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Theraaia* was torn away, and between the two afterwards 

 arose Automate, also called Hiera, and Thia, which in our 

 own times came into existence in the vicinity of these islands, 

 los is distant from Thera twenty -five miles. 



Next to these follow Lea, Ascania', Anaphe*, Hippuris, 

 and Astypalaea^, a free state. This island is eighty-eight 

 miles in circumference, and 125 miles distant from Cadistus, 

 in Crete. From Astypalaea, Platea is distant sixty miles, 

 and Caminia thirty-eight from this last. We then come to 

 the islands of Azibintha, Lanise, Tragaea, Pharmacussa, 

 Techedia, Chalcia*, Calymna'', in which is the town of Coos, 

 Calymna, at a distance of twenty-five miles from which 

 is Carpathum', which has given its name to the Carpathian 

 Sea. The distance thence to Ehodes^, in the direction of the 

 south-west wind, is fifty miles. From Carpathum to Casus 

 is seven miles, and from Casus to Sammonium, the pro- 

 montory of Crete, thirty^. In the Euripus of Euboea, almost 

 at the very mouth of it, are the four islands called Petaliae'" ; 



* A small island to the west of Thera, still known by the same name. 



* In Lapie's map, Ascania is set down as the present Christiana. 



' Now Anaphe, Namfi, or Namphio, one of the Sporades. It was 

 celebrated for the temple of Apollo ^^gletes, the foundation of which 

 was ascribed to the Argonauts, and of which considerable remains still 

 exist. It aboimds in partridges, as it did also in ancient times. 



* Now Astropalsca, or Stamphalia. By Strabo it is called one of the 

 Sporades, by Stephanas one of the Cyclades. It probably was favoured 

 by the Romans for the excellence and importance of its harbours. From 

 Hegesander we learn that it was famous for its hares, and Pliny tells us, 

 in B. viii. c. 59, that its mussels were (as they still are) very celebrated. 



5 None of these islands can be now identified, except perhaps Chalcia, 

 also mentioned by Strabo, and now known as Karki. 



^ Now Kalymno, the principal island of the group, by Homer called 

 Calydne. According to most of the editions, Phny mentions here 

 Calydna and Calymna, making this island, which had tliose two names, into 

 two islands. Although Pliny here mentions only the town of Coos, still, 

 in B. V. c. 36, he speaks of three others, Notium, Nisyrus, and Mende- 

 terus. There are still some remains of antiquity to be seen here. 



7 Or Carpathus, now Skarpanto. It gave name to the sea between 

 Crete and Rhodes. 



® It still preserves its ancient name, and presents some interesting 

 remains of antiquity. 



^ Brotier says that the distance is really fifty-two mUes. 



^'^ So called from the town of Petalia, on the mainland. Ansart sayft 

 kliat their present name is Spili. 



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