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the middle Part it is broadest : in Length it is full 270 

 Miles : in Circuit, 589 Miles : and bending itself into the 

 Cretic Sea, so called from it, where it stretcheth out furthest 

 Eastward, it putteth forth the Promontory Sarnmonium, 

 opposite Rhodos ; and Westward, Criu-Metopon, toward 

 Cyrense. The principal Towns are Phalasarnae, Elaea, Cysa- 

 mum, Pergamum, Cydon, Minoum, Apteron, Pantoma- 

 trium, Amphimalla, Rhythymna, Panhormum, Cyteurn, 

 Apollonia, Matium, Heraclea, Miletos, Ampelos, Hiera- 

 pytna, Lebena, Hierapolis. And in the midland Parts, Cor- 

 tyna, Phaestum. Gnossus, Potyrrhenium, Myrina, Lycastus, 

 Rhamnus, Lyctus, Dium, Asum, Pyloros, Rhytion, Clatos, 

 Pharae. Holopyxos, Lasos 1 , Eleuthernse, Therapne, Mara- 

 thusa, Mytinos. And other Towns to about the Number of 

 60 stand yet upon Record. The Mountains : Cadiscus, 

 Idaeus, Dictaeus, and Morycus. The Isle itself, from the 

 Promontory in it called Criu-Metopon, as Agrippa reporteth, 

 is distant from Phycus, a Promontory of the Cyrense, 225 

 Miles. Likewise to Capescum from Malea in Peloponnesus, 

 it is 80 Miles. From the Island Carpathus, from the Pro- 

 montory Sammonia, in the Favonian Wind, 60 Miles. This 

 Island lieth between it and Rhodos. The Rest about it are 

 these : before Peloponnesus two Coricae, and as many Mylae : 

 and on the North Side, with Creta on the right Hand, there 

 appeareth Leuce over against Cydonia, with the two Budorae; 

 against Matium, Cia: against the Promontory Itanum Onisa 

 and Leuce : against Hierapytna, Chrysa, and Caudos. In 

 the same Tract are Ophiussa, Butoa, and Rhamnus : and 

 doubling Criu-Metopon, the Isles called Musagores. Before 

 the Promontory Sammonium, Phocse, Platiae, Sirnides, Nau- 

 lochos, Armedon, and Zephyre. But in Hellas, yet still in 

 .ZEgeum, Lichades, Scarphia, Maresa, Phocaria, and very 

 many more over against Attica ; but without Towns, and 

 therefore obscure : but against Eleusina, the noble Salamis, 



1 Dr. Bloomfield (" Recens. Synop." in loco} thinks this place was the 

 Lasea of Acts xxvii. 8. Pliny makes it an inland town, but by inland 

 towns he only means such as were not ports ; and that Lasea was not a 

 port is clear, the Fair Havens being its port. Wern. Club. 



