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A69796	An historical and geographical account of the Morea, Negropont, and the maritime places, as far as Thessalonica illustrated with 42 maps of the countries, plains, and draughts of the cities, towns and fortifications / written in Italian by P.M. Coronelli .... ; Englished by R. W., Gent.; Memorie istoriografiche del regno di Morea e Negroponte. English	Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718.; R. W., Gent.	1687 (1687)	Wing C6342; ESTC R21598	73,597	239

of the Morea beginning at the mouth of the said Gulf quite on to the Promontory of Castel Tornese On the West over against it at a distance from each other with a Strait of seven miles Sea between them are seen the Isles of Cephalonia and Santa Maura this of fifteen the other of forty miles length The end of the Isle of Cephalonia comes within twelve miles by Sea of the Isle of Zant and this is separated from the utmost Cape of the Morea by a space of twenty five miles The Gulf called that of Chiarenza from the name of an Ancient Maritime Town has its length from the Cape of Chiarenza to Castel Tornese The Gulf of Arcadia which Ptolemy calls Chelonates or Chelonites Sinus and others Locardian reaches from the Cape of Tornese to Cape Jardan The Gulf of Zonchio otherwise Cyparisius Sinus extends it self from Cape Jardan to the Cape of Sapienza The Gulfs of the Sea of Sapienza THe Gulf of Coron which washes the City of that name is likewise named that of Calamata from a place not far distant from its Shores. Ptolemy and Pliny call it Meseniacus Sinus because it was contiguous to the Ancient Province of Messenia Strabo Messenius and others Coroneus and Asineus Sinus It is between Cape Gallo and Cape Matapan The Gulf of Colochine or of Castel Rampani or of Fleos which Strabo and Ptolemy entitle Laconicus Sinus beats upon Luconia with its Waves and reaches from Cape Matapan to Cape Malio Though this Gulf be usually compre●ended in the Sea of Sapienza yet ●audrand places it to the Sea of Can●ia The Gulfs of the Aegean Sea on the side of the Morea THe Gulf of Napoli di Romania named from the Town so called extends it self a great way along the Morea between the Capes of St. Angelo and Schilli It once bore the name of Argolicus Sinus washing the Ancient Argia The Gulf of Engia is divided from that of Lepanto by the Isthmus It comprehends a great number of Isles and Rocks 'T is named Saronicus Sinus from the River Saron that discharges it self into it Ptolemy and Pliny call it Salaminiacus from the Isle of Salamis By Strabo 't is named Eleusinus and if we credit Pintianus 't was also called Hermonicus Sinus at last 't was named Egena from an Isle of that name that lies about the midst of the Gulf and is extended North and South between Attica and Saccania of twenty four miles circumference according to M. Spon This is bounded by the Capes of Colonne and Schilli Of the Isles and Rocks that are round the Morea and in the Ionian Sea. The Isle of Corfu AMongst the Isles of the Ionian Sea that are under the Venetians the Island of Corfu is not the least considerable It lies at the extreamity of the Gulf of Venice in the Ionian Sea. ISLE DE CORFV This Isle is divided into four Parts which those of the Place call Balie The first towards the East is named Lefchimo by Marmora Leuchino by Porcacchi and Leucimne by Thucidides The second towards the West is named Laghiro or Agiru The third Mezzo The fourth Loros or Oros Each of these Parts has its Territories There is spread over all a very pure clear Air and exceeding wholesome as may be gathered from the Forests of Oranges and Cedars that there flourish And with some reason the Poets sung so much of the Gardens of Alcinous who dwelt in this Isle The Country is also very fruitful in all kinds of Grain and Honey and Wax with Wine and Oyl of an extraordinary goodness nor does it want pleasant Flats in its Northern Parts In the first Territory of Lefchimo where yet remains some Tracts of the Ancient and Episcopal City of Gardichi at two miles distance from the Sea of Garbino there is a Fountain which made it famous which after making a small River runs down to the Sea on which Stream are several Mills This Territory contains about ten thousand Inhabitants in twenty five Burroughs the biggest whereof is named Potamos from a Canal that divides it in two It is inhabited by very civil and gentile People From thence is a Canal for Vessels down to the Sea. The Territory of Laghiro or Agiru on the East of the Isle abounds in all sorts of necessaries It has eight thousand Inhabitants in twenty Villages It had had