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BOOK IV. 



AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, 

 HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEO- 

 PLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED. 



CHAP. 1. (1.)— EPIRU8. 



The third great Gulf of Europe begins at the mountains 

 of Acrocerauma\ and ends at the Hellespont, embracing an 

 extent of 2500 miles, exclusive of the sea-line of nineteen 

 smaller gulfs. Upon it are Epirus, Acamania, JEtolia, Phocis, 

 Locris, Achaia, Messenia, Laconia, Argolis, Megaris, Attica, 

 BoBotia ; and again, upon the other sea^, the same Phocis 

 and Locris, Doris, Phthiotis, Thessalia, Magnesia, Macedonia 

 and Thracia. All the fabulous lore of Greece, as well as the 

 eli'ulgence of her literature, first shone forth upon the banks 

 of this Gulf. We shtiU therefore dwell a little the longer 

 upon it. 



Epirus^, generally so called, begins at the mountains of 

 Acroceraunia. The first people that we meet are the Chaones, 

 from whom Chaonia"* receives its name, then the Thesproti*, 

 and then the Antigonenses*'. We then come to the place 

 where Aornos'' stood, with its exhalations so deadly to the 

 feathered race, the Cestrini', the Perrha;bi', in whose coun- 



^ Now called Monti della Chimera, or Mountains of Khimara. See 

 ?• 262. * The ^gean Sea, the present Archipelago. 



3 This country contained, according to Pouqueville, the present San- 

 giacs of Janina, Delvino, and Chamouri, -with the VavodUika or Princi- 

 pality of Arta. This name was origmally given to the whole of the west of 

 Greece, from the Promontory of Acroceraunia to the entrance of the Corin- 

 thian Gulf, in contradistinction to Corcyra and the island of Cephallenia. 



* This district, according to Pouqueville, occupied the present Cantons 

 of Chimera, lapouria, Arboria, Paracaloma, and Philates. 



* They occupied the site of the present Paramythia, according to Pour 

 queville. 



^ Antigonia was about a mile distant, PouqueviUe says, fi^m the 

 modem town of Tebelen. 



' From 'A "not," and opvis "a bird." Its site is now unknown. 

 There were many places of this name. Aremus or Aomos in Campania 

 has been previously mentioned. 



^ The remains of Cestria are still to be seen at Palea Venetia, near 

 the town of FiHatcs. Pouqueville calls the place Chamouri. 



3 According to Pouqueville, the modem Zagori stands on the sit<; of 

 Perrhaebia. Pindus is sometimes called Grammos, but is still known by 

 it£ ancient name. 



