so long or oval as ours commonly are but a short and flat round in shape of a Boul nor are the Ribs covered with such a Fret work but smooth The Yellow ones are like the White for shape and are not known from them until opened but are not esteemed quite so good The Peaches here are extraordinary good and big wâ—â—ghing from ten to fifteen or sixteen Ounces Here are also Citrons Oranges and Lemons in abundance One sort of Lemon is very extraordinary and seldom seen in England For beside their largeness and thinness of skin filled with excellent sharp juice they are without either seed or stone Here are also abundance of curious Plants The curious Plants I here took particular notice of are these 1. Genista seu Spartium a small shrub growing on the Cliffs bearing many Silver-colour'd leaves on little Twigs which are succeeded with a knot of small Golden flowers whose little cod or seed being pass'd the twigs that remain become sharp thorns 2. Convolvulus with a large purple flower and leaves like Sagittaria or Arrow-head This I found among the Pitch-Springs 3. Prunella Spinosa 4. Coris Matthioli G. 544. 5. Gossipium Here I first saw the Cotton Plant grow which is an Annual lant sown in Fields as we do Hemp and Flax but altogether unlike them It hath a Stalk a foot high beset with leaves like Maple divided into three sometimes four parts from among which leaves come yellow flowers like Mallows or Holly-hacks in shape set in a cup consisting of three green leaves nipped about the edges This the flower being past filleth it self up with a shell like a Nut crouded full of Cotton with two or three round seeds in it 6. Anagallis Aquatica 3tia Lob. 7. Glaux Dioscordis as hath been thought by some It is like Gramen Burgundiacum in substance and leaves and the flower also ends in branches but of a blewish purple colour which are succeeded by cods each divided into two or three round rough and flat shells joyned to each other in each of which is a seed like a Tare 8. Cistus Plantaginis folio This hath four or five leaves lying flat on the ground long hairy and sinewed like the middle kind of Plantan from which groweth a stalk of a foot high beset at several distances with smaller long leaves at the top it is divided into several branches of bright and yellow flowers with black bottoms This I found only upon Monte di Scoppo 9. Lychnis with Flowers speckled like the Strawberry-pricks 10. A small Plant like Hyssop or Savoury but thin and downy with small tender flowers on the top like Geranium not divided into leaves but a certain cup of a reddish colour full of purple veins 11. Cicerum Creticum July the Twenty-eighth after four days stay at Zant we went aboard again our former Ship called the Guerriera Costante Commanded by Captain Zoane Bronze Native of Perasto a Town in Albania He was formerly a Pirate and for his Valour well known and feared by the Turks and reverenced by the Corsairs He is esteemed one of the stoutest Soldiers the State of Venice hath in its service They tell of him that in his younger days he was at Perasto on a time when it was assaulted by a party of Two thousand Turks and they in the Town not above Fifty-nine persons yet for all that they made such vigorous resistance that they slew a great part of the Turks razed their Batteries and in conclusion made such a Valorous Excursion upon them as made them desist from their enterprize By a North-wind we put out and left the Promontory di Scoppo on the right hand but not without saluting the holy Image on the top of it for luck sake Not long after we passed the Isles Strophades called now Strovadi or Strivalli thought by the ancient Poets to be the refuge of the Harpies They are judged about Fifty miles from Zant and Thirty from the Morea very low and the biggest not above Five miles in circuit Nevertheless they report that there is such plenty of fresh water there that one cannot thrust a stick into the ground but water gusheth out in the place which makes them very fertile They also say that in the Fountains of this Isle are often found Plane-tree leaves though none grow upon the place but only in the Morea which makes them believe and not without reason that their Original is from thence and by subterraneous Channels they are brought thither Here is a Covent of about fifty or sixty Greeks in it who defend their miraculous Madonna by several Bastions planted with good Canons for fear of the Corsairs though they say the very Turks of Barbary have a respect for those Reverend Fathers and seldom put a shore here but to take in fresh water For great Ships they report it to be inaccessible except in very moderate and calm weather there being so many Flats about it and no shelter for them About Threescore miles further we doubled the Cape Sapienza anciently called on the West-side Coriph Promontorium on the East Acriti Promontorium before which lie in a row the little Islands Sapienza Carrera and Venetica well known to the Pirates of Barbary who use to skulk with their Vessels behind them attending the Barques that come out of the Gulph of Venice and others which they can master bound that way for the Levant We were not far from these Islands passing the Gulph Corone called formerly Sinus Messeniacus when a Saylor from the Main-top-Mast made Ten Sail of great Ships steering the same course as we did Upon this we fired a Gun to give notice to the Commander of our Discovery hoisting and lowring ten times our Ensign to denote the number of Sail. He immediately spared Sail and made as little way as was convenient considering a fair Nor-West Wind which we had almost a poop The like we did and with all speed prepared for an Engagement knocking down all the Cabbins and throwing Chests and Hammocks into the Hold. They loaded the Guns put out the wast-cloaths and quartered the Soldiers in their several Posts being as yet uncertain whether they were friends or enemies They suspected them to be Algerines or some other Fleet of African Pirates Some feared they were French-men in whom they had no great confidence because they had lately denied some of the French Kings Ships coming from Mesina liberty to take in Provision at Zant and therefore they knew not how it might be resented However whether Friends or Enemies they thought it not safe to trust either whereby they might be surprized It was three hours before they came up to us although they made all the Sail they could which made us believe that they were either Dutch or English Merchant-men feeing they were so flow and not Pirates or Men of VVar who use to be better Sailers But at length when they came nearer we discerned them to be Hollanders by their Ensigns which were striped of
