h a l us filming ton gazette vol ii thursday octobrrn i?9 3 * no 93 little iflands and it it of an excellent quan y it ultd fobe ai well as the oil ul all the other liunds feni to venice by the order of the government it is fcarccly neceffary to obferve that this paroi is not the ifland of the lain name fo celebrated among the ancients for its beautiful warble j that paros i one ot the cycladew saint imat'ra this ifhnd was caueil by the nnciems leiuai r leucadia on account of thr wliitenels of its rocks it contains the famous promontory known by the lifter ent names of leucate lfucas or leu caies from which defpairing lovers ufed to throw ihenifelves into the lea 1 he riulinntiiifi poetrels sappho lia«l recoui u 0 thi leap t tree hjtfctt t.-wu t»>e vi er\i piiuinn lhe,.«miiertaiucd lor her un urh'eitil lover i'jiaoii st maura it alxnit fix leagues diftam ' ironi the gulph tf frevcza it is ll»nl tcs have bern form'erly jowieil to the contn lirnt by r narrow or llthmus which the j«lial)iiant cut throtlgh atter the i'rlopo ncfian war the ifltiud ii aliout 12 leagut in circumference ai>d contains between 5 ifiul 6000 inhabitants there are fix or ij.ht villages befides the largeft one which is confiderea as ihe chief town wmc is the lirincipal production of st maura which is exchanged for il>e corn of albania the inhabitants have loine imall vtflclsin their potuflion with which they conduct a fort of carrying trade for ihe iflands and neighbouring continent s«lt is one of the principal articles or their commerce st maura has a pood harbour in which lar^e vcllels may ride with the greater lafety it has alfo a well fortified garrr ion which is of very difficult accefs cephaloma called by the ancients cephelena and cephallcnia is the largelt of the manila which formerly belonged to venice — ic is 60 leagues in circunu'erence argolteli is the name of the capital and there are a great number of villages on 1 lie ifland the lealt ot which contains filty i>f»ules the whole population is from 36 to 411,000 there are fevers harbours ar.d roads befidcj thofe of argufloii ami lilcourt the largelt reflels may enter the harbour of arjuiltoli the country is fertile tho mountain his and produces corn wine and oil of xcellent qualities the mufcadine wine made here has great reputation the inhabitants chiefly cultivate a fpecies of vine the grapes ot which they convert in to a hue kind currants called by the french • luifins de corinthe the en ghih tracers purchafe annually from twelve tofittteu cargoes of this fruit the iflarfd alfo produces a plant called agriocock earing a forr of bean which is excellent food for hoites mules and o ther domoft ic animals several cargoes f this bean are hipped for leghorn and other ports in i ily the cephalonians are fond of a feafar hik life they have about 150 trading veflels and a great number of boats their navigation extends to the black sea ii con fequence of wearing rufli.in calours which they have been in the practice ot hoitting their fhips will now fail under the flag of the french republic which doubtlels will notbelef relpcc^ed thece people make bold and fkilful tailors and ihe ruffian veflels in the mediterranean ufed to be almolt entirely manned by the natives ot this and the neighbouring ifl ands this iflind is covered with forefts which afford excellent wood for ihip building oue ofthefe fore(t was exclufivcly the property of the venetian government and liipplied the arfenals of venice with mutts and planks the inhabitants were obliged to mt down the trees and carry them to the harbor without receiving any pay for their labor wifliing to terminate this opprellion they let fire to the foreus a part of which was con fumed the da mage however was not great and may be eau'iy repaired little cbphalonia is called theaki by the modern greeks & is about twelve or fifteen leagues in cir citmrerence it is near to ithaca now known by the na-ne of lotaco it is pro bable that thefe two iflands formed the kingdom of ujyfles penelope is fljppof ed to have retired to this ifland when ftv endeavoured to avoid the importunities oi iier lovers little cephalonia emitains about 12,000 inhabitants the harbor of theaki is re merly fubjeel to venice it has » cdflle which was the relidence of a proved fcr w hofe jurildiclion extended to all the venetian settlements in albania the territory of vonnirfta is very imall ; it terminates at xcfomtro a pan of albania inhabited by greeks it produces only what is barely lufficierv for the maintenance of the inhabitants who t ii depend much upon timing there arc 250 hotifea in vonnizia the population n;iy therefore be eltmiated l t about 1000 perft n islands ry cnnim dions and fate and the feameu ire much ctteem«d for their addrefs and courage some cnrgoes of currant are annually hipped from rbto port i and there iia he kind of chcele made in the illund rhkhit much fought for by toreigu trader zantf i three leagues louth of cephalonia and not fin from the w tiler n coalt of the mo tea or ancient peloponefus it is aliouc twtntj lnguei in