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)

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Turkish frontier, extending from Butrinto to the
most southern point of the Morea opposite Ce-
rigo; a space which is included between the
thirty-sixth and fortieth degrees of north latitude,
and comprises the entrances into the gulphs of Ve-
nice, Arta, and Lepanto.
This position, by which the Turkish empire is
most assailable upon the part of Austria, and by
which the Venetians commenced their inroads upon
that power before, must always be regarded as of
importance, so long as the destruction of the Otto-
man throne, or its support, can enter into the con-
templation of the powers of Europe. The former
event had long been anticipated by both Austria
and Russia, the mutual jealousy of which powers,
however, it would appear, operated to frustrate the
designs of each respectively*.
The population amounts to about 200,000 souls.
Whatever political weight this people might have
held in the scale of ancient nations, their import-
ance can now be regarded only prospectively;
whether it be the object of Great Britain to adopt
them as colonists, or to effect such a change in
them, morally and physically, as to form a nucleus
of liberty, whence a spirit of freedom may emanate,
and disseminating itself over all Greece, raise there
a power capable of emancipating and maintaining

*Va udoncourt’s Ionian Islands.