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distant from Lemnos ; it formerly had the name of Aeria, 

 or -Sthria. Abdera\ on the mainland, is distant from 

 Thasos twenty-two miles, Athos sixty-tv^'o*. The island of 

 Samothraee', a free state, facing the river Hebnis, is the 

 same distance from Thasos, being also thirty-two^ miles 

 from Imbros, twenty-two from Lemnos, and thirty-eight* 

 from the coast of Thrace ; it is thirty-two miles in circum- 

 ference, and in it rises Mount Saoce'', ten miles in height. 

 This island is the most inaccessible of them all. Callimachus 

 mentions it by its ancient name of Dardania. 



Between the Chersonesus and Samothrace, at a distance 

 of about fifteen miles from them both, is the island of 

 Halonnesos'^, and beyond it G^ethone, Lamponia, and Alo- 

 peconnesus^, not far from Coelos, a port** of the Chersonesus, 

 besides some others of no importance. The following names 

 may be also mentioned, as those of uninhabited islands in 

 this gulf, of which we have been enabled to discover the 

 names: — Desticos, Sarnos, Cyssiros, Charbrusa, Calathusa, 

 Scylla, Draconon, Arconnesus, Diethusa, Scapos, Capheris, 

 Mesate, -Caution, Pateronnesos, Pateria, Calate, Neriphus, 

 and Polendos^". 



^ Mentioned in C. 17 of this Book. 



• Ansart says that " forty-two" would be the correct reading here, that 

 being also the distance between Samothrace and Thasos. 



3 Its modem name is Samothraki. It was the chief seat of the mys- 

 terious worship of the Cabiri. 



* Only twelve, according to Ansart. 



^ Barely eighteen, according to Brotier. 



^ Now Monte Nettuno. Of course the height here mentioned by 

 Pliny is erroneous; but Homer says that horn, this mountain Troy 

 could be seen. 



' Now called Skopelo, if it is the same island which is mentioned 

 by Ptolemy imder the name of Scopelus. It exports wine in large 

 quantities. 



** Or the Fox Island, so called fi^m its first settlers having been 

 directed by an oracle to establish a colony where they should first meet a 

 fox with its cub. Like many others of the islands here mentioned, it 

 appears not to have been identified. 



9 See C. 18 of this Book. 



^^ None of these islands appear to have been identified by modem 

 geographers. 



