Note 079 The authors from whom I have learned the most of the ancient and modern state of Crete, are Belon, (Observations, &c., c. 3 - 20, Paris, 1555,) Tournefort, (Voyage du Levant, tom. i. lettre ii. et iii.,) and Meursius, (Creta, in his works, tom. iii. p. 343 - 544.) Although Crete is styled by Homer Ancient Greek

by Dionysius Ancient Greek

I cannot conceive that mountainous island to surpass, or even to equal, in fertility the greater part of Spain.

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