that particular and Authors disagreeing For my Companion setteth it down about Sixty Miles Peitro della Valle Ninety and our Country-man Mr. Sands precisely Sixscore and five Miles It looketh very high and Mountainous from Sea and sends down most prodigious gusts of wind LESBOS as I experienced returning from Smyrna Of Lesbos likewise he hath given a good description for it is much bigger then Scio and hath plenty of Corn Wine and Cattle Of the milk of which they make much Butter and Cheese but have little Trade Each of these Islands pay Eighteen Thousand pieces of Eight a year Carraeth to the Grand Signior Those that gather it at Scio make the heirs three years after the death of their Friends pay it They say also when a Greek changeth his habitation they make him pay a double Pole-Money one in the Country he left and another in that where he cometh to live unless they avoid it by some Artifice as by concealing their native place and true Name Naxia payeth Six Thousand Dollers Milo Three Thousand Paros and Ause as much Scyros Two Thousand Zea Seventeen Hundred for Carraeth and for Tenths Two Thousand Five Hundred Andros Four Thousand Five Hundred Carraeth and Six Thousand Eight Hundred for Tenths Negropont which is the greatest Island in the Archipelago payeth a Hundred Thousand Dollers for all its priviledges The tenths are paid to the Beyes and Vayvodes who are obliged out of them to keep a certain number of Gallies without any expence to the Grand Signior Smyrna maintains two Gallies Naxia Meteline Samos and Andros each of them one Scio two Micone and Seripho one and so the rest in proportion to their Abilities But to return to our Vessel at Tenedos This Island is about four or five Miles from the shore of Asia about Twenty Miles in Circuit and Truitful in Corn and Wine especially Muskatels great part of which is carried to Constantinople It hath a Town and a Castle which lieth on the North-end of it but regarding the Promontory Sigaeum towards the East now called Janizzari by the Turks it was taken by the Venetians in the War of Candia and retaken by the Turks by means of a good round Sum of Money given to the Treacherous Governour Near this place was a famous Sea-fight fought betwixt the Venetians and Turks with great loss on both sides though the Victory remained to the Venetians From our Ship at the South-end of Tenedos we discovered the top of that famous Mountain Ida TROY and in the same line upon the Asian shore vast Ruins of a City which we took to be the so much celebrated Troy and therefore we longed very much to see it nor had we therein our desires frustrated For Friday the Twentieth of August the wind holding still contrary or calm both Wood and Water was wanting to our Vessel and therefore the long Boat being sent ashore for recruits we closed with that opportunity of seeing the Valiant Trojans Country We landed in a plain about three Miles North of those Ruins which we saw from our Ship where digging in the sand I suppose the hidden Chanel of some rivolet the Sea men found fresh water This plain is in some places tilled and in some places neglected It beareth Corn Cotton and Sesami of which they make Oyl Cucumbers and Melons of several kinds as Water-Melons which the Italians call Anguria and another kind which they here call Zucchi I saw also in many places neglected Fig-trees and Almond-trees with Fruit upon them Here groweth also abundance of Oaks whereof I never saw any of the kind in England It agreeth something with the description Gerard giveth of the Cerris Majore Glande or the Holme-Oak with great Acorns but not well with his Figure It groweth to a large well proportion'd Tree with a fair top and large branches but whether it is good Timber or no I know not It s small twigs bear a fair leaf above as long again as broad broad at the bottom and ending in a sharp point snipped about the edges with deep sharp-pointed teeth like a great saw and of an Ashcolour somewhat downy It beareth an Acorn twice as big as our ordinary Oaks which cometh out of a deep cup that covereth half the length of it It is rough on the outside with a long flat and heavy substance which before the Acorn appeareth is like to those great excrescences that sometimes are seen in the spring upon our young sappy Oaks In this walk I saw other curious Plants as 1. Tragacantha PLANTS out of which Gumme Dragon issueth in some places 2. Pastinaca Echinifera Fabij Columni 3. Jacea Lutea Capite Spinoso 4. Tartonreina Massiliensium of two kinds Longifolio Latifolio 5. Papaver Caniculatum horned Poppies whose Flower is black at the bottom fomewhat higher of a deep red and by degrees end in a Golden Colour 6. Pancrasium in Flower 7. Verbascum Marinum laciniatis Folijs So that I cannot with Mr. Sands call this barren ground but neglected ' With these curiosities I entertained my self whilst the rest of our Company diverted themselves with the game they found in great plenty there as Hares red Partridges Quails Turtles and a Bird about the bigness of a Thrush the head and breast of a bright yellowish colour the back and wings of a greenish grey like a green Finch the beak and head formed like a Thrush and as fat as Hortulans in France and Italie and our Wheat-ears in England Another kind not much bigger but shaped like a Bittern with a long bill long legs and claws a crist of long Feathers on the Crown and of a speckled colour like an Hawke When we came near to this ruined City we saw abundance of broken Pillars of Marble and others parts of Walls and Fundations along the shore none standing upright nor whole but lying on the ground and many a good way in the Sea scaled by the weather and eaten by the Salt-winds that come from thence A little further is the mole of a Port yet remaining with a large and thick wall on the shore which doubtless was beautified with those many Marble Pillars that are now broken down all along under it The mouth is now stopped up with sand and remaineth very shallow I cannot with my Companion say That this was the Port of Troy so famous in Antiquity nor yet this City that Ilium or Troy whose Wars have been so Celebrated by the Unimitable Homer and Virgil nor the Antiquities there remaining to be of any elder date then the Romans although Bellonius is confident of it and Petro della Valle so wonderfully pleased himself with the thoughts of it that he fancied every great Tree a Hector or Achilles or an Aeneas and all the Briers and Bushes that pricked his shins their Armies and could not forbear crying out Hic Dolopum manus hic saevus tendebat Achilles Classibus hic locus hic acies certare solebant But
a stringy Root springeth at first a thick Tuft of tender Sprouts whose Leaves are set so thick after one another two by two and crossing each other that they quite hide the round Stalk and make it look most Beautiful It seemeth all over hairy but as it groweth up about half a foot high it stretcheth the Leaves to a greater distance from each other in pairs and still crossing each other They are of a light green colour ribbed oval and pierced like St John's Woort but not pointed at the Ends smooth on both sides but round the Edges very rough and hairy I observe now since they are dry that they are full of black Spots Towards the top of the Flowers come out one above another from between the Leaves and leave a little Button of Seed divided into three parts with a hairy Husk about it of fine Leaves I cannot be positive whether I saw the Flower or no but if my Memory doth not very much fail me I did and it was a reddish colour But it is perfectly faded in my Book being very thin and tender I think it may be properly called Hyperioon margine crinifero Olympii Montis 7. After Conyzoides Gesneri with another thought to be Astragalus Matheoli flore Caeruleo 8. Pyrola fruticosior tenerior or as Bauhinus frutescens Arbuti folio which expresseth more the Nature of it 9. Gentianella Verna which hath a Knot of small Ature Flowers growing close to the ground 10. Senetium lanuginosum as Mr. Merchant or rather Senetio incana pinguis according to C. Bauhinus page 131. Downy Grounsel for it is so fat and glutinous that it sticketh to the Fingers This is not described by