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Tlierasia^ was torn a^Yay, and between the two afterwards 

 arose Automate, also called Hiera, and Thia, which in our 

 own times came into existence in the vicinity of these islands, 

 los is distant from Tliera twenty-five miles. 



Next to these follow Lea, Ascania^, Anaphe', Ilippuris, 

 and Astypalsea^, a free state. This island is eighty-eight 

 miles in circumference, and 125 miles distant from Cadistus, 

 in Crete. From Astypalrea, Platea is distant sixty miles, 

 and Caminia thirty-eight from this last. AVe then come to 

 the islands of Azibintha, Lanise, Tragsea, Pharmacussa, 

 Techedia, Chalcia^, Calymna^, in which is the town of Coos, 

 Calymna, at a distance of twenty-five miles from which 

 is Carpathum'^, which has given its name to the Carpathian 

 Sea. The distance thence to Ehodes^, in the direction of the 

 south-west wind, is fifty miles. From Carpathum to Casus 

 is seven miles, and from Casus to Sammonium, the pro- 

 montory of Crete, thirty^. In the Euripus of Euboea, almost* 

 at the very mouth of it, are the four islands called Petaliae^'' ; 



^ A small island to the west of Thera, still kno\\Ti by the same name. 



^ In Lapie's map, Ascania is set do%vn as the present Christiana. 



' Now Anaphe, IS'amfi, or Namphio, one of the Sporades. It was 

 celebrated for the temple of ApoUo .Egletes, the fomidution of which 

 was ascribed to the Ai'gonauts, and of whicli considerable remains stiU 

 exist. It aboimds m partridges, as it did also in ancient times. 



■* Now Astropalsea, or Stamphaha. By Strabo it is called one of the 

 Sporades, by Stephanas one of the Cyclades. It probably was favoured 

 by the Romans for the excellence and importance of its harbours. From 

 Hegesander we leaim that it was famous for its hares, and PUny tells us, 

 in B. viii. c. 59, that its mussels were (as tliey still are) very celebrated. 



5 None of these islands can be now identified, except perhaps Chalcia, 

 also mentioned by Strabo, and now known as Karki. 



^ Now Kalymno, the prmcipal island of the grou^-), by Homer called 

 Calydne. According to most of the editions, Winy mentions here 

 Calydna andCalymna,makhigthis island, wliich had those two names, into 

 two islands. Altliough Pliny here mentions only the tovm of Coos, still, 

 in B. V. c. 3n, he speaks of three otliers, Notium, Nisyrus, and Mondc- 

 terus. There are still some remains of antiquity to be seen here. 



7 Or Carpathus, now Skarpanto. It gave name to the sea between 

 Crete and Rhodes. 



^ It still preserves its ancient name, and presents some interesting 

 remains of antiquity. 



'•^ Brotier says tliat the distance is really fifly-two miles. 



^^ So called from the town of PetaUa, on the mainland. Ansart says 

 Hiat theu" present name is SpUi. 



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