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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt:... It is of an irregular quadrilateral shape, being nearly divided into two peninsulas by two deep bays. It is covered with barren and rocky hills of no great height, which in many places indicate the presence of volcanic agency. Hence the island was connected with Hephaestus and hence also its ancient name of-'Ethalea "the burning Coin of Imbros. isle." On the E. coast is the Hermaean rock to which iEschylus refers.9 The earliest inhabitants were the Thracian Sinties: these were succeeded by the Minyso,1 and theBe in turn by the Pelasgians.2 Lemnos belonged generally to the Athenians. It possessed originally only one town of the same name but afterwards two, Myrina, KastTO, on the W. coast, and Hephaestia on the N. Pliny states that there was a remarkable labyrinth on the island. Samothracia, "the Thracian Samoa," 3 Samothraki, lies N. of Imbros, opposite the mouth of the Hebrus. It is of an oval shape, and about 8 miles long and 6 broad, and contains a mountain of remarkable height (5240 feet), which renders the island a very conspicuous object from the coasts both of Asia and Europe: the name ixdfios has reference to this elevation. Samothrace was the chief seat of the worship of the Cabiri. Thasos, Thaw, lies about miles off the plain of the river Nestus. It is covered with mountains, some of which are bare, others wooded, the highest of them attaining an elevation of 3428 feet:5 only a few cultivated spots occur near the sea shore. It produced marble,fl wine, 7 and more especially gold, the mines of which were worked originally by Coin of Thasos. the Phoenicians, and afterwards by the Greeks of Paros, who settled here under Telesicles, the father of Archilochus, about 7'JO B.C. These Thasian Greeks also w orked the mines on the coast...