. A description of the East, and some other countries . A3IAP of CYZICUS and theX^XjE ^BELLTOJVTi:,Aufl a FZi W atH OTTR S A. ASIA MINOR. Were are now to be feen, for there are two paflages or caufewaysD, whichare ufed at this time as roads, all the reft of the Ifthmus being a morafs, ex-cept two large fandy banks on each lide made by the fea. At the northeaft part of the eaftern bank E, there is a height, which feems to havebeen an ifland in the antient paffage, and oppofite to it the city wallsare higher and ftronger than in any other parts. The ifland of Cyzi-; cus was about fixty-two miles
. A description of the East, and some other countries . A3IAP of CYZICUS and theX^XjE ^BELLTOJVTi:,Aufl a FZi W atH OTTR S A. ASIA MINOR. Were are now to be feen, for there are two paflages or caufewaysD, whichare ufed at this time as roads, all the reft of the Ifthmus being a morafs, ex-cept two large fandy banks on each lide made by the fea. At the northeaft part of the eaftern bank E, there is a height, which feems to havebeen an ifland in the antient paffage, and oppofite to it the city wallsare higher and ftronger than in any other parts. The ifland of Cyzi-; cus was about fixty-two miles in circumference, and appears like a broadi mountainous cape. The city had a great territory belonging to it, andj was governed by its own wholefom laws, fuch as thofe of Rhodes, Mar-jfeilles, and Carthage. This people was fo ftrong that they fuftainedj with great bravery the flege of Mithridates, who had a hundred and fiftyI thoufand foot, befides horfe, and four hundred fliips, obliging him toleave tiie place : The hill on the oppofite continent wa
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