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 Chap. 23.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTETES, ETC. 323 Therasia^ was torn a^Yay, and between the two afterwards arose Automate, also called Hiera, and Thia, which in our own times came into existence in the vicinity of these islands, los is distant from Thera twenty-five miles. Next to these follow Lea, Ascania^, Anaphe', Ilippuris, and Astypalsea^, a free state. This island is eighty-eight miles in circumference, and 125 miles distant from Cadistus, in Crete. From Astypalrea, Platea is distant sixty miles, and Caminia thirty-eight from this last. AVe then come to the islands of Azibintha, Lanise, Tragsea, Pharmacussa, Techedia, Chalcia^, Calymna^, in which is the town of Coos, Calymna, at a distance of twenty-five miles from which is Carpathum'^, which has given its name to the Carpathian Sea. The distance thence to Ehodes^, in the direction of the south-west wind, is fifty miles. From Carpathum to Casus is seven miles, and from Casus to Sammonium, the pro- montory of Crete, thirty^. In the Euripus of Euboea, almost* at the very mouth of it, are the four islands called Petaliae^'' ; ^ A small island to the west of Thera, still knoTi by the same name. ^ In Lapie's map, Ascania is set do%vn as the present Christiana. ' Now Anaphe, IS'amfi, or Namphio, one of the Sporades. It was celebrated for the temple of ApoUo .Egletes, the fomidution of which was ascribed to the Ai'gonauts, and of which considerable remains stiU exist. It aboimds m partridges, as it did also in ancient times. ■* Now Astropalsea, or Stamphaha. By Strabo it is called one of the Sporades, by Stephanas one of the Cyclades. It probably was favoured by the Romans for the excellence and importance of its harbours. From Hegesander we leaim that it was famous for its hares, and PUny tells us, in B. viii. c. 59, that its mussels were (as they still are) very celebrated. 5 None of these islands can be now identified, except perhaps Chalcia, also mentioned by Strabo, and now known as Karki. ^ Now Kalymno, the prmcipal island of the grou^-), by Homer called Calydne. According to most of the editions, Winy mentions here Calydna andCalymna,makhigthis island, which had those two names, into two islands. Although Pliny here mentions only the tovm of Coos, still, in B. V. c. 3n, he speaks of three others, Notium, Nisyrus, and Mondc- terus. There are still some remains of antiquity to be seen here. 7 Or Carpathus, now Skarpanto. It gave name to the sea between Crete and Rhodes. ^ It still preserves its ancient name, and presents some interesting remains of antiquity. '•^ Brotier says that the distance is really fifly-two miles. ^^ So called from the town of PetaUa, on the mainland. Ansart says Hiat theu" present name is SpUi. t2