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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afford direct evidence of the existence of a great
and extensive city, which, the inscriptions and coins
found there, indicate to have been the less ancient
Corcyra. Although most of the traces of this city
are literally levelled with the dust, sufficient marks
remain above ground, as broken pottery and tiles,
and more have been discovered deeply buried in the
soil, to prove its original extent and magnificence.
The superficial indications are met with soon after
passing out of the Porta Reale at Corfu, and are
found scattered over a space of at least six miles
in circumference. And if we take into the calcula-
tion the ancient columns found in the sea at Perama,
(described in the French Military Report, drawn up
by the engineers employed in cutting the ditch
across the isthmus,) we must conclude, that the city
of Corcyra reached this point, sweeping round the
whole margin of the lake, and terminating at Pe-
rama, the passage where the ferry-boat plies across
it’s narrow entrance to the place called the one-gun
battery. In this space are scattered fragments of
fluted columns of the Doric, and a few of the Ionic
order, broken pieces of pottery, of excellent work-
manship, and beautifully ornamented, mosaic, large
masses of square stone, and foundations of great
buildings, buried many feet under the surface.
In digging the ditch across the isthmus, the
French engineers came upon an aqueduct in three
points, the source of which they suppose was at
Mount St. Ellena. The ingenious Mr. Prossalendi
of Corfu imagines, that some physical change must