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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others, and being of an oblong ridged shape, has
much the appearance of an isthmus connecting two
islands together. The remaining interval between
the two great mountains gives an opening to a very
singular bay, which is decidedly the most remark-
able feature in the topography of the island.
Neritos, the largest of the two great mountain
masses, flanks the bay to the north. The second,
which is now called mount Stephanos, was pro-
bably the ancient Neios*, and forms the second
great prominent barrier to the southward of the bay,
which is called Port Molo.
Aito, or the eagle mountain, occupies the centre
of the island. Its elevation is, as was before said,
considerably less than that of the others, and as it
connects them together, it also backs the great
bay to the westward, which is nearly of an oblong
* These names are now universally applied to the objects de-
scribed, by whomsoever restored, invented, or conjectured. Sir W.
Gell has had a large share in the discovery, so as to have left indeed
nothing to future tourists, but to bring forward matter corroborating
or opposing his opinions. Homer points out Neios in describing
port Reithros,—
Nwf ^E [Mt SfOIW E7F CVyfS woAwj
Ev xlpnl PeflJjw viro Nwu vXitrrl.
Od. b. 1. 1. 185.
Where waving groves on airy Neios grow,
Supremely tall and shade the deeps below. Pope.
and again when Telemachus tells Nestor,
Hpdj || ’iSa’xxs wro Nw