. A description of the East, and some other countries . AiiANTIENT BAS RELIEF of CRETE. ON CANDIA. Another inland town was Artacina, which might have been at aplace now called Rocca, though Ptolemy places it more to the fouthit is a fmali high rocky hill, on the top of which are the remains offome buildings: There are about three or four rooms, which the peoplefay belonged to the antient Greeks, and they have fome fables relating; to it of a giant whom they call lenes. At this and the neighbouringmountains there are churches in grots dedicated to that St. Anthony,, who was the founder of the m
. A description of the East, and some other countries . AiiANTIENT BAS RELIEF of CRETE. ON CANDIA. Another inland town was Artacina, which might have been at aplace now called Rocca, though Ptolemy places it more to the fouthit is a fmali high rocky hill, on the top of which are the remains offome buildings: There are about three or four rooms, which the peoplefay belonged to the antient Greeks, and they have fome fables relating; to it of a giant whom they call lenes. At this and the neighbouringmountains there are churches in grots dedicated to that St. Anthony,, who was the founder of the monaftic life. To the weft of this placethere is a river called Tiphlose; and I fuppofe it might derive its namefrom fome place near the rife of it; for among the bifhoprics one is. called Tephilienfis. About a league to the north eaft of Rocca is a vil^lage called Epifcope, where there is a church ftill entire, and thebilhop of Chifamo thinks that it is his cathedral j it is a round build-ing, covered with a dome, and is about twenty feet in diameter
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