186 ISLAND OF CALAUREA. 
CHAP, they fed heartily, both on this and the following- 
i ,/ < day. The name of this prickly shell-fish, if 
written abbreviated as they pronounced it, would 
be ejgfo instead of i%7vog. The thermometer, 
this day at noon, indicated 80 of Fahrenheit. 
We were unable to leave our station off 
Patrock'ia before the next day ; and being afraid 
to venture upon the coast of Attica, we continued 
upon the island, collecting plants, until the 
evening, and admiring the glorious prospect 
islands in exhibited on all sides. In this gulph, between 
theSaronic 
Guiph. the two promontories of Sunium and Scyllaum, 
there are not less than twenty islands 1 ; but only 
three of them are inhabited, CALAUREA, JEoiNA, 
and SALAMIS. At present, we shall only speak 
Caia*rea. of the first of these, CALAUREA, because the 
others will occur in the order of our route. Its 
situation, with regard to the Scyll<ean promontory, 
is the same as PATROCLEIA with respect to the 
Sunian. CALAUREA, rarely visited, and almost 
unknown, is the island to which Demosthenes fled, 
when he sought to avoid the fury of Antipater; 
and where he swallowed poison, in the Temple 
of Neptune: and although it have been disputed, 
whether the island, sometimes called Poros from 
(1) See Spon, torn. II. p. 155. a la Hayc, 1724. 
