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between Rhodtis and Gnidus ; it is in Circuit six-and-thirty 

 Miles and a half. It is blessed with eight Harbours. Be- 

 sides these, there lie about Rhodus, Cyclopis, Teganon, Cor- 

 dylusa, four under the Name of Diabete" : Hymos, Chalcis, 

 with a Town : Seutlusa, Narthecusa, Dimastos, and Progne. 

 Beyond Gnidos, Cicerussa, Therionarce, Calydne with three 

 Towns, Notium, Nisyrus, Mendeterus : and in Arconesus, 

 the Town Ceramus. Upon the Coast of Caria, the Islands, 

 twenty in number, called Argiae : and Hyetussa, Lepsia, and 

 Leros. But the most noble in that Bay is Cos, which is dis- 

 tant from Halicarnassus 15 Miles; and in Compass 100, as 

 many judge; called Merope, as Staphylus saith : but accord- 

 ing to Dionysius, Cos Meropis : and afterwards Nymphaea. 

 There is the Mountain Prion : and as they think, Nysiris 

 broken off; formerly named Porphyris. Beyond this, 

 Carianda, with a Town: and not far from Halicarnassus, 

 Pidosus. Moreover, in the Gulf Ceramicus, Priaponnesus, 

 Hipponesus, Psyra, Mya, Lampsemandus, Passala, Crusa, 

 Pyrrhe, Sepiussa, Melano ; and within a short Distance of 

 the Continent, another called Ciuedopolis, from the shameful 

 Persons that King Alexander left there. The Coast of Ionia 

 hath (the Islands) ^Egese and Corsese, besides Icaros, spoken 

 of before. Also Lade, formerly called Latse : and among 

 some others of no worth, the two Camelides near to Miletus. 

 Mycalenum, Trogyliae, Trepsilion, Argennon, Sardalion : 

 and the free Samos, which in Circuit is fourscore and seven 

 Miles; or as Isidorus thinketh, 100. Aristotle writeth, 

 that at first it was called Parrhania, afterwards Dryusa, and 

 then Anthemusa. Aristocritus giveth it other Names, as 

 Melamphyllus, and afterward Cyparissia : others term it 

 Partheno-arusa, and Stephane. Rivers in it, Imbrasus, 

 Chesius, and Ibettes : Fountains, Gigarto and Leucothea : 

 the Mountain Cercetius. There lie adjoining to it the 

 Islands Rhypara, Nymphaea, and Achillea. Fourscore and 

 thirteen Miles from it, is Chios, free, with a Town ; which 

 Island is as renowned as Samos. jEphorus by the ancient 

 Name calleth it jEthalia : Metrodorvs and Cleobulus, Chia, 

 from the Nymph Chio. Others suppose it was so called 