circumference and was called zacynihus by the nticienis the name of i companion of hercules luid to have beei buiied in the ifland thisisa molt beautiful iflaml and it i>o(lelle8 a molt fertile foil there ar jo villaj^s belides the town xante and th whoie population exceeds 40,oo lib fv»r\u<itions aie oil which formerly ill the other ifland could only he lent to venice nrrflnt of which the englifh my 30 or 4 fhip loa«l each yeor ; vin ot a very me tiavor and corn but note nough of tins article for the conlumption it i lie inhabitants there is a very fingolar and valuable natural curiofity in this ifland it is a fountain of black pitch which in advantn r>eot.fly employed in caulking hips and coveting their bottomh the country people po to the morea in autumn where they b0ift in netting '"» the hnrvelt they bruij bock with them a confiileiable quantity of coin prefeiing payment for their labor in that ankle to money the cotton fpnn by the women of zante is greatly valuetl by the turks though the raw materials is hro't from the morea geography an account ufthe pufl'eflions wch the frtnch republic hat acquired by tb tre.itv ot campo formio on the couil of albioia and m the lon'an sea the lau venetian fettlemenui from the entry ot the g eik archipelago to the aegejn fea now ceded to france coiifitf of omt ports and roudi on the coatl of albania or the ancient f.pirus and leveral ifluids from corfo to crelgo coast or albania the principal ports and roads now poflefled by the french in albania are butrinro cumwonizaa parga prevtza and voniuzza we fliall nyiice them butrinto this is the ancient buthrotum and is faid to have been built by helen ami an dromache en the plan of troy ra cine lays the iceneof his tragedy or an dromache here the town and y r have fallen into decay it was lorraer y the diucele ot the suffragan of iv in ca c ai ailo the refldcnce of the 1 u .. at'.wlifh ■•> fea f;iri »)-' people are tin t»nk ',.■ ai t.iiits of he to 1 ' n the har bnur cai'ijoi ad m veflv'ls of burthen virg 1 ! m.ik s aenea vilit chi town ii his wny from t jl > lo iu > — slc li ' thiii«a«own three lengues 10 the fouih f but into the harbour is late bu can only receive fuiau vtfltls lit to^n is thinly inhabited and us trade is of very lutie importance parcia is htmted four leagues o the fouth of commoraza it ha a fine and«brn modious harbor c:.p..b!e of containing a number of large ifhs properly fpeaking this town is mere ly a ortreh built on a promontory of the coaft it contains aboa 500 families p.r.ly gierks and partly albanians who live accoi ding to the manner of their refpective nations the inhabitants of parga are very brave itrong and active they have beiides the tt-puraiion of integrity 1 ney are riven to navigation & live upon the produce of their commerce wuh the neighbouring iflands j 1 ,, e imall territory which belongs to this to vn produces good tobacco ard in a luffitiept quantity to be exported it allo produces corn but only what ierves the inhabitants pkeveza is faid to be built on the ruins of nice poln which auguitus founded alter the battle of auflium in memory of his vie torv over artl'ony this town ftaiids at the mouth ot the an>e gu:ph oi l-rta he entry to which isunfortunaeiy itrair and hallow n kates cannot enter it the harbor is excellent j and a conliderable num»er of vellels come ro it and take in cargoes ot oil and corn c uith are brought from the interior of the country there is no tortrefs here ; tlieturk never permit the venetians toeretf one ihe territorv of preveta extends on ly half alearu from the tosvn but it is ejwedtngly fertile the town is lur rounded with walls its pcpulauona mountsto about 10 or n.ooo iheyc netia s k«ep only 100 troops here ; bur the bravery of the people make up for the we.kuef of the garr ion — w hen un ted with the inhabitants of lomeof the greek villages in ihe neiglibourhood thev are able torepcl the at acks ot the albanians as defperate a kind of people as any in the world fihing is the principal employment of thepreve^ans and thev fell the product of their labor in he neighboring jfl-nnds the gulph abounds in tit kinds of nih the louro a river ot omliderable dze falls into it at prevri n ucil'ute the defcent of great qianmiesot timber fir for ihip build g tha ernes fro .> the forclts of the pafcfialh-p of iajainca vonnizza is alfj fi uated on the gulph of lana and inhabited by greeks who wtre i'or-j ' the ifl.mdsat cortou paroi antipa r«8 saint maura cephalonia litilt ccphalrnia z.inte and crcigo corfuu thuillind w9r known co the ancients liicceflivf'y unher lie names of drt j)!i i n s iieru phsecia and corcyr r ihipwreck oj umi'es and the gar di-n f alciniis have rendered it fa nuusin the poetry of antiquity the jncei.t inhabitants wiled phereacts were lo luxurious and difiblute a people ihai a glution was uijtiiiaiized by the jiitbet ot pha»x a colony from cou ctiis was ictiltd in this iflind 1349 years before the chriftian ra the cele brated peloponefian war which tailed 27 j tars conini need in a quarrel be tviten the corinthians