. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. amd iron: the ruins at Horzoom consist of atheatre and some temples. The exact positions of Cretopolis and of 1 Ne Cibrratica, ne Bithyna iiegotia perdas.—Hor. £p. i. 6, ^C. GEOG. H PHEYGTA. Book II. Isionda are unknown : they were somewhere in the , on the bor-ders of Paniphylia. JJistoi-/.—The Pisidians resisted all attempts at permanent the Romans failed: for though they conquered the inhabitant:^,and handed over theproyiuce to Eumenes of Pergamus, and afterwardsadj
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. amd iron: the ruins at Horzoom consist of atheatre and some temples. The exact positions of Cretopolis and of 1 Ne Cibrratica, ne Bithyna iiegotia perdas.—Hor. £p. i. 6, ^C. GEOG. H PHEYGTA. Book II. Isionda are unknown : they were somewhere in the , on the bor-ders of Paniphylia. JJistoi-/.—The Pisidians resisted all attempts at permanent the Romans failed: for though they conquered the inhabitant:^,and handed over theproyiuce to Eumenes of Pergamus, and afterwardsadjoined it to their province of Pamphylia, yet they never really re-pressed its lawless inhabitants, nor did they ever introduce a provincialor2aniz:ition. St. FAuTs Travels—^t. Paul visited Pisidia in his first journey,crossin^^ Taurus from Pamphylia to Antioch, where the Jews appear tohave been numerous, and returning by the same route after havingvisited Lycaonia Acts xih. 14: xiv. 21 : he probably visited Antiochagain in his second journey, though the place is not specified (xvi. -j-^... Hierapolis in Phrygia (Laborde). X. Pheygia. § 9. The important province of Fhrygia, or^ as it was more fullytermed, P. Major, to distin2;nish it from P. Minor in Mysia, borderedin the E. on Galatia and Lycaonia, in the S. on Pisidia, in theAV. on Caria, Lydia. and ]\rysia, and in the X. on Galatia. Its Ijonndaries cannot be fixed wntli any degree of precision, as theyvaried at different historical eras : it may be described generally asthe western parr of the central plateau, and as coextensive with thelimits of the plateau itself. Tlie country is mountainous and well Chap. IX. XATUKAL FEATURES. 147 wiitered : some portions, particularly the valleys of the Hernius aiir]j\Leander, were very fertile and produced the vine :^ the other partswere adapted to sheep-feeding. The chief productions were wool, whichwas of a very superior quality, and marble, especially the species foundnear Syn
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