The latter of those cities was built by the Greeks, a few years before the former; and the blindness of its founders, who overlooked the superior advantages of the opposite coast, has been stigmatized by a proverbial expression of contempt.

[10] [Footnote 3: The Bosphorus has been very minutely described by Dionysius of Byzantium, who lived in the time of Domitian, (Hudson, Geograph Minor, tom.

iii.,) and by Gilles or Gyllius, a French traveller of the XVIth century.

Tournefort (Lettre XV.) seems to have used his own eyes, and the learning of Gyllius.

Add Von Hammer, Constantinopolis und der Bosphoros, 8vo .-- M.] [Footnote 4: There are very few conjectures so happy as that of Le Clere, (Bibliotehque Universelle, tom.i.p.