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North-east, from Delos 50 Miles : and from Samos it is 35 

 Miles. Between Euboea and Andros there is a Strait 12 

 Miles over. From it to Gerestum is 112^ Miles. And then 

 no Order forward can be kept ; the Rest, therefore, shall be 

 set down promiscuous!}'. los from Naxos is 24 Miles, vene- 

 rable for the Sepulchre of Homer : it is in Length 25 Miles, 

 and in former Time was called Phaenice. Odia, Letandros ; 

 Gyaros, with a Town, in Circuit 12 Miles. It is distant from 

 Aneros, 62 Miles. From thence to Syrnus, 80 Miles. Cyne- 

 thussa ; Telos, famous for costly Ointment, and called by 

 Callimachus, Agathussa. Donysa ; Pathmos, in Circuit 30 

 Miles. Corasise, Lebinthus, Leros, Cynara, Sycinus, which 

 beforetime was (Enoe ; Heratia, the same as Onus ; Casus, 

 otherwise Astrabe; Cimolus, otherwise Echinussa ; Melos, 

 with a Town, which Aristides nameth Byblis ; Aristotle, Ze- 

 phyria ; Callimachus, Himallis ; Heraclides, Syphnus and 

 Acytos. And this, of all the Islands, is the roundest. After it 

 Machia; Hypere, sometime Patage, or after some Platage, 

 now Amorgos ; Potyaegos, Phyle, Thera ; when it first 

 appeared, called Calliste. From it afterwards was Therasia 

 torn away : and between those two soon after arose Auto- 

 mate, the same as Hiera : and Thia, which in our Days 

 appeared new out of the Water near Hiera. los is from 

 Thera, 25 Miles. Then follow Lea, Ascania, Anaphe, Hip- 

 puris, Hippurissusa. Astipalsea of free Condition, in Com- 

 pass 88 Miles : it is from Cadiscus, a Promontory of Creta, 

 125 Miles. From it is Platea, distant 60 Miles. And from 

 thence Camina, 38 Miles. Then Azibnitha, Lanise, Tragia, 

 Pharmacusa, Techedia, Chalcia ; Calydna, in which are 

 the Towns Coos and Olymna. From which to Carpathus, 

 which gave the Name to the Carpathian Sea, is 25 Miles : 

 and so to Rhodes with an African Wind. From Carpathus 

 to Casos, seven Miles : from Casos to Samonium, a 

 Promontory of Creta, 30 Miles. Moreover, in the Euboic 

 Euripus, almost at the first Entrance, are the four Islands, 

 Petalise ; and at the Outlet, Atalante, Cyclades, and Spo- 

 rades : inclosed on the East with the Icarian Sea-coasts of 

 Asia; on the West, with the Myrtoan Coasts of Attica; 



