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BOOK ly. 



JC^ ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, 

 HAYENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEO- 

 PLES VfHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED. 



CHAP. 1. (1.) — EPIEUS. 



The third great Gulf of Europe begins at the mountains 

 of Acroceraiinia\ and ends at the Hellespont, embracing an 

 extent of 2500 miles, exclusive of the sea-line of nineteen 

 smaller gulfs. Upon it are Epirus, Acarnania, ^tolia, Phocis, 

 Locris, Achaia, Messenia, Laconia, Argolis, Megaris, Attica, 

 Bo'otia ; and again, upon the other sea'-^, the same Phocis 

 and Locris, Doris, Phthiotis, Thessalia, Magnesia, Macedonia 

 and Thracia, All the fabulous lore of Greece, as well as the 

 effulgence of her literature, first shone forth upon the banks 

 of this Gulf "VVe shall therefore dwell a little the longer 

 upon it. 



Epirus^, generally so called, begins at the mountains of 

 Acroceraunia. The first people that we meet are the Chaones, 

 from whom Chaonia'* receives its name, then the Tliesproti*, 

 and then the Autigonenses^. AYe then come to the place 

 where Aornos'^ stood, with its exhalations so deadly to the 

 feathered race, the Cestrini^, the Perrha;bi^, in whose coun- 



^ Now caUed Monti deUa Chimera, or Mountains of Kliimara. See 

 p. 262. 2 '£\yQ JEgean Sea, the present Archipelago. 



2 This country contained, accordmg to Pouqueville, the present San- 

 giacs of Janina, Delvino, and Chamouri, with the Yavodilika or Princi- 

 paUty of Ai'ta. This name was originally given to the whole of the west of 

 Greece, from the Promontory of Acroceraunia to the entrance of the Corin- 

 thian Gulf, in contradistinction to Corcyra and the island of Cephallenia. 



^ This district, according to Pouqueville, occupied tlie present Cantons 

 of Chimera, lapouria, Arboria, Paracaloma, and Philates, 



^ They occupied the site of the present Paraniytliia, according to Pou- 

 queville. 



^ Antigonia was about a mile distant, PouquevUle says, from tlio 

 modern town of Tebelen. 



7 From 'A "not," and upvis "a bird." Its site is now unknown. 

 There were many places of this name. Avemus or Aomos in Campania 

 has been previously mentioned. 



^ The remains of Cestria are stiU to be seen at Palea Yenetia, near 

 the town of Fdiates. PouquetiUe calls the place Chamouri. 



^ According to Pouqueville, the modern Zagori stands on the site of 

 Perrhaebia. Pindus is sometimes called Grammoi?, but is still known by 

 ito ancient name. 



