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the middle Part it is broadest : in Length it is full 270 

 Miles : in Circuit, 589 Miles : and bending itself into the 

 Cretic Sea, so called from it, where it stretcheth out furthest 

 Eastward, it putteth forth the Promontory Sarnmonium, 

 opposite Rhodos ; and Westward, Criu-Metopon, toward 

 Cyrenae. The principal Towns are Phalasarnae, Elaea, Cysa- 

 mum, Pergamum, Cydon, Minoum, Apteron, Pantoma- 

 trium, Amphimalla, Rhythymna, Panhormum, Cyteum, 

 Apollonia, Matium, Heraclea, Miletos, Ampelos, Hiera- 

 pytna, Lebena, Hierapolis. And in the midland Parts, Cor- 

 tyna, Phaestum. Gnossus, Potyrrhenium, Myrina, Lycastus, 

 Rhamnus, Lyctus, Dium, Asum, Pyloros, Rhytion, Clatos, 

 Pharae. Holopyxos, Lasos 1 , Eleuthernae, Therapn, Mara- 

 thusa, Mytinos. And other Towns to about the Number of 

 60 stand yet upon Record. The Mountains : Cadiscus, 

 Idaeus, Dictaeus, and Morycus. The Isle itself, from the 

 Promontory in it called Criu-Metopon, as Agrippa reporteth, 

 is distant from Phycus, a Promontory of the Cyrense, 225 

 Miles. Likewise to Capescum from Malea in Peloponnesus, 

 it is 80 Miles. From the Island Carpathus, from the Pro- 

 montory Samrnonia, in the Favonian Wind, 60 Miles. This 

 Island lieth between it and Rhodos. The Rest about it are 

 these : before Peloponnesus two Coricae, and as many Mylae : 

 and on the North Side, with Greta on the right Hand, there 

 appeareth Leuce over against Cydonia, with the two Budorse; 

 against Matium, Cia: against the Promontory Itanum Onisa 

 and Leuce : against Hierapytna, Chrysa, and Caudos. In 

 the same Tract are Ophiussa, Butoa, and Rhamnus : and 

 doubling Criu-Metopon, the Isles called Musagores. Before 

 the Promontory Sammonium, Phocae, Platiae, Sirnides, Nau- 

 lochos, Armedon, and Zephyre. But in Hellas, yet still in 

 ^Egeum, Lichades, Scarphia, Maresa, Phocaria, and very 

 many more over against Attica ; but without Towns, and 

 therefore obscure : but against Eleusina, the noble Salamis, 



1 Dr. Bloomfield (" Recens. Synop." in loco) thinks this place was the 

 Lasea of Acts xxvii. 8. Pliny makes it an inland town, but by inland 

 towns he only means such as were not ports ; and that Lasea was not a 

 port is clear, the Fair Havens being its port. Worn. Club. 



