Chap. 12.] 
ACCOUNT or COrNTEIES, ETC. 
2ia 
called Pomponiana, and Hyp8ea\ After these come Stn- 
rium^, Phoenice, Phila, Lero, and, opposite to Antipolis^, 
Lerina^, where there is a remembrance of a town called 
Vergoanum having once existed. 
CHAP. 12. (6.) — COESICA. 
In the Ligurian Sea, but close to the Tuscan, is Corsica, 
by the Grreeks called Cyrnos, extending, from north to 
south 150 miles, and for the most part 50 miles in breadth, 
its circumference being 325. It is 62 miles distant from 
the Yada Volaterrana^. It contains thirty-two states, and 
two colonies, that of Mariana^, founded by C. Marius, and 
that of Aleria, founded by the Dictator Sylla. On this 
side of it is Oglasa^, and, at a distance of less than sixty 
miles from Corsica, Planaria^, so called from its appear- 
ance, being nearly level with the sea, and consequently 
treacherous to mariners. 
We next have Urgo^, a larger island, and Capraria, which 
the G-reeks have called ^'Egilion^^ ; then Igilium^^ and Dia- 
nium^"^, which they have also called Artemisia, both of them 
opposite the coast of Cosa; also Barpana^^, Msenaria, Co- 
^ 'Now called the He du Levant or du Titan. The group is called the 
Islands of Hieres or Calypso. 
^ These are probably the httle islands now known as Eatoneau, Po- 
megue, and If. It has however been suggested that these names belong to 
the islands of Hieres already mentioned in the text, and that Sturium is 
the present Porquerolles, Phoenice Port-Croz, and Phila, Levant or Titan. 
^ Now Antibes, or Antibonl in the Provencal idiom. 
* Now Saint Honorat de Lerins. The island of Lero is the present 
Sainte Marguerite de Lerins, and is nearer to Antibes than Lerina. The 
Lerinian monastery was much resorted to in the early ages of Christianity, 
^ In ancient Etruria, now Torre di Yada. The distance is, in reahty, 
about ninety miles. 
^ Mariana was situate in the northern part of the island, and the ruins 
of Aleria are still to be seen on the banks of the river Tavignano, near 
the coast. ^ Probably near the present Monte Cristo. 
^ He probably means the group of islands called Formicole, which are 
situate only thirty- three miles from Corsica, and not near sixty. 
^ Now La Grorgona, 
Both of these names meaning " Q-oat island." It is now called 
Capraia. The modern Griglio. 
^2 Now Grianuto, opposite Monte Argentaro on the main -land. 
13 These are probably the small islands now called Formiete or For- 
micole di Grossetto, Troja, Palmajola, and CervoH. 
