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From Sardis to the Halys, through Lydia and Phrygia, is reckoned at 94 1/2 paras. = 2,835 stades. This distance agrees fairly with the route sketched by Ramsay (op. cit.), amplifying and improving on Kiepert (Monatsb. Berl. Akad. 1857). The way would be by Satala to Akmonia, or to Keramon Agora. Then to avoid the salt-desert, which spreads over the centre of the peninsula (cf. § 1 διὰ οἰκεομένης τε ὁδὸς ἅπασα καὶ ἀσφαλέος), the road curved northward by the city of Midas, Pessinus, and Gordium to Ancyra (cf. J. H. S. xix, p. 50 and map) and the bridge over the Halys.

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