184 ISLAND OF PATROCLEIA. 
C ?n P " P ATROCLE>I ' A anc * tne coast of Attica, than we 
were becalmed. This island is now called 
by at least half a dozen different modern 
names ; it is therefore best to adhere as much as 
possible to original appellations, for these will 
be found frequently preserved by the inhabitants 
of the country. All the barbarous nick-names 
given to places and islands in Greece, arid in- 
troduced into modern geography, have been 
principally owing to the Italians. Thus Athens 
received the strange appellation of Settines, 
although it never lost its old name among its 
resident citizens, nor ever fell into the state of 
desolation and desertion which has been falsely 
ascribed to it. The little Island of Pa irocle'ia 
still preserved its name in Whders time ' ; but 
it has been called Gaitharonesi (Asses' Isle), the 
Island of Ebony, Guidronisa, Garderonis,8ic.', and 
owing to all these names, it has been sometimes 
multiplied, and laid down in charts as a cluster 
of small isles, rather than as one island. Some 
geographers have believed this island to be the 
Bellina of Strabo*, from the manner in which he 
(1) Wheler writes it PATROCLEA ; but Span,- PATROCLEIA. See 
Wheler's Joitrn. into Greece, Book vi. p. 449. Land. 1682. Spon, 
Voyage de Grece, torn. II. p. 155. it la Hnye, 1724. 
(2) See Delisle's " Greenes Antiqua Tabula Nova," as published at 
Pari$ t 1745. 
