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Excerpt from Thucydides: Book VII In selecting the Site for this central fortress, the Athenian generals had to look for a point which lay about half-way between the Great Harbour. And the northern sea - Since to those limits their projected lines were to be carried northward and southward. The fort must not be very near to the city itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.