The present state of the Morea, called anciently, Peloponnesus which hath been near two hundred years under the dominion of the Turks, and is now very much depopulated : together with a description of the city of Athens, islands of Zant, Strafades, and Serigo / faithfully described by Bernard Randolph, who resided in those parts from 1671 to 1679.
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The present state of the Morea, called anciently, Peloponnesus which hath been near two hundred years under the dominion of the Turks, and is now very much depopulated : together with a description of the city of Athens, islands of Zant, Strafades, and Serigo / faithfully described by Bernard Randolph, who resided in those parts from 1671 to 1679.
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Randolph, Bernard, b. 1643.
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London :: Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Tho. Basset ... John Penn ... and John Hill ...,
1686.
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"The present state of the Morea, called anciently, Peloponnesus which hath been near two hundred years under the dominion of the Turks, and is now very much depopulated : together with a description of the city of Athens, islands of Zant, Strafades, and Serigo / faithfully described by Bernard Randolph, who resided in those parts from 1671 to 1679." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57948.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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VOSTIZA,
Is about twenty Miles within the Mouth of the Gulph of Lepanto, Seated on a Rising Ground about a Quar∣ter of a Mile from the Sea-side. It is but a small Town without any Fortifications. The Plain about it affords Corn, Currants, and Wine, Olive-trees there are not many, it lying too open to the Norther∣ly Winds, which bring very cold Blasts from the Mountains on the other side the Gulph. The Moun∣tains to the South, are not above Five Miles from the Town, which are very high, and continue to the Plains of Basilico, betwixt which and the Sea is the Road to Corinth, which is very bad way to pass in the Winter, there being no cut Rivers, and the Floods over∣flowing
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make several Waters, some above a Mile broad. There are no Inhabitants between the Plain of Basilico and this Place, nor is the Soil good, being most Stony, and having many Woods, nor is it above two Miles from the Sea to the Mountains in most places. There is no Port at Vostiza, nor any Shelter for Boats on all this side of the Gulph.
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