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distant from Lemnos ; it formerly had the name of Aeria, 
or JEthria. Abdera\ on the mainland, is distant from 
Thasos twenty-two miles, Athos sixty-two^. The island of 
Samothrace^, a free state, facing the river Hebrus, 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-etlione, 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, JEantion, 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. 
2 Its modern 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 
Phny is erroneous ; but Homer says that from this mountain Troy 
could be seen. 
7 Now called Skopelo, if it is the same island which is mentioned 
by Ptolemy under the name of Scopelus. It exports wine in large 
quantities. 
^ Or the Fox Island, so called from its first settlers haying 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. 
^0 None of these islands appear to have been identified by modem 
geographers. 
