HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL
ESSAY
UPON THE ISLANDS OF
CORFU, LEUCADIA, CEPHALONIA, ITHACA,
AND ZANTE:
WITH
REMARKS UPON THE CHARACTER, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF
THE IONIAN GREEKS;
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SCENERY AND REMAINS OF ANTIQUITY
DISCOVERED THEREIN,
AND
REFLECTIONS UPON THE CYCLOPEAN RUINS.
ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND SKETCHES.
BY WILLIAM GOODISSON, A. B.
Assistant-Surgeon in His Majesty’s 75th Regiment,
Owi (fvXXwy rowing Jta/
[a'v t avspos aAAaJs O’ vAn
TvifaQouca ttlyiyytrod wgn
£1$ dy^uv yevsn\ n /xsi> Qvd, y ^’atfoTwyd” Iliad, vi. V. 146.
“ Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on tha ground ;
Another race the following spring supplies ;
They fall successive and successive rise;
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these when those are past away.v~“PoPE.
Unntinn:
PRINTED FOR THOMAS AND GEORGE UNDERWOOD,
32, FLEET-STREET.
1822.
ESSAY
UPON THE ISLANDS OF
CORFU, LEUCADIA, CEPHALONIA, ITHACA,
AND ZANTE:
WITH
REMARKS UPON THE CHARACTER, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF
THE IONIAN GREEKS;
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SCENERY AND REMAINS OF ANTIQUITY
DISCOVERED THEREIN,
AND
REFLECTIONS UPON THE CYCLOPEAN RUINS.
ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND SKETCHES.
BY WILLIAM GOODISSON, A. B.
Assistant-Surgeon in His Majesty’s 75th Regiment,
Owi (fvXXwy rowing Jta/
[a'v t avspos aAAaJs O’ vAn
TvifaQouca ttlyiyytrod wgn
£1$ dy^uv yevsn\ n /xsi> Qvd, y ^’atfoTwyd” Iliad, vi. V. 146.
“ Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on tha ground ;
Another race the following spring supplies ;
They fall successive and successive rise;
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these when those are past away.v~“PoPE.
Unntinn:
PRINTED FOR THOMAS AND GEORGE UNDERWOOD,
32, FLEET-STREET.
1822.