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islands known as the Clides\ lying before the promontory 

 which faces Syria ; and again at the end of the other cape* 

 is Stiria: over against Neapaphos is Hierocepia', and op- 

 posite to Salamis are the Salaminiae. 



In the Lycian Sea are the islands of Illyris, Telendos, 

 and Attelebussa^, the three barren isles called Cyprise, and 

 Dionysia, formerly called Caretha. Opposite to the Pro- 

 montory of Taurus are the Chelidonise*, as many in num- 

 ber, and extremely dangerous to mariners, rurther on we 

 find Leucolla with its town, the PactyaD*, Lasia, Nymphais, 

 Macris, and Megista, the city on which last no longer exists. 

 After these there are many that are not worthy of notice. 

 Opposite, however, to Cape Chimaera is Dolichiste', Choerogy- 

 lion, Crambussa", Ehoge^ Enagora, eight miles in circum- 

 ference, the two islands of Daedala'", the three of Crya", 



^ Or Cleides, meaning the " Keys." This was a group of small islands 

 lying to the north-east of Cyprus. The name of the islands was after- 

 wards transferred by some geographer to the Cape which Phny above 

 calls Dinse, artd others Dinaretum. ' Cape Acamas, now Pifano. 



3 Or the " Sacred Garden." The names of this and the Salaminia do 

 not appear to be known to the modem geographers. 



^ This is identified by Beaufort with the islet called Bceshat, which is 

 separated by a narrow channel from the Lycian shore. The others do 

 not seem to have been identified. Attelebussa is supposed to take its 

 name irom a kind of destructive grasshopper without wings, called by 

 the Greeks arreXejSos. 



^ Situate off the commencement of the sea-coast of Pamphylia, on the 

 borders of Lycia. Beaufort speaks of them as five in number ; he did 

 not meet with any of the dangers of the navigation here mentioned by 

 PUny. The Greeks still call them CheUdoniae, and the Italian sailors 

 Celidoni, which the Turks have corrupted into Shehdan. 



^ Hardouin supposes these four islands to be the names of the group 

 forming the Pactyse. The names given appear to signify, the " Wild " 

 or " Eough Islands," the " Isle of the Nymphs," the " Long Island," and 

 the " Greatest Island." They were off the coast of Lycia, and seem to 

 have belonged to the Rhodians. The modem name of Megista is Ka- 

 Btelorizo, according to Ansart. 



7 Or DoUche, the " Long Island," in the Lycian Sea, west of the ruins 

 of Myra. Its modem name is Kakava. It is now iminhabited. 



* Still known as Grambousa, a small island off the east coast of Lycia. 

 There seems to have been another of the same name off the Lycian coast. 



^ An island off the coast of Lycia. 



^^ Hardouin thinks that they were opposite to the city of Dsedala on 

 the coast of Caria. 



" Off the city of Crya, probably, in Caria. 