more if the Africans had not come and demolished a City built in a Peninsule where at present stands a Monastery with a good number of Religious whose Church is dedicated to the Holy Virgin and is called Palio Castriza The Castle called Angelo Castron built by the Emperour Michael Comnenes upon the Promontory Palachrum is at this time named St. Angelo The third Territory called Mezzo in which stands the City of Corfu had once a larger City In an extent of sixty miles Possession there are thirty Castles or Lordships and Villages which together with the Capital contain twen●y five thousand Persons The fourth Territory called Loros ●r Oros in forty five miles Country and ●wenty five Towns has about eight ●housand Inhabitants Cassiopa now ●assiopo a very famous City was ancient●y its Capital The whole Isle has properly no Rivers for though on the ●ide of Garbinio there seems to be one which they name Mesongi that takes ●ts source near the Fortress Cardicchi yet it ought rather as well as all the rest to be reckoned a Brook than a River Historians agree not as to the Original of the Inhabitants of this Isle as may be seen in the History of Corfu writ by Marmora yet all or most of the People at this day are Greeks and observe the Rites of the Greek Church One Historian observes that this Isle was once of a considerable force Eustachio Sopra Dionigi by Sea and that in the time of the War between the Greeks and Persians it put thirty armed Galleys to Sea. The Greek are not the only Historians that make honourable mention of this Isle for besides what Thucidides say● of it speaking of the Wars of the Moreae in which the Corcyreans had often their part we find that Titus Livius makes them to receive Orders in the Army of Q. Fulvius Flavus to guard the Coast of Calabria and that they went in pursuit of the Ambassadors of Carthage who at the sollicitation of Hannibal were sent to make a League with Philip King of Macedon and that these Ambassadors having been brought before the Captain General he se●● them to Rome The People of this Isle after having been long subject to the Kings of Naples weary at last of being still subject to the frequent Commotions of that Kingdom offered to put themselves under the Obedience of the Venetian Republick This their Design they communicated to Giov. Penelasco then residing at Corfu in quality of Consul for the Venetians who gave advice thereof to the Senate and because the Prince of Tarentum made some pretences they sent to him the Secretary Pietro Compitelli

of Rivers for after having several times ingulfed it self in narrow Passages under the Rocks it breaks out at last and slides with a serene Majesty within its own Banks The River Eurotas is also in great Reputation at this day called Vassali Potamos Niger names it Iris Plutarch Hemerus and Martathon it passes through the middle of Misitra and falls into the Gulf of Colchina it has its source from the same place as the River Carbon The name of Eurotas so celebrated by the Ancients was given to it from Eurotas the third King of the Lacedemonians either as Pausanias reports for that this Prince made a new Bank to this River to keep in its Waters that sometimes used to overflow the Country to their great damage or as Plutarch says because that this King having lost a Battel he had engaged in before the Full Moon in scorn of the superstitious Custome of the Lacedemonians carryed on by the height of Despair cast himself into this River which from so Tragical an Event changed the name Himerus to Eurotas As for the name Vassali Potamos the Inhabitants say it signifies the Imperial River which name was imposed on it by the Despots of Morea who descended from the Imperial Blood and for the most part resided at Misitra for the pleasant Diversions of Hunting c. on the Banks of Euretas which the Lacedemonians called the Imperial River in flattery and to enhanse the Glory of these Despots and Despoenes a name given to the Princesses the Despots Wives This Stream is still adorned with Silver Swans which here come in great flocks to sport themselves these are the more admirable for their extraordinary Beauty and Size besides their extream whiteness possibly the Poets on this account called this River Olorifer upon which Statius sings Taygetique falx oloriferi Euro●ae And since its Banks were cloathed with Laurels 't was dedicated by the Poets to Apollo all the Summer it deserves not the name of a River for 't is so shallow that it may rather be taken for a pretty large clear purling Brook but in Winter encreased by the Rains it proudly lifts it self up and sometimes overflows its bounds It