FOOTNOTES:
[1] The towns are designated in the following hexameter:
“Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenæ.”
[2] Cette porte dont l’empire Ottomane a pris nom.—Tourn.
[3] Some say it was to Magnesia on the Meander.
[4] Magnesia ad Sipylum, a qua magnes lapis, ferum attractens, nomen sortitus est.
[5] The names were as follow: Proté, because it is the first met in sailing from, Constantinople−Chalki, from its copper mines−Prinkipo, the residence of a princess−Antigone, so called by Demetrius Polyorcetes in memory of his father Antigonus−Oxy, from its sharp precipices−Platy from its flatness−Pitya, from its pines, &c.
[6] The gum-resin, yielded by these plants, is sometimes collected by combing the beards of the goals, which browse among them, when they return home at night; and sometimes a leather thong is drawn across them, and that which adheres scraped off. The boots of those who walk through the shrubs are often incrusted with this gum.
[7] Jerem. vii. 7.
[8] Psalm civ. 17.
[9] There is another bridge of considerable extent called Buyuk Tchekmadgé, thrown across an arm of the sea some miles from the capital.
[10] Rev. iii. 15.
[11] Ep. to Colos. iv. 16.