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it rises at the city of Lilaea. There was also formerly 

 the town of Crisa, and together with the people of 

 Bulis there are Anticyra, Naulochus, Pyrrha, the 

 tax-free town of Salona, Tithrone, Tithorea, Ambrysus 

 and Mirana, the district also called DauUs. Then 

 right up the bav is the sea-board corner of Boeotia 

 with ihe towns of Siphae and Thebes surnamed the 

 Corsian, near Mount Hehcon. The third town of 

 Boeotia up from this sea is Pagae, from which projects 

 the neck of the Morea. 



I\'. The Peloponnese, which was previously called isihmuso/ 

 Apia and Pelasgia, is a peninsula inferior in celebrity 

 to no region of tlie earth. It hes between two 

 seas, the Aegean and the lonian, and resembles in 

 shape the leaf of a plane-tree " ; on account of the 

 angular indentations the circuit of its coast-hne, 

 according to Isidore, amounts to 563 miles, and 

 nearly as much again in addition, measuring the 

 shores of the bays. The narrow neck of land from 

 which it projects is called the Isthmus.* At this 

 place the two seas that have been mentioned en- 

 croach on opposite sides from the north and east and 

 swallow up all the breadlh of the peninsula at this 

 point, until in consequence of the inroad of such 

 large bodies of water in opposite directions the coasts 

 on either side have been eaten away so as to leave a 

 space between them of only five miles, with the 

 result that the Morea is only attached to Greece 

 by a narrow neck of land. Thc inlets on eithcr 

 side are called the Gulf of Lepanto and the Gulf 

 of Egina, the former ending in Lecheae ' and 

 the latter in Cenchreae."^ The circuit of the 

 Morea is a long and dangerous voyage for vessels 

 prohibited by their size from being carried across the 



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