This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... but, from an early period in the middle ages until now, it appears to have remained entirely a deserted city. This fact in some degree favours the view of its being the Etera of the author of the Stadiasmus, ' since it was evidently the only coast-city flourishing about this time to the east of Camara, and no ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... but, from an early period in the middle ages until now, it appears to have remained entirely a deserted city. This fact in some degree favours the view of its being the Etera of the author of the Stadiasmus, ' since it was evidently the only coast-city flourishing about this time to the east of Camara, and no other author has mentioned it. The existence of granite columns, and the many palms growing there, however, seem to show an Egyptian connexion; and for this reason it might be Arsinoe also, as Colonel Leake sug-o2 196 POET FOE ALEXANDEIAN TEADEES. gested--a town assigned by some to Crete, but on doubtful evidence. Now the time that the c Stadiasmus' was written, although its author is unknown, was, I believe, just that of the most flourishing period of the Roman dominion in the East, and when the southern coast-cities of Crete, or those nearest to Alexandria, were the most important of the island also; for then Gnos-sus and Kydonia, on the north, had given way to Gortyna and Hierapytna on the south; and this city, whether Etera or Arsinoe, was most conveniently situated as a halfway call for the stream of trade then constant between Alexandria and Constantinople, and even between Alexandria and Rome, on the coasting system then only practicable with the navigator--often adopted now, on account of the prevailing northwest winds which blow between Egypt and Crete, but then still more necessary to follow, so that a recognized chain of headlands or anchorages might be available as a succession of stations upon the voyage, when the compass was an unknown guide to the mariner, and he always anchored at night when practicable. Thus it was natural that a city of both the Ptolemaic and Roman times should have flourished at the eastern extreme of..
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