ae 1 by aa 2 - = rire ae & : ; ‘ - 1 1: = ee ee ote val 3 ead 4 ie À 2 ; re : - £, se ; 5, er i a } 4 PE a. Me Vwi iG ae hi ‘ys NE Ve D …#: ne et 2 à wn de warm xd er ERIE AE mé FLN EE LOUAICTANOM . PUUF; 46 740 T= YL yp js LOOT LID0I1O 247; A ; He “a Ÿ 4 # eee Pat IR Mer VITE - FANS LEE Eh gees eae PAPERS y #7 Fa se AT FR LHOT : Defcription of the Ifand of Mycone. 293 panica, non fpinofa. Inft. *Tis my opinion, thefe two Kinds are but Varieties of the fame Plant. "Being fure the Bandittt. were gone off, we pre- pared to pafs over to Stampalia, an land forty miles from Nanjio, between the Eaft and Eaft-North- Faft ; but the Wind being againft us, we were forced to go to Mycone, which we did not reach till the 22d of Ofober, after putting in at feveral places. | The Ifle of Mycone, which ftretches from Eaft to Weft, is 36 miles about, 30 from Naxia, 40 from Nicaria, and 18 from the Port of Zize; tho’ the Ca- nal, which is between Cape Trullo of Mycone and le Tine, isbut 18 miles broad: that of Mycone at Delos is no more than three miles from Cape Alogomandra [a] of Mycone to the neareft point of Delos: for Pliny, who perhaps counts from one Port to another, makes it but. 15 miles to this Canal. You fee there the two fmall Rocks of Pra/onifi [6], which Meffieurs Spon and Wheeler took to be Iragonifi [c] or Dra- gonera, another Rock towards the Eaft-South-.. Eaft, and confequently out of the Canal we are fpeaking of. si | The Port of Mycone is very open, and lies be- tween the Weft and Weft-North- Weft; but the Gulph, which is on one fide the Port, and is 1m- pervious, is deep enough forthe largeft Ships, which likewife it fecures from the North Wind by means of a natural Jettee, form’d by Rocks on a level with the Waters Surface. You enter this Gulph be- tween the North and North-North-Weft: the Port of Ornos is oppofite to the farther end, and looks between the South and South-South-Eaft. The ' [a] Anoyômaleæ, Park for Hor fes, [4] Tec, le of Leeks. _ fe] Teclovies, Le of Goats. U 3 Ifle 294 ÆVovyAGE into the Levant. Let. 6. Ifle of St. George [a] is at the point of the Gulph on the right hand: the other Ports of the Ifland are — Port Palermo [b] and Port St. dune; Port Palermo isa very large one, but too much expofed to the North Wind; Port St. Ane is likewife very bleak, and looks to the South-Eaft. Mycone produces the beft Sailors of any in the whole Country ; there are at leaft 500 fea-faring Men in the Ifland, and above 100 Barks, befides 40 or 50 largeSaicks for the Trade to Turkey and the Morea: that to Turkey confifts in Hides, efpecially of Goats [c], which they take in at [7] Szagi near Smyrna and Scalanova; the Morea Trade at prefent lies in Wine, which the Myconiots fupply the Vene- tian Army with, at Napoli di Romania. There are fome Saicks of Mycone, which carry 7 or 800 Bar- rels of Wine, each Barrel [e] weighs 150 Pound French; for the moft part, ‘tis mere colour’d Water, and the Venetians pay them accordingly: the Greeks cannot forbear playing their tricks. Mycone [ f] ufually affords 25 or 30000 Barrels of Wine a year: the Vine has been very anciently cultivated there. | M. Wheeler bought upon the fpot a Silver Medal with Fupiter’s a on one fide, and a Bunch of Grapes on the other. The Ifland of Adycone is very dry, and its Moun- tains of no great heigth; the two moft noted are called by the name of St. E/ijabh: ones juft by Cape Trullo, as you enter the Canal of Mycone and of Tine; the other is at the Extremity of Mycone, over againft Tragonif. The Name Dimajtos, which [g] Pliny gives to the higheft Mountain of the Ifland, will [a] Teoeysornor, Je of St. George. [5] Tevoguoc, Port to receive all forts of Ships. [c] Cordouans. [2] Teos. [e] 50 Oques. [/} Authoritas vino Miconio. Pin. Hif. Nat. hb. 14. cap. 1. MYKO, [¢] Hift, Nat. lib. 4. cap. 12. quadrate Defeription of the Ifand of Mycone. 