. Travels and researches in Crete. emopoli, or desert city—too, im-plies it. And then, if he is fond of settling the an-cient name of an old city that has not been whisperedfor centuries, and loves it for its classical geography,let him prove me right or wrong in simply suggestingto him whether these ruins may not be those of Etera,because it bears some resemblance to the name of thepoint of land upon which they are situated, viz. CapeSidero, as a corruption from Etera, Eis ten Etera, intoSitera, and next Sidero; for Etera was the coast-citymentioned in the Stadiasmus as situated next afterCam
. Travels and researches in Crete. emopoli, or desert city—too, im-plies it. And then, if he is fond of settling the an-cient name of an old city that has not been whisperedfor centuries, and loves it for its classical geography,let him prove me right or wrong in simply suggestingto him whether these ruins may not be those of Etera,because it bears some resemblance to the name of thepoint of land upon which they are situated, viz. CapeSidero, as a corruption from Etera, Eis ten Etera, intoSitera, and next Sidero; for Etera was the coast-citymentioned in the Stadiasmus as situated next afterCameras, the position of which I have before noticed THE ANCIENT ETERA. 193 in the Gulf of Mirabella; yet it was placed in thisdocument before, and not after Cape Salmone, which,therefore, is my stumblingblock in the knotty ques-tion, if Cape Sidero was really the Cape Salmone ofthe author of the Stadiasmus, as, from the noticeof a port and temple, it would seem to have been;but if Cape Plaka, then Etera comes before it, EREMOPOLI, THE ANCIENT ETERA. Eremopoli is, however, worthy of a brief descrip-tion, from its inscriptions, old churches, tombs, andruins that are still to be stumbled over, amidst a fewstunted palms—the greatest number, too, of thispeculiar tree, that grow in any part of Crete. Thenext little valley, to the south of the ruins, is in vol. i. o 194 DESCRIPTION OF THE RUINS consequence called Vaia or Palm Bay, from theirnumber; but they are stunted from neglect, andnot stately ornaments of the landscape as they usu-ally are. The view of the site given on the preceding page,in which the ruins are seen to extend over the hillsand slopes which overlook two small bays, willrender a brief description of them sufficient. Over the southern bay the remains of Cyclopeanwalls of some extent are seen ascending the hills there,and they show the more ancient bounds of the cityin that direction. The little insular hill separatingthe two bays, upon which the city s
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