addressed. Its ruins are stiU to be seen. 3 At the beginning of the preceding Chapter. 5 The people of Mygdonia, a district between Mount Olympus and the coast, m the east of Mysia and the west of Bithynia. ^ " The people of the Holy Village." Hierocome is mentioned by Livy as situate beyond the river Meander. 7 The people of Attaha, mentioned in C. 32. s Previously mentioned in the present Chapter. ^ Or " the Table." Now known as Capo de Janisseri. Also caUed the Milyse, probably of the Syro-Arabian race; they were said to have been the earhest inhabitants of Lycia. T A "^n^ Leleges are now considered to have been a branch of the great Indo-Germanic race, who gradually became incorporated with the Hel- lenic race, and thus ceased to exist as an independent people. - A nation belongmg probably more to mythology than history, btrabo supposes them to have been of Thi'acian origin, and that their nrst place of settlement was Mysia.
 * The people of Thyatu-a, mentioned in B. v. c. 31.