this would have been at a lesser consideration, but still very important,

那就是这也许不是最先考虑的但仍很重要
because we so often find

因为我们通常都认为
that the colony is placed right at a nifty place for trade.

殖民地都是建立在便于贸易的位置
They would have had to be damn fools

如果不是这样的话
to have settled there without that being in their minds,

他们的脑子就是进水了
although some of the places where they settled leave us puzzled,

确实是有一些殖民地建立在不毛之地
and have left the ancients puzzled.

这让我们和古人都很困惑
One of my favorite examples is

其中一个我很常举的例子就是
the colony on the south shore of the Bosporus,

在博斯普鲁斯南部海岸的殖民地
which is called Chalcedon.

叫做卡尔西顿
It's right opposite Constantinople--

就在君士坦丁堡对面
that doesn't exist, Istanbul.

现在我们叫它伊斯坦布尔