295 quadrate with both of them, fince each has a forky Summit. Ovid [a], who in his Voyage to Pontus had a nearer View of Mÿycone than Virgil [D], was in the right of it to fay it was alow Ifland ; whereas Virgil fays quite the contrary: not but that Humilis Infula may likewife be taken fora mean, defpicable Ifland, as Statius [c] calls the Ifland of Seripho. Strabo reports, that the Poets made Mycone to be the Burying-place of the Centaurs defeated by Hercules ; whence the Proverb, [d] Every thing is in Mycone, of one that pretends in one and the fame Difcourfe to touch upon all things. Stephens the Geographer, who copy’d Ssrabo in this place, as in many others, delivers, that this Ifland took its Name from one Myconus Son of Ænius ; but one is as little known as the other: ’tis a common thing for old Authors to be guilty of this Error. The Remark of [e] Strabo and[f] Euftathius is much better warranted, that the Myconiots were apt to grow bald, fince at this day moft of the In- _ habitants lofe their Hair at 20 or 25 Years old. [g] Pliny has another Obfervation, that the Chil- dren are born without Hair; for all that, the In- habitants are avery handfom comely People: they were heretofore reckoned arrant Parafites, and would be ftill fo, were they to light of Cullies. We read in Athenzus fome Verfes of Cratinus not much in their praife, but he excufes them on account of their Poverty. [a] Hinc humilem Myconum cretofaque rura Cimoli. Metamorph. lib. 7. {4} Quam Deus arcitenens oras & littora circum Errantem, Mycone celfa Gyaroque revinxit. LEN. 3 {c] Hinc fpretæ Myconos, humilifque Seriphos. Achil. 1. [21] Ilan dd piay Muxdvev. Rer. Geog. lib. 10, [e] Moxdviog Paraxeds. Strab. ibid. [7] Ad Dionyf. verf. 526. [g] Quippe Myconii carentes pilo gignuntur. Hi. Nat. Lib, 11. cap. 37. ÿ te Our | -296 : A, VoyAGE into the Levant. Let.6. 1 Our Franks call this land Micoul; it yields.e- nough Barley for the Inhabitants, abundance of Figs, but few Olives: Water is very fcarce in Summers a huge Well ferves the whole [a] Town, which isthe only one of the Ifland,and contains fcarce 3000Souls: but for one Man, you fee four Women, oftentimes lying among the Hogs in the open Street ;: Men ufe the Sea very much... Two Confuls are: named every year to take care of the publick Affairs., In 1700, the Myconiots paid 5000 Crowns to the Ca- pitation and Land-Tax: the Ifland was then,.under the Government of Mezomorto, the Captain-Bafhaw: in the laft War it was under the obedience of the Bey of Stanchio, call’d [2] Cafidi, who at this time has the Command of fome Galliots to fcour the Archipelago of petty Rovers. _ Strangers find it pleafant living at Mycone,. pro- vided they have a good Cook, for the Greeks are the worft inthe world. Partridges are very cheap and plentiful, as alfo Quails, Woodcocks, Turtle- Doves, Rabbits, Wheatears; there are delicious Grapes, and excellent Figs. ‘They make their Sa- lads with a kind of [c] Sowthiftle, very whetting to the Appetite when the Plate is rubbed with Gar- lick. The Adralida [2] and the Radice [e] are much in repute there: the firft is a fort of Vipers- grafs, defcribed in a preceding Letter; the Radice is prickly Chicory, whofe young Shoots naturally grow white in the Sand along the Sea-fide. In time of Lent they make a good Ragou with boil’d Vroulas; the People here make delicious [ f | Cheefe: their pickled Quails are execrable; they reduce fa] Moxevs n wor. Ptol. Geog. lib. 3. cap. 15: [8] Or Scald-headed. fc} Sonchus lavis, angufti folii. C. B. Couefto counilhera. [d] Scorzonera Grzca faxatilis & maritima, foliis varie la- cimiatis, Coral. Inf. Rei Herb. Adeurnidu. fe] Cichorium fpmofum, C. B. [/] Pouino. thefe à »Defeription of the Ifland of Mycone. 