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left are lulis and Carthaea^ ; Coresus^ and Poeeessa^ have 
perished. Varro informs us, that from this place there used to 
come a cloth of very fine texture, used for women's dresses. 
CHAP. 21. EUBCEA. 
Euboea"^ itself has also been rent away from Boeotia ; the 
channel of the Euripus, which flows between them, being so 
narrow as to admit of the opposite shores being united by 
a bridge^. At the south, this island is remarkable for its 
two promontories, that of Grersestus^, which looks towards 
Attica, and that 'of Caphareus*^, which faces the Hellespont ; 
on the north it has that of Censeum^. In no part does 
this island extend to a greater breadth than forty miles, 
while it never contracts to less than two. In length it 
runs along the whole coast of Eoeotia, extending from 
Attica as far as Thessaly, a distance of 150 miles 9. In 
circumference it measures 365, and is distant from the 
Hellespont, on the side of Caphareus, 225 miles. The cities 
for which it was formerly famous were, Pyrrha, Porthmos, 
Nesos, Cerinthos^^, Oreum, Dium, ^depsos^\ Ocha, and 
CEchaha; at present it is ennobled by those of Chalcis^^ 
^ There are considerable remains of this town, caUed by the inhabit- 
ants Stais Palais. 
2 Or Coresia. It was the harbour of luhs, to wliich place we learn 
from Strabo that its inhabitants were transferred. 
3 On the S.W. side of the island. Its ruins are inconsiderable, but 
retain their ancient name. 
^ Now called Euboea, as also Egripo, or Negropont, — a corruption of 
the former word and " pont," " a bridge." 
5 Hardouin speaks of this as existing in liis time, 1670, and bemg 250 
feet in length. It is supposed to have been first constructed about B.C. 
411, for the purpose of uninterrupted communication with Eoeotia. 
6 JSTow Capo Mandih. 7 ]S[ow Kavo Doro, or Xylofago. 
8 Now Lithadha, with a mountain 2837 feet above the sea. 
9 These measurements are not exactly correct. The length from north 
to south is about ninety miles ; the extreme breadth across, thirty, and 
in one part, not more than four miles. 
Still extant m the time of Strabo, who speaks of it as an incon- 
siderable place. 
1^ Its site is now called Lipso. It contained warm baths sacred to 
Hercules, and used by the Dictator Sylla. They are still to be seen. 
12 Now Egripo, or Negropont, having given name to the rest of the 
island. The Euripus is here only forty yards across, bemg crossed by a 
