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The ancient city was about 1300m. away from its harbour.
(Steph. Byz. & Ptol. 3,15,18 & Plin. 48,4,8).
A town of Phocis on the shore of the Sinus Corinthiacus, southeast of Anticyra.
Boulis. A town of Phocis, on the frontiers of Boeotia, situated upon a hill, and distant 7 stadia from the Crissaean gulf, 80 stadia from Thisbe, and 100 from Anticyra. It was founded by the Dorians under Bulon, and for this reason appears to have belonged to neither the Phocian nor the Boeotian confederacy. Pausanias, at least, did not regard it as a Phocian town, since he describes it as bordering upon Phocis. But Stephanus, Pliny, and Ptolemy all assign it to Phocis. Near Phocis there flowed into the sea a torrent called Heracleius, and there was also a fountain named Saunium. In the time of Pausanias more than half the population was employed in fishing for the murex, which-yielded the purple dye, but which is no longer caught on this coast. (Paus. x. 37. § 2, seq.; Steph. B. s. v.; Plin. iv. 3. s. 4; Ptol. iii. 15. § 18, who calls it Bouleia; Plut. de Prud. Anim. 31, where for Bounon we ought to read Bouleon, according to Muller, Orchomenus, p. 482, 2nd ed.) The harbour of Bulis, which Pausanias describes as distant 7 stadia from the city, is called Mychus (Muchos) by Strabo (ix. pp. 409, 423). The ruins of Bulis are situated about an hour from the monastery of Dobo. Leake describes Bulis as occupying the summit of a rocky height which slopes on one side towards a small harbour, and is defended in the opposite direction by an immense brachos, or lofty rock, separated by a torrent from the precipitous acclivities of Helicon. The harbour of Mychus is now called Zalitza.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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