Gerard But it groweth taller and of a more strong Substance than the ordinary Grounsel But to give an exact Description of it I know not well how For it is spoiled with bringing so far or rather for want of care in putting it up better The Leaves as I remember are somewhat bigger than the vulgar and something like Ragweed 11. Cerinthe Minor G. 12. Cystus Argenteis foliis as Mr. Merchant calleth it I do not find it described in Gerard nor can I sind any Name agreeing with it exactly in C. Bauhinus his Pinà x although there are many incana hirsuta This is a little shrubby Plant growing from one Root into a round Tuft of woody Branches not a handful high from the ground dividing it self into many white Twigs which are thick set with small triple Leaves covered with a shining Whiteness like Sattin among which I saw short broad and flat Cods but the Hair longer and more downy containing a little shining and broad Seed Perhaps it may be that which Bellonius telleth grows not in France nor Italy without giving any other Desrciption of it nor hath it by me been seen in either 13. Cymbalaria Italica G. 14. Calamentha montana praestantior G. 687. 15. Elichryson sive Gnaphalium comâ aureâ This is a very beautiful Plant which hath lying almost flat on the ground several long Leaves out of the middle of which riseth up a round Stalk of a handful and half high set about carelesly with narrow Leaves All of them from the bottom to the top covered with so thick white Down that it may be pulled off with the Fingers The top is crowned with a Tuft of scaly globular Flowers of a bright yellow colour which being gathered will continue fresh many Years 16. There is growing up and down upon the top of this Mountain Tufts of Grass or Rushes lying round together upon the ground like a Hedgehog or Porcupine about half a handful high each having a sharp hard point which makes it very hard to come at to gather any of it 17. Stratiotes Tragi page 476. or Millefolium Nobile G. I. B. page 1073. He hath forgot to mention the Odoriferous Smell it hath The Seeds smell like the Seeds of common Tansy but more pleasant His Design agreeth well with my Plants 18. Descending from the Mountain I observed another sort of Hypericon or St John's Woort with a single large Flower on the top upon a Stalk of a foot or better high whereon Leaves grow like the other St John's Woort but larger and by pairs at equal distances The Description that C. Bauhinus in his Prodromo page 130. giveth of Ascyron magno flore agreeth well with this only I may add That it beareth but one Flower at the top and that the Seeds follow the Flower in a round Cod like Park Leaves which he never saw but saith It was gathered in the Pyrenaean Mountains by Dr Barserus but this here upon Olympus 19. Panax Heracleum or Hercules All-heale But whether it beareth Opopanax here I had not time to examine 20. Borago Semper Virens or Everlasting Borage of which G. page 797. 21. On the Mountain in plain Places where standing Water had been I gathered a kind of Gnaphalium which I find not described It is most like the Leontopodium of Gerard But whereas he says That riseth a handful high This creepeth and lieth flat on the Ground From a little blackish Root spreade five or six or more downy Stems of about an Inch long on which are commonly half a dozen white sharp Leaves three long ones and three short ones like the Stoechas Citrina I but now mentioned Within which is a greenish yellow Flower I believe each of them take root and produce many more of the same For it spreadeth irregularly very much abroad whereof this I have now described is but a slip although it is rooted 22. I was shewed a dried Herb that groweth on this Mountain whereof the Powder is made we commonly call Tutti Dr Pickering called it Herba Tuitia I saw it only dry but it seemeth both in Root Leaves and Flower to be very like our ordinary Field-Cowslip only the Leaves are much longer and the Cups that contain the Flowers rather like Auricula Vrsi and the Flowers of a reddish colour of five little Leaves each with a notch also at the top They say when it is blown there is a Dust that may be shaken off this Plant which is the best Powder This Armenian told us There groweth a World of other curious Plants and fair Flowers about this Mountain but that the time of Year to see them was past As for me I was glad I found these and sorry that Night grew so near that I was forced to desist searching them to find the way down which we did with difficulty enough not being half way down before the Night over-took us nor arrived we to the Kan before ten or eleven at Night I was carried to a Turkish Quack-Salver a Man reputed for his Skill in Physick among them where I saw a great many ordinary Herbs dried in bundles some I knew not perhaps it was because ill dried All that I saw green was an Herb much like Germander only the Snips of the Leaves were sharp and not
admirable Description of a Storm we had in each point so dreadfully experimented How could we then forbear taking his Advice and give Him the Praise who so graciously was pleased to deliver us from those Terrours of Death encompassing of us round about And how could we more acceptably express our Gratitude than by that Sacred Hymn he had inspired the best of Poets as well as Kings with part of which I have endeavoured in our Language thus to Paraphrase O that Mankind would praise the Lord and show His Wonders done for Mortals here below And here 't is just for me to bear my part Who though I want fit Words want not a Heart From the safe Port whom gentle Gales invite To loose to Sea and take a Wat'ry Flight These plainly see God's Wonders in the Deep These surely learn who 't is their Souls doth keep When on the smoothest Calm the Heavens frown And Storms from Mountain tops send Thund'ring down They soon print Wrinkles on its polish'd Brow And into Mounts and Vales those Plains do plow The Waves lift up their Voice the Billows rage No Mortal Pow'r their Fury can asswage They foam and roar they toss the Ships so high That many times they seem to touch the 〈◊〉 But soon are plung'd again into the Deep And in the World's Abyss do trembling peep Few there have any Appetite to Meat And those that have can no where sit to eat Like Drunken Men they stagger to and fro On dancing Decks what mortal Man can go Their Wits quite gone their Reason from them fled They look upon themselves already dead Then cry they to the Lord in their distress For God alone such Troubles can redress He soon Commands the Winds into his Treasure And rolls the plough'd-up Floods to Vales of Pleasure He brings them safe to their desired Port He gives them Rest and is their strongest Fort. Why then should Men neglect to praise his Name Who furious Winds and raging Seas doth tame The End of the Third BOOk THE Fourth BOOK CONTAINING A VOYAGE FROM ZANT THROUGH Several Parts of GREECE TO ATHENS SO soon as we had kept our Christmas a Ship-board with our Captain not being permitted to do it a Shore coming from those Parts of Turky suspected of Contagion we hired a good Barque with a Greek that could speak Italian and a little English to serve us and notwithstanding we had once been turned back by contrary Winds the day before yet December 28th we passed over to Castle-Tornese CASTLE-TORNESE being about eighteen or twenty Miles to the nearest Shore of Peloponnesus now called Morea The Castle is upon a Hill half a dozen Miles from the Shore