297 thefe Birds in Vinegar to a fort of Pap ; the Na- tives admire them, becaufe it faves the Expence of Fire to drefs them. The Fewel ufed here is Un- der-wood fetch’d from Delos. : | Mycone was fome years together poffefled by the Dukes of Naxia, Father Sauger fays, that Fobn Crifpo [a], the twentieth Duke of the Archipelago, gave it in Marriage, together with the Ifle of Zia, to his Daughter Thaddea, Wife to Francis de Som- merive, who enjoyed it not long; and the Venetians, being become Matters of Zzzos, found Mycone to be convenient for them, and fo the Proveditor of Tinos is to this very day called Proveditor of Mycone. Barbaroffa the Captain-Bafhaw reduced it to the Obedience of Solyman II. with almoft all the Iflands which the Republick had in the Archipelago, - It muft not be forgot here, that Mycone and Tinos were conquered in the Reign of the Emperor Henry by Andrew Gizi, fome years after the taking of Confiantinople by the French and Venetians. Ferome Gizi, his Brother, had for his Allotment Skyro and Scopoli. From this Andrew defcends the Sieur Fa- nachi Gizi, fo well known to your Lordfhip for his Services, and for whom you have procured Patents for Conful of Mycone and of Tinos, his Family has always behaved it felf honourably ever fince the Latins became Mafters of the Empire of the Eaft. Our Conful, who is a very religious Perfon, ‘has built at Mycone a Chapel to St. Lewis ; and he keeps in his houfe a Prieft of our Communion to fay Mais, The Latin Church of the Borough depends on the Bifhop of Tinos, who has put in a Curate, and gives him 25 Roman Crowns a year for his Stipend; M. Gizi*s Chaplain is better provided for: not that the Bifhop of Ténos is to be blamed, fince the [4] Con- [a] Hiftory of the Dukes of the Archipelago. [4] De propaganda fide, { otégation 298 A VOYAGE into the Levant. Let. 6. gregation allows no more to the Vicars of the other Iflands: nay, fome Bifhops allow but 15 Crowns a year to their Vicars, which they find enough ready to accept of, the Priefts of the Archipelago being very eager after thefe Pofts, that they may live ho- nourably at their homes. As for Greek Churches, there are fifty in Mycone; each has its Papas, and almoft all the Inhabitants are of the Greek Rite: there is but one Turk, and he the Cadi, who goes the Circuits, Thefe Cadi’s purchafe a Commiflion of the Grand Cadi of Scio, and then range the whole Archipelago; caufing no- tice to be given wherever they pafs, that all fuch as have any Law-Suits on their hands, bring their Papers or Witnefles, and they fhall be immediate- ly and with a moderate Charge difpatch’d. The Greeks, who are naturally litigious, are fuch Fools as to come to this Tribunal, inftead of making up matters amicably before the Adminiftrators and Papas. There are many Chapels, and fome Monafteries, at Mycone. [a] Paleocaftriani is a Nunnery with three or four Nuns, feated near the middle of the Ifland about [4] Paleocaftro, an ancient decayed Fortrefs on a pleafant Hill. The Church of /a fc] Trinité is in the Circuit of Paleocaftro: that of St. Marina is not far off; every year they celebrate (on the 17th of Fuly) a mighty Feftival, where they dance and drink after their fafhion, that is, all day and night too. On the fide of Paleocaftro, in a fine Plain in fight of Port St. une, is the great Monaftery of [2] Trulliani, poffefled by ten or twelve He-Caloyers and fome old She-ones: they [a]. Marcaioxasesavy, the ancient Church of the Caf. [ô An Doebia axpa ? Ptol. Geog, lib. 3. cap. 15. Moxovos avTn dirons. Scyl. Peripl. [c] “Ayia Teiadx, the Holy Trinity. [7] Tesnnarr, the Dome, or the Cathedral. have Defcription of the Ifland of Mycone. 