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over terraces, and always among loose rocks and stones, to
the village of Leuka, which is 2815 paces distant from the
monastery.1
Leuka is a very pretty village, consisting of about thirty
houses. The name signifies a poplar tree. It is situate
on a little flat on the western foot of Neritos, and sur-
rounded by terraces producing corn and flax in abundance.
There is a well below the village, sufficiently plentiful for
the purposes of the inhabitants, who came out to congratu-
late us on our arrival, with water in pitchers of coarse
ear then-ware.
The beauty of the place, and the quantity of cultivated
ground, induced us to imagine that Leuka might be the
situation of the garden to which Laertes retired during the
absence of Ulysses. The position corresponds with the
description given by the poet.1 Ulysses descended from
the citadel to the farm of Laertes, which was at some
distance from the town. Now the farm could not have
been on the southern portion of the island, for if it had
1 These paces are no measure of distance, as the steepness and inequality
of the descent rendered them all too long as well as irregular.
* Od. 24. 204.
104
over terraces, and always among loose rocks and stones, to
the village of Leuka, which is 2815 paces distant from the
monastery.1
Leuka is a very pretty village, consisting of about thirty
houses. The name signifies a poplar tree. It is situate
on a little flat on the western foot of Neritos, and sur-
rounded by terraces producing corn and flax in abundance.
There is a well below the village, sufficiently plentiful for
the purposes of the inhabitants, who came out to congratu-
late us on our arrival, with water in pitchers of coarse
ear then-ware.
The beauty of the place, and the quantity of cultivated
ground, induced us to imagine that Leuka might be the
situation of the garden to which Laertes retired during the
absence of Ulysses. The position corresponds with the
description given by the poet.1 Ulysses descended from
the citadel to the farm of Laertes, which was at some
distance from the town. Now the farm could not have
been on the southern portion of the island, for if it had
1 These paces are no measure of distance, as the steepness and inequality
of the descent rendered them all too long as well as irregular.
* Od. 24. 204.