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Northward, with the ^gean Sea; and South, with the Cretic 

 and Carphacian Seas : and they lie in Length 200 Miles. 

 The Bay Pagasicus hath before it Eutychia, Cicynethus, and 

 Scyrus abovesaid : but the Outermost of the Cyclades and 

 Sporades, Gerontia, Scadira, Thermeusis, Irrhesia, Solinnia, 

 Eudemia, Nea, which is sacred to Minerva. Athos before 

 it hath four ; Preparethus, with a Town, sometime called 

 Euonos, nine Miles off: Scyathus, five Miles: and Imbrus, 

 with a Town, 88 Miles off. The same is from Mastusia in 

 Corinthos, 75 Miles. Itself is in Circuit 72 Miles. It is 

 watered by the River Ilissus. From thence to Lemnos, 22 

 Miles: and the latter from Athos, 87. In Compass it con- 

 taineth 22 1 Miles. Towns it hath, Hephaestia and Myrina, 

 into the Market-place of which the Mountain Athos casteth a 

 Shadow at the Solstice. Thassos, a free State, is from it five 

 Miles : in Times past, called ^Eria, or ./Ethria. From thence 

 Abdera in the Continent is 20 Miles : Athos, 62 : the Isle 

 Samothrace as much, which is free, and lieth before Hebrus : 

 from Imbrus, 32 Miles: from Lemnus, 22| Miles: from the 

 Borders of Thracia, 28 Miles: in Circuit it is 32 Miles, and hath 

 a Rising of the Hill Saoces for the Space of 10 Miles : and 

 of all the Rest is fullest of Harbours. Callimachus calleth it 

 by the old Name Darclania : between Cherronesus and 

 Samothrace is Halomesus, about 15 Miles from either of 

 them : beyond lieth Gethrone, Larnponia, Alopeconnesus 

 not far from Coelos, a Port of Cherronesus : and some 

 others of no importance. In this Bay are rehearsed also 

 the deserted Islands, of which the Names only can be disco- 

 vered : Desticos, Larnos, Cyssicos, Carbrusa, Celathusa, 

 Scylla, Draconon, Arconesus, Diethusa, Scapos, Capheris, 

 Mesate, jEantion, Phaterunesos, Pateria, Calete, Neriphus, 

 and Polendus. 



The fourth of those great Bays in Europe, beginning 

 from Hellespont, endeth in the Mouth of Moeotis. But we 

 are briefly to describe the Form of the whole Sea, that the 

 Parts may be more easily known. The vast Ocean lying 

 before Asia, and driven out from Europe in that long Coast 

 of Cherronesus, breaketh into the Land with a narrow 



