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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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p.101.

Dr.Clarke adopted Mr.Walpole's interpretation of the salt Hellespont.

But the old interpretation is more graphic and Homeric.
Clarke's Travels, ii.

70 .-- M.] [Footnote 19: Demetrius of Scepsis wrote sixty books on thirty lines of Homer's catalogue.

The XIIIth Book of Strabo is sufficient for our curiosity.] [Footnote 20: Strabo, l.xiii.p.595, [890, edit.


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