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and here and there level ground (query, the centre 

 of old craters) occurs. From this central ridge the 

 sides, always steep and often precipitous, run down, 

 and almost invariably end in a sheer drop down to 

 the water. The highest point is, I believe, that 

 near the north end ; the south end is entirely cut 

 off by a long, low saddle, and is a mass of loose 

 rocks. On the west side a fairly level peninsula 

 runs out to seaward. On this side, at varying 

 distances, are a few islets — mere barren rocks. 

 Herr Reiser, of the Bosnian Museum, describes the 

 island as follows : — 



*' The character of Antimilo is auite different from 



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that of the three times larger island of Joura. 

 Erimomilos (the modern Greeks only know it by 

 this name) is of volcanic origin, and the red, violet, 

 and blue volcanic rock disintegrates very slowly, 

 and makes little humus, so that only a few prickly 

 shrubs, and hardly a dozen deformed wild fig- and 

 olive-trees, can grow on it. In three walks across 

 the island we could only find, in addition to the 

 above, five plants. The whole appearance of the 

 naked slopes reminds one of our mountains above 

 the forest line. The rocks are wonderful, bizarre, 

 and shell - shaped. Hollows, large rocks scooped 

 out in the shape of a prompter's box, and even 

 real caves, are sought out by the ibex as places of 

 refuge, and for rest. Their favourite haunts are 

 the steep cliffs and the deep moraine-filled glens 

 of the north and west sides of the island, whose 

 only landing-place is on the east side. Except in 

 the very interesting rain-filled crater, on the very 

 highest point, which the ancient Greeks have turned 

 into a pond with a wrought stone rim, there is 



