THE LOCRIAN COAST. 6l
but imperfect traces not far from a village named Tornitza, which was
situated in the plain to our right. At the distance of half an hour
more we remarked other similar remains, and a cave on a rocky hill
to the left. At this point the country becomes rich and smiling,
and the hills display a lively intermixture of rock and verdure.
In twenty-five minutes from the last mentioned traces, we
came to the remains of a city as imperfect as the others that
we had seen along this coast. Their total state of dilapidation
renders them of little interest; and no inscriptions are found to
pive an insight into their ancient names : this circumstance excites
the more regret, as the conjectures of the traveller are not here
assisted by the guidance of Pausanias, who scarcely mentions the
Locrians. And although Strabo is more than usually minute in his
description of this country, yet he has made several omissions and
apparent errors in distances, and has passed by some towns without
recording even their names.1 The appearance of the Locrian coast,
and the course of its rivers, which have been considerably altered
by the frequent and violent convulsions of nature, is another great
cause of the difficulty of ascertaining the names and relative situa-
tions of the towns and rivers noticed by the geographer. He first
mentions Opous, and the maritime town of Cynos ; next Alope, and
Daphnous, of which the latter was in ruins in his time. It had a port
ninety stadia from Cynos. Twenty stadia from Daphnous was the
town of Knemis, the capital of the Hypoknemidian Locrians. This
was opposite the promontory Kenaion, or Cenyeum, in Euboea, and
the three islands named Lichades. Twenty stadia from Knemis was
a port, from which the town of Thronion was distant twenty stadia
inland, lie then mentions the mouth of the Boagrios, and the town
of Skarphe, ten stadia from the sea, and thirty from Thronion ; after
which he places Nicasa and Thermopylae. He also mentions Alos
1 These are, no doubt, amongst those which lie thought not worthy of notice, Iwv h
XotVuiv TtoXiuiv 1'jjy, fj,ey aXX'xv tw a^tcv fj-tfj-yr^iai.—13. 9. p. 426.
but imperfect traces not far from a village named Tornitza, which was
situated in the plain to our right. At the distance of half an hour
more we remarked other similar remains, and a cave on a rocky hill
to the left. At this point the country becomes rich and smiling,
and the hills display a lively intermixture of rock and verdure.
In twenty-five minutes from the last mentioned traces, we
came to the remains of a city as imperfect as the others that
we had seen along this coast. Their total state of dilapidation
renders them of little interest; and no inscriptions are found to
pive an insight into their ancient names : this circumstance excites
the more regret, as the conjectures of the traveller are not here
assisted by the guidance of Pausanias, who scarcely mentions the
Locrians. And although Strabo is more than usually minute in his
description of this country, yet he has made several omissions and
apparent errors in distances, and has passed by some towns without
recording even their names.1 The appearance of the Locrian coast,
and the course of its rivers, which have been considerably altered
by the frequent and violent convulsions of nature, is another great
cause of the difficulty of ascertaining the names and relative situa-
tions of the towns and rivers noticed by the geographer. He first
mentions Opous, and the maritime town of Cynos ; next Alope, and
Daphnous, of which the latter was in ruins in his time. It had a port
ninety stadia from Cynos. Twenty stadia from Daphnous was the
town of Knemis, the capital of the Hypoknemidian Locrians. This
was opposite the promontory Kenaion, or Cenyeum, in Euboea, and
the three islands named Lichades. Twenty stadia from Knemis was
a port, from which the town of Thronion was distant twenty stadia
inland, lie then mentions the mouth of the Boagrios, and the town
of Skarphe, ten stadia from the sea, and thirty from Thronion ; after
which he places Nicasa and Thermopylae. He also mentions Alos
1 These are, no doubt, amongst those which lie thought not worthy of notice, Iwv h
XotVuiv TtoXiuiv 1'jjy, fj,ey aXX'xv tw a^tcv fj-tfj-yr^iai.—13. 9. p. 426.