ISLAND OF PATROCLEIA. 185 
has connected the BfXiMe ^<ros with the rampart CHAP. 
constructed by Patroclus 3 ; but in a former part 
of his work he is more explicit as to the situa- 
tion of Belbina*, describing its situation as far- 
ther from the coast, and which some have 
believed to be the island now called St. George 
d'^rbori, as it is named in a chart by Danville*. 

The pilot whom we had brought from Zia 
informed us that ebony still grows upon 
Patrocleia; and we availed ourselves of the 
delay caused by our being becalmed, to land in 
search of it. We collected many rare plants 
upon this otherwise barren spot; but could not 
find a single specimen of the Ebenus, either 
Cretica or pinnata. Our sailors also landed; 
and they caught abundance of echini, upon which 
rttt Ss *! ravruv <rui <r'o<rui BiA./3/y/z tyfts, tv -rtXv afvd*, KOI a 
Strabon. Geog. lib. ix. p. 578. Oxon. 1807. 
oiK<ira.i <rXXa fi.it Vj>o; rti rini^at' BtX/J<v J *;f T 
atanitaufu. Ibid. lib. viii. p. 544. Oxn. 1807. 
(5) See D'Anville's Chart of the Archipelago, published at Paris in 
1756. The Editor of the Oxford Edition of Slrabo believed Lavousa 
to be the modern name of Belbina. " ' Belbina nunc Lavousa dicitur." 
(f^id. Not. in Strabon. Geog. ^.544. Oxon. 1807.) This is the island 
mentioned by Span, to whose work the Reader may be referred for the 
best, indeed the only accurate, account of the islands in the Saronic 
Gulph. " Entre /Ejina et Coulouri, il y a une petite isle appellee 
Laousa." Voyage de Grece, fait aux Annees l6"5 et 1676, par Jacob 
Spon, torn. \\. p. 156. a laPIaye, 1724. 
