[Footnote 79: George of Pisidia, (Acroas. ii. 10, p. 8) has
fixed this important point of the Syrian and Cilician gates.
They are elegantly described by Xenophon, who marched
through them a thousand years before. A narrow pass of
three stadia between steep, high rocks, and the
Mediterranean, was closed at each end by strong gates,
impregnable to the land, accessible by sea, (Anabasis, l. i.
p. 35, 36, with Hutchinson's Geographical Dissertation, p.
vi.) The gates were thirty-five parasangs, or leagues, from
Tarsus, (Anabasis, l. i. p. 33, 34,) and eight or ten from
Antioch. Compare Itinerar. Wesseling, p. 580, 581.
Schultens, Index Geograph. ad calcem Vit. Saladin. p. 9.
Voyage en Turquie et en Perse, par M. Otter, tom. i. p. 78,
79.]