Goodisson, William: A historical and topographical essay upon the islands of Corfu, Leucadia, Cephalonia, Ithaka 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 Cyclopian ruins, illustrated by maps and sketches (London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1822)

HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL
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CHAPTER I,
Geographical position of the Islands—Importance of,
considered politically — Changes of Government in
the early ages—The Corcyreans the primary cause
of the Peloponnesian war.

THE Ionian Islands extend in a chain opposite
the coasts of Lower Albania or Epirus, and
Acarnania chiefly. Zante and Cerigo are more re-
motely situated to the southward, and opposite the
coast of the Morea. The mean distance from the
continent is about twelve miles, but at St3. Maura,
the channel which divides it from the main land
does not exceed one hundred yards in breadth.
They thus embrace a considerable portion of the
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