ISLAND OF CALAUREA. 
a small adjoining peninsula, be the same with the CHAP. 
antient Calaurea, an inscription discovered there >_. 
by Chandler* has put an end to all doubt upon the 
subject. He found, among the ruins of the city 
and of the temple, an inscription, upon a pedestal, 
containing an acknowledgment of the services 
of King Eumenes " TO THE GOD, AND TO THE 
GALAUREANS, AND TO THE OTHER GREEKS." 
The monument of Demosthenes remained within 
the precincts of the temple in the second century 3 . 
This island is eighteen miles in circumference: 
it is now inhabited by those descendants of the 
antient Macedonians who are called Arnaouts, or Albanians. 
Albanians; a people of whom we shall have 
frequent occasion to speak during our travels in 
Greece, and who have been much calumniated, 
and called a lawless set of banditti, and as being, 
with regard to terra Jlrma, what the Mainotes, or 
Lacedemonians, are upon the waves 4 . We are 
(2) Chandler'* Travels in Greece, p. 212. O.rf. 1776. 
(.'}) ToZ rtgififaav St ttros, xai <ro Ayifiaftiteus titvftd Iffn. Pausan. lib.il. 
.'. 33. p. 189. Lips. 1696. 
(4) " II demeuroit dans ces cabanes de ces sortes de gens que les 
Turcs et lesGrecs cormoissent sous le nom d'Arnautes, et nous autre* 
sous celuy d'ALlunois. Us sont en partie originaires de la frontiere 
occidentale de la Mace*doinc, proche des villes d'Apolimena et de 
Sapoza ; et en partie de 1'Epire, vers les montagnes de la Cbymere. 
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