299 have great Poffeffions in the Plain of [a] 4uomeria, the beft and fruitfulleft part of the Ifland. The Convent of St. Pantaleon is on this fide Paleo- caftro, near Port Palermo; but it contains not above three or four Religious. The forfaken Monafteries are that of the [4] Virgin, St. George [c], and our Saviour [4]. Befides the Conful of France, there is one for England, another for Holland, tho’ no Ship of either Nation comes thither: but the Greeks fhelter them- {elves from the Tyranny of Turks, under co- vert of fuch Patents. The French Ships bound to Smyrna and Confiantinople pals the Canal of Tinos and of Mycone, fteering between the North and North-Eaft: in foul Weather they ufually put in at Mycone, to get intelligence about the War. The — ordinary Route of the Exghjh and Dutch is between Negropont and Macronif. There often arrive at Mycone French Barks, to lade Corn, Oil, Cotton, and the like Commodities of the neighbouring Iflands. : The Ladies of Mycone would not be difagreeable, were their Habits but a little lefs ridiculous: and yet an ordinary Suit fhall coft them 200 Crowns; fome there are that come to 150 Sequins. *Tis true, the Ladies for the moft part clothe themfelves but once for their whole Life; their Hufbands have not the mortification of feeing them follow the Modes, and dipping their hands in their Purfe every Change of the Seafon, Iam going to defcribe the feveral Parts of their Drefs, which is all over grotefque. The firft is a fort of [¢] Under-Smicket À it has wrift-banded Sleeves, and is ufually made of Muf- lin [f], ora kind of fine Buckram, or Silk fet off [a] Avouéeix, the Upper Part. [6] Havayia péoiwa, the Virgin of Mycone. [c] ‘Agios Teweryses. [4] Eurieus. Ce] Micopéro. [/ ] Heraokro. | with with Gold Lace. or Embroidery: and thus are their richeft Smickets no better than a penitential Shirt, their Trimming making a Print on the Skin. Over this Smicket they wear a large [4] Smock B. of Cotton or Silk, with Sleeves as large asa Sur- plice:: this reaches to their Mid-leg, and ferves for an Under-Petticoat. It is garnifhed with Jace, er embroider’d with Silk or Thread of Gold and Silver. “The third Piece is a fort of (3) Gorget or Sto- woche? C. covered with Gold or Silver Embroi- dery ; this they apply to their Neck. Then they clap on a [c] Corflet D. with two Wings on the fides, and two Openings to let the firms: through ; “tis a kind of Bodice, without Sleeves: *tis embroidered with Gold and Silver, adorn’d with Pearls; in Winter they wear them with [7] Sleeves. This Bodice extends three or four inches over the [e] Colubi, a kind of Under-Petticoat F. very thick and full of Plaits, reaching no farther than the Knees; they faften it before with Ribbands. The fixth Piece is an [f] Apron H. made of Muflin or embroidered Silk. Hinibridlery being an Invention of the Levant, they wear nothing with- out it: and to fpeak truth; they excel even the French in that fort of Work, as to Neatnefs; but their Patterns are not fo well fancy’d. In Summer they wear [g] Cotton Stockings, and in Winter red Cloth, trimmed with Gold or Silver Lace: thefe Stockings are all full of Plaits, for me wear four or five pair one over another. ‘Their [a] Yroxcépuocr. [2] Lropaxiney. [c] Massobedoona, jam is pronounced like B in wulgar Greek, Beurobedronx Xevcdgn, paeyaesrden. [2] Mrresopavixa. Eoriwavinsov. fe} Xoav€sov. Colibi, or Colobi. P&yo x Péran. Chath and Fuftian, © [7] Heorerodie. [ i. Kaderles. | Garters eee *: = 7 “ L 2 Et Ag) gs DS ol RTE ee COLE Od Sete ay Other parts of the Mycontan Vomers depart. #5" Gis > Baie en he PAS hy nu” uh NS cé un A! vane RUE sai Re 3 ane ayy? oe 26 ON ET LUS it My D 4 a amet aims go bi de ae een AU GR \ LT DÉS Ag ne nee LORIE oon thet wana hs LA, CAN sic sr ts at at Lab amis à er Send Laan , 4 é | | RTE | ) rx { sete > eG d NA ' 3 : > t @ d uf x 0 f ! { . C2 | F. i 6 * 4 ‘ ‘ i 4 f ha + v % $ is a? Le 9" » VLC bi : f 4 Pay An under Snuchel, An ae i \ 4 aN N \ Y \ WY Nd NY N À N \ N Ÿ op 10/9724 10 ST, LA ot i PLUPULI ET) Gay Se Se a NE art of the Upparel of the Myccnian # Omett . Ms —— à eee Sy Se: eee) LÉ. Ai 4 : ‘ Lah ANR … :Defcription of the Ifland of Mycone. 