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 most remarkable are the Oxise j a name well
applied on account of the ruggedness of their figure.
To the whole of the western coast of Ithaca is
opposed a part of the eastern coast of Cephalonia,
from which it is separated by a channel of irregular
width, varying from ten to about fifteen miles :
the beautiful bay of Samos opens its bosom nearly
opposite to the centre of Ithaca, from which it is
distant about ten miles.
These are the principal objects connected with
the geographical position of the island. In the
northern entrance of the channel is yet another
small islet called Dascallio ; it is the only one now
existing between Ithaca and Cephalonia: its claim
to notice shall hereafter be considered.
Ithaca is about fifteen miles long*. Its breadth
is very irregular, from the peculiarity of its figure.
It consists of two large masses of mountain, united
by a third, but of considerably less size than the
* Spon, with a view of reconciling Strabo's description of the
islands, applies the name of Ithaca to Ataco, the island mentioned
above, lying between Thiaki and the continent, as corresponding
with Strabo's account of the size of Ithaca. The same writer
calls Thiaki, Dulichium. This however is as contradictory of
Strabo's authority, as the other supposition ; for Strabo says that
Dulichium was one of the Echinades. It is clear that Ataco could
not have been the Ithaca alluded to by Homer, as Asteris is de-
scribed by him, as lying between it and Cephalonia; besides which,
Homer’s account evidently implies the existence of two mountains
in Ithaca, whereas Ataco is a single rock.