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famous for its goats, Issa with the rights of Eoman citizens, 

 and Pharia witn a town. At a distance of twenty-five miles 

 from Issa is Corcyra*, surnamed Melaena, with a town founded 

 by the Cnidians ; between which and Illyricum is Melite^ 

 from which, as we learn from Callimachus, a certain kind 

 of little dogs were called Melitaei ; fifteen miles from it we 

 find the seven Elaphites'. In the Ionian Sea, at a distance 

 of twelve miles from Oricum, is Sasonis*, notorious from 

 having been a harbour of pirates. 



Summary. — Tlie towns and nations mentioned are in 

 number ****«. The rivers of note are in number * * * *. 

 The mountains of note are in number * * * *. The islands 

 are in number * * * *. The towns or nations which have 

 disappeared are in number * * * *. The facts, statements, 

 and observations are in number 326. 



Eoman Authors quoted. — Turannius Gracilis'', Cor- 

 nelius Nepos^, T. Livius*, Cato the Censor', M. Agrip- 



the coast of Dahnatia, and was used as a place of banishment imder the 

 emperors. 



* Now Curzola, or, in the Sclavonic, Karkar. It obtained its name of 

 Nigra or Mekena, "black," from the dark colour of its pine woods. 

 Sir Gr. Wilkinson describes it in his *' Dalmatia and Montenegro," vol. i. 



2 Now called Meleda or Zapimtello It is more generally to the 

 other island of Mehta or Malta that the origin of the "Melitsei" or Maltese 

 dogs is ascribed. Some writers are of opinion that it was upon this 

 island that St. Paul was sliipwrecked, and not the larger Mehta. 



3 So called from their resemblance to a stag, eXa^os, of which the 

 modem Giupan formed the head, Ruda the neck. Mezzo the body, Cala- 

 motta the haimches, and the rock of Grebini or Pettini the tail. They 

 produce excellent wine and oil, and are looked upon as the most valuable 

 part of the Ragusan territory. 



* StUl known as Sasino. It is ten miles from Ragusa, the port of 

 Oricum, according to Pouqueville. ^ The original numbers are lost. 



* He was a Spaniard by birth, a native of Mellaria in Hispania Bretica. 

 He is mentioned by Cicero as a man of great learning, and is probably 

 the same person that is mentioned by Ovid in his Pontic Epistles, B. iv. 

 ep. xvi. 1. 29, as a distinguished tragic writer. 



7 See end of B. ii. ® See end of B. ii. 



* M. Porcius Cato, or Cato the Elder ; famous as a statesman, a 

 patriot, and a philosopher. He wrote " De Re Rustica," a work which 

 still survives, and " Letters of Instruction to his Son," of which only some 

 fragments remain. He also wrote a historical work cahed " Origines," 



