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called Pomponiana, and Hypaea^ After these come Stu- 

 rium-, Phoeuice, Phila, Lero, and, opposite to Antipolis^, 

 Lerina"*, where there is a remembrance of a town called 

 Vergoanum having once existed. 



CHAP. 12. (6.) — CORSICA. 



In the Ligurian Sea, but close to the Tuscan, is Corsica, 

 by the Grreeks called Cyrnos, extending, from north to 

 south 150 miles, and for the most part 50 miles in breadth, 

 its circumference being 325. It is 62 miles distant from 

 the Vada YolateiTana^ It contains thirty-two states, and 

 two colonies, that of Mariana*', founded by C. Marius, and 

 that of Aleria, foimded by the Dictator Sylla. On this 

 side of it is Oglasa', and, at a distance of less than sixty 

 miles from Corsica, Planaria^, so called from its appear- 

 ance, being nearly level with the sea, and consequently 

 treacherous to mariners. 



We next have Urgo^, a larger island, and Capraria, wliich 

 the Grreeks have called J^gilion^'^ ; then Igilium^^ and Dia- 

 nium^^, which they have also called Artemisia, both of them 

 ojDposite the coast of Cosa; also Barpana^^, Maenarta, Co- 



^ Now called the lie du Levant oi* du Titan. The group is called the 

 Islands of Hieres or Calypso. 



^ These are probably the httle islands now known as Eatoneau, Po- 

 niegue, and If. It has however been sxiggested that these names belong to 

 llie islands of Hieres already mentioned in tlie text, and that Stui'iiun is 

 the present PorqueroUes, Phoeniee Port-Croz, and Phila, Levant or Titan. 



3 Now Antibes, or Antiboul in the Provencal idiom. 



* Now Saint Honorat de Lerins. The island of Lero is the present 

 Sainte Marguerite de Lerins, and is nearer to Antibes than Lerina. The 

 Lermian monastery was much resorted to in the early ages of Cliristianity. 



^ In ancient Etrm-ia, now Torre di Vada. The distance is, in reahty, 

 about ninety miles. 



^ Mariana was situate in the northern part of the island, and the ruins 

 of Aleria are stUl to be seen on the banks of the river Tavignano, near 

 the coast. 7 Probably near the present Monte CVisto. 



^ He probably means the group of islands called Formicole, which are 

 situate only thirty-three miles from Corsica, and not near sixty. 



^ Now La Gorgona, « 



'^ Both of these names meaning " Goat island." It is now called 

 Capraia. " The modern Giglio. 



^- Now Gianuto, opposite Monte Argentaro on tlic nuiin-land. 



^3 These are probably the small islands now called Formicte or For- 

 inicole di Grossetto, Troja, Palmajola, and Cervoli. 



