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NICARIA

Volume 15 · 58 words · 1815 Edition

an island of the Archipelago, between Samos and Tine, about 50 miles in circumference. A chain of high mountains runs through the middle, covered with wood, and supplies the country with springs. The inhabitants are very poor, and of the Greek communion. The productions of the island are wheat, a good deal of barley, figs, honey, and wax.