Phrygia Minor

Sources from old books:

1638. The merchants mappe of commerce wherein by Lewes Roberts.

In Phrygia minor, is not found any thing at present worthy in trade to stay the course of my penne; it affordeth the place where the ancient and famous Citie of Troy was seated, which cost the Grecians ten yeares siege to take it, with the losse of 860000 of the Trojans, and 666000 of the Grecians, but in Anno 1620, I hardly saw the reliques of this mightie fabrique, though I traced it for many miles, and gave care to all the ridiculous fables of those poore Grecians that inhabite thereabouts in many villages which lie within the compasse of her ancient walls, from mount Id•… to the River Scamander, now onely a brooke not two foote deepe; so that, what Ovid said of old I found by experience verefied, I a•… seges est ubi Tr•…ia fuit, &c. Neither

1676. A most exact and accurate map of the whole world by Donald Lupton.

E. Mysia. W. Hellespont. N. S. Propontis and the Aegean Sea: Here is,

1. the Ruines of Troy:
2. With its Port Sigaeum, and
3. the Sea town Lyrnessus, and Assus, Acts 20.13. where dead bodies are consumed in 40 dayes, and
4. strong Scamandria.