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Title: Travels and researches in Crete
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Spratt, Thomas Abel Brimage, 1811-1888
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Publisher: London J. van Voorst
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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m the metropolitan of Crete. But oninquiry of the Bishop of Mirabella, although he saidhe had never heard of such a bishopric, and that allrecords relative to his see were lost in the revolution,yet he added there was a tradition with the old menof the Mirabella that this district, previous to receivingthe name of Mirabella from the Venetians, was called Kallinkus or Allinkus, a name that immediatelyseemed to me to be derived from Allyngus: hence,probably, this was its locality. There are two roads leading from Spina Longa tothe Mirabella. One, direct from the village of Elunta,ascends the steep and rocky ridges immediately overit; the other, much easier although a little longer,leads to the southward over the gap directly underOxah, and crosses first a small upland basin south ofit, then another to the westward, and leads then di-rect into the southern part of the Mirabella upland,where it joins the road to Kritza, and leads throughthe small marshy plain of Lakonia, between which and
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BISHOPKIC OF ALLYNGUS. 129 Kritza, however, there is a singular hill and ruinedcity upon it, of great antiquity and in a remarkablygood state of preservation, and which I shall nextdescribe, as it lies upon the route most convenient fora traveller to take in exploring the district. More-over the site is very singular and interesting from itscraterlike form. I made the accompanying sketch ofthe ground-plan of its position and character, and referthe reader to the following chapter for its description.

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