BOOK IV. XII. 70-72 



by Aristotle Zephyria, by Callimachus MimaUis and 

 by Herachdes Siphis and Acytas — the most circular 

 in shape of i'.\\ the islands ; Buporthmos ; Machia ; 

 Hj-pere, formerly called Patage, or by others Platage, 

 now Amorgo; Polyaegas; Sapyle ; Santorin, called 

 Fair Island when it fii'st emerged from the water; 

 Therasia subsequently detached from it, and 

 Automate or Holy Island, which soon afterwards 

 arose between the two, and Thia, which emerged near 

 the same islands in our own day. The distance 

 between Santorin and Nio is 25 miles. 



There follow Lea, Ascania, Namphi, and Hippm-is. 

 StampaUa, a free state, measuring 88 miles in 

 circumference, is 125 miles from Cadistus in Crete ; 

 Platea 60 miles from StampaUa, and Caminia 38 

 miles from Platea; Azibintha, Lamse, Atragia, 

 Pharmacusa, Thctacdia, Karki, Kalymni with its 

 town, Coos, EuUmna, and at a distance of 25 miles 

 from it Skarpanto, which has given its name to the 

 Carpathian Sea." From there to Rhodes, a south- 

 west course, is 50 miles ; from Skarpanto to Casus is 

 7 milcs, from Casus to Cape Samonium in Crete 30. 

 In the Euripus between Euboea and the mainland, 

 almost at the first entrance, are the four PetaUae 

 Islands, and at its outlet Talanti. The Cyclades and 

 the Sporades are bounded on the east by the Asiatic 

 coasts of the Icarian Sea, on the west by the Attic 

 coasts of the Myrtoan Sea, on the north by the Aegean 

 Sea and on the south by the Cretan and Carpathian 

 coasts ; these islands occupy an area 700 miles long 

 and 200 miles broad. 



Across the mouth of the Gulf of Volo ^* Ue Euthia, /siands 0/ 

 Trikeri, Skyro, previously mentioned, and in fact the ^ege^^ 

 outermost of the Cyclades and Sporades, Gerontia 



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