Mysia
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1676. A most exact and accurate map of the whole world by Donald Lupton.
Mysia
E. W. Phrygia the greater and less N. S. Bythinia Hellespont, Lydia and the Aegean, where be∣sides the Mountain Olympus, and the Rivers Caicus, and 2 Granicus: 1 Pergamus on a goodly plain by the banks of Caicus, famous for, 1 a great Library, containing 20000 Volumes, whence Parchment called Pergamenum. 2 Ta∣pestry. 3 Galens birth-place, who attained to 140 years of age, 1 By never eating or drinking his fill. 2 Nor any thing raw. 3 And by perfumes he carried about him. 4 And one of the 7 Churches in the Revelations. 2 Alydda. 3 Trojanopolis. 4 Praepemissus. 5 Protoselene. 6 Addramittium, Acts 27. 7 Dainta. 8 Scepsis vetus on the Aegean Sea. 9 Parium, and its Marble. 10 Priapus, the filthy Gods Lampsachus. 11 Cyzicus strong and beautiful in the Propontis:
Arce, Maenibus, portu, turribusque marmoreis illustris. The stones of whose ruines, by an Earth-quake are car∣ried daily to Constantinople. 12 Abydos on the North∣west of the Hellespont, over against Sestos, fortified with two Castles which defend Constantinople on that side from all force by Sea.