Cythera
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1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator.
CERIGO. (Book Cerigo) PTOLEMIE calls it Cythera. Pliny heretofore called it Porpyris: and •u••a hius calleth it P•rphyrusa, from the great store of Porphirie Marbles which i• in the Mountaines: It is now called Cerig••• is th• first Iland of the Aegaean Sea on the West over-against the La•onick 〈◊〉. It 〈◊〉 it from the shoare of Peloponnesus 5. miles, and it is 60. miles in compa•se. It hath a Towne of the same name, and many Havens, which are not safe and secure, for there are many Rocks which lye scatteringly round about this Iland.