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The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London
The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London Author:Royal Geographical Society General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Original Publisher: J. Murray Description: List of geographical works and maps recently published Subjects: Geography Science / Earth Sciences / Geography Social Science / Human Geography Travel / General Travel / United States / General Notes: This is a black ... more »and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: V. -- Observations on the Gulf of Arta, made in 1830. Communicated by Lieut. James Wolfe, R. N. Read, 24th Dec. 1832. The Gulf of Arta (the ancient Ambracius Sinus) is an inlet of the Ionian sea, bounded by the provinces of Epirus and Acar- nania. Its extreme length, which lies E. and W., is about twenty- five miles, and breadth about ten miles. The entrance is narrow. Between a bastion of the walls of Pre- vesa and the opposite low point on which stands fort La Punta, it is only seven hundred yards across ; outside of this is a bar composed of gravel, coarse sand, and sea-weed, not having more than fifteen feet water on it in the shoalest part of the channel. The northern shore has an elevation of about sixty feet, is tolerably level and covered with olive woods, while to the southward the land would appear, from its barrenness, flatness, and the swampy and saline nature of its soil, to have been gained from the sea j though we find from Polybius, that at the time of Philip, the breadth of the entrance was only five stadia, or half a mile, which is still the average distance between the two shores, notwithstanding the two points beforementioned may approach somewhat nearer. The entrance lies about N. N. E.; then, turning abruptly round a low point, on which is a small redoubt of earth, it continues in a south-easterly direction of greater width for about four m...« less