30% Garters [a] are Ribbands edg’d with Gold and Silver Lace, faften’d through Loop-holes. Their Slippers [2] are Velvet ; but the upper part fo fhort, that they cover nothing but the Toes, which gives the Ladies an ill Gait in walking. Some a- mong them have Venetian Shoes, which they tie with huge laced Ribbands. | Laftly, their Kerchief [c] is a Veil of Muflin or Silk, ufually feven or eight foot long, and two broad, which they twine about their Head and round their Chin, in a very agreeable manner, and | which gives them a fprightly Air. This Ifland produces no extraordinary Plants ; yet we met with an Iris Tuberofa, folio angulofo. C. B. Pin. which we lit not of in any other of the Iflands: I have made a particular Genus of it under the name of Hermodattylus. We obferv’d on that Mountain of St. Elijah which is by Cape Zrullo, that - Naxia lies between South-South-Eaft: and ae Outi. | The lefier’ Delos between South-South-Weft and South-Weft. Paros in the fame Line. The middle of the greater Delos and Cabronifi to the South- Weft. Tragonifi to the Eaft-South-Eaft. | Tragonifi [d] is an ugly Rock three miles about, one mile from Mycone from Cape to Cape, below the Mountain of St. Elijah to the Eaft, tho’. you will find it near twenty miles to go from the Port of Mycone to that of Tragonifi: at prefent there is neither He nor She-Goats, which formely it fo a- bounded with, as to be called the Goat-Ifland. The [2] Kaesfodees. .. [4], Ketegomamerle. La [ce]: Bota. #) xevcreCotrc « ‘ | [4] Teayovnes, Île of Goats. Dragonera, aah mer 4 » Burghers 302 ÆAVoyaAGE into the Levant, Let. 7, Burghers of Mycone, efpecially the Monks of Trul- liant, breed their Cattle there ; but the Shepherds are obliged to take them up in April, when the Rain-water begins to fall fhort. ‘The Sheep-coat is pretty enough, but the two Chapels, built there fome time fince, have only four Walls. Stapodia is five miles off Tragonifi; it is a Rock form’d in fhape of a Saddle, and is covered with four or five pretty Plants: there is neither Shepherd nor Sheep, becaufe there is not a drop of frefh Wa- ter, and it is frequently overflowed by the Sea in many Places. TI am, &c. LE T TER; VIE To Monfeigneur the Count de Ponchartrain, Secretary of State, &c. Defcription of the Iflands of Delos. My-Lorp, HE Greeks to this very day called by the ; Name of [2] Dili two Rocks of the Archipe- lago ; they are both of them utterly deferted, and only ferve for a Retreat to Pirates and Robbers: the [4] largeft was anciently called the Ifle Rhenia, and the [c] other was known by the name of Delos, the Center of the famous Cyclades. This latter, which is not above feven or eight miles in circuit, [a] Ana. [5] Meycnos AnAos Prvesæ, antiquorum. F [ce] Anacs, antiquor. Muxpès Anaos, which the Franks call iles. 2 tho* By rit. DE pret. A hide! Crest aed Be bh fe yen À re . : AN ae iT . - La > : Z we eT ii {| PACS IL lil il : Wa ‘ttn we wait Per ‘ re F é ñ Ss Akock calld ff Great Rematiard . _ ARock call — x Le Lernaliart . De. rl LE Mer ap bgt “ii A ANR NS 2. Lutle Lake. C. Schools. Part of f Greater Delov call it the Island Rhenias,— ae Og ep gc HD DT 2S = FF. FS 9 GnOQvalfor a Sea fight: 20. NA PO 11. buins of Apollos Temple. PRE of Marble: x LONS . ~~ Defeription of the Ifland of Delos. 