Gell, William: The geography and antiquities of Ithaca (London, 1807)

of one presents the figure of a cock, the emblem of his vigi-
lance, with the legend I0AKQN. A few of these medals are
preserved in the cabinets of the curious, and one also, with
the cock, found in the island, is in the possession of Signor
Zavo, of Bathi. The uppermost coin is in the collection of
Dr. Hunter; the second is copied from Newman, and the
third is the property of R. P. Knight, Esq.

Several inscriptions, which will be hereafter produced,
will tend to the confirmation of the idea that Ithaca was
inhabited about the time when the Romans were masters of
Greece; yet there is every reason to believe that few, if
any, of the present proprietors of the soil are descended
from ancestors who had long resided successively in the
island. Even those who lived, at the time of Ulysses, in
Ithaca, seem to have been on the point of emigrating to
Argos,1 and no chief remained, after the second in descent
from that hero, worthy of being recorded in history. It
appears that the isle has been twice colonised from Cephal-
lonia in modern times, and I was informed that a grant had
been made by the Venetians, entitling each settler in Ithaca

1 Speech of Menelaus to Telemachus.

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