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BY MANY ANCIENT AUTHORS.
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equally applicable to either situation. An earlier au-
thority than Strabo, Seylax, is somewhat more explicit,
and mentions Cydonia as having a harbour which could
be closed88; an expression which would certainly lead
us to place the city on the shore. The port of Khania
exactly answers to the description of Scylax.
by some living scholars and geographers, who suppose the site to be as many
miles to the west of the modern city. The former opinion is totally unfounded,
and wholly irreconcileable with all that we learn from ancient authors about
the site. As to the latter, it will be soon enough to speak of the ruins which
Lapie, in his map of Crete, Mr Gail, in his notes on the Maritime Itinerary,
and Dr Cramer, in his Description of Ancient Greece, (Vol. in. p. 366.) lay
down as belonging to Cydonia, when I visit the place where they are said to
exist.
28 Scylax of Caryanda, in Hudson's Minor Greek Geographers,
Vol. i. p. 18. or in Vol. i. p. 265. of Mr Gail's edition. Kuoajm'a, teal
Xi/xrjv /xXeiu-Tos, 7rpos (iopiav. The expression \ifit]v h:\eicn-os, so fre-
quently used by ancient authors, is well explained by Colonel Leake,
Topography of Athens, p. 311, and, Travels in the Morea, Vol. u. pp. 436-7,
where he concludes, "the ports were thus kXblittoI Xi^e'i/ee, were placed within
the walls of a town, and might be closed by a chain." We shall meet with
others in the island. I find that, about a century ago, an iron chain used every
night to be drawn across the narrow entrance of the port of the Kastron, to
prevent the unperceived ingress or egress of any vessel. See Vol. i. p. 34. of
Peregrinus in Jerusalem, Fremdling zu Jerusalem, oder ausfuehrliche
Reise-Beschreibungen &c. &c. &c. by P. Angelicus Maria Myller, Ordens
der
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equally applicable to either situation. An earlier au-
thority than Strabo, Seylax, is somewhat more explicit,
and mentions Cydonia as having a harbour which could
be closed88; an expression which would certainly lead
us to place the city on the shore. The port of Khania
exactly answers to the description of Scylax.
by some living scholars and geographers, who suppose the site to be as many
miles to the west of the modern city. The former opinion is totally unfounded,
and wholly irreconcileable with all that we learn from ancient authors about
the site. As to the latter, it will be soon enough to speak of the ruins which
Lapie, in his map of Crete, Mr Gail, in his notes on the Maritime Itinerary,
and Dr Cramer, in his Description of Ancient Greece, (Vol. in. p. 366.) lay
down as belonging to Cydonia, when I visit the place where they are said to
exist.
28 Scylax of Caryanda, in Hudson's Minor Greek Geographers,
Vol. i. p. 18. or in Vol. i. p. 265. of Mr Gail's edition. Kuoajm'a, teal
Xi/xrjv /xXeiu-Tos, 7rpos (iopiav. The expression \ifit]v h:\eicn-os, so fre-
quently used by ancient authors, is well explained by Colonel Leake,
Topography of Athens, p. 311, and, Travels in the Morea, Vol. u. pp. 436-7,
where he concludes, "the ports were thus kXblittoI Xi^e'i/ee, were placed within
the walls of a town, and might be closed by a chain." We shall meet with
others in the island. I find that, about a century ago, an iron chain used every
night to be drawn across the narrow entrance of the port of the Kastron, to
prevent the unperceived ingress or egress of any vessel. See Vol. i. p. 34. of
Peregrinus in Jerusalem, Fremdling zu Jerusalem, oder ausfuehrliche
Reise-Beschreibungen &c. &c. &c. by P. Angelicus Maria Myller, Ordens
der