303 tho’ [a] Pliny allows it fifteen, was look’d upon as . a [à] Sacred Place, from the moment a Report was fpread, that Lafona was there delivered of Apollo and Diana.. The Greeks, who were famed for Wit and Ingenuity before the Romans, were fo at- tach’d to Delos, fix’d fo many Honours upon it, and made it fo magnificent, that it became the Ad: - miration of After-Ages: never was Ifland fo highly extoll’d; Pindar and Callimachus compos’d Hymns inits honour. L7yfichton, Son of Cecrops the firft King of Athens, erected there a Temple to 4- pollo [ce]: this Temple, which afterwards became one of the ftatelieft Edifices upon earth, ftood at the entrance of a mighty City built all with Granate- ftone and Marble, adorn’d with a Theatre, Piaz- za’s, a Bafon [d] for the Reprefentation of Sea- Fights, a Gymnafium, and a prodigious number of Altars. | | Judge, my Lord, how impatient we were to fee a Country fo celebrated by Authors, The Ifland of Delos, which is full three times as long as ’tis broad, ftands between two fine Canals, the one towards Mycone,.and the other towards the Îfle Rhenia: in that of Mycone, which is Eaft-North- Faft, are a couple of {curvy Shelves [e], accompa- ny’d with fome Rocks. The Canal is three miles over, from Cape Æogomandra in Mycone to the heareft point of Delos; but they reckon it fix miles from the Port of Mycone to the little Port of Delos, the ordinary Landing-place : it is fifteen miles from _ this little Port to that of St. Nicolo of Tinos. Pliny was not well acquainted with the diftance between [a] Hift. Nat. lib. 4. cap. 12. [2] Strab. Rer, Geog. lib. 1a. [c] Eufeb. Chron. gr. & lat. p. 76. Cedren. Compend. Hit. Syncel, Chron, [2] Toav€wnos. Callim. Hymn. on Delos, ver! 266. [¢] Teacrovicor, the Iles of Leeks. Mycone 304 Æ VoyY AGE into the Levant.’ Let. 2 Mycone and Delos; for he determined it fifteen miles: he is likewife miftaken in that between Delos and . Naxia, which is forty miles, tho’ he reckons it but eighteen. As for that between Delos and Nicaria, he is right in faying it is fifty miles, The Canal which runs betweën the two Delos’s is fcarce half a mile broad towards the greater Rema- tiari [a], a Rock fo called: the oddnefs of its Name raifed in me a Curiofity to fearch after its E- tymology ; and tho’ it was a difcovery of no great importance, yet I cannot help being pleas’d with it. Rematiari in the vulgar Greek fignifies a Perfon fub- je& to Fluxions: now as this Rock, being fome- what flat, is frequently overflowed by the Waters of the Canal, the Greeks, who area facetious People, have given it the name of Rematiari; that is to fay, an Ifland fubject to Rheumatifms, or to be often overwhelmed with Water. The Ancients held this Rock in great veneration, and confecrated it to _ Diana under the name of Hecate: for we read in Suidas [b], that it was called the Ifland of Hecate, or P/ammite, from the name of certain Cakes there offered in facrifice to that Goddefs. | As this Rock ftands in the narroweft part of the Canal, it was in all likelihood pitch’d upon by Po- lycrates, the famous Tyrant of Samos, for extend- ing that Chain mentioned by Thucydides [c], which faften’d the Ifland Rbenia to Delos, and is a proof they confecrated the former to Delian Apollo. It is alfo probable, that this was the very place where WNicias [d] crofs'd the Canal to enter into Delos; nothing can excel the Pompoufnefs of this Entrance. Nicias being inform'd that the Priefts deputed from La] “Peparseenc, Rheumatifmo laborans: ‘Pewarifew, aquis - obruere, pro Pevparifew. : aw 2 [5] sExarns Nacows aeo rs Anne xeiras rs Nnovdrov, &c, Suid. {<] Thucyd, lib. 3. [2] Plutarch, in Nicia. . , rs Pa one _. Defeription of the Iland of Delos. 395 the Grecian Cities generally landed in a diforderlY manner, and that they were often enjoin’d to find the Hymns of Apoilo without giving them time t® drefs, order’d the Victims, and Prefents, and whol® Retinue, to put afhore in the Ifland of Rhenia. In the night they laid a Bridge over the Canal, and next day, to every body’s great furprize, was feen this Proceflion marching over the Bridge, cover’d with rich Tapeftry, with Parapets painted with Gold and beautify’d with Flowers; all which was brought from