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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the promontory, upon which the city and fortress
stand, stretches out towards the Albanian continent,
its turret like rocks diminished in the distance. To
these Virgil alludes in the third 2E. 1. 291.
Protinus aerias Pheacum abscondimus arces.
An appearance that must exactly take place in
passing up the channel from Corfu. The Corfti
basin next appears, locked in by the huge barrier of
the Pindus chain, fringing the horizon with its
splendent snows.
The town of Corfu contains about 17,000 inhabi-
tants, but no census of the population of this island
has been taken for a considerable time: 60,000 is
supposed to be about the number of souls in town and
country. It is situated nearly on a level with the
sea, at the root of a promontory, which terminates in
an extraordinary double rock upon which the
fortress is built. Corfu is walled, and has been
rendered a place of great strength from the number
and position of the outworks. The sea washes part
of the south, and the whole of the north wall. On
the east the city is open to the esplanade and the
old fortress, and on the west it is protected by a
strong wall with ditches and extensive outworks.
This latter looking toward the island, is the side
upon which it is assailable by land, and upon w hich
the Turks made their attack, when it was defended
in so gallant a manner by the celebrated Marshal