. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. >hylia, whence he advanced to Side on the sea-coast, and to Syllium, a place of uncertain position between Side andAspendus. He returned to Perge, and struck northwards through thedefiles of Taurus by Sagalassus to Celtense in Phrygia, and thence acrossthe plains of that province to Gordium in Bithynia, which he reachedin the early part of the year 333. He halted there for some two orthree months, and resumed his course in an E, direction as far asAncyra, and then S. across Cappadocia to the
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. >hylia, whence he advanced to Side on the sea-coast, and to Syllium, a place of uncertain position between Side andAspendus. He returned to Perge, and struck northwards through thedefiles of Taurus by Sagalassus to Celtense in Phrygia, and thence acrossthe plains of that province to Gordium in Bithynia, which he reachedin the early part of the year 333. He halted there for some two orthree months, and resumed his course in an E, direction as far asAncyra, and then S. across Cappadocia to the Cilician Gates of Taurus,vvhicli dangerous pass he traversed without molestation, and descendedon the S. side of Taurus to the fertile plains of Cilicia. At Tarsus hehalted for some time, and made an excursion thence to Anchialus andSoli in the W. of Cilicia. Resuming his course from Tarsus in a S. , be crossed the Aleiau plain to Mallus at the mouth of thePyramus, and then followed the line of coast to Issus, and throughthe gates of Cilicia and Syria to Myriandrus in Syria. Meantime. 248 EXPEDITION OF ALEXANDER THE GEEAT. Book IL Darius was crossing the Amanian range by the northern pass whichdescends into Cilicia near Issus. Alexander therefore retraced hissteps, and met the enemy on. the banks of the Pinarus, where he againtriumphed in the important battle of Issus. From this point Alex-ander hastened southwards through Syria to Phoenicia, the chief townsof which (Marathus, Byblus, Sidon) surrendered, with the exceptionof Tyre, winch sustained a siege of seven months. Thence (in 332) hefollowed the coast southwards, and met with no further obstacle untilhe reached Gaza, Avhich held out against him for two months. Inseven days he crossed from Gaza to Pelusium on the frontier of Egypt :he ascended the eastern branch of the Nile to Memphis, and descendedby the western branch to Canopus. After the foundation of Alex-andria, he made his famous expedition to the oracle
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