28/38 His plan of the seven hills is clear and accurate. That traveller is seldom unsatisfactory.] [Footnote 23: See Belon, Observations, c. Among a variety of different species, the Pelamides, a sort of Thunnies, were the most celebrated. We may learn from Polybius, Strabo, and Tacitus, that the profits of the fishery constituted the principal revenue of Byzantium.] [Footnote 24: See the eloquent description of Busbequius, epistol. |