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of Paros ; having availed ourselves of the land 
breeze, in the night, to leave Naxos. This is the 
principal port for large vessels ; but as our 
object was to get to Pareckia, the chief town, p arec hi a . 
we ordered our men to bear down the western 
side of the island. This island is surrounded 
by harbours ; and that of Naussa alone is said to 
be capable of containing a hundred vessels. 
Tournefort mentions Nausa, or Agousa (torn. 1. Lett.V. p. 241. 
Lyon, 1717): and an author who accompanied Mons. de Nointel, during 
his Voyage in the Archipelago in 1673, writes it Agosa ( L' E tat present 
de I'Archipel de Monsieur M. D. L. Cologne, 1678. p. 57.) " ngy l^t> 
xa<rTga Si/a, xai %eaga ftia. 1. n.Kor,xnz. IfifKovroiTo. 2. K.i$a}.ts, xaffTga. 
3. 'Ayoffra. Ins. Paros habet eastra duo, et unam civitatem. 
1. Parikiam, episcopatum. 2. Kephalon, castrum. 3. Augustam." 
(fid. Martini Cntsii Annotationes in Epistolas Doctorum, p. 207. 
TurcogrcecuE. Basil, sine anno.) Sonnini calls it TVaussa. (Trav. in 
Greece, p. 454. Land. 1801.) These particulars are_noted, because 
Paros may hereafter excite the notice of our Government. It was in 
this port that the Russians established the depot of their forces, when 
they promised to restore liberty to Greece, and became the scourge of 
the inhabitants; desolating the finest works of antiquity, wherever 
they went. There is no harbour in Greece better calculated for a 
national establishment. Fleets may lie there in perfect safety, and in 
the very centre of the Archipelago. The Turks make no use of Paros 
themselves : and, viewed only with regard to the abundance of its 
valuable marble, it ought to be considered as an island of importance 
to a nation vain of its distinction in the Fine Arts. A very fine Chart 
of this harbour has been engraved in the Voyage Pittoresque de la 
Grece, with all the soundings, &c. as it was surveyed by Kauffer in 
1776; shewing the situation of the Russian magazines and fortifica- 
tions. See PI. xxxi. p. 70. torn. I. Paris, 1782. 
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