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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... the port. Scylax adds that it was the first city on the west promontory of Crete, and was a day's sail from Laceda3mon. It was natural that on my first visit to the city, its REMOVAL OF THE ANCIENT PORT. 231 artificial port having been thus referred to by so many authors, I should make special search to identify it; for although Pashley seemed to be satisfied that the mere indentation of the rocky coast-line under its walls was the said port, I could not be reconciled to that opinion. But I looked in vain for some mole in the sea in front of the indentation to render it somewhat sheltered and safe as an artificial emporium or'trading-port; there was not even a sandy beach at any part of the rocky shore upon which a vessel could be safely landed, or hauled up, in the least swell or sea; all was sea-worn rocks and very rugged. Consequently, as the indentation was open and exposed to all south and south-westerly breezes, and the whole western swell for a distance of 500 miles or more, and the low outlying islet of Petaledes off it affords but little shelter to the bay, I could nowhere recognize the trading-port, and left the place with its phenomena greatly puzzling me. On a subsequent visit, however, and after a contemplation of the plan I had made, remembering also that on a former visit to the island of Cerigotto an elevation of the coast was observable there that was clearly, from local evidences and traditions, subsequent to the historical period, it occurred to me that the same might have been the case here, although so much greater and more general, and that the quadrangular space enclosed by the unusually massive 232 PORT REMOVED FEOM THE SEA. Hellenic walls upon the plain in front of the chapel of Agios Giorgios, minutely described...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230304038
  • Publisher: Theclassics.Us
  • Publisher Imprint: Theclassics.Us
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 104
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230304037
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 200 gr

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