168 RUINS OF IOULIS. 
entitled to a careful examination, from the cir- 
cumstance of the discovery there made of this 
important chronicle, so long believed to owe 
its origin to Paros. A place which has been 
hitherto little regarded, as lying remote from 
common observation, where the soil has never 
been turned, nor hardly a stone removed from 
the situation in which it was left when the city 
was abandoned by its inhabitants, may well 
repay the labour and the expense necessary for 
this purpose. The season was far advanced at 
the time of our visit, and our eagerness to get 
to Athens so paramount to every other con- 
sideration, that we did not choose to delay our 
voyage thither, by making a visit to these ruins ; 
which we have ever since regretted. Some 
notion may be formed of their magnitude, and 
the degree of consideration in which they were 
held by Tournefort, from the manner in which 
he introduces his account of them, after de- 
scribing the remains of Carttuea 1 : and with 
regard to the valuable chronicle which the pre- 
sent inhabitants of Zia maintain to have been 
by Stralo as a native of CEOS, was a Peripatetic; the second was 
a Stoic, and a native of CHIOS : they have been confounded together, 
and it has been proposed to read 'A^Strai Kiitt for Xia. 
(l) " POUR VOIR guELyiiE criosE DE PLUS SUPERBE, il faut prendre 
la route du sud sud-est," &c. Voy. du Lev. torn. II. p. 15. 
