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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and laid together much after the same fashion,
with those at Santa Maura and Ithaca.
All the different descriptions of cyclopic are found
here, the rougher and more massy specimens
occupying the higher parts. The wall which faces
the south may be traced for about one thousand five
hundred and eight paces, and another looking north-
east, extends for about eight hundred : in the latter
are very large blocks of stone ; at one part they
are regularly squared, where they probably formed
the casement of a door. Where both walls join,
there is a part constructed of masses also nearly
square, a sketch of which is given (Plate VIII. fig. 4.)
a particularly large stone resting upon two others,
which it has nearly forced from under it, is of a
pentagon shape, and of the following dimensions :
length, eight feet ten inches ; depth, five feet two
inches; height, six feet seven inches. A second,
nearly quadrangular, is eight feet in width, three
feet ten inches high, and four inches and a half in
thickness. A third enormous block, is thirteen feet
five inches in length, three feet three inches in
height, and about the same in its greatest depth,
which is however irregular. Besides these powerful
artificial defences, the situation of the place was at
once difficult and dangerous for the assault of an
enemy, particularly the ascent to the south wall,
which runs along the edge of a precipice its whole
length.