the modern name of Crete, an island situated... in the Mediterranean sea, between $22^\circ$ and $27^\circ$ E. long, and between $35^\circ$ and $36^\circ$ N. lat.

There is no river of any consequence in the whole island, which is watered by a multitude of rivulets; whereof Lethe is one. Here too is mount Ida, so much celebrated in the writings of the ancients.

or MUTIUM, is the capital of the above island, situated on its northern coast, in $25^\circ$ E. long, and $35^\circ 30'$ N. lat.