Cliap. 23.] ACCOUNT OF COTOTEIES, ETC. 323 
Therasia^ was torn awaj, 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 Astypalsea, Platea is distant sixty miles, 
and Caminia thirty-eight from this last. We then come to 
the islands of Azibintha, Lanise, Tragsea, 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 Rhodes ^, in the direction of the 
south-west wind, is fifty miles. Prom 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 Petalise^^ ; 
* A small island to the west of Thera, stUl known by the same name. 
2 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 JEgletes, 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 Astropalsea, or Stamphaha. By Strabo it is called one of the 
Sporades, by Stephanus 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 Phny tells us, 
in B. viii. c. 59, that its mussels were (as they still are) very celebrated. 
^ 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 those two names, into 
two islands. Although Phny here mentions only the town of Coos, stiU, 
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 miles. 
^'^ So called from the town of Petaha, on the mainland. Ansart says 
khat their present name is Spili. 
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