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 342 STRABO. CASAUB. 584- the summit Gargarum, 1 calling it the top 2 (of Ida), for there is now in exist ence in the higher parts of Ida a place, from which the present Gargara, an JEolian city, has its name. Between Zeleia and Lectum, proceeding from the Propontis, are first the parts extending to the straits at Abydos. Then the parts below the Propontis, extending as far as Lectum. 6. On doubling Lectum a large bay opens, 3 formed by Mount Ida, which recedes from Lectum, and by Canae, the promontory opposite to Lectum on the other side. Some per- sons call it the Bay of Ida, others the Bay of Adrainyttium. On this bay are situated the cities of the ^Eolians, extend- ing, as we have said, to the mouths of the Hermus. I have mentioned also in a former part of my work, that in sailing from Byzantium in a straight line towards the south, we first arrive at Sestos and Abydos through the middle of the Pro- pontis ; then at the sea-coast of Asia as far as Caria. The readers of this work ought to attend to the following observ- ation ; although we mention certain bays on this coast, they must understand the promontories also which form them, situated on the same meridian. 4 7. Those who have paid particular attention to this sub- ject conjecture, from the expressions of the poet, that all this coast was subject to the Trojans, when it was divided into nine dynasties, but that at the time of the war it was under the sway of Priam, and called Troja. This appears from the detail. Achilles and his army perceiving, at the be- ginning of the war, that the inhabitants of Ilium were de- fended by walls, carried on the war beyond them, made a cir- cuit, and took the places about the country ; " I sacked with my ships twelve cities, and eleven in the fruitful land of Troja." 5 1 The whole range of Ida now bears various names : the highest sum- mit is called Kas-dagh. Gossellin says that the range is called Kara- dagh, but this name (black mountain) like Kara-su (Black river) and Kara-Koi (Black village) are so commonly applied that they amount to no distinction ; in more modern maps this name does not appear. It may be here observed that the confusion of names of those parts in the Turkish empire which were formerly under the Greeks, arises from the use of names in both languages. 2 II. xiv. 292. 3 The Gulf of Edremid or Jalea, the ancient Elsea. 4 The meridian, according to our author's system, passing through Con- stantinople, Rhodes, Alexandria, Syene, and Meroe. 5 II. ix. 328.