...the last ; and supposing the few ruins before-mentioned about a mile from Nagara to belong to Abydus, that point answers sufficiently to the spot on the Asiatic coast to which the pontoons were affixed. The passage of Xerxes is not more suggested to the traveller who sails through these straits, than...

...the other town, that the posts of the two places were 30 stadia, more than 31 m., from each other. The bridges were on the Propontic side of Abydos,...Asiatic coast to which the pontoons were affixed." This part of the Dardanelles is likewise memorable as the place where the army of Alexander, under...