Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . eastern side of the island. There are some re-mains of the ancient walls; and fragments of marbleare found, with which, as we have already seen, thepublic buildings in antiquity were decorated. Arange of mountains, about 3000 feet in height, runsacross Siphnos from SE. to NW.; and on the highground between this mountain and the eastern sideof the island, about 1000 feet above the sea, lie fiveneat villages, of which Stavri is the principal. Thesevillages contain from 4000 to .5000 inhabitants;and the town of Kastron about another 1000. Theclimate is he
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . eastern side of the island. There are some re-mains of the ancient walls; and fragments of marbleare found, with which, as we have already seen, thepublic buildings in antiquity were decorated. Arange of mountains, about 3000 feet in height, runsacross Siphnos from SE. to NW.; and on the highground between this mountain and the eastern sideof the island, about 1000 feet above the sea, lie fiveneat villages, of which Stavri is the principal. Thesevillages contain from 4000 to .5000 inhabitants;and the town of Kastron about another 1000. Theclimate is healthy, and many of the inhabitantslive to a great age. The island is well cultivated,but does not produce sufficient food for its popu-lation, and accordingly many Siphnians are obligedto emigrate, and are found in considerable numbers inAthens, Smyrna, and Constantinople. (Tournefort,Voyage, <fc. vol. i. p. 134, seq. transl.; Fiedler,Reise, vol. ii. p. 125, seq.; Ross, Reise auf denGriech. Iiiseln, vol. i. p. 138, seq.) SIPYLUS. 1011. COIN OF SIPHNOS. SIPIA, in Gallia, is placed by the Table on aroute from Condate (Retmes) to Juliomagus (A ngers).The distance from Condate to Sipia is xvi. and thisdistance brings us to a little river Seche at a placecalled Vi-seche, the Vi being probably a corruptionof Vaduni. The same distance xvi. measured fromVi-seche brings us to Combaristum (Combre) on theroad to Angers. But see the article Seche is a branch of the Vilaine (DAnville,Notice, <fc). [G. L.] SIPONTUM, or SIPUNTUM, but in Greek al-ways SIPUS (SiTToCy -ovvTos : Eth. SmovvTios, Si-pontinus: Sta Maria di Sijionto), a city of Apulia,situated on the coast of the Adriatic, immediately the great promontory of Garganus, and in thebight of the deep bay formed by that promontorywith the prolongation of the coast of Apulia. ( p. 284.) This bay is now called tlie Gnlf ofManfredonia, from the city of that name which issituated within a few miles of the s
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