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

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nades, did not these present a number of eminences, rising
in some instances to a considerable height, and sometimes
occupied by the ruins of an ancient castle or a village, so
situated as to be out of the reach of the inundations of the
river. From one of the mountains of iEtolia, above twenty
of the islands so joined to the shore may be counted. Of
the rocks now known by the name of Oxiae, that on the
right only can be at present esteemed an island; for that
on the left is separated from the continent by a channel
less than two feet in depth. Pliny gives the following
names to the islands in this sea :—Taphias, Oxiae, Prino-
essa, of the Echinades, iEgialia, Cotonis, Thyatira, Geoatis,
Dionysia, Cyrnus, Chalcis, Pinara, Mystus. The Romans,
however, seem to have been strangely ignorant of this
part of Greece, and these names cannot be esteemed very
correct, as Pliny seems to have named islands and cities
indiscriminately in this sea; and we find in the list Cephal-
lonia, Zante, Ithaca, Dulichium, Same, Crocylea, and
Paxos. Strabo mentions an island called Artemia, which
was joined to the continent by the river.

The Achelous is said to have formerly discharged itself

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