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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habitants of a number of beautiful villages, thickly
scattered upon them, has reclaimed and enriched,
the produce of the currant amply rewarding their
labour.
The most considerable of these villages is Giara-
chorio, situated upon the top of the ridge. A
little port is found in the interval between the
northern extremities of the two first ranges of moun-
tains, called Catastari. The broken edges of the
horizontal strata along the line of the eastern range,
are beautifully fringed with olive groves: might
this woody appearance have given rise to the
epithet, “ Nemorosa?”
The third mountain range bordering the plain
of Zante, commences in the insulated mass of Scopd,
which is by much the loftiest in the island ; its ex-
tremity, called Capo Vasilika, forms a third point,
or cape, to the southward and eastward. Th e
island thus assumes something of a triangular shape,
the angles terminating in the points Skinari, Vasi-
lika or Scopd, and Chieri. Scopd is composed,
like the range last described, of sand upon a substra-
tum of clay; its surface is very irregular, being
made up of a number of cones which point upwards
in various directions : two of these, upon the outline
of the mountain, as viewed from the city, have a
very singular appearance; they look as if they were
hove out of their natural perpendicular position, by
some violent convulsion.