Note 786 — Chapter XXIII · GRECIAN COLONIES IN AND NEAR EPIRUS.
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Thucyd. i, 24. ἐγένετο μεγάλη καὶ πολυάνθρωπος; Strabo, vii, p. 316, viii, p. 357; Steph. Byz. v. Ἀπολλωνία; Plutarch, De Serâ Numin. Vind. p. 553; Pausan. v, 22, 2.
Respecting the plain near the site of the ancient Apollonia, Colonel Leake observes: “The cultivation of this noble plain, capable of supplying grain to all Illyria and Epirus, with an abundance of other productions, is confined to a few patches of maize near the villages,” (Travels in Northern Greece, vol. i, ch. vii, p. 367.) Compare c. ii, p. 70.
The country surrounding Durazzo (the ancient Epidamnus) is described by another excellent observer as highly attractive, though now unhealthy. See the valuable topographical work, “Albanien, Rumelien, und die Oesterreichisch-montenegrinische Gränze,” von Dr. Joseph Müller (Prag. 1844), p. 62.