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from Chion, i. e. Snow : and some would have it to be Ma- 

 cris and Pityusa. It has a Mountain called Pellenseus, the 

 Marble called Chium. Ancient Geographers have written, 

 that it is 125 Miles in Circuit ; and Isidorus addeth nine 

 more. It is situated between Samos and Lesbos, for the most 

 part opposite to Erythrae. Near it lieth Thallusa, which some 

 write Dapnusa, QEnussa, Elaphites, Euryanassa, Arginussa 

 with a Town. Now all these are about Ephesus, as also 

 those called of Pisistratus : and the Anthinae, Myonnesus, and 

 Diareusa. In both these the Towns are lost. Poroselenae 

 with a Town, Cerciae, Halone, Commone, Illetia, Lepria, 

 and Rhespheria, Procusae, Bolbulae, Phariae, Priapos, Syce, 

 Melane, ^Enare, Sidusa, Pela, Drymusa, Anydros, Scopelos, 

 Sycussa, Marathussa, Psile, Perirheusa, and many others of 

 no Importance. But among the illustrious is Teos, in the 

 deep Sea, with a Town : distant from Chios fourscore and 

 one Miles, and as much from Erythrae. Near Smyrna are 

 the Peristerides, Carteria, Alopece, Elaeussa, Bachina, Pys- 

 tira, Crommyonnesus, and Megale. Before Troas, the Asca- 

 niae, and three Plateae. Then the Lainiae, and two Plitaniae ; 

 Plate, Scopelos, Getone, Artheidon, Celse, Lagussae, and 

 Didymae. But the most illustrious is Lesbos, which is from 

 Chios threescore and five Miles. It was called Hemerte, and 

 Lasia, Pelasgia, ^Egira, ^Ethyope, and Macaria : famous for 

 eight Towns ; of which Pyrrha is swallowed up by the Sea : 

 and Arisbe is overthrown by an Earthquake. Methymna 

 was peopled from Antissa, which was united to it, and in it 

 were eight Cities, and it is about seven-and-thirty Miles from 

 Asia. 1 Also Agamede and Hiera have perished. There 

 remain Eresos, Pyrrha, and the free Mitylenae, which hath 

 continued powerful for 500 Years. Isidorus saith, that this 

 Island is in Circuit 173 Miles : but the old Geographers, 195. 

 In it are these Mountains, Lepethymus, Ordymnus, Macistus, 

 Creon, and Olympus. It is distant eight Miles and a half from 

 the Continent, where it lieth nearest. Islands near it, Sauda- 

 lion, and the five Leucse. Of these, Cydonea hath a Foun- 



1 Natolia. 



