ISLAND OF ZIA. ]/5 
of Tournefort, which here flourishes in great CHAP. 
in. 
perfection. The cotton-plants were in flower : 
the island produces also abundance of wine t 
barley, silk, Jigs, and cattle. The old road from 
this harbour to the city of Carthcea was cut out 
of the solid rock, and the traces of it are still 
visible. There was a tradition in the time of 
PLINY, that Z'ia, or, as he writes it, Cea*, had 
been separated from Eubuea by the sea, and that 
a considerable part of it towards the north had 
been swallowed up by the waves 5 . This event 
might possibly occur at the bursting of the 
Thracian Bosphorus ; and to this, perhaps, the 
antient Greek name of the island, Hyd?-ussa 6 , 
maybe attributed, rather than to the abundance 
or excellence of its water ; as the same name 
was common to other isles ; for example, to 
Tenos, which may, from its relative situation to 
Eubcea, have had a similar origin. The moun- 
tains of Zia are all of limestone ; there are no 
vestiges of any volcanic operation. The mineral 
(4) "Quam nostri quklam dixere Ceam." Plin. Hist. Nat. fib. iv. 
c.12. tom.l. p.<22\. L.Eat.1635. 
(5) " Arulsa Euboese, quingentis longa stadiis, fuit quondam ; raos 
quatuor fer partibus, quae ad Boeotiam vergebant, eodem mari devo- 
ratis." Kid. 
(6) Vid. Plin. Hist. Nat. ubi supra. 
