became afterwards a mart inferior only to Ephefus. It was feated
on a root of mount Signia, and furrounded by the Marfyas,
Obrima6, and Orgas. The ftream of the Marfyas was hid, not
far from its rife, in a vale called Aulocrene j the fcene, it was
fabled of the conteft with Apollo, ten miles from Apamea on
the way into Phrygia. It flowed through the middle of this city,
which was near its mouth; and pouring down into the fuburb
with a vehement precipitate current, the ftream twenty five feet
wide, and without windings, joined the Msanderj which, having
before received the Orgas, pafled through the plain, mild
and gentle. The fprings of the Obrimas, which ran likewife
into the Maeander, were on the borders of Pifidia. The Marfyas
has been ftiled the moll tranfparent river of Phrygia j and The
Catarati, from its falling down the rock with a mighty noife.
T h e Meander, augmented by the three rivers, after wandering
through the Apamene plain, proceeded, larger and deeper,
with many windings, from the paftures of Phrygia into the
vine-clad province of the Carians j which it divided from Lydia
near the plain properly called The Maandrian, where the bed was
crooked in an uncommon degree. This, or the Upper Caria,
ending, it flowed quietly into that of the Ionians, increafed by
the acceflion of numerous ftreams, and, after vifiting many towns,
and fertilizing with its flime the fair plains, linoothly entered the
fea; which perhaps once walhed the foot both of Celamas and of
Signia. The river was navigable a confiderable way above the
mouth, and one Melefanaer is recorded as having gone on it
with, his Ihips into the Upper Caria. Its eels were much prized
by the antient epicures ; and its banks were remarkably clothed
with tamarilks.
T he people of Apamea, though inland, were worlhip-
pers of Neptune. The reafon, it has been conjectured, was,
that they bad fuflered often from earthquakes, of which he was
fuppofed the author. Mithridates gave an hundred, talents toward
the reftoration of the Gity j. which, it is faid, had likewife
• been
been overthrown in the time of Alexander. Their tribute-money'
was remitted to them for five years on the fame account under
the emperor Tiberius. The fubterraneous paflage of the Lycus
and the other ftreams Ihowed that the ground had many cavities
j and thefe, it has been furmifed, rendered the region very
liable to be lhaken. Between Laodicea and Apamea was a muddy
lake of falt-water, which had a private vent: and the name Ce-
larnse has been interpreted to denote the colour of the ftones and
the blacknefs occafioned by fiery eruptions.
X e r x e s on his expedition into Greece came by Celsn® and
the fait lake to Coloff® and Cydrara, where Was the boundary of
the Lydians and Phrygians. He then entered Lydia, and the
road dividing, the left branch leading into Caria, the right toward
Sardes, took the latter j on which it was neceflary to pafs
the M®ander. Laodicea did not then exift, but, it is probable,
he marched by the life, as his rout to Sardes appears to have been
nearly the fame with that which we (hall purfue after leaving
Hierapolis, and recovering the main road from Laodicea weft-
ward.
C H A P . LXXI.
Picehini’s journey to Chonos — To Pambauk — Pocock’s journey td
Chonos — Remarks — Pocock's journey continued — Dinglar —
IJhecleb — Remarks.
T H E reader may be introduced to a farther knowlege of the
region, which is the fubjeft of the preceding chapter, by an extract
from the diary of Picenini, and from the travels of an author,
by whom its antient geography is greatly miftaken.
P i o e n i n i , with his companions, fet out from Laodicea, and:
proceeded two hours, when they pafled through a pleafant wood,
©f tall trees > and after three hours more, came to a village called
Chonos,