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famous for its goats, Issa with the rights of Eoman citizens, 

 and Pharia with a town. At a distance of twenty-five miles 

 from Issa is Corc}Ta\ surnamed Melaena, A^ith a tovm. founded 

 by the Cnidians ; between which and Illyricum is Melite', 

 from which, as we learn from Callimachus, a certain kind 

 of little dogs were called Melitaei ; fifteen miles from it we 

 find the seven Elaphites^. In the Ionian Sea, at a distance 

 of twelve miles from Oricnm, is Sasonis^, notorious from 

 ha^dng been a harbour of pirates. 



Summary. — The towns and nations mentioned are in 

 number * * * *5^ rjij^^ rivers of note are in number * * * *. 

 The mountains of note are in number * * * *. The islands 

 are in number * * * *. The to^Tis or nations which have 

 disappeared are in number * * * *. The facts, statements, 

 and observations are in number 326. 



EoMAN AuTHOES QUOTED. — Turannius Gracilis^, Cor- 

 nelius Nepos^, T. Livius^, Cato the Censor^, M. Agrip- 



the coast of Dalmatia, and was used as a place of banishment under the 

 emperors. 



^ Now Curzola, or, in the Sclavonic, Karkar. It obtained its name of 

 ISrigi'a or Melaena, "black," fi'om the dark colom* of its pine woods. 

 Sir Gr. Wilkinson describes it in his *' Dalmatia and Montenegro," vol. i. 



^ Now called Meleda or Zapimtello. It is more generally to the 

 other island of Melita or Malta that the origin of the "MeUtsei" or Maltese 

 dogs is ascribed. Some winters are of opinion that it was upon this 

 island that St. Paial was shipwTCcked, and not the larger Melita. 



3 So caUed from their resemblance to a stag, eXa^os, of which the 

 modern Giupan formed the head, Ruda the neck, Mezzo the body, Cala- 

 motta the haunches, and the rock of Grebini or Pettini the tail. They 

 produce excellent wine and oil, and are looked upon as the most valuable 

 part of the Ragusan territory. 



■* Still known as Sasino. It is ten miles from Eagusa, tlie port of 

 Oricura, according to Pouqucville. ^ Tlic original nnmliers are lost. 



^ He was a Spaniard by birth, a native of MeUaria in Ilispauia Ba^tica. 

 He is mentioned by Cicero as a man of great learning, and is ])robably 

 the same person that is mentioned by Ovid in liis Pontic Epistles, B. iv. 

 ep. xvi. 1. 2U, as a distingvushed tragic writer. 



7 See end of B. ii. ^ See end of B. ii. 



* M. Porcius Cato, or Cato the Elder ; famous as a statesman, a 

 patriot, and a pliUosopher. He wrote " De Re Rustica," a work which 

 etill survives, and " Letters of Instruction to his Son," of which only some 

 fragments remain. He also wrote a hit^torical work called " Origines," 



