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¡{land o f C H E R S O m i Q S E R O .
O f the various ancient Names o f the IJland, and the Writers who
mention it.
THE ifland Cherfo and Ojero, for which I failed from Venice
about the middle o f May 1770, in company with John
Symonds, Efquire, an Engliih gentleman, and Dr. Dominico
Cirilli, profeffor o f botany and natural hiftory at Naples, under
the aufpices o f the moil generous patron o f the fciences,
and o f natural hiftory in particular, is fituated in the rocky and
ftormy bay, which, by the ancients, was called Carnicus, F la -
naticus, Polaticus, Liburnicus, and, in pur days, is known by the
name o f fuarnnro. The ifland lies between the coaft o f Iftria
and Dalmatia, extending from north to fouth, fixty miles in
length, with a very unequal breadth. In more remote ages, the
hiftory o f which is blended with fable, it was much known,
and had various oatqes, the 910ft apcient, however, feems to
have been the ifland Brigeide, or the iflands Brigeida; but its
ufual name, almoft three thoufsnd years fince, was Apfirtides,
A a a Apfir tus,