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NOT AT SPINA LONGA.
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Lytto, where ancient remains are still found, is about
eight or ten miles up in the mountains to the south of
these villages.
The mistake of D'Anville41, Mannert42 and Cramer43,
as well as of the Venetian Senator Cornaro44 and the
German traveller Sieber45, in supposing Khersonesos to
have been at Spina Longa, is too palpable to require any
investigation. Professor Hoeck has shewn the impossi-
bility of that city having been so far to the east46; and
even Pococke47 was aware of its true situation, for he
says that he had designed to have gone further to the
east than Megalo-Kastron, " at least as far as Cerro-
neso,'" which is rightly laid down in his map, and of
which he adds: " it is now called Cheronneso; it is a
Bishop's see where there are some ruins.'1
On arriving at Episkopiand I went to the house of
of the Priest, who accompanied me down to Palaedpolis,
the site of the ancient city on the shore. I had not
time, before sunset, to examine, with sufficient attention,
its existing remains; and found that it would be ne-
cessary to visit them again the following morning48. I
therefore returned to my quarters at Episkopiand.
Whatever may have been the comfort or splendour
with which the former ecclesiastical dignitaries of the
41 D'Anville, Oeuvres, (Geographie ancienne abregee,) Tom. u.
p. 191. ed. Par. 1834. "Cette ville Lyctos avoit un port appele Cherronesus,
qui convient a ce qu' on nomme Spina Longa, quoique le nora de Cherronesi
soit aujourd'hui transports au port Tigani."
42 Mannert, Geographie der Griechen und Roemer, Vol. viii. p. 702.
43 Cramer, Description of Ancient Greece, Vol. in. pp. 370 and 388.
44 Cornelius, Creta Sacra, i. p. 258.
45 Sieber, Reise nach der Insel Kreta, Vol. i. p. 299, and Vol. n.
p. 265. Mr Sieber slept at Guves, (Vol. i. p. 274.) and we find him next,
after he had crossed the Aposele'mi, at Malia, (p. 276.) to reach which place
he must have passed either through the modem village of Khersonesos, or
over the ruins of the ancient city.
40 Hoeck, Kreta, Vol. i. pp. 408, 409.
47 Pococke, Vol. n. Part i. p. 258.
48 On the morning of the next day, March 12, 1834, I examined the site
of Khersonesos: on the 14th, that of the Homeric city of Miletos, at which
considerable remains of walls of polygonal masonry, both of the acropolis and
city,
NOT AT SPINA LONGA.
269
Lytto, where ancient remains are still found, is about
eight or ten miles up in the mountains to the south of
these villages.
The mistake of D'Anville41, Mannert42 and Cramer43,
as well as of the Venetian Senator Cornaro44 and the
German traveller Sieber45, in supposing Khersonesos to
have been at Spina Longa, is too palpable to require any
investigation. Professor Hoeck has shewn the impossi-
bility of that city having been so far to the east46; and
even Pococke47 was aware of its true situation, for he
says that he had designed to have gone further to the
east than Megalo-Kastron, " at least as far as Cerro-
neso,'" which is rightly laid down in his map, and of
which he adds: " it is now called Cheronneso; it is a
Bishop's see where there are some ruins.'1
On arriving at Episkopiand I went to the house of
of the Priest, who accompanied me down to Palaedpolis,
the site of the ancient city on the shore. I had not
time, before sunset, to examine, with sufficient attention,
its existing remains; and found that it would be ne-
cessary to visit them again the following morning48. I
therefore returned to my quarters at Episkopiand.
Whatever may have been the comfort or splendour
with which the former ecclesiastical dignitaries of the
41 D'Anville, Oeuvres, (Geographie ancienne abregee,) Tom. u.
p. 191. ed. Par. 1834. "Cette ville Lyctos avoit un port appele Cherronesus,
qui convient a ce qu' on nomme Spina Longa, quoique le nora de Cherronesi
soit aujourd'hui transports au port Tigani."
42 Mannert, Geographie der Griechen und Roemer, Vol. viii. p. 702.
43 Cramer, Description of Ancient Greece, Vol. in. pp. 370 and 388.
44 Cornelius, Creta Sacra, i. p. 258.
45 Sieber, Reise nach der Insel Kreta, Vol. i. p. 299, and Vol. n.
p. 265. Mr Sieber slept at Guves, (Vol. i. p. 274.) and we find him next,
after he had crossed the Aposele'mi, at Malia, (p. 276.) to reach which place
he must have passed either through the modem village of Khersonesos, or
over the ruins of the ancient city.
40 Hoeck, Kreta, Vol. i. pp. 408, 409.
47 Pococke, Vol. n. Part i. p. 258.
48 On the morning of the next day, March 12, 1834, I examined the site
of Khersonesos: on the 14th, that of the Homeric city of Miletos, at which
considerable remains of walls of polygonal masonry, both of the acropolis and
city,