Book 13
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Separate from the other is the Halesian plain near Lectum, which is not extensive, and the Tragasaean salt-pan near Hamaxitus,The Turks call the place Fousla, the salt-pans. where the salt spontaneously concretes on the blowing of the Etesian winds. On Lectum stands an altar dedicated to the Twelve Gods, erected, it is said, by Agamemnon.
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These places are in sight of Ilium, at the distance of a little more than 200 stadia. On the other side the parts about Abydos are visible, although Abydos is somewhat nearer.
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After doubling Lectum, there follow the most considerable cities of the Aeolians, the bay of Adramyttium, on which Homer seems to have placed the greater part of the Leleges, and the Cilicians, divided into two tribes. There also is the coast of the Mitylenaeans with some villages of the Mitylenaeans on the continent. The bay has the name of the Idaean bay, for the ridge extending from Lectum to Ida overhangs the commencement of the bay, where, according to the poet,Il. x. 429. the Leleges were first settled.
