ATHENS; 
South and by West. 
A lofty cape, with lower islands so much 
resembling the Cape and Precipice of SAMOS, 
with the Samian Boccaze, and the Isles of Fourni 
and Nicaria, that nothing but its situation by 
the compass could convince us to the contrary. 
The rude sketch made upon the spot will give 
an idea of its appearance. We know not the 
name either of the cape or of the islands. The 
distance in which they are here viewed was the 
utmost stretch of the radius of our circle: they 
were seen only by the outline of their forms, 
thus interrupting the horizontal line of the sea. 
The only land in this direction, as laid down in 
Danville's Chart of the Archipelago, that could 
have been visible to us, is the Island of Falconera; 
Milo being to the east of the south. Nearer 
to the eye, in the same direction, we saw the 
Island of St. George B Arbor i. 
Betiveen South and by West, and South South- 
West. 
An island at an immense distance, perhaps 
Caravi: it had some resemblance to Patmos; 
