ISLE OF LERIA. 35 
saw the monastery and town of Lera, as it is CHAP. 
now called. 
This little island has three harbours ; and it is 
said by Dapper to produce abundance of the 
wood of aloes, so much esteemed in Turkey as a 
perfume 4 . Dappers assertion may be doubted; 
for the enormous price of this wood at Constan- 
tinople seems to prove that it is not found, 
abundantly, anywhere so near to that city. 
The character of the antient inhabitants of 
Leria, who were originally a Milesian colony*, 
gave rise to the very antient epigram of 
Phocylides, so often, in after ages, parodied and 
imitated, but perhaps never with more success 
than by our illustrious countryman, Porson 6 : 
t TO$E 9uKt/\l$ti>' A^OtOl KCtKOl' OVV 6 [itV, Of 5' 0V' 
c, TrXrjv HpoK\ovc' KOI YIpOK\tnt; 
(4) Dapper Description des Isles de V Arclapel. p. 183. Amst. 1703. 
(5) Strabon. Geog. lib. xiv: p. 910. Oxon. 1807. StraLo writes the 
uame of this island both Asg/a and Ag. 
(6) In the following Epigram upon the Greek Scholars of Germany, 
which the author has transcribed from his own hand-writing. 
N(aec ecre nt-rptap, a Tei/ropee, oux o nip. o'e d' oj' 
ndfjrec, *\'w 6PMANNOC" o i' 
The Germans in Greek 
Are sadly to seek, 
Not five in five score, 
But ninety-five more : 
All, save only Herman, 
And Herman's a German, 
D 2 
