a small island in the Archipelago, near Milo. It is about 18 miles in compass; and is full of barren mountains, producing nothing but barley, cotton, and a few grapes fit only for eating. The barley and cotton are sown round the only village there is in the island. The ladies are handsome enough, have no other employment but making cotton stockings, and take up with the sailors, who put into the port. The men all use the sea, and in time become good pilots. They have very little religion, are very ignorant, and of very bad morals. Justice is administered by an itinerant cadi, who is sometimes the only Muslim in the whole island. The only article relating to natural history is the terra cinfolia so highly esteemed by the ancients; it is a kind of white chalk, which is very heavy, without taste, and crumbles easily; they use it in washing linen. E. Long. 23. 10. N. Lat. 36° 50'.