But we went forward and turned the Promontory Chelonitis between it and a Scoglio called Cacolidida with Shallows about it and by ten in the Morning made thirty Miles from Zant to Chiarenza a ruined City formerly belonging to the Venetians There are such vast Masses of Wall turned upside down joyned together with so hard a cement that they are not much broken but so big that it could be nothing but Gun-Powder or an Earthquake that could have removed them from their Foundations in that manner The Situation CHIARENZA olim CYLLENE and those Marks of Antiquity assured us That this was the antient City Cyllene the Country of Mercury from whence he was sirnamed Cylâ—nius But his Eloquence hath so little prevail'd with Saturn and Mars that they have not spared either his City or Country it being left without Habitation or an Inhabitant The Port is now fill'd up with Sand and Earth but there is good Anchorage in the Bay without yet open to the North and North-East-Winds Here lay then three small Vessels they call Tartans much used by the French Merchants They live well at Sea and will make way very close to the Wind. These coming to lade Provisions for Messina we found that Oxen were then sold for five or six Dollers a piece Sheep for about three Shiâ—ings and Corn as good cheap About two Miles further is a Covent oâ— Greek-Monks About six Miles South-East of Castle-Tornese is a Town the Turks call Clemouzzi CLEMOUZZY GASTOUNI About sixteen from thence also is another indifferent large Town called Gastouni which is about five Miles from the Sea and on a River which perhaps was the River Penea Thence continuing along the Coasts of the Morea twenty Miles further we came to Cotichi COTICHI where there is a Fishing Place called Pescharia which is a Lake fed and stored by the Sea where in July they catch abundance of Mullets to make Botargus and Salt-Fish There is such abundance of all sorts of Wild Fowl Ducks Teals Wild-Geese Pelicans c. resort thither as would bring much Profit in any Place but Turky were a Decoy made there Here we lay all Night in our Boat The next day we parted early and keeping still along the same Shore CONOPOLI we came to a Point about six Miles thence called Conopoli On the top of the Rock is a ruined Tower with the Rubbish of a Town about it but what it was formerly called I know not From the Foot of the Rock is a Spring of Hot Salt and Bituminous Water which runneth down into the Sea within a yard or two of its Source About it I observed plenty of Common Alexanders Cyclamen PLANTS or Sowbread Anagyris foetida then in flower which grows to a good big Shrub of a yard and half high whose Twigs are set with a large three-fold Leaf each of which are long and somewhat narrow of a deep green colour and of a strong stinking smell The Flowers also grow out in little bunches like the other Laburnum but larger and of a deeper yellow colour spotted also with black or Hare-colour'd Spots The outward Leaf is the shortest the next pair longer and the inmost longest all divided at the ends The Flower is succeeded by a long Cod like a French Bean filled at like distances with a Seed as big of a blue or purple colour and exceeding hard Staphys agria or Staves-acre not long come up from the Seeds A kind of Bryony not differing from the white above ground only the Leaves were spotted with white Spots Hence we had the Prospect of a large Plain along the Shore beyond us and behind us but a good way within the Land most part of it is covered with Pine-Trees Continuing yet six or seven Miles further along the same Coasts we came to another point called Cape Calogrea Cape CALOGREA where we were shewed a Well or Fountain called Durach-bey because dug by a famous Turkish Pirate of that Name By this are the Mouths of two Rivers near together or the same River emptying it self by two Mouths for our Mariners assured us they were distinct One of them very probably is the River Larissus of the Antients LARISSUS Fluv which distinguished the Provinces of Eleum and Dimaeum Near
call the place about it Palaeo-Chori that is Old-Towm Having passed through the Olive-yards about a mile further we left an old Tower a little way to the left hand My Companion stepp'd to it and finding several Inscriptions upon Sepulchral Pillars he copied them and so we came at last to the end of the plain to the Sea-shore where Mount Corydalis running with its Western point a little into the Sea makes the Promontory Amphialia about six or seven miles from Athens Between this Promontory and Salamina is a Streight which is not a mile over in the narrowest part where we passed it over by a Ferry attending there for Passengers Salamis is now called Colouri and as our Consul esteems it is about fifty Miles in compass It hath a Harbour on the West-side eight Miles in length and three Miles broad in the largest space It is of an Ovael Figure and at the bottom of its Bay hath a Town of the same name with the present name of the Island viz. Colouri This Town at present consists of about an hundred and fifty poor Cottages and perhaps of four hundred Persons There are two other Villages in the Island the one situate upon a Hill on the South-side of the Harbour about five or six Miles off and in sight of Colouri and is called Metropis The other called Ambelachi is situated near the Streight towards Athens They consist of about thirty Houses apiece The antient City Salamis was by this last remov'd a little more to the Sea-side where it had a little Harbour in which at this day appear many antient Foundations under Water of carved Stone and according to the appearance of Ruins all thereabouts the City ought to have been near four Miles about Near the Ruins of an antient Temple we found these Lines on a black Marble Stone which hath the antient name ΣΑΛΑΜΙÎΑ Salamis engraven on it ÎΙΚΟΚΛΗΣ ΗΓΗΣΙΠΠΟΥ ΑΠΑΓΥΡΑΣΙΟΣ ΕΙΚΟÎΑ ΤΗΠΔΕ ΑÎΕΘΗΚΕΠÎΙ ..... ΜΩΠΠΑΤΡΟΣ ΕΑΥΤΟΥ ΑΘΑÎΑΤΟΙΣΙ ΘΕΟΙΣ ΚΟΣΜΩΠΙΕΡΑΠΣΑΛΑΜΙÎΑ That is Nicocles Son of Hegesippus of Anagyra NI .... Perhaps Nicocles erected this Statue of his Father to the Immortal Gods adorning holy Salamis This Island was the Kingdom of Valiant Ajax and this was the chief City of it Ajax was then so powerful as Homer testifies that he furnished a dozen Sail of Ships to joyn with the rest of the Navy of Greece in the Trojan War This Island in after-times was much contended for between the Athenians and Megarians but to whom soever of right it belonged the Megarians were forced to submit to and acquiesce quiesce in the Conquest of it by their more powerful Neighbours the Athenians We saw and copied several other Inscriptions and a little Basso-relievo I found masoned in the Wall of an old Church which I prevailed with the Pappa to remove and is one of the three I described at Athens Salamis hath many high Rocks and Cliffs but withal several fruitful Valleys running between them which bear good store of Wheat and Barley Of the Pine-trees on the Hills they make good store of Pitch and of the Lentiscus Wood growing there in good plenty they make Soap-ashes So that with these Commodities and their Fishing the Inhabitants make shift to get a poor Living Athens being their Market for all Above the Village Colouri PLANTS at SALAMIS or COLOURI is a high cragged Rock upon which among other Plants I gathered a kind of Medica which creepeth on the Ground and is beset with Leaves growing close to the Stalk something like Kidney-Vetches every Stalk being set with them three four five and sometimes six upon a Stalk covered with a Silver Hoariness The Flowers follow in little Tufts of five or fix golden-colour'd Blossoms these are succeeded by crooked flat Cods like a Half-Moon and not much unlike to Gerard's Trifolium lunatâ siliquâ pag. 1217. It agreeth well enough with his Description but not with his Figure for the Leaves of this are not snipped at the Edges as his Monsieur Merchant called it Auricula muris Camerarii There is another somewhat like to this but the Leaves of it are shorter and broader than the other The â—â—â—wers grow five or six together close to a creeping Stalk each followed with a large Husk swelled like a Bladder of a shining silver-Silver-colour which when the Blossom is past swells bigger but what Cod it makes I saw not I gathered there also in the Fields a little kind of Iris or Flag bearing a pretty white Flower about a handful high from the Ground and the Leaves no broader nor longer than the ordinary Grass About Salamis we observed several other little Islands LIPSOCATALIA as between the Streight and Porto-Lione a desart one called now Lipsocatalia but by Strâbo Psytalia Beyond the Streight towards Eleusis are two other little Rocks or Islands close together the one called Megala Kira and the other Micra Kira On one of these it was called antiently also Kera that Xerxes built a Silver Throne to sit and see the Battle fought between his and the Grecian Fleet the Issue whereof was That the Greeks handled his great and numerous Navy so that in the end he hardly escaped himself in a small Boat We contented our selves with the sight of the rest of the Islands in the Saronick Gulph by viewing them from the Attick Shore But our good Friend the Consul who had often visited them gave us also a more particular Account of them by the help of which and our own Observation we are enabled to give a more exact Account of it than any hath been yet published which I think very proper to insert in this Place because the whole Saronick Gulph is so frequently mentioned in antient History This Gulph is contained within the Promontory Sunium now called Capo Colonni on the Attick Shore and Schillaeum now Capo Skillo on the Morean of Peloponnesian Shore which I suppose to be about two or three and twenty Miles distant from each other by the Observations I have made as well upon Mount Hymettus as the Promontory Sunium and by the same Proportion from the Entrance to the bottom of the Gulph to the Isthmus is about fifty five Miles There are many little Islands in this Gulph but the principal are Aegina Colouri and Porus and these only are inhabited They had in times past a Veivode and Caddi common to them all But of late they have thought good to make an Agreement with the Captain Basha and to pay him yearly seven hundred eighty five Dollers for all their Duties By which means they are left to themselves and might grow Rich again did not the Corsairs haunt them so much For they have Ground enough to cultivate for so few Inhabitants Aegina is now the chief Island AEGINA and giveth Name at present to the whole Gulph as the River Saron did in times past It continues its antient Name still among the Greeks although our Seamen corruptly Tcall it
is a place that aboundeth with all sorts of Provisions whether Corn Flesh or Fish only Wine is scarce by reason that it is prohibited But though there be none permitted to be sold in the City at Gallata are some Christian Cabarets but the Wine is dear They sell it by weight here and all over Turkey The Oka which is a weight of about forty two Ounces is sold here for a quarter of a Doller that is about fourteen Pence and contains about three Pints and an half or two Quarts The best Wine is made by the Jews who by their Law must not make Mixtures They have great plenty of many sorts of good Fish Oysters here are better than I tasted them any where except in England The Sword-Fish is another I took notice of for its Goodness and firm fleshy Substance Their Fruits are excellent Figs Peaches and Apples very fair and good The Turks are very sweet-tooth'd and love all kind of sweet Meats But I cannot commend them for good Confectioners They preserve Fruits with new Wine boyled to Syrup Honey and sometimes Sugar which although they are not ill-tasted would hardly pass with our English Ladies they are so ill-colour'd Their most ordinary Drink is Water next a Sorbet made of Raisins steeped in Water But the Richer sort have Sorbet made of Sugar and Honey boyled to a consistence with the Juyce of lemons which they mix with Water when they use it Coffee they drink at any time but at Meal and is the usual Entertainment when any come to visit them About a dozen or fifteen Miles North from Gallata BELGRADE towards the Black Sea we went to see a place which from the Beauty and Pleasantness of it is called Belgrade The Country lies high shaded with abundance of Woods watered with many wholsom Springs stored with several sorts of Game accommodated with several small Villages at convenient Distances and the Air very good and healthful To these shady Woods many Persons of Quality as well of the Turks as Ambassadours and rich Merchants retire to enjoy the fresh Air in the scorching Heats of Summer and to hunt at the proper Seasons of the Year Here some build them pretty Houses of Pleasure others stately Chiosques or Banquetting-Houses and others content themselves to sojourn in Tents they stretch out under the tall Trees near some refreshing Spring All these Springs are with great Care and greater Charges collected into several large Cisterns near each of which is built a stately Chiosque or Summer-house The usual Form of them is square contrived so with large Pent-house-Roofs for shade yet so open round about that one enjoys all the Liverty Freshness and Goodness of the open Air without the least Inconvenience from the heat of the Sun You mount up to them by four or five Steps to an Area paved with Purcelane Tile or Marble covered with Indian Mats or Carpets with Balusters or Rails about it The Roof also within is painted with several Colours as red green white and yellow and pretty Knots of Figures wrought on them From these Cisterns the Water is conveyed by Channels under ground to the several Aqueducts that carry it by many Windings and Turnings over the low Valleys from the tops of Hills to Hills until at last it is brought with a vast Charge to Constantinople Several of these we observed both in our way thither and return to Gallata AUQEDUCTS Especially one about mid-way joyning two Hills together cross a Valley at least half a Mile over This consists of two Ranges of Arches whereof the lowermost hath fifty and the uppermost fifty one and I believe from the deepest part of the Valley to the top of the Aqueduct is above thirty Yards There is another in sight of this Eastwards which bends and makes an Angle This hath three Ranges of Arches one above the other but not so many in number North of this first we saw another which joyns two Hills together by a narrow but very deep Valley This hath but four Arches in two Tanges but the Arches are exceedign large I measured them not but Mr. Smith saith They are above fifty Foot wide The Care of these Waters and the cleansing of these Aqueducts and Channels are imposed upon the adjacent Villages for which service they are freed from all other Taxes Most of these Aqueducts were built by the latter Roman and Greek Emperours But by Time Wars and Neglignece being run to decay and ruined they were repaired again at the great Charge and indefatigable Industry of Sultan Suliman who for this and the stately Mosque he built in the City was deservedly called the Magnificent These Waters being thus brought to the City are again collected into several great Cisterns and thence again by earthen Pipes dispersed to the several Quarters private Houses and publick Buildings of the City Whereof one is against the wall of the City by Ballata another under Hagia-Sophia and Mr. Smith speaks of one at Sultan Selim's Mosque The Plants I took notice of hereabouts were 1. PLANTS A kind of Dwarf-Abrotonum with Flowers like Cammonil 2. A sort of Serpillum with Leaves like Savoury the Smell also differing from ours Lib II. Fig Ix Androsoemum Constaninopolitaâ—um flore maximo I found another Plant going thither and to the Black-Sea also which I know not to what species to refer unless to Androsemum majus which we call Parks-Leaves For the Leaves are of the substance and colour only longer and of a more tough Substance growing two by two on a shrubby square Stalk of a reddish colour not rising from the ground above a span high On the top of which succeedeth a large yellow Flower much bigger than Parks-Leaves filled with a large Tuft of the same our of which before the Flower is fallen beginneth to rise a long Vessel divided into five Appartments full of reddish Seeds The Smell is like the best Turpentine but more fragrant and like Coris Of it I observed two sorts The difference is only that the other by pairs cross each other It spreads upon the Ground in heaps so that seldom one shall find one Stalk alone Since my writing this I find that Dr. Morison hath described this Plant in his excellent History of Plants having raised it in the Botanick Garden at Oxford of which Science he is the Learned Professour out of the Seeds I sent to that University and hath named it Androsemum Olympii montis flore semine Theca quinque capsulari ominum maximus which is extreamly well distinguished only he should have put in Byzantinum or Constantinopolitanum instead of Montis Olympii as he hath done lately in a Letter to me with the Design of the Plant I here give you I also there saw some Trees of Guaiacum Patavinum which were shewed us as a Rarity at Pera. We waited a good while for a calm Day to go to the Mouth of the Black Sea to see the Pillar vulgarly called
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Where by their Industry in Traffick for themselves also upon good Gains but little Loss they live gentilely become rich and get great Estates in a short time if they will be but indifferent good Husbands and careful of their Owners and their own Business The Officers allowed over them by the King and the Levant Company are a Consul a Chancellour a Treasurer a Divine and a Physician The Consul is allowed by the Levant Company Three thousand Dollars a year Salary and Five hundred of Gratuity besides other Perquisites and honest ways whereby he may get much more His Office is to maintain the Priviledges granted by the Grand Signior to the English Nation against the Injuries and Insolencies of the encroaching Turks instead of an Ambassadour to decide all Differences that happen between Factor and Factor to see that no Injury be done by any of the Factory to the Turks and to punish Delinquents So that he doth in effect govern the business of the whole Factory there but yet from his Sentence there may be an Appeal made to the Ambassadour Mr Rycaut was then Consul who writ the State and Policy of the Ottoman Empire and a Treatise of the Greek Church an Appendix to the Turkish History down to his time and also an Account of the Seven Churches of Asia He was very obliging to us amongst other Favours in directing and informing us concerning these Parts Their Chaplain is allowed Five hundred Dollars a year Salary by the Levant Company He hath besides a Ware-House allowed him to trade with besides customary Gifts of all the Merchants yearly which amount commonly to much more And indeed the whole Factory do live together in the greatest Unity Peace and Freedom of any of them I have seen beyond Sea The French and the Venetians have also their Consuls here but are in no great Credit amongst the Turks The English have the best Reputation for their honest dealing and therefore ordinarily their Word is taken instead of Searching But the Armenians pay more Custom than any The Turks have thirteen Mosques and the Jews several Synagogues All which makes the Town populous though ill built and without either Strength or Beauty All that defends it from the Incursions of Corsaires is a little Fort at the Strait coming in about five Miles from the Town whose great Guns are its best security For it hath but a little Ditch about it and the Walls such as by two or three great Guns would soon be beat to the ground As to the Castle on the Hill above the Town it is slighted and although it hath the old Wall about it I believe built by the Greek Emperours yet it is only a heap of Ruins within with here and there some arched Caves used antiently for Cisterns or Granaries as some think having only two or three little Guns mounted against the Haven to salute the Captain of the Gallies or as Mr Smith saith the New Moon at Bairam About the Walls are set one or two of the Roman Eagles well cut and another Basso-relievo of Men on Horse-back Over the Door is an Inscription in Marble in the later Greek Characters but too high and difficult to be read There is another little old fashion'd Castle at the Harbour for the Gallies and Boats On the other side of which Harbour is the Scale or Custom-house for the Grand Signiors own Subjects Beyond which South-wards under the Hill where St Polycarp's Tomb is are the English and Dutch Burying Places and North of the Castle along the Shore is first the New Bezestan built out of the great squared Stones of the Theater It is in form like a Street to shut up at each end The Shops are little Rooms with a Cuppalo over each of them covered with Lead and little Holes on the top with Glass to let in the light Opposite unto this is a very fine Kan now a building After which is the Scale and Custom-house of the Francks and then follows Franckstreet along by the Water-side with their Scales and Ware-houses convenient to lade and unlade their Goods and is the pleasantest and best built of any part of this present Smyrna Lib. III. Fig VI. A Camelion About Smyrna are abundance of Camelions CAMELIONS which is an Animal something resembling a Lizard but hath his back gibbous like a Hog and its Feet are divided like the Claws of a Wood-pecker or Parrot two Claws before and three behind which are not separated from each other until near the ends A long Tail it hath like a Rat and is ordinarily as big but it hath very little or no Motion with its Head They are in great abundance about the old Walls of the Castle where they breed and lie in holes and heaps of Ruins Several we saw and two we kept twenty days at least in which time we made these following Observations upon them Their Colour useth to be green darker toward the back and lighter towards the Belly inclining to a yellow with spots sometimes of a reddish colour and sometimes whitish But the green would often change into a dark dirt-colour without any appearance of green COLOUR The whitish Spots would sometimes vanish or turn into the same dirt-colour and sometime remain Sometimes they would only change into a darker colour of a kind of purple-like tincture which used often to happen when it was disturbed Sometimes from a green all over they would be spotted with a pure black which also happened sometimes when it returned from the black Ordinarily when it slept under a white woollen Cap it would when uncovered be of a white or creamcolour But this it would do also under a red Cap. I never saw any change red or blue although they have been laid upon those colours often and continued there a long time But upon green they would become green and upon the dark Earth they would soon change to that colour One of the same bigness of which you see the Figure I caught as I was walking on the side of the Hill near the old Castle where I saw many which had changed themselves to the colour of the speckled Stone-walls to a grey with spots like Moss This I found on the top of a green bush of Prunella Spinosa which when I first cast my eye upon it was of a bright green colour but as soon as it perceived that I saw it it immediately let it self drop to the ground and I as soon stooped to look for it but could see nothing yet continuing to look about earnestly at last I perceived it creeping away to a Hole in the Rock being changed to a dark brown colour exactly like the Earth which was then of that colour after a shower of Rain This changing of Colours is given to this Creature by Nature for its Preservation For it is very slow in its pace lifting up its Legs high and not quick as if they saw not the way before them or rather
bigness When it was dead we tied a string about the Throat that no Water could pass down the Belly and tried how much Water this Bag would hold We had a wooden Kan there whose Dimensions were these The Top Three Inches and One Nineth Part Diameter The Bottom Six Inches and One Seventh Part Diameter Deep Ten Inches and One Fifth Part. Five of these Kans of Water we put into the Bag using no other Art to make it stretch than meerly the weight of the Water as we filled it which I verily judge to have been in the whole no less than ten or a dozen Quarts After this we opened it and found the Throat down to the Breast large enough to swallow a Carp of a foot long thence to the Gizzard but small The Gizzard is not of a round fleshy substance as other Fowls but near half a Foot long and an Inch and Quarter Diameter of a thicker substance than the rest of the Guts before or after The Lungs of a skinny Substance sticking fast on each side to the Ribs but a little red In its Gizzard were many live small Worms which I know not whether it were his Meat or his Disease The Blood and Flesh were very black and therefore I suppose very bad Meat They are in vast numbers all about these Seas as well as at Smyrna The Greeks say With these Bags they carry Fish and Water to their Young Ones in the Mountains where they breed Another day walking abroad I found one of those Tree-Froggs TREE-FROGGS which I met with and only mentioned at Ephesus The Greeks call it Spordaca Both of those which I saw were small in shape like others but of a deep green colour like a green Wallnut and when it lies close to the Ground resembles the better half of a Wall-nut lying flat For then it doubleth its Feet so close under it that it seemeth one entire piece The Nature of this Frogg is much different from that of others For those delight to be still on the Ground among Grass or in the Water whereas this kind delights to climb Trees Bushes and Shrubs and to sit chirping upon them For which purpose also Nature hath made Provision its Toes ending in a little round Knob like a Pins-head out of which issueth such a clammy Substance that leaping from Bough to Bough like a Squirrel wheresoever it toucheth with any of its Feet it hangeth and gets up its whole Body as I often tried I did not perceive that it held by grasping with its Feet as Birds and Squirrels do but only sticking by that clammy Substance to the smoothest Leaves I kept one several days with us upon a Bough of Lentiscus sticking the Bough into the Wall I put it into the Water and found it would swim like other Frogs but made all the haste imaginable to be out of that colder Element and never offered to dive under Water at all To see how it will recover it self by one Foot touching a Bough or Leaf is very wonderful and almost past Belief From the Mountains here run down many Streams and pass into the Sea within the Gulph And between Patras and the Promontory Drepanum which is within the Gulph of Lepanto Pausanias mentions four Rivers and a Fountain but somewhat confusedly for want of distinguishing which are without and which are within the Promontory Rhion The first is the River Milichus which I spake of already at Patras which riseth among the Hills behind the Town and falleth into the Sea South-Westwards of it The next is the River Charadrus which I place within the Promontory Rhion because I observed no Stream between Patras and the Castles and the Fountain Argyra which is within the Castles next following it To this River Charadrus the Country round about used to bring their Cattle in the Spring to drink believing that their Young Ones would be much the larger for it The Fountain Argyra I suppose is that which I mentioned within the Promontory Rhion or the Castles about a Mile near the little Hut I said we staid at so long expecting a Wind. And the River Selemnus one of those Streams next to it which Pausanias saith The Patrassians believed would cure those in Love that washed themselves therein Which was the Gift of Venus to it pitying the Shepherd Selemnus forsaken by the inconstant Nymph Argyra when his Blooming Youth began to decay Next to this he mentions the River Bolinaeus the chaste Nymph that gave Name to which being pursued by Apollo wilfully threw her self into the Sea head-long to avoid his foul Embraces I observed that Terebinthus grows not large here but bears Cods of Opobalsamum CHARADRUM There grows abundance of Myrtle here also and a sort of Iris with Leaves like Grass and a curious Azure-coloured Flower The Wind continuing yet contrary after eleven days stay in this miserable Hole we began to be so weary that we did not know how to dispose of our selves and considering what was to be done to deliver us from these tedious Passages by Sea in which we found we had no good Fortune we concluded to go back to Mr Pendarves at the Ship and furnish our selves with so much Money as would carry us quite through Greece to Vienna where I ordered Letters of Credit to meet us Therefore we made a Bargain with our Patron Dervish Haly to carry us thither So we hoised Sail and came that Evening under the Mountain Galata I before mentioned Here we found another Barque that had staid eight days for the same Wind that we wanted in a little Bay that stands in the Lee under this Mountain from which issueth a Spring of very good fresh Water The Greeks call it Crio Nero or the Cold Water for they say It is very cold in the Summer Perhaps this was in former Times the Callirrhoe of the Antients The Flower Tithymalus Spinosus Lib IIII Though it began to be dark I made shift to clamber up the side to the Rock and gathered a bundle of Herbs among which when I came into the Barque I found a kind of Spurge I had not before seen It is a Shrub that groweth in a small round Bush of a Foot high spreading infinitely into Branches until it bends every way down to the Ground and is every way guarded with Bunches of Thorns at the top among which spring up young tender Branches full of small Leaves shaped like Hypericon full of Milk and on the top Knots of Flowers like the other Tithymaus the Stems of which I judge to grow hard and turn into Thorns This I saw afterwards in many Parts of Greece in the Plains of Athens and on the Isthmus There groweth Fust also or Yellow-wood used to dye with called by the Greeks Chrysoxulo or Golden-wood The next Morning early we came to the Ship to Mr Pendarves where having dispatched our business we refreshed our selves and the next day the Wind favouring of us we crossed over to