and the people of this ifland under the name of the cor c>tean war .... cortou is the key of the adriatic it has a ttrong fonrelb which has ev ral times withllood the vafl force of the ottoman empire the ifland is ten leagues long and fourbrond — it has no rivtrs but abound in torrenrs and iprings the population is near 40,000 there arc only two towns on the illind cor tou and caffiopo the caffiopea ofthe an cients ; there are however a number of villages corfou was the refidence of the pro reditor or tn vewetww jflamt iv town is furrounded by good fortifications which have been conftrurted at a confi dtrable expence by the venetians lince their peace with the turks in 1717 the channel which difides ihc if land from the main land affords every where good anchoring ground it re quires a llrong north md to fail thro the northern paftage becaule t.'ie river of burrinto occafiuna ju oppoliie current in that quarter the harbor of corfou lies towards the middle of the channel it is fpacioim and l^fe and cpjbls of admitting mips of the large ihe there is a mall ifland in the road which jems for a lazaretto : it is under the cannon of the to*t)f antl the veflels which perform quarantine lie in a well iheltered creek between the ifland and the road next to candia corfou is the moft productive in oil of any of the greek . thuds before the french conquett no oil was allowed to be fold to foreign ers the proprietors b:ing obliged to fend ic all to venice the wine made here is good but the o therliquors are of an ordinary quality cotton ar.d frk are raifed in fumciea quantities for cloathing the inhabitants as to corn it only produces as much as lervts the people three months of the yenr their wants are lupplicd from lara the albania of the levant the french have reltored to the lil md its celebrated appellation of b iroy & mean to revive the claflic mines of all the venetian poffclfions which have fal len into their hands pahos and antiparos are two iittle iflands fi uited between corfou and parg.i 5 the h'rtt is about two leagues long aud half a league broad lie lall is t.o fo large they are inha bited tho ur from being fertile there is a i'm all fort near the town of paros wici commands the harbour fhcre are befuies two ocher excellent 1 irhours in \ inch hips of the line may iici>r several villages are fcattered 1 5 ver i fljn i iii i the whole number 01 he itoui'es may nn >■» t to about 6^o i oi •> : i'.f pri icipjl produ&ion of thefe the iflaild is fubjcct to eaitl quakes «• very fpring tlie iuhubitants live in har mony together though they confilt of roman catholic greeks mahometans nnd jews they never have any religious difputes there are three harbours > one at the town of zante ; one at kexi ; and another culled skinuri oppofite to ccphalonia in the two fiitt efihs may lie in per feifk fafecy both winter and cummer ; but the road of skinaii is not to fafe : it n>ay ferve however as an occalional reft ing place and there are feveral villages on thafpartof thecoalt cerigo the ancient cythera celebrated in the creek and roman theology as the place n«:ir which venus rofe out of the fea and famous lor the licentioufnefs of the inlia biranu nnd the lalcivious rites performed in lie temple of their favorite roildefs this iihnd is as laib,e as zan e its chief town is culled capfali near which there is a fort and a pretty good harbour in fum mer anlenconas is the next town to capfali in point of fize and has allba convenient fiiinmer harbor : but st nich olas is tlie only port in the iflund in which veflels can lie fately in the winter feafon . c«ripo contains about fixty villages be fidescaplali and anlenconas the num ber of the inhabitants is about 15,000 the country is mountair.aus and the foil is poor but whatever it produces is excel lent in its kind the principal trade of the inhabitants confilts of mufcatline * ine and provifions which they fell to the fliips that frequents y put into the i flan i on account of its fit nation at the entry of the archipelago or vegean sea cerigo wat the botany bay of the ve netian government here the patriot whofe political opinions difpleafedthearif tocracy was doomed to fuffer the fame punifliment as the bafctl of fociety — • thofe who were thought not fnfficientljr criminal to merit death or the gallic were tranfported to this ifland we hall now terminate thefe particu lar details by foine geneial confideration refpectmg thefe new pofleffions of the french republic the population of the iflandi and fettle ments on the coalr f albania may be cal culared at aoc.ooo the revenue which venice draws from the pofleffions exceed ed 3,ooo,ocol of french money this turn was railed by a land tax by dutiei on oil and currants by farming a tax on tobacco and by an import upon anchorage the morea furtiifhes the ifl-ind with whatever g'^in i wanted for the fubu'it fttce of the inhabitants its exportation is permitted by firmans iltued by the grand seignor tho the ho/nan catholic wai the reli gion of venice the government allowed its greek fub>or the free cxercife of