Note 50 — Chapter XXVI · THRACIANS AND GREEK COLONIES IN THRACE.
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... ἥδε δ᾽ ὥστ᾽ ὄνου ῥαχις Ἕστηκεν, ὕλης ἀγρίας ἐπιστεφής.
Archiloch. Fragm. 17-18, ed. Schneidewin.
The striking propriety of this description, even after the lapse of two thousand five hundred years, may be seen in the Travels of Grisebach, vol. i. ch. 7, pp. 210-218, and in Prokesch, Denkwürdigkeiten des Orients, Th. 3, p. 612. The view of Thasus from the sea justifies the title Ἠερίη (Œnomaus ap. Euseb. Præpar. Evang. vii, p. 256; Steph. Byz. Θάσσος).
Thasus (now Tasso) contains at present a population of about six thousand Greeks, dispersed in twelve small villages; it exports some good ship-timber, principally fir, of which there is abundance on the island, together with some olive oil and wax; but it cannot grow corn enough even for this small population. No mines either are now, or have been for a long time, in work.