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have seldom seen a place Avhich promised more to an excavator than
the ruins of Nicopolis. Several valuable antiquities have been dis-
covered by chance, particularly medals, and small bronze statues of
exquisite workmanship.
We returned to Prebeza in the evening, and slept in the house
of the English vice-consul.
It was our intention, the next morning, to visit the ruins of Actium,
which are neither very numerous nor interesting, and are situated
on the Acarnanian side of the gulph; we were however dissuaded
from attempting it, on account of the thieves who were said to be
stationed near the spot.
The Ambracian gulph divides Epiros from Acarnania; on its
southern side is the beginning of Greece, as we see in Dicaearchus.1 Its
length is about thirty miles :2 the scenery is grand and beautiful, and
the town of Arta3 has occupied the site of Ambracia, and given its
name to the gulph. The battle of Actium is supposed to have been
fought at its entrance,4 opposite the place where Prebeza now
stands.
The modern name of Acarnania is Karhli, it formed a principa-
lity in the middle ages, its sovereign having the title of Despot.
TO ITHACA.
On the 18th, we quitted Santa Maura at an early hour, wishing
to reach Ithaca before night; the distance being about thirty miles.
1 TV iWacoc «m»» A/i/3/xma wouitti TroXig. Stat. Graec.
2 Polyb. b. 4. p. 327, says that its length was three hundred stadia. The breadth at the
mouth being five stadia, and one hundred in the broadest part.
This is one of the largest cities in Greece, containing about 1S,000 inhabitants.
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4 Plutarch'* M. Antonius.
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have seldom seen a place Avhich promised more to an excavator than
the ruins of Nicopolis. Several valuable antiquities have been dis-
covered by chance, particularly medals, and small bronze statues of
exquisite workmanship.
We returned to Prebeza in the evening, and slept in the house
of the English vice-consul.
It was our intention, the next morning, to visit the ruins of Actium,
which are neither very numerous nor interesting, and are situated
on the Acarnanian side of the gulph; we were however dissuaded
from attempting it, on account of the thieves who were said to be
stationed near the spot.
The Ambracian gulph divides Epiros from Acarnania; on its
southern side is the beginning of Greece, as we see in Dicaearchus.1 Its
length is about thirty miles :2 the scenery is grand and beautiful, and
the town of Arta3 has occupied the site of Ambracia, and given its
name to the gulph. The battle of Actium is supposed to have been
fought at its entrance,4 opposite the place where Prebeza now
stands.
The modern name of Acarnania is Karhli, it formed a principa-
lity in the middle ages, its sovereign having the title of Despot.
TO ITHACA.
On the 18th, we quitted Santa Maura at an early hour, wishing
to reach Ithaca before night; the distance being about thirty miles.
1 TV iWacoc «m»» A/i/3/xma wouitti TroXig. Stat. Graec.
2 Polyb. b. 4. p. 327, says that its length was three hundred stadia. The breadth at the
mouth being five stadia, and one hundred in the broadest part.
This is one of the largest cities in Greece, containing about 1S,000 inhabitants.
■ 3
4 Plutarch'* M. Antonius.
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