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 482 plot's natural history. [Book Y. islands known as the Clides lying before the promontory which faces Syria; and again at the end of the other cape is Stiria: over against Neapaphos is Hierocepia^ and op- posite to Salamis are the Salaminise. In the Lycian Sea are the islands of lUyris, Telendos, and Attelebussa^ the three barren isles called Cypri^, and Dionysia, formerly called Caretha. Opposite to the Pro- montory of Taurus are the Chelidom^e^ as many in num- ber, and extremely dangerous to mariners. Further on we find Leucolla with its town, the Pactyse^ Lasia, Nymphais, Maoris, and Megista, the city on which last no longer exists. After these there are many that are not worthy of notice. Opposite, however, to Cape Chimserais Dolichiste^ Choerogy- lion, Crambussa«, Ehoge^ Enagora, eight miles m circum- ference, the two islands of Dsedala'°, the three of Cr^a , 1 Or Cleides, meaning the " Keys." This was a group of smaU islands lying to the north-east of Cyprus. The name of the islands was after- wards transferred by some geographer to the Cape which Phny above calls Dinee, and others Dinaretum. 2 Cape Acamas, now Pilano. 3 Or the " Sacred Garden." The names of this and the Salamim® do not appear to be known to the modern geographers. 4 This is identified by Beaufort with the islet called Boeshat, which is separated by a narrow channel from the Lycian shore. The others do not seem to have been identified. Attelebussa is supposed to take its name from a kind of destructive grasshopper without wmgs, caUed by the Greeks arreXe^os. 5 Situate oflF the commencement of the sea-coast of Pamphyha, on the borders of Lycia. Beaufort speaks of them as five m number; he chd not meet with any of the dangers of the navigation here mentioned by Phny. The Greeks still caU them Chehdonise, and the Itahan sailors Cehdoni, which the Turks have corrupted into Shehdan. 6 Hardouin supposes these four islands to be the names of the group forming the Pacty®. The names given appear to signify, the "Wild or « Kough Islands," the " Isle of the Nymphs," the " Long Island, and the " Greatest Island." They were ofi" the coast of Lycia, and seeni to have belonged to the Ehodians. The modem name of Megista is E.a- stelorizo, according to Ansart. r .^ • 7 Or Dohche, the " Long Island," in the Lycian Sea, west ot the rums of Myra. Its modern name is Kakava. It is now umnhabited. _ 8 Still known as Grambousa, a smaU island ofi* the east coast of Lycia. There seems to have been another of the same name off the Lycian coast. 9 An island off the coast of Lycia. r -r^ j i 10 Hardouin thinks that they were opposite to the city of Dsedala on the coast of Caria. " Off the city of Crya, probably, in Caria.