once had on its left the Country of Ormoas which Strabo and Pliny call Acria There is also in Tzaconia the River Inachus taking its source from the Mountain Crovia 't is at this time called Planizza once Cramavor then Haliacmon in fine Inachus from the name of a Son of Occanus and Thetis The cause thus Inachus not being able to take the Ravishing of his Daughter by Jupiter without repining and murmuring against the deflowring God in punishment for his Murmurs was so tormented by a wild Beast that he became besotted and precipitated himself into this Stream which took its name from his death Between Inachus and Saccania are seen the Rivers Linceus Asteria or Stella and Erasinus which rapidly wash the Foot of Mount Strimphalus We must not forget the River Spirnazza which is not the least considerable Stiled by Niger Stomius by Strabo and Pliny Pamylus and by Ptolomey Panysus it discharges it self into the Gulf of Coron near Calameta Of the Confines and Frontiers of the Morea THe Morea is bounded by the Ionian Sea that of Sapienza and the Aegean which are known by several names as we shall shew in their order in the second Part of this Treatise We may take as a part of the Mediterranean Plin. l. 8. c. 11. that Sea which Strabo and Pliny call the Ionian and which was likewise named the Grecian bounding Northwards upon the Mouth of the Gulf of Venice on the West upon the Borders of Calabria and Sicilia beginning from the point of Santa Maria and so on to the Cape of Passaro its Eastern bounds are the Shores of Epirus and the Morea from Cape Lenguetta to Cape Matapan and on the South it has the African Sea. This Sea on its Western extent on which side it washes the Morea comprehends the following Gulfs The Ionian Sea comprehends The Gulf of Lepanto The Gulf of Patras The Gulf of Chiarenza The Gulf of Arcadia The Gulf of Zonchio The Sea of Sapienza which is also a part of the Mediterranean takes its name from the Isles near Modon and has on the West the Ionian and on the East the Aegaean Seas its South beating upon the Morea includes these Gulfs The Sea of Sapienza includes The Gulf of Coron The Gulf of Colochina The Gulf of Beatico The Aegean Sea a part likewise of the Mediterranean contains within its whole extent a great many Gulfs we will only mention those on the Morean Shore The Aegean Sea towards the Morea comprehends The Gulf of Napolidi Romania   The Gulf of Engia All Europe affords not a place comparable to this pleasant Peninsula enricht by Nature with so many rare Qualities It s fruitful Plains flourish with plenty adorned with the charms of Variety and its high Hills which might be thought an unpleasing Object for their cragginess are yet made agreeable by the Verdant Crowns they wear of rare and excellent Plants and delicious Fruits Its Inhabitants have a Genius fit for great Undertakings and are inspired with a Martial Soul Its Cities have all once had glorious Founders and its Climate is soft serene and temperate This Place has still had the Prerogative and been chief over all Greece and indeed its main Bulwark a thousand Illustrious Monuments present our Eyes with Objects of Beauty Grandeur Magnificence Splendor and Glory on the one side Sumptuous and Stately Buildings raise their once proud Heads on the other side we have the Melancholy pleasing view of the Imperial Seats of the My●enians Corinthians Lacedemonians Si●yonians Elians Arcadians Pyleans and Messenians Arms and Learning have always been the two famous Pil●ars set up here amongst this People of ● Ne plus ultra to others The Athe●ian School had here its Foundation ●n whose Front were engraven these words Mater Sermonum the Mother ●f Eloquence Here likewise as in ●he true Field of Mars the most He●●ick Captains of Greece have poured ●ut their Blood for never-dying ●ame War has here either been per●etual or at least frequent Amongst all the Athenians have ●●ew'd themselves the valiantest con●enders for Liberty for from the year ●23 in the LXXXVII Olympiad ●o the year 350. they still defended ●hemselves tho they had then lost ●ome of their Power This little Re●ublique its Government being only ●ltered became after some Ages a ●reat and powerful Kingdom when ●aving passed through several hands it at last met the beginnings and causes of its future Ruine under Emanuel the Grecian Emperor For that Prince ignorant of that Maxime That the power of a Monarch is maintained by the Union of the Princes and that a failure in this brings on the Ruine of Kings and Kingdoms through a fatal Policy equally divided his Realms amongst his seven Sons and by that sowed the Seed of discord and intestine Broyls