after that also bearing the Decree of the Senate and People honouring Demetrius Son of Praxion and I believe the Statues of each of those Men were placed upon each of these Inscriptions Thence we went down by the Streight-way to the Port where on a Rock by the Sea-side are the Remains of Old Walls I believe of some Fortress belonging to the antient City Nicaea which in all probability stood there And was built by Nisus one of the four Sons of Pandion who at his Death divided his Kingdom of Attica into four parts and gave Megaris to Nisus About it below are the Remains of a dozen little old Churches and therefore they call the Place Dodeca-Ecclesia the Twelve Churches But now there is not so much as one Church entire or dwelling House no People nor no Priest This was the Port-Town of the Megarians of which the two Rocks which make the Harbour were antiently called Minoa Being return'd to Megara we took our Horses and went about three or four Miles Northward to a ruined Town they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Old Town where we found six or seven old Churches built as I conceive out of the Ruins of some more antient Edifices and in them some antient Inscriptions Q. CORTIO SALASSI L. POTHINO EX TESTAMENTO ARBITRATV THEOPHRASTI ET .......... ANCELI L. One in Latine in memory of Quintus Curtius of Salassi a City of Gallia Cisalpina or Piemont as Ferrarius hath it What Quintus Curtius this was I shall not take upon me to determine Η ΒΟΥΛΗ ÎΕΙΚΙΑΠΕΡΜΕΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣΑÎΤΑ ΑΡΕΤΗϹ ΧΑΡΙΠThere is another Inscription to the Memory of Nicias the Son of Hermius who as Pliny testifies L. 7. c. 16. was the first that invented the Trade of Fulling The Stone shews that he governed there I believe this Town was the antient Rhus mentioned by Pausanias I observed much Mandragora or Mandrakes growing in this Plain it being then in Flower and of a Purple or Violet colour 2. Keratia in great plenty of which before Lib. VI. Astragali Species 3. A kind of Astragalus which Monsieur Merchant calleth Astragalus argentens and doubts whether it be not Astragalus Syriacus It was not then in its full growth but hath a Root running deep in the Ground The Leaves were set upon a long stem small and something like to that which is called Grecian Valerian but covered over with a shining white and hoary down Among the Leaves I perceived some Buds not blown but then of a light yellow colour which whether they change when blown I know not But their shape is like Bean-blossoms Next Morning GERANIA now PALAIOBOUNI before it was light we parted from Megara that we might if possible reach Corinth the same day For it is further from thence to Corinth than it is from Athens thither and the way worse For not a Mile from Megara we began to ascend the Mountain Palaio-vouni by the lower way For there are two the one over the top of the Mountain and the other along the side of it This hath a very deep precipice on the left hand unto the Sea and the Mountain a vast height above it and is worthily called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Bad Way For it is one of the worst I ever travell'd for narrowness raggedness and danger of falling down some a hundred Yards headlong into the Sea which the least stumble of our Horses might easily effect This way in antient times was famous for the Robber Sciron who from thence threw head-long into the Sea all such as he had robbed until Theseus came who was too hard for him and justly made him taste the same Punishment he so barbarously had inflicted upon others throwing him into the Sea from a rocky Precipice Whence it was antiently called Scironides rupes or Scironiasaxa The Road is at this time little less infested with the Ambuscades of Corsairs than it was of old by that Thief Turks themselves dread and tremble to go this way when necessary occasions force them to it for fear of these People insomuch that one Turk happening to be on this Road at the time we passed by seeing us to be Francks and knowing the English Druggerman that went with us was glad to joyn himself to us and for greater security to pull off his Turbant and make a Girdle of it leaving only a red Skull-Cap upon his Head like a Greek This whole Mountain was called in old time Gerania because Megarus escaped thither in Deucalion's Flood being guided by the noise of Cranes called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as I have elsewhere proved It is a very high Mountain of which these high Cliffs are but upon the side a great way below the highest Point though they themselves are of a great height from the Sea As we passed along I observ'd the Wind to precipitate it self strangely down from the top of the Mountain WIND into the Sea some Blasts seeming to fall right down upon the Surface of the Water and there to be divided three or four several ways making the Waves to foam as it went Sometimes I saw the Water agitated for several Furlongs round about and in other parts smooth and calm at the same time for a considerable while together which was a Divertisement to us while we passed along that dangerous Road. Much time we spent in scrambling up and down these Precipices which done we continued along the Shore under the Mountain until we came to an antient Monument about mid-way from Megara to Corinth being raised up three or four Yards from the Ground and eight squard About it lay several large Planks of Marble some with Basso-relievd's upon them and some without One of which hath a Man walking on foot and a Horse passing by him the other way Another hath a Figure in a lying Posture but much defaced Not far from hence the antient Cromium ought to have been situated which was sometimes the Bounds between Attica and Peloponnesus But whether this was the Pedestal to the Pillar that King Theseus set up to be the Bounds between his Athenians and the Peloponnesians I dare not say but rather think it was some Octogone Temple For the Pillar should be further within the Isthmus where the Isthmian Games were celebrated It may well enough be that Temple of Apollo and Latona which Pausanias speaks of and placeth hereabouts From this antient Monument the plain Ground beginneth to enlarge it self between the Mountain Palaio-vouni and the Saronick Shoar although the Mountain and plain Ground considered together rather begins to grow narrow towards the narrowest Place of the Isthmus It makes as much cultivable Ground as the Plain of Megara but it is utterly neglected and uninhabited for fear of the Corsairs This was that Spot of Ground so much disputed for between the Athenians and Peloponnesians and afterwards by the Megarians and those of Corinth Lauribegius calls it Smedis regio and Heromelium